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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 26 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 976 608 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.45% 8.56% 8.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 9.07% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 797 527 1,227
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,683 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -13.79%

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 13,078 6,703 13,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 73.03% 94.42% 83.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,031 3,766 11,020
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £58,600 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +7 557 £70,000 +7.69% 143
Yorkshire -7 312 £67,153 -0.51% 64
North East -14 107 £65,000 +18.18% 42
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 6 (0.61%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.41%) Apache
2 4 (0.41%) Apache Solr
2 4 (0.41%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.31%) Confluence
3 3 (0.31%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.10%) CMS
5 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 209 (21.41%) AWS
2 139 (14.24%) Azure
3 88 (9.02%) SaaS
4 45 (4.61%) Serverless
5 24 (2.46%) GCP
6 18 (1.84%) GitHub
7 17 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (1.23%) Amazon S3
9 12 (1.23%) Azure AKS
10 10 (1.02%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (0.92%) Figma
12 8 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.61%) IaaS
13 6 (0.61%) PaaS
14 5 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.41%) AMQP
1 4 (0.41%) Wireless
2 2 (0.20%) RTP
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.71%) NoSQL
2 25 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 23 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.43%) MySQL
6 11 (1.13%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.02%) Neo4j
8 9 (0.92%) Big Data
9 8 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.82%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.61%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.51%) FileMaker
11 5 (0.51%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.41%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.41%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.41%) GIS
12 4 (0.41%) Power BI
12 4 (0.41%) QGIS
13 3 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 16 (1.64%) Git
2 14 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.33%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.72%) JIRA
5 6 (0.61%) GitLab
6 4 (0.41%) NUnit
7 3 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.20%) JUnit
8 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.20%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.10%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.10%) GDB
9 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.10%) Maven
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) WinDbg
General
1 95 (9.73%) Finance
2 79 (8.09%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (3.69%) Public Sector
5 28 (2.87%) Retail
6 25 (2.56%) Electronics
6 25 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 20 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (1.54%) Automotive
9 10 (1.02%) Legal
10 9 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.61%) Games
12 6 (0.61%) Law
12 6 (0.61%) Marketing
12 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.51%) Agriculture
13 5 (0.51%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.41%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 626 (64.14%) Software Engineer
2 197 (20.18%) Senior
3 142 (14.55%) Senior Software Engineer
4 140 (14.34%) Lead
5 126 (12.91%) Developer
6 80 (8.20%) Lead Software Engineer
7 48 (4.92%) Embedded Engineer
7 48 (4.92%) Software Developer
8 44 (4.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 42 (4.30%) Java Engineer
10 40 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
10 40 (4.10%) Principal Software Engineer
11 38 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (3.79%) Software Manager
13 36 (3.69%) .NET Software Engineer
14 34 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
14 34 (3.48%) Senior Developer
15 33 (3.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 32 (3.28%) C# Software Engineer
17 30 (3.07%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (16.29%) .NET
2 98 (10.04%) React
3 73 (7.48%) Node.js
4 46 (4.71%) RESTful
5 39 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 34 (3.48%) REST
7 33 (3.38%) .NET Core
8 32 (3.28%) Vue
9 30 (3.07%) Spring
10 28 (2.87%) CSS
11 26 (2.66%) Spring Boot
12 24 (2.46%) HTML
13 19 (1.95%) .NET Framework
14 15 (1.54%) Flask
15 10 (1.02%) ASP.NET
16 9 (0.92%) Django
16 9 (0.92%) GraphQL
17 8 (0.82%) Next.js
17 8 (0.82%) Web Services
18 6 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (2.46%) Hedge funds
4 22 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 19 (1.95%) IoT
6 14 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.13%) Robotics
8 9 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
8 9 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.92%) Industry 4.0
9 8 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 8 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.72%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.61%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.61%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.61%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.61%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.15%) Linux
2 8 (0.82%) Android
2 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.51%) Windows
4 4 (0.41%) CentOS
4 4 (0.41%) Debian
4 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (18.55%) Agile
2 135 (13.83%) Mentoring
3 134 (13.73%) CI/CD
4 128 (13.11%) DevOps
5 121 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 100 (10.25%) Microservices
7 95 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (9.02%) Coaching
9 87 (8.91%) AI
10 66 (6.76%) Analytics
11 65 (6.66%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (6.05%) Fintech
13 57 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
14 55 (5.64%) Scrum
15 53 (5.43%) TDD
16 49 (5.02%) SDLC
17 45 (4.61%) Containerisation
17 45 (4.61%) Open Source
18 44 (4.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 43 (4.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (15.47%) C#
2 146 (14.96%) Java
3 123 (12.60%) Python
4 106 (10.86%) JavaScript
5 102 (10.45%) SQL
6 95 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.87%) C++
8 25 (2.56%) C
9 17 (1.74%) PHP
10 13 (1.33%) COBOL
11 10 (1.02%) Go
12 6 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.51%) Bash
14 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.31%) Bicep
15 3 (0.31%) Groovy
15 3 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.31%) Scala
16 2 (0.20%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (4.71%) Security Cleared
2 36 (3.69%) Degree
3 28 (2.87%) DV Cleared
3 28 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.51%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.46%) QA
2 16 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.61%) GDPR
4 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (5.23%) Docker
2 35 (3.59%) Firmware
3 15 (1.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.12%) Terraform
3 6 (0.61%) Grafana
4 5 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.41%) Ansible
5 4 (0.41%) Puppet
6 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 61 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.43%) Salesforce
3 48 (4.92%) Cisco
4 12 (1.23%) Adobe
5 10 (1.02%) Google
6 9 (0.92%) Rockwell
7 6 (0.61%) Databricks
7 6 (0.61%) Siemens
8 5 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (0.41%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.41%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.31%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.31%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.20%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.10%) New Relic
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle