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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 26 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,418 863 1,592
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.52% 9.00% 10.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.28% 10.05% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 458 1,062
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £66,019 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.98% +14.81% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15,275 8,584 11,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.27% 89.48% 78.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,432 4,293 7,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 5 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 5 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 +11 829 £70,000 +3.70% 308
Yorkshire +12 352 £65,000 - 117
North East +12 237 £70,996 +23.47% 73
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 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
2 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.35%) Apache
3 5 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
4 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.28%) Confluence
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.21%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.14%) nginx
6 2 (0.14%) WinCC
7 1 (0.071%) CMS
7 1 (0.071%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.28%) Trello
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.071%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 277 (19.53%) AWS
2 195 (13.75%) Azure
3 96 (6.77%) SaaS
4 54 (3.81%) Serverless
5 52 (3.67%) GCP
6 45 (3.17%) GitHub
7 34 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (1.62%) Anthropic Claude
10 21 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (1.41%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (0.78%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.78%) Firebase
16 10 (0.71%) Datadog
17 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
18 8 (0.56%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.85%) Wireless
2 7 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.14%) AMQP
3 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.14%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) MQTT
3 2 (0.14%) RTP
3 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.14%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.071%) Broadband
4 1 (0.071%) DNS
4 1 (0.071%) LTE
4 1 (0.071%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.81%) NoSQL
2 51 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 33 (2.33%) MySQL
5 28 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.63%) Redis
8 8 (0.56%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.35%) Big Data
10 5 (0.35%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.35%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.35%) Pinecone
10 5 (0.35%) Power BI
11 4 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.28%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 46 (3.24%) Git
2 22 (1.55%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.06%) JIRA
5 13 (0.92%) GitLab
6 8 (0.56%) JUnit
6 8 (0.56%) Maven
7 7 (0.49%) Spock
8 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.28%) NUnit
8 4 (0.28%) Storybook
9 3 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.21%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.14%) MLflow
10 2 (0.14%) Vite
11 1 (0.071%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.071%) Postman
11 1 (0.071%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.071%) Vagrant
General
1 134 (9.45%) Finance
2 122 (8.60%) Social Skills
3 68 (4.80%) Public Sector
4 54 (3.81%) Electronics
5 47 (3.31%) Retail
6 38 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 24 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (1.48%) Legal
9 20 (1.41%) Automotive
10 13 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (0.92%) Law
11 12 (0.85%) Aviation
12 11 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.56%) Games
13 8 (0.56%) Marketing
14 7 (0.49%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.49%) Agriculture
14 7 (0.49%) Banking
15 6 (0.42%) Billing
16 5 (0.35%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 943 (66.50%) Software Engineer
2 352 (24.82%) Senior
3 260 (18.34%) Senior Software Engineer
4 174 (12.27%) Developer
5 165 (11.64%) Lead
6 97 (6.84%) Lead Software Engineer
7 77 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 75 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
9 73 (5.15%) Embedded Engineer
10 69 (4.87%) Software Manager
11 66 (4.65%) Principal Software Engineer
12 65 (4.58%) C# Software Engineer
13 62 (4.37%) Software Developer
14 61 (4.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 58 (4.09%) Engineering Manager
16 56 (3.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 48 (3.39%) Java Engineer
18 47 (3.31%) Senior Developer
19 45 (3.17%) .NET Developer
19 45 (3.17%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (12.62%) .NET
2 134 (9.45%) React
3 101 (7.12%) Node.js
4 50 (3.53%) AngularJS
4 50 (3.53%) RESTful
5 46 (3.24%) REST
6 44 (3.10%) Vue
7 41 (2.89%) Next.js
8 38 (2.68%) .NET Core
8 38 (2.68%) Spring
9 36 (2.54%) CSS
10 29 (2.05%) Spring Boot
11 23 (1.62%) HTML
11 23 (1.62%) React Native
12 17 (1.20%) LangChain
13 16 (1.13%) .NET Framework
13 16 (1.13%) GraphQL
14 15 (1.06%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (0.85%) FastAPI
16 11 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 143 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 63 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (3.10%) Product Ownership
4 42 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.90%) Hedge funds
7 25 (1.76%) IoT
7 25 (1.76%) Mobile App
8 23 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
10 17 (1.20%) Robotics
11 13 (0.92%) Life Science
12 11 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (0.71%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.63%) Industry 4.0
15 8 (0.56%) Data Structures
16 7 (0.49%) Onboarding
17 6 (0.42%) Algorithms
17 6 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 67 (4.72%) Linux
2 7 (0.49%) Android
2 7 (0.49%) Windows
3 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.21%) Unix
5 2 (0.14%) CentOS
5 2 (0.14%) Debian
5 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.14%) VMS
6 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (15.66%) Agile
2 218 (15.37%) AI
3 214 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 213 (15.02%) CI/CD
5 183 (12.91%) DevOps
6 172 (12.13%) Mentoring
7 131 (9.24%) Microservices
8 121 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 113 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (6.63%) Test Automation
11 79 (5.57%) Coaching
12 78 (5.50%) Collaborative Culture
12 78 (5.50%) Technical Leadership
13 74 (5.22%) TDD
14 70 (4.94%) Computer Science
15 68 (4.80%) SDLC
16 66 (4.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 63 (4.44%) Containerisation
17 63 (4.44%) Decision-Making
18 62 (4.37%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 214 (15.09%) C#
2 206 (14.53%) Python
3 184 (12.98%) Java
4 166 (11.71%) TypeScript
5 156 (11.00%) JavaScript
6 153 (10.79%) SQL
7 80 (5.64%) C++
8 36 (2.54%) Go
9 35 (2.47%) C
10 31 (2.19%) Rust
11 23 (1.62%) PHP
12 16 (1.13%) Ruby
13 13 (0.92%) Bash
13 13 (0.92%) COBOL
14 11 (0.78%) Groovy
14 11 (0.78%) Scala
15 8 (0.56%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.42%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 91 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 70 (4.94%) Degree
3 65 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 47 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.42%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.42%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (0.28%) PMP
9 3 (0.21%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.071%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.071%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.071%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.10%) QA
2 20 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.56%) GDPR
5 6 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.35%) WCAG
7 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.21%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.21%) NCSC
8 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (5.71%) Docker
2 42 (2.96%) Firmware
3 21 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 58 (4.09%) Terraform
3 10 (0.71%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.56%) Ansible
5 6 (0.42%) Grafana
5 6 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Argo
6 2 (0.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.071%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.071%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.071%) Kibana
7 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.071%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (2.40%) Microsoft
2 17 (1.20%) Google
3 15 (1.06%) Splunk
4 14 (0.99%) Databricks
5 11 (0.78%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.63%) Siemens
7 8 (0.56%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.49%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.42%) Foundry
10 4 (0.28%) Adobe
10 4 (0.28%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.21%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.21%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.14%) New Relic
12 2 (0.14%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.14%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.14%) UiPath
13 1 (0.071%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.071%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.071%) Sage