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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 23 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,235 879 1,948
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.14% 10.60% 9.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.87% 11.36% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 477 1,405
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £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 £71,750 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.33% +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 13,924 7,740 15,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.28% 93.35% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10,354 3,692 11,971
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 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 20 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 +11 736 £70,000 +3.70% 136
Yorkshire +3 325 £65,000 -7.14% 54
North East +1 174 £70,000 +27.27% 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 (1.05%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.40%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.32%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.16%) Apache
5 2 (0.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.081%) CMS
6 1 (0.081%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.16%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 9 (0.73%) Magento
2 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 256 (20.73%) AWS
2 161 (13.04%) Azure
3 91 (7.37%) SaaS
4 52 (4.21%) Serverless
5 37 (3.00%) GCP
6 33 (2.67%) GitHub
7 23 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.78%) Anthropic Claude
9 20 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.13%) Amazon S3
14 9 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.65%) Azure AKS
15 8 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (0.57%) Firebase
17 6 (0.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (0.49%) Power Platform
18 5 (0.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.32%) Wireless
2 2 (0.16%) AMQP
2 2 (0.16%) MQTT
2 2 (0.16%) RTP
3 1 (0.081%) Broadband
3 1 (0.081%) LTE
3 1 (0.081%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 37 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.91%) MongoDB
4 25 (2.02%) MySQL
5 12 (0.97%) Relational Database
5 12 (0.97%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.57%) DynamoDB
6 7 (0.57%) Neo4j
7 6 (0.49%) Big Data
7 6 (0.49%) Redis
8 5 (0.40%) FileMaker
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.32%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.32%) GIS
9 4 (0.32%) Power BI
9 4 (0.32%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 33 (2.67%) Git
2 23 (1.86%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.57%) JIRA
5 6 (0.49%) GitLab
6 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.24%) JUnit
7 3 (0.24%) NUnit
8 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.16%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.16%) Maven
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Spock
8 2 (0.16%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.16%) Vite
9 1 (0.081%) GDB
9 1 (0.081%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.081%) Mocha
9 1 (0.081%) Postman
9 1 (0.081%) WinDbg
General
1 117 (9.47%) Finance
2 70 (5.67%) Social Skills
3 53 (4.29%) Public Sector
4 40 (3.24%) Electronics
5 29 (2.35%) Manufacturing
6 26 (2.11%) Retail
7 24 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (1.54%) Automotive
10 14 (1.13%) Legal
11 7 (0.57%) Agriculture
12 6 (0.49%) Aviation
12 6 (0.49%) Marketing
13 5 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.40%) Billing
13 5 (0.40%) Games
13 5 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.40%) Law
14 4 (0.32%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 851 (68.91%) Software Engineer
2 300 (24.29%) Senior
3 233 (18.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 167 (13.52%) Developer
5 154 (12.47%) Lead
6 92 (7.45%) Lead Software Engineer
7 76 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 73 (5.91%) Software Developer
9 68 (5.51%) Principal Engineer
10 63 (5.10%) Embedded Engineer
11 62 (5.02%) Principal Software Engineer
12 61 (4.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 58 (4.70%) C# Software Engineer
13 58 (4.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 53 (4.29%) Java Engineer
15 47 (3.81%) Java Software Engineer
15 47 (3.81%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.48%) Software Manager
17 41 (3.32%) .NET Developer
17 41 (3.32%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.93%) .NET
2 127 (10.28%) React
3 95 (7.69%) Node.js
4 53 (4.29%) RESTful
5 50 (4.05%) REST
6 44 (3.56%) Vue
7 39 (3.16%) AngularJS
8 34 (2.75%) .NET Core
8 34 (2.75%) Next.js
8 34 (2.75%) Spring
9 31 (2.51%) CSS
10 30 (2.43%) Spring Boot
11 20 (1.62%) HTML
12 18 (1.46%) LangChain
13 17 (1.38%) React Native
14 14 (1.13%) .NET Framework
14 14 (1.13%) GraphQL
14 14 (1.13%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (0.97%) FastAPI
16 9 (0.73%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 48 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.19%) Hedge funds
6 27 (2.19%) IoT
7 23 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (0.97%) Life Science
10 12 (0.97%) Robotics
11 9 (0.73%) Industry 4.0
11 9 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.65%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.65%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.57%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.57%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.24%) Linux
2 10 (0.81%) Android
3 8 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.32%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) CentOS
5 2 (0.16%) Debian
5 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 186 (15.06%) Agile
3 183 (14.82%) AI
4 170 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 153 (12.39%) DevOps
6 142 (11.50%) Mentoring
7 124 (10.04%) Microservices
8 105 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (6.15%) Coaching
11 69 (5.59%) TDD
12 67 (5.43%) Test Automation
13 63 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
14 60 (4.86%) Fintech
15 56 (4.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (4.37%) Containerisation
16 54 (4.37%) Open Source
16 54 (4.37%) SDLC
17 52 (4.21%) Computer Science
18 49 (3.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 187 (15.14%) C#
2 177 (14.33%) Python
3 174 (14.09%) Java
4 139 (11.26%) JavaScript
5 135 (10.93%) TypeScript
6 127 (10.28%) SQL
7 56 (4.53%) C++
8 25 (2.02%) Rust
9 24 (1.94%) Go
10 23 (1.86%) PHP
11 22 (1.78%) C
12 14 (1.13%) Ruby
13 13 (1.05%) COBOL
14 8 (0.65%) Bash
14 8 (0.65%) Groovy
15 7 (0.57%) Scala
16 6 (0.49%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.40%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.32%) Bicep
18 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 67 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 50 (4.05%) Degree
2 50 (4.05%) SC Cleared
3 42 (3.40%) DV Cleared
4 37 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.40%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.70%) QA
2 16 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.49%) GDPR
3 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.32%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.24%) NCSC
6 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.081%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (5.34%) Docker
2 40 (3.24%) Firmware
3 15 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (4.86%) Terraform
2 53 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.81%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.65%) Ansible
5 3 (0.24%) Grafana
5 3 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.16%) Argo
6 2 (0.16%) Packer
6 2 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (2.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.62%) Salesforce
3 16 (1.30%) Cisco
4 11 (0.89%) Rockwell
5 9 (0.73%) Adobe
5 9 (0.73%) OpenAI
6 8 (0.65%) Google
6 8 (0.65%) Splunk
7 6 (0.49%) Databricks
7 6 (0.49%) Siemens
8 5 (0.40%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.24%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.16%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.16%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.16%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.081%) Foundry