Software Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 12 27
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,010 1,989 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.59% 9.85% 8.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.30% 12.31% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 583 1,370 728
10th Percentile £36,350 £39,503 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,751 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,964 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 10,861 16,157 15,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 92.34% 80.04% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,424 11,889 7,759
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,230 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

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 2025.

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 2025. 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 -11 734 £60,000 - 607
Yorkshire -14 213 £68,000 +23.64% 228
North East -2 63 £55,000 - 95
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 67 (6.63%) Confluence
2 6 (0.59%) Apache
3 5 (0.50%) IIS
4 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.30%) SAS
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) CMS
6 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.099%) CICS
7 1 (0.099%) nginx
7 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 118 (11.68%) Simulink
2 9 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.099%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.099%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.099%) iTrent
2 1 (0.099%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 496 (49.11%) AWS
2 422 (41.78%) Azure
3 293 (29.01%) GCP
4 37 (3.66%) GitHub
5 36 (3.56%) SaaS
6 34 (3.37%) Serverless
7 23 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.39%) Power Platform
9 13 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
10 12 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.09%) Amazon S3
12 9 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (0.89%) dbt
12 9 (0.89%) Snowflake
13 8 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.69%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (0.50%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.09%) Wireless
2 7 (0.69%) Internet
3 5 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.40%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.30%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.20%) HTTP
7 1 (0.099%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.099%) Broadband
7 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.099%) Modbus
7 1 (0.099%) MQTT
7 1 (0.099%) Profibus
7 1 (0.099%) RS-232
7 1 (0.099%) RS-485
7 1 (0.099%) VPN
7 1 (0.099%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.05%) SQL Server
2 38 (3.76%) MongoDB
3 33 (3.27%) NoSQL
4 23 (2.28%) MySQL
5 20 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.49%) BigQuery
7 13 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.09%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.09%) Power BI
9 10 (0.99%) Cloud Spanner
10 9 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.79%) Big Data
12 7 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.50%) Metadata
13 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.40%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 147 (14.55%) JIRA
2 132 (13.07%) GitLab
3 126 (12.48%) SonarQube
4 123 (12.18%) Selenium
5 119 (11.78%) Cucumber
6 117 (11.58%) Maven
6 117 (11.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 113 (11.19%) Bitbucket
8 66 (6.53%) Git
9 27 (2.67%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.69%) JUnit
10 7 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.59%) Jasmine
11 6 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.50%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.50%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
13 4 (0.40%) Eclipse RCP
14 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
15 2 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 301 (29.80%) Finance
2 286 (28.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 237 (23.47%) Banking
4 148 (14.65%) Social Skills
5 95 (9.41%) Retail
6 72 (7.13%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (7.13%) Investment Banking
7 60 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (2.77%) Electronics
9 20 (1.98%) Law
10 17 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.58%) Games
12 15 (1.49%) Public Sector
13 11 (1.09%) Marketing
14 10 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.79%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.59%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.59%) Online Betting
17 4 (0.40%) Legal
17 4 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 553 (54.75%) Software Engineer
2 335 (33.17%) Senior
3 275 (27.23%) Senior Software Engineer
4 137 (13.56%) Systems Engineer
5 116 (11.49%) Lead
6 62 (6.14%) Developer
7 42 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
8 34 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
9 33 (3.27%) Engineering Manager
10 28 (2.77%) Java Engineer
10 28 (2.77%) Software Manager
