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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 35 11
Rank change year-on-year +19 -24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,611 700 1,380
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.69% 7.40% 10.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 8.41% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,352 313 757
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,110 £38,550
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -9.41%

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 17,088 8,327 10,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.98% 87.99% 79.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,688 4,016 5,580
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -2.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +14 945 £70,000 +1.82% 526
Yorkshire +17 356 £65,000 -1.89% 230
North East +32 310 £75,000 +36.36% 104
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 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
2 11 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.43%) Apache
4 5 (0.31%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.19%) CMS
6 3 (0.19%) Confluence
6 3 (0.19%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) WinCC
8 1 (0.062%) Kentico
8 1 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Trello
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 301 (18.68%) AWS
2 173 (10.74%) Azure
3 94 (5.83%) SaaS
4 62 (3.85%) GCP
5 61 (3.79%) Serverless
6 51 (3.17%) GitHub
7 34 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (1.43%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
13 20 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.06%) Datadog
15 15 (0.93%) Amazon S3
16 13 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.81%) Firebase
16 13 (0.81%) Route 53
17 12 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
18 11 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.74%) Wireless
2 8 (0.50%) Internet
2 8 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.19%) 5G
3 3 (0.19%) AMQP
3 3 (0.19%) Firewall
4 2 (0.12%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 2 (0.12%) MQTT
4 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.12%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.062%) DNS
5 1 (0.062%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (2.23%) NoSQL
3 34 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 25 (1.55%) MySQL
6 23 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.62%) Redis
8 9 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.43%) Power BI
11 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.31%) Chroma
12 5 (0.31%) Metadata
12 5 (0.31%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.25%) Flink
13 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (3.97%) Git
2 22 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.18%) Claude Code
4 18 (1.12%) GitLab
5 12 (0.74%) JIRA
5 12 (0.74%) JUnit
6 11 (0.68%) Maven
7 9 (0.56%) Spock
8 8 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) Selenium
9 4 (0.25%) Storybook
9 4 (0.25%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.19%) Mockito
11 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.12%) MLflow
11 2 (0.12%) Mocha
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 151 (9.37%) Social Skills
2 150 (9.31%) Finance
3 74 (4.59%) Public Sector
4 59 (3.66%) Electronics
5 51 (3.17%) Retail
6 38 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 30 (1.86%) Legal
8 20 (1.24%) Aviation
8 20 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.24%) Law
9 17 (1.06%) Automotive
9 17 (1.06%) Publishing
10 12 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 11 (0.68%) Games
12 10 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.56%) Banking
14 8 (0.50%) Billing
15 7 (0.43%) Marketing
15 7 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,059 (65.74%) Software Engineer
2 464 (28.80%) Senior
3 341 (21.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 173 (10.74%) Lead
5 167 (10.37%) Developer
6 109 (6.77%) Lead Software Engineer
7 90 (5.59%) Embedded Engineer
8 87 (5.40%) Principal Engineer
9 81 (5.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 80 (4.97%) Software Manager
11 78 (4.84%) Principal Software Engineer
12 74 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 68 (4.22%) C# Software Engineer
14 67 (4.16%) Java Engineer
15 63 (3.91%) Engineering Manager
16 57 (3.54%) Software Developer
17 55 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 55 (3.41%) Java Software Engineer
17 55 (3.41%) Python Engineer
18 52 (3.23%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (10.43%) .NET
2 149 (9.25%) React
3 91 (5.65%) Node.js
4 68 (4.22%) Terraform
5 60 (3.72%) Spring
6 58 (3.60%) REST
7 44 (2.73%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.73%) Spring Boot
8 43 (2.67%) .NET Core
9 39 (2.42%) Next.js
10 38 (2.36%) CSS
11 37 (2.30%) Vue
12 35 (2.17%) RESTful
13 26 (1.61%) React Native
14 25 (1.55%) Kafka
15 20 (1.24%) HTML
16 17 (1.06%) LangChain
17 15 (0.93%) GraphQL
17 15 (0.93%) Ruby on Rails
17 15 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 79 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 43 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.36%) AI Agents
6 28 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 24 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
7 24 (1.49%) Hedge funds
8 21 (1.30%) IoT
9 20 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (0.87%) Robotics
11 12 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (0.74%) Media Streaming
11 12 (0.74%) Podcast
12 11 (0.68%) Life Science
13 9 (0.56%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.56%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 8 (0.50%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.71%) Linux
2 15 (0.93%) Windows
3 9 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.31%) Android
4 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.25%) VMS
6 3 (0.19%) CentOS
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (16.20%) AI
2 256 (15.89%) Agile
3 244 (15.15%) CI/CD
4 206 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 195 (12.10%) Mentoring
6 193 (11.98%) DevOps
7 158 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 140 (8.69%) Problem-Solving
9 131 (8.13%) Microservices
10 103 (6.39%) Technical Leadership
11 100 (6.21%) Test Automation
12 88 (5.46%) Observability
13 85 (5.28%) Code Quality
14 84 (5.21%) Containerisation
15 83 (5.15%) Collaborative Culture
15 83 (5.15%) Computer Science
15 83 (5.15%) Infrastructure as Code
16 82 (5.09%) Coaching
17 80 (4.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (4.47%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 235 (14.59%) Python
2 220 (13.66%) Java
3 219 (13.59%) C#
4 183 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 149 (9.25%) SQL
6 139 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 78 (4.84%) C++
8 36 (2.23%) Go
9 33 (2.05%) C
10 31 (1.92%) Rust
11 19 (1.18%) PHP
11 19 (1.18%) Ruby
12 18 (1.12%) Bash
13 17 (1.06%) Groovy
14 13 (0.81%) Scala
15 8 (0.50%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.37%) Delphi
16 6 (0.37%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.25%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 95 (5.90%) SC Cleared
3 81 (5.03%) Degree
4 48 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.43%) PhD
6 7 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.31%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (0.31%) PMP
8 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.062%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.062%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.062%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.98%) QA
2 28 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.50%) WCAG
5 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.37%) GDPR
7 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.19%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.19%) NCSC
8 2 (0.12%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.062%) GRC
System Software
1 101 (6.27%) Docker
2 48 (2.98%) Firmware
3 21 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.06%) Progress Chef
3 13 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.50%) Grafana
5 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.25%) Packer
7 3 (0.19%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) Argo
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.12%) Podman
9 1 (0.062%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.062%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.062%) Kibana
9 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (2.36%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.24%) Splunk
3 18 (1.12%) Google
4 13 (0.81%) Databricks
5 10 (0.62%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.56%) AppDynamics
6 9 (0.56%) Rockwell
7 7 (0.43%) Foundry
7 7 (0.43%) Siemens
8 5 (0.31%) New Relic
8 5 (0.31%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.31%) YouTube
9 4 (0.25%) Adobe
9 4 (0.25%) OneTrust
9 4 (0.25%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.25%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.19%) IBM
10 3 (0.19%) Sage
10 3 (0.19%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.12%) UiPath