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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 31 12
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,623 698 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.75% 7.40% 9.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 8.43% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 310 664
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,433
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £83,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -3.57%

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 17,102 8,280 10,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.16% 87.81% 80.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,675 4,092 5,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,652
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -3.81% -7.91%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 October 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 October 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 +12 943 £70,000 - 476
Yorkshire +17 352 £65,000 - 199
North East +31 328 £77,500 +40.91% 127
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 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
2 11 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.37%) Apache
4 5 (0.31%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.25%) CMS
5 4 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.18%) Confluence
6 3 (0.18%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.12%) WinCC
8 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.062%) Kentico
8 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Trello
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.062%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 300 (18.48%) AWS
2 184 (11.34%) Azure
3 81 (4.99%) SaaS
4 61 (3.76%) GCP
5 60 (3.70%) Serverless
6 51 (3.14%) GitHub
7 34 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.42%) Power Platform
11 21 (1.29%) Anthropic Claude
12 20 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (1.05%) Amazon S3
14 14 (0.86%) Datadog
15 13 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (0.80%) Firebase
15 13 (0.80%) Route 53
16 11 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Wireless
2 9 (0.55%) Internet
3 8 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.18%) 5G
4 3 (0.18%) AMQP
4 3 (0.18%) Firewall
5 2 (0.12%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.12%) HTTP
5 2 (0.12%) MQTT
5 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.12%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.062%) DNS
6 1 (0.062%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 36 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.91%) MongoDB
4 27 (1.66%) MySQL
5 23 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.68%) Redis
7 9 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
8 7 (0.43%) Chroma
8 7 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.43%) Pinecone
8 7 (0.43%) Power BI
9 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.37%) Metadata
10 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.25%) Flink
11 4 (0.25%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 68 (4.19%) Git
2 23 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.36%) GitLab
4 17 (1.05%) Claude Code
5 13 (0.80%) JIRA
6 12 (0.74%) JUnit
7 11 (0.68%) Maven
8 9 (0.55%) Spock
9 8 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.25%) Selenium
10 4 (0.25%) Storybook
10 4 (0.25%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.18%) Mocha
11 3 (0.18%) Mockito
12 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.12%) MLflow
12 2 (0.12%) Vite
13 1 (0.062%) Postman
General
1 160 (9.86%) Social Skills
2 158 (9.74%) Finance
3 75 (4.62%) Public Sector
4 59 (3.64%) Electronics
5 49 (3.02%) Retail
6 40 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 26 (1.60%) Legal
9 21 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.23%) Law
11 19 (1.17%) Aviation
12 18 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.05%) Publishing
14 16 (0.99%) Banking
15 14 (0.86%) Automotive
16 11 (0.68%) Games
16 11 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.55%) Billing
18 7 (0.43%) Marketing
18 7 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,056 (65.06%) Software Engineer
2 481 (29.64%) Senior
3 355 (21.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 177 (10.91%) Lead
5 172 (10.60%) Developer
6 109 (6.72%) Lead Software Engineer
7 92 (5.67%) Embedded Engineer
8 83 (5.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 81 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
10 78 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 78 (4.81%) Java Engineer
11 74 (4.56%) Software Manager
12 72 (4.44%) Principal Software Engineer
13 71 (4.37%) C# Software Engineer
14 65 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
15 63 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
16 55 (3.39%) Python Engineer
16 55 (3.39%) Software Developer
17 54 (3.33%) Senior Developer
18 53 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (10.66%) .NET
2 148 (9.12%) React
3 93 (5.73%) Node.js
4 70 (4.31%) Terraform
5 57 (3.51%) REST
5 57 (3.51%) Spring
6 48 (2.96%) .NET Core
7 42 (2.59%) Spring Boot
8 40 (2.46%) Next.js
9 38 (2.34%) AngularJS
10 37 (2.28%) CSS
10 37 (2.28%) RESTful
11 32 (1.97%) Vue
12 26 (1.60%) Kafka
12 26 (1.60%) React Native
13 20 (1.23%) HTML
14 19 (1.17%) LangChain
15 15 (0.92%) GraphQL
15 15 (0.92%) Ruby on Rails
15 15 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (2.71%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.53%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 25 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
8 22 (1.36%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.11%) IoT
11 12 (0.74%) Media Streaming
11 12 (0.74%) Podcast
11 12 (0.74%) Robotics
12 11 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (0.68%) Life Science
13 9 (0.55%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 8 (0.49%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.73%) Linux
2 15 (0.92%) Windows
3 9 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.25%) Android
5 4 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.25%) VMS
6 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.12%) CentOS
6 2 (0.12%) Debian
6 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (16.70%) AI
2 264 (16.27%) Agile
3 253 (15.59%) CI/CD
4 206 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 194 (11.95%) Mentoring
6 188 (11.58%) DevOps
7 154 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 137 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (8.32%) Microservices
10 112 (6.90%) Test Automation
11 104 (6.41%) Technical Leadership
12 87 (5.36%) Computer Science
13 85 (5.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 85 (5.24%) Observability
14 84 (5.18%) Collaborative Culture
14 84 (5.18%) Containerisation
14 84 (5.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 82 (5.05%) Coaching
15 82 (5.05%) Code Quality
16 71 (4.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 250 (15.40%) Python
2 241 (14.85%) Java
3 226 (13.92%) C#
4 196 (12.08%) TypeScript
5 149 (9.18%) SQL
6 140 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 79 (4.87%) C++
8 43 (2.65%) Go
9 38 (2.34%) Rust
10 32 (1.97%) C
11 19 (1.17%) PHP
11 19 (1.17%) Ruby
12 17 (1.05%) Bash
12 17 (1.05%) Groovy
13 14 (0.86%) Scala
14 10 (0.62%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.37%) Delphi
17 5 (0.31%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 123 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 88 (5.42%) SC Cleared
3 87 (5.36%) Degree
4 47 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.43%) PhD
6 7 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.31%) PMP
9 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.062%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.062%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.062%) HNC
11 1 (0.062%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.77%) QA
2 30 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.49%) WCAG
5 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.31%) GDPR
7 3 (0.18%) IEC 61131
8 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.12%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.062%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (6.59%) Docker
2 47 (2.90%) Firmware
3 20 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.05%) Progress Chef
3 14 (0.86%) Ansible
4 5 (0.31%) Grafana
5 4 (0.25%) Packer
5 4 (0.25%) Podman
6 3 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.12%) Argo
7 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.12%) Puppet
8 1 (0.062%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.062%) Kibana
8 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (2.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (1.54%) Google
3 20 (1.23%) Splunk
4 13 (0.80%) Databricks
5 12 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.55%) AppDynamics
7 8 (0.49%) Foundry
7 8 (0.49%) Rockwell
8 7 (0.43%) Siemens
9 6 (0.37%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.31%) New Relic
10 5 (0.31%) YouTube
11 4 (0.25%) Adobe
11 4 (0.25%) Mistral
11 4 (0.25%) OneTrust
11 4 (0.25%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.25%) Thales
12 3 (0.18%) IBM
12 3 (0.18%) Sage
12 3 (0.18%) Xamarin