Software Engineering Job Trends in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 24 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,523 825 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.69% 8.64% 10.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.51% 9.78% 13.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 424 1,038
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £84,289
England median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +15.38% -10.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,016 8,432 11,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.32% 88.31% 78.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,004 4,280 7,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +12 871 £70,000 +4.42% 125
Yorkshire +14 366 £65,000 - 60
North East +22 286 £75,000 +25.00% 48
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.39%) Apache
4 5 (0.33%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.26%) Confluence
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) WinCC
8 1 (0.066%) CMS
8 1 (0.066%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.066%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.26%) Trello
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 288 (18.91%) AWS
2 194 (12.74%) Azure
3 101 (6.63%) SaaS
4 60 (3.94%) GCP
5 56 (3.68%) Serverless
6 53 (3.48%) GitHub
7 37 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (1.51%) Power Platform
11 22 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
12 18 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (0.98%) Datadog
14 14 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.72%) Firebase
16 11 (0.72%) Route 53
17 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
18 9 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Wireless
2 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) AMQP
4 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.13%) HTTP
4 2 (0.13%) MQTT
4 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.066%) Broadband
5 1 (0.066%) DNS
5 1 (0.066%) LTE
5 1 (0.066%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (2.89%) NoSQL
3 34 (2.23%) MongoDB
4 28 (1.84%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.64%) MySQL
6 22 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.59%) Redis
8 8 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.46%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.46%) Power BI
10 5 (0.33%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.33%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.33%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.26%) Big Data
11 4 (0.26%) Flink
11 4 (0.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 61 (4.01%) Git
2 24 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.38%) Claude Code
4 16 (1.05%) JIRA
5 15 (0.98%) GitLab
6 11 (0.72%) JUnit
7 9 (0.59%) Maven
8 8 (0.53%) Spock
9 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.26%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.26%) NUnit
11 4 (0.26%) Storybook
12 3 (0.20%) Selenium
13 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.13%) MLflow
13 2 (0.13%) Mocha
13 2 (0.13%) Mockito
13 2 (0.13%) Vite
14 1 (0.066%) Postman
General
1 141 (9.26%) Finance
2 132 (8.67%) Social Skills
3 73 (4.79%) Public Sector
4 57 (3.74%) Electronics
5 54 (3.55%) Retail
6 36 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 27 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (1.71%) Legal
9 22 (1.44%) Automotive
10 19 (1.25%) Law
11 18 (1.18%) Aviation
12 15 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (0.79%) Games
15 9 (0.59%) Marketing
16 8 (0.53%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.46%) Agriculture
17 7 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.39%) Banking
18 6 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,004 (65.92%) Software Engineer
2 389 (25.54%) Senior
3 282 (18.52%) Senior Software Engineer
4 173 (11.36%) Lead
5 166 (10.90%) Developer
6 105 (6.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 84 (5.52%) Embedded Engineer
8 79 (5.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 76 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
10 74 (4.86%) Software Manager
11 72 (4.73%) C# Software Engineer
11 72 (4.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 67 (4.40%) Principal Software Engineer
13 61 (4.01%) Engineering Manager
14 55 (3.61%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 53 (3.48%) Software Developer
16 51 (3.35%) Python Engineer
17 48 (3.15%) Software Engineering Manager
18 45 (2.95%) Senior Developer
19 44 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (11.75%) .NET
2 133 (8.73%) React
3 103 (6.76%) Node.js
4 68 (4.46%) Terraform
5 52 (3.41%) REST
6 50 (3.28%) AngularJS
7 43 (2.82%) CSS
7 43 (2.82%) RESTful
8 42 (2.76%) Spring
8 42 (2.76%) Vue
9 40 (2.63%) .NET Core
9 40 (2.63%) Next.js
10 28 (1.84%) Spring Boot
11 25 (1.64%) HTML
11 25 (1.64%) React Native
12 18 (1.18%) LangChain
13 16 (1.05%) GraphQL
14 15 (0.98%) .NET Framework
14 15 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
15 14 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.30%) AI Agents
6 30 (1.97%) Mobile App
7 27 (1.77%) Hedge funds
7 27 (1.77%) IoT
8 24 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
10 18 (1.18%) Robotics
11 13 (0.85%) Life Science
12 12 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (0.66%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.59%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.53%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.53%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.46%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.46%) Low-Code
17 6 (0.39%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.38%) Linux
2 11 (0.72%) Windows
3 7 (0.46%) Android
4 6 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.20%) Unix
6 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 2 (0.13%) CentOS
7 2 (0.13%) Debian
7 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.066%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (15.56%) AI
2 233 (15.30%) Agile
2 233 (15.30%) CI/CD
3 220 (14.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 185 (12.15%) DevOps
5 181 (11.88%) Mentoring
6 134 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 127 (8.34%) Microservices
8 122 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (6.24%) Technical Leadership
9 95 (6.24%) Test Automation
10 86 (5.65%) Collaborative Culture
11 78 (5.12%) Coaching
12 77 (5.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 74 (4.86%) SDLC
14 72 (4.73%) Observability
14 72 (4.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 72 (4.73%) TDD
15 71 (4.66%) Computer Science
15 71 (4.66%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 228 (14.97%) Python
2 226 (14.84%) C#
3 187 (12.28%) Java
4 166 (10.90%) TypeScript
5 154 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 149 (9.78%) SQL
7 82 (5.38%) C++
8 36 (2.36%) C
9 35 (2.30%) Go
10 31 (2.04%) Rust
11 22 (1.44%) PHP
12 19 (1.25%) Ruby
13 16 (1.05%) Bash
14 15 (0.98%) Groovy
15 13 (0.85%) COBOL
15 13 (0.85%) Scala
16 8 (0.53%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.39%) Delphi
17 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 110 (7.22%) Security Cleared
2 78 (5.12%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.66%) Degree
4 50 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.46%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.33%) PMP
9 4 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.13%) PhD
11 1 (0.066%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.066%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.066%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.28%) QA
2 27 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.53%) GDPR
5 7 (0.46%) WCAG
6 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.20%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.20%) NCSC
8 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (5.91%) Docker
2 47 (3.09%) Firmware
3 22 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.79%) Progress Chef
3 10 (0.66%) Ansible
4 8 (0.53%) Grafana
5 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.13%) Argo
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.066%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.066%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.066%) Kibana
Vendors
1 39 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (1.25%) Google
2 19 (1.25%) Splunk
3 15 (0.98%) Databricks
4 11 (0.72%) Rockwell
5 10 (0.66%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.59%) Siemens
7 8 (0.53%) AppDynamics
8 6 (0.39%) Foundry
9 4 (0.26%) Adobe
9 4 (0.26%) New Relic
9 4 (0.26%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.26%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.20%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.20%) Sage
11 2 (0.13%) IBM
11 2 (0.13%) MEDITECH
11 2 (0.13%) OneTrust
11 2 (0.13%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.13%) SaltStack