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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,208 862 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.09% 10.62% 9.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.85% 11.35% 12.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 476 1,370
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £39,503
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,734 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -16.67%

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 13,647 7,594 15,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.85% 93.55% 79.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,117 3,646 11,830
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,960 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +9 716 £70,000 +3.70% 150
Yorkshire 0 331 £65,000 -5.11% 59
North East 0 161 £69,653 +26.64% 54
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 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.41%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.25%) Apache
4 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.17%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) nginx
6 1 (0.083%) CMS
6 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Magento
2 1 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 251 (20.78%) AWS
2 165 (13.66%) Azure
3 91 (7.53%) SaaS
4 49 (4.06%) Serverless
5 38 (3.15%) GCP
6 32 (2.65%) GitHub
7 22 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (1.66%) Anthropic Claude
8 20 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.08%) Amazon S3
12 10 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (0.75%) Azure AKS
14 8 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (0.50%) Firebase
16 5 (0.41%) Figma
17 4 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.33%) Wireless
2 3 (0.25%) AMQP
3 2 (0.17%) MQTT
3 2 (0.17%) RTP
4 1 (0.083%) Broadband
4 1 (0.083%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.22%) NoSQL
2 34 (2.81%) MongoDB
2 34 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.90%) MySQL
4 12 (0.99%) Relational Database
4 12 (0.99%) SQL Server
5 8 (0.66%) Big Data
5 8 (0.66%) Neo4j
6 7 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.41%) FileMaker
7 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.41%) Redis
7 5 (0.41%) Spark SQL
8 4 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.33%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.33%) GIS
8 4 (0.33%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 30 (2.48%) Git
2 22 (1.82%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.58%) JIRA
5 6 (0.50%) GitLab
6 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.25%) JUnit
6 3 (0.25%) NUnit
7 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.17%) Maven
7 2 (0.17%) MLflow
7 2 (0.17%) Spock
7 2 (0.17%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.17%) Vite
8 1 (0.083%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.083%) GDB
8 1 (0.083%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.083%) Postman
8 1 (0.083%) Selenium
8 1 (0.083%) WinDbg
General
1 112 (9.27%) Finance
2 68 (5.63%) Social Skills
3 54 (4.47%) Public Sector
4 35 (2.90%) Electronics
5 28 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (2.32%) Manufacturing
6 26 (2.15%) Retail
7 20 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (1.57%) Automotive
9 13 (1.08%) Legal
10 7 (0.58%) Agriculture
11 6 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.50%) Aviation
11 6 (0.50%) Marketing
12 5 (0.41%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.41%) Law
13 4 (0.33%) Billing
13 4 (0.33%) Games
13 4 (0.33%) Italian Language
13 4 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 831 (68.79%) Software Engineer
2 285 (23.59%) Senior
3 217 (17.96%) Senior Software Engineer
4 160 (13.25%) Developer
5 153 (12.67%) Lead
6 92 (7.62%) Lead Software Engineer
7 76 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 69 (5.71%) Software Developer
9 63 (5.22%) Embedded Engineer
9 63 (5.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 62 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
11 58 (4.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 58 (4.80%) Principal Software Engineer
12 54 (4.47%) C# Software Engineer
13 51 (4.22%) Java Engineer
14 48 (3.97%) Senior Developer
15 45 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
16 42 (3.48%) Software Manager
17 40 (3.31%) .NET Software Engineer
18 39 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (13.66%) .NET
2 123 (10.18%) React
3 93 (7.70%) Node.js
4 52 (4.30%) RESTful
5 49 (4.06%) REST
6 41 (3.39%) Vue
7 37 (3.06%) AngularJS
8 34 (2.81%) Spring
9 31 (2.57%) CSS
10 30 (2.48%) .NET Core
10 30 (2.48%) Next.js
10 30 (2.48%) Spring Boot
11 20 (1.66%) HTML
12 17 (1.41%) LangChain
13 14 (1.16%) React Native
14 13 (1.08%) .NET Framework
14 13 (1.08%) GraphQL
15 12 (0.99%) Ruby on Rails
16 10 (0.83%) Flask
16 10 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 44 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.32%) AI Agents
6 26 (2.15%) Hedge funds
6 26 (2.15%) IoT
7 21 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (0.99%) Life Science
11 11 (0.91%) Robotics
12 9 (0.75%) Industry 4.0
12 9 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.66%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.66%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.58%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.50%) Onboarding
16 5 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.06%) Linux
2 10 (0.83%) Android
3 8 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.33%) Windows
5 3 (0.25%) CentOS
5 3 (0.25%) Debian
5 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (17.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (15.48%) Agile
3 176 (14.57%) AI
4 164 (13.58%) CI/CD
5 146 (12.09%) DevOps
6 143 (11.84%) Mentoring
7 123 (10.18%) Microservices
8 101 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (6.71%) Coaching
11 68 (5.63%) TDD
12 66 (5.46%) Test Automation
13 61 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
14 56 (4.64%) Fintech
14 56 (4.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 55 (4.55%) Open Source
16 53 (4.39%) Containerisation
17 52 (4.30%) SDLC
18 50 (4.14%) Scrum
19 48 (3.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 178 (14.74%) C#
1 178 (14.74%) Python
2 173 (14.32%) Java
3 137 (11.34%) JavaScript
4 125 (10.35%) TypeScript
5 124 (10.26%) SQL
6 51 (4.22%) C++
7 23 (1.90%) C
8 21 (1.74%) PHP
8 21 (1.74%) Rust
9 20 (1.66%) Go
10 13 (1.08%) COBOL
11 12 (0.99%) Ruby
12 8 (0.66%) Groovy
13 6 (0.50%) Bash
13 6 (0.50%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.50%) Scala
14 4 (0.33%) Bicep
14 4 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 65 (5.38%) Security Cleared
2 49 (4.06%) SC Cleared
3 48 (3.97%) Degree
4 43 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 35 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.66%) QA
2 17 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.50%) GDPR
4 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.083%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (5.13%) Docker
2 41 (3.39%) Firmware
3 14 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (4.80%) Terraform
2 53 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.83%) Progress Chef
4 7 (0.58%) Ansible
5 3 (0.25%) Grafana
5 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.25%) Puppet
6 2 (0.17%) Packer
7 1 (0.083%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (2.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.15%) Salesforce
3 20 (1.66%) Cisco
4 11 (0.91%) Rockwell
5 10 (0.83%) Adobe
6 9 (0.75%) Google
7 7 (0.58%) Databricks
7 7 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.50%) Siemens
8 6 (0.50%) Splunk
9 5 (0.41%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.25%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.25%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.25%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.17%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.083%) BiZZdesign
12 1 (0.083%) Foundry