11 24 (2.38%) Senior Developer
12 23 (2.28%) Software Engineering Manager
13 21 (2.08%) Java Software Engineer
13 21 (2.08%) PLC Engineer
14 19 (1.88%) .NET Software Engineer
14 19 (1.88%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (1.88%) C# Software Engineer
15 18 (1.78%) AWS Software Engineer
15 18 (1.78%) Software Assurance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (28.61%) .NET
2 259 (25.64%) Node.js
3 246 (24.36%) React
4 167 (16.53%) Spring
5 164 (16.24%) Spring Boot
6 161 (15.94%) Kafka
7 157 (15.54%) CSS
8 153 (15.15%) HTML
9 124 (12.28%) Redux
10 113 (11.19%) RESTful
11 112 (11.09%) JPA
12 95 (9.41%) REST
13 82 (8.12%) HTML5
14 78 (7.72%) CSS3
15 77 (7.62%) Jest
15 77 (7.62%) Sass
16 59 (5.84%) AngularJS
17 48 (4.75%) .NET Core
17 48 (4.75%) Hibernate
18 36 (3.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 196 (19.41%) Cyberattack
2 181 (17.92%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (17.03%) Linux Command Line
4 161 (15.94%) Product Ownership
5 121 (11.98%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (3.56%) Renewable Energy
7 30 (2.97%) Cloud Native
8 29 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (2.67%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.68%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.58%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.49%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
15 11 (1.09%) Wiki
16 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
17 8 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
18 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
19 6 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 201 (19.90%) Linux
2 14 (1.39%) Windows
3 8 (0.79%) Unix
4 7 (0.69%) Android
4 7 (0.69%) zOS
5 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.099%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.099%) Solaris
7 1 (0.099%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (53.56%) Agile
2 400 (39.60%) Microservices
3 368 (36.44%) Mentoring
4 282 (27.92%) User Experience
5 268 (26.53%) CI/CD
5 268 (26.53%) DevOps
6 210 (20.79%) Scrum
7 200 (19.80%) Machine Learning
8 187 (18.51%) Cloud Security
9 186 (18.42%) Data Engineering
10 182 (18.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 179 (17.72%) Test Automation
12 178 (17.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 174 (17.23%) Mathematics
14 172 (17.03%) Containerisation
15 155 (15.35%) SDLC
16 151 (14.95%) Systems Engineering
17 133 (13.17%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
17 133 (13.17%) SysML
17 133 (13.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 472 (46.73%) Java
2 439 (43.47%) JavaScript
3 281 (27.82%) Python
4 209 (20.69%) TypeScript
5 208 (20.59%) SQL
6 200 (19.80%) Go
7 199 (19.70%) C++
8 183 (18.12%) Rust
9 121 (11.98%) C#
10 119 (11.78%) MATLAB
11 38 (3.76%) C
12 31 (3.07%) PHP
13 7 (0.69%) R
14 6 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.50%) Ruby
16 4 (0.40%) Ada
16 4 (0.40%) Bash
16 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.30%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 245 (24.26%) Degree
2 194 (19.21%) Security Cleared
3 180 (17.82%) DV Cleared
4 175 (17.33%) AWS Certification
5 172 (17.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 172 (17.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 154 (15.25%) HND
7 118 (11.68%) HNC
8 39 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.69%) SC Cleared
12 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.099%) MCSD
14 1 (0.099%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.099%) PMP
14 1 (0.099%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.099%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (13.66%) QA
2 86 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.20%) GDPR
7 2 (0.20%) GMP
7 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.099%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.099%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.099%) SEPA
8 1 (0.099%) SLA
8 1 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 211 (20.89%) Docker
2 15 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.40%) Firmware
4 3 (0.30%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.30%) HDFS
4 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 213 (21.09%) Kubernetes
2 60 (5.94%) Terraform
3 5 (0.50%) Istio
4 4 (0.40%) Grafana
4 4 (0.40%) Kibana
5 3 (0.30%) Ansible
5 3 (0.30%) logstash
5 3 (0.30%) Oozie
6 2 (0.20%) Puppet
6 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.099%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.099%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (11.09%) Solace
2 36 (3.56%) Google
3 33 (3.27%) Microsoft
4 14 (1.39%) Databricks
5 12 (1.19%) Oracle
6 9 (0.89%) IBM
6 9 (0.89%) Ping Identity
7 5 (0.50%) Adobe
7 5 (0.50%) SAP
7 5 (0.50%) Xilinx
8 4 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.30%) Informatica
9 3 (0.30%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (0.30%) VMware
10 2 (0.20%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.20%) Avaya
10 2 (0.20%) New Relic
10 2 (0.20%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.20%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.20%) Xamarin