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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 25 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,458 837 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.58% 8.67% 10.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.36% 9.72% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 433 1,058
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £72,750 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +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 15,582 8,611 11,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.32% 89.18% 78.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11,641 4,281 7,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
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 14 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 14 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 +12 847 £70,000 +3.70% 347
Yorkshire +14 360 £65,000 - 118
North East +20 251 £75,000 +25.00% 90
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 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
2 8 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.41%) Apache
4 5 (0.34%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.21%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.14%) nginx
7 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.14%) WinCC
8 1 (0.069%) CMS
8 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.27%) Trello
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.069%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 288 (19.75%) AWS
2 195 (13.37%) Azure
3 102 (7.00%) SaaS
4 61 (4.18%) Serverless
5 58 (3.98%) GCP
6 50 (3.43%) GitHub
7 36 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (1.58%) Anthropic Claude
12 21 (1.44%) Power Platform
13 18 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.03%) Datadog
15 14 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
17 11 (0.75%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.75%) Firebase
17 11 (0.75%) Route 53
18 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.82%) Wireless
2 8 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.21%) Firewall
4 2 (0.14%) AMQP
4 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.14%) MQTT
4 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.14%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.069%) Broadband
5 1 (0.069%) DNS
5 1 (0.069%) LTE
5 1 (0.069%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.16%) NoSQL
1 46 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 29 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 25 (1.71%) MySQL
5 22 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 9 (0.62%) Redis
7 7 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
7 7 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.34%) Big Data
8 5 (0.34%) FileMaker
8 5 (0.34%) Neo4j
8 5 (0.34%) Pinecone
8 5 (0.34%) Power BI
9 4 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (3.70%) Git
2 23 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.51%) Claude Code
4 16 (1.10%) JIRA
5 14 (0.96%) GitLab
6 10 (0.69%) JUnit
7 8 (0.55%) Maven
8 7 (0.48%) Spock
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.27%) NUnit
10 4 (0.27%) Storybook
11 3 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.14%) MLflow
12 2 (0.14%) Mocha
12 2 (0.14%) Mockito
12 2 (0.14%) Selenium
12 2 (0.14%) Vite
13 1 (0.069%) Postman
General
1 138 (9.47%) Finance
2 131 (8.98%) Social Skills
3 66 (4.53%) Public Sector
4 55 (3.77%) Electronics
5 54 (3.70%) Retail
6 41 (2.81%) Manufacturing
7 24 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (1.65%) Legal
8 20 (1.37%) Automotive
9 18 (1.23%) Aviation
10 15 (1.03%) Law
11 13 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (0.75%) Games
13 8 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.55%) Marketing
14 7 (0.48%) Agriculture
14 7 (0.48%) Banking
15 6 (0.41%) Billing
15 6 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 960 (65.84%) Software Engineer
2 373 (25.58%) Senior
3 274 (18.79%) Senior Software Engineer
4 168 (11.52%) Developer
5 165 (11.32%) Lead
6 96 (6.58%) Lead Software Engineer
7 77 (5.28%) Embedded Engineer
8 76 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 75 (5.14%) Software Manager
10 73 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
11 67 (4.60%) C# Software Engineer
12 65 (4.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 64 (4.39%) Principal Software Engineer
14 62 (4.25%) Engineering Manager
15 56 (3.84%) Software Developer
16 55 (3.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 49 (3.36%) Software Engineering Manager
18 46 (3.16%) Python Engineer
19 45 (3.09%) Senior Developer
20 43 (2.95%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (12.41%) .NET
2 136 (9.33%) React
3 103 (7.06%) Node.js
4 50 (3.43%) AngularJS
4 50 (3.43%) REST
5 44 (3.02%) RESTful
6 43 (2.95%) Vue
7 42 (2.88%) CSS
8 41 (2.81%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.81%) Spring
9 40 (2.74%) Next.js
10 28 (1.92%) Spring Boot
11 25 (1.71%) HTML
11 25 (1.71%) React Native
12 17 (1.17%) LangChain
13 16 (1.10%) GraphQL
14 15 (1.03%) .NET Framework
14 15 (1.03%) Ruby on Rails
15 14 (0.96%) FastAPI
16 13 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.85%) Hedge funds
6 27 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 25 (1.71%) IoT
8 23 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
10 18 (1.23%) Robotics
11 14 (0.96%) Life Science
12 12 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (0.69%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.62%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.55%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.48%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.48%) Industry 4.0
17 6 (0.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
17 6 (0.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.14%) Linux
2 8 (0.55%) Windows
3 7 (0.48%) Android
4 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.14%) CentOS
6 2 (0.14%) Debian
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.14%) VMS
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (15.43%) Agile
1 225 (15.43%) AI
1 225 (15.43%) CI/CD
2 217 (14.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 189 (12.96%) DevOps
4 179 (12.28%) Mentoring
5 130 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 125 (8.57%) Microservices
7 116 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (6.31%) Test Automation
9 88 (6.04%) Collaborative Culture
9 88 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
10 78 (5.35%) Coaching
11 76 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 73 (5.01%) SDLC
12 73 (5.01%) TDD
13 71 (4.87%) Containerisation
14 70 (4.80%) Computer Science
14 70 (4.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (4.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 219 (15.02%) C#
2 218 (14.95%) Python
3 178 (12.21%) Java
4 165 (11.32%) TypeScript
5 157 (10.77%) JavaScript
6 150 (10.29%) SQL
7 81 (5.56%) C++
8 36 (2.47%) C
9 33 (2.26%) Go
10 31 (2.13%) Rust
11 22 (1.51%) PHP
12 19 (1.30%) Ruby
13 13 (0.89%) Bash
13 13 (0.89%) COBOL
13 13 (0.89%) Groovy
14 11 (0.75%) Scala
15 8 (0.55%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.34%) Delphi
17 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 73 (5.01%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.87%) Degree
4 49 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.48%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.34%) PMP
9 4 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.069%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.069%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.069%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.29%) QA
2 22 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.55%) GDPR
5 7 (0.48%) WCAG
6 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 89 (6.10%) Docker
2 44 (3.02%) Firmware
3 22 (1.51%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (4.60%) Terraform
2 66 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 9 (0.62%) Ansible
5 6 (0.41%) Grafana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Argo
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.069%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.069%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.069%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (2.54%) Microsoft
2 19 (1.30%) Google
3 16 (1.10%) Splunk
4 15 (1.03%) Databricks
5 11 (0.75%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.62%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.62%) Siemens
7 7 (0.48%) AppDynamics
8 6 (0.41%) Foundry
9 4 (0.27%) Adobe
9 4 (0.27%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.21%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.21%) New Relic
10 3 (0.21%) Sage
10 3 (0.21%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.14%) IBM
11 2 (0.14%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.14%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.14%) UiPath
12 1 (0.069%) Dynatrace