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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 26 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,351 879 1,707
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.41% 9.30% 10.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.13% 10.33% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 471 1,189
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +16.59% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14,799 8,508 13,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.20% 90.06% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 4,241 9,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +10 794 £70,000 +3.70% 259
Yorkshire +7 336 £65,000 -5.11% 98
North East +8 221 £70,000 +27.27% 53
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 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.30%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.30%) Confluence
3 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.15%) Apache
5 2 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.074%) CMS
6 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.074%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 252 (18.65%) AWS
2 178 (13.18%) Azure
3 86 (6.37%) SaaS
4 50 (3.70%) Serverless
5 40 (2.96%) GCP
6 36 (2.66%) GitHub
7 28 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 22 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (1.18%) Power Platform
10 15 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (0.89%) Amazon S3
13 11 (0.81%) Firebase
14 10 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.59%) Azure AI
16 7 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.74%) Wireless
2 2 (0.15%) AMQP
2 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.15%) MQTT
2 2 (0.15%) RTP
2 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.15%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.074%) Broadband
3 1 (0.074%) LTE
3 1 (0.074%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 45 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 33 (2.44%) MySQL
5 20 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.59%) Redis
8 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.44%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.37%) Big Data
10 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.37%) FileMaker
10 5 (0.37%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.30%) GIS
11 4 (0.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (2.59%) Git
2 21 (1.55%) Claude Code
3 20 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.04%) JIRA
5 11 (0.81%) GitLab
6 6 (0.44%) JUnit
6 6 (0.44%) Maven
7 5 (0.37%) Spock
8 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.22%) NUnit
9 3 (0.22%) Storybook
10 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.15%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.15%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
11 1 (0.074%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (9.77%) Finance
2 97 (7.18%) Social Skills
3 64 (4.74%) Public Sector
4 53 (3.92%) Electronics
5 34 (2.52%) Retail
6 32 (2.37%) Manufacturing
7 22 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (1.41%) Automotive
8 19 (1.41%) Legal
9 12 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (0.81%) Law
11 7 (0.52%) Agriculture
11 7 (0.52%) Aviation
11 7 (0.52%) Games
11 7 (0.52%) Marketing
11 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.44%) Banking
12 6 (0.44%) Billing
13 5 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 910 (67.36%) Software Engineer
2 330 (24.43%) Senior
3 241 (17.84%) Senior Software Engineer
4 177 (13.10%) Developer
5 164 (12.14%) Lead
6 99 (7.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 78 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 72 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
9 67 (4.96%) Embedded Engineer
10 66 (4.89%) Software Developer
11 64 (4.74%) Principal Software Engineer
12 63 (4.66%) C# Software Engineer
13 60 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 59 (4.37%) Software Manager
15 57 (4.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 51 (3.77%) Engineering Manager
16 51 (3.77%) Java Engineer
16 51 (3.77%) Senior Developer
17 46 (3.40%) .NET Developer
17 46 (3.40%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (13.18%) .NET
2 132 (9.77%) React
3 100 (7.40%) Node.js
4 51 (3.77%) RESTful
5 46 (3.40%) AngularJS
6 45 (3.33%) Vue
7 42 (3.11%) REST
8 41 (3.03%) Next.js
9 37 (2.74%) .NET Core
10 36 (2.66%) Spring
11 33 (2.44%) CSS
12 29 (2.15%) Spring Boot
13 22 (1.63%) HTML
13 22 (1.63%) React Native
14 18 (1.33%) LangChain
15 15 (1.11%) GraphQL
15 15 (1.11%) Ruby on Rails
16 14 (1.04%) .NET Framework
17 12 (0.89%) FastAPI
18 10 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 33 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.07%) Hedge funds
6 27 (2.00%) IoT
7 24 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 21 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
9 16 (1.18%) Robotics
10 12 (0.89%) Life Science
11 10 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (0.67%) Industry 4.0
13 8 (0.59%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.59%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.59%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.52%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.07%) Linux
2 9 (0.67%) Android
3 8 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Windows
5 4 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.15%) CentOS
6 2 (0.15%) Debian
6 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (16.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 207 (15.32%) AI
3 206 (15.25%) Agile
4 193 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 166 (12.29%) DevOps
6 155 (11.47%) Mentoring
7 127 (9.40%) Microservices
8 111 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 105 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (6.29%) Test Automation
11 75 (5.55%) TDD
12 74 (5.48%) Coaching
13 70 (5.18%) Technical Leadership
14 65 (4.81%) Computer Science
15 64 (4.74%) Collaborative Culture
15 64 (4.74%) SDLC
16 62 (4.59%) Fintech
17 60 (4.44%) Decision-Making
18 59 (4.37%) Containerisation
19 57 (4.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 206 (15.25%) C#
2 193 (14.29%) Python
3 180 (13.32%) Java
4 159 (11.77%) TypeScript
5 151 (11.18%) JavaScript
6 143 (10.58%) SQL
7 78 (5.77%) C++
8 32 (2.37%) C
9 31 (2.29%) Go
9 31 (2.29%) Rust
10 21 (1.55%) PHP
11 15 (1.11%) Ruby
12 13 (0.96%) Bash
12 13 (0.96%) COBOL
13 9 (0.67%) Groovy
13 9 (0.67%) Scala
14 7 (0.52%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.44%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.30%) Bicep
16 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 81 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 63 (4.66%) Degree
3 58 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.44%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (0.30%) PMP
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.52%) QA
2 20 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.52%) GDPR
4 6 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.37%) WCAG
6 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.22%) NCSC
7 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.074%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 73 (5.40%) Docker
2 40 (2.96%) Firmware
3 20 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 54 (4.00%) Terraform
3 10 (0.74%) Progress Chef
4 8 (0.59%) Ansible
5 6 (0.44%) Grafana
5 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.15%) Argo
6 2 (0.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.15%) Puppet
7 1 (0.074%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 26 (1.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (0.81%) Databricks
2 11 (0.81%) Google
2 11 (0.81%) Rockwell
2 11 (0.81%) Splunk
3 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
4 7 (0.52%) Siemens
5 6 (0.44%) Foundry
6 5 (0.37%) AppDynamics
6 5 (0.37%) Xamarin
7 4 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe
8 3 (0.22%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.15%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.15%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.15%) UiPath
10 1 (0.074%) Brio
10 1 (0.074%) Cisco