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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 34 12
Rank change year-on-year +18 -22 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,606 696 1,315
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.69% 7.30% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.42% 8.31% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 308 683
10th Percentile £46,225 £41,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £46,250
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 £82,500
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 17,056 8,380 10,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.00% 87.92% 80.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,608 4,095 5,174
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -3.16% -8.53%
75th Percentile £74,112 £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 11 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 11 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 +17 936 £70,000 - 557
Yorkshire +14 350 £65,000 - 246
North East +31 320 £75,000 +36.36% 134
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 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
2 11 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.37%) Apache
4 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.25%) CMS
4 4 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (0.19%) Confluence
5 3 (0.19%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.19%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.12%) nginx
6 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.12%) WinCC
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.062%) Kentico
7 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
7 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
1 297 (18.49%) AWS
2 177 (11.02%) Azure
3 84 (5.23%) SaaS
4 61 (3.80%) GCP
5 59 (3.67%) Serverless
6 50 (3.11%) GitHub
7 31 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.43%) Power Platform
11 20 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
13 16 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 14 (0.87%) Datadog
15 13 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (0.81%) Firebase
15 13 (0.81%) Route 53
16 11 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Wireless
2 9 (0.56%) Internet
3 8 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.19%) 5G
4 3 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.12%) AMQP
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 50 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 34 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 29 (1.81%) MongoDB
5 27 (1.68%) MySQL
6 22 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.62%) Redis
8 9 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.44%) Chroma
10 7 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.44%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.44%) Power BI
11 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.37%) Metadata
12 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.25%) Flink
13 4 (0.25%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 66 (4.11%) Git
2 21 (1.31%) GitLab
2 21 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.06%) Claude Code
4 12 (0.75%) JIRA
4 12 (0.75%) JUnit
5 11 (0.68%) Maven
6 9 (0.56%) Spock
7 8 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.25%) Selenium
8 4 (0.25%) Storybook
8 4 (0.25%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.19%) Mockito
10 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.12%) MLflow
10 2 (0.12%) Mocha
10 2 (0.12%) Vite
11 1 (0.062%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (9.71%) Social Skills
2 155 (9.65%) Finance
3 75 (4.67%) Public Sector
4 59 (3.67%) Electronics
5 48 (2.99%) Retail
6 40 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (2.43%) Manufacturing
8 28 (1.74%) Legal
9 21 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.25%) Law
11 19 (1.18%) Aviation
12 17 (1.06%) Publishing
13 15 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.93%) Banking
14 14 (0.87%) Automotive
15 11 (0.68%) Games
15 11 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.56%) Billing
17 7 (0.44%) Marketing
17 7 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,047 (65.19%) Software Engineer
2 476 (29.64%) Senior
3 351 (21.86%) Senior Software Engineer
4 177 (11.02%) Lead
5 167 (10.40%) Developer
6 111 (6.91%) Lead Software Engineer
7 91 (5.67%) Embedded Engineer
8 82 (5.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 80 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
10 76 (4.73%) Java Engineer
11 75 (4.67%) Software Manager
12 73 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 71 (4.42%) Principal Software Engineer
14 68 (4.23%) C# Software Engineer
15 64 (3.99%) Java Software Engineer
16 62 (3.86%) Engineering Manager
17 54 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 54 (3.36%) Software Developer
18 53 (3.30%) Python Engineer
19 51 (3.18%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (10.46%) .NET
2 144 (8.97%) React
3 90 (5.60%) Node.js
4 69 (4.30%) Terraform
5 56 (3.49%) Spring
6 55 (3.42%) REST
7 45 (2.80%) .NET Core
8 41 (2.55%) Spring Boot
9 39 (2.43%) Next.js
10 38 (2.37%) AngularJS
11 37 (2.30%) CSS
12 34 (2.12%) RESTful
13 32 (1.99%) Vue
14 26 (1.62%) React Native
15 25 (1.56%) Kafka
16 19 (1.18%) HTML
16 19 (1.18%) LangChain
17 15 (0.93%) GraphQL
17 15 (0.93%) Ruby on Rails
17 15 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.55%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 24 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
8 22 (1.37%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.12%) IoT
11 12 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (0.75%) Media Streaming
11 12 (0.75%) Podcast
11 12 (0.75%) Robotics
12 11 (0.68%) Life Science
13 9 (0.56%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 8 (0.50%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.73%) Linux
2 15 (0.93%) Windows
3 9 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.31%) 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
1 266 (16.56%) AI
2 261 (16.25%) Agile
3 249 (15.50%) CI/CD
4 201 (12.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 193 (12.02%) Mentoring
6 183 (11.39%) DevOps
7 154 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 138 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
9 133 (8.28%) Microservices
10 109 (6.79%) Test Automation
11 103 (6.41%) Technical Leadership
12 86 (5.35%) Observability
13 85 (5.29%) Computer Science
14 84 (5.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 83 (5.17%) Coaching
15 83 (5.17%) Code Quality
15 83 (5.17%) Collaborative Culture
15 83 (5.17%) Containerisation
16 82 (5.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 71 (4.42%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 242 (15.07%) Python
2 236 (14.69%) Java
3 219 (13.64%) C#
4 191 (11.89%) TypeScript
5 144 (8.97%) SQL
6 139 (8.66%) JavaScript
7 78 (4.86%) C++
8 41 (2.55%) Go
9 36 (2.24%) Rust
10 32 (1.99%) C
11 19 (1.18%) PHP
11 19 (1.18%) Ruby
12 17 (1.06%) Groovy
13 16 (1.00%) Bash
14 14 (0.87%) Scala
15 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.44%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.37%) Delphi
18 5 (0.31%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 123 (7.66%) Security Cleared
2 88 (5.48%) SC Cleared
3 86 (5.35%) Degree
4 46 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.44%) PhD
6 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.37%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.31%) PMP
9 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
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 (2.80%) QA
2 29 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.50%) WCAG
5 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.31%) GDPR
7 3 (0.19%) 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
1 102 (6.35%) Docker
2 48 (2.99%) Firmware
3 20 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 86 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.06%) Progress Chef
3 13 (0.81%) Ansible
4 5 (0.31%) Grafana
5 4 (0.25%) Packer
6 3 (0.19%) Podman
6 3 (0.19%) 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 41 (2.55%) Microsoft
2 24 (1.49%) Google
3 20 (1.25%) Splunk
4 13 (0.81%) Databricks
5 12 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.56%) AppDynamics
7 8 (0.50%) Foundry
8 7 (0.44%) Rockwell
9 6 (0.37%) Siemens
10 5 (0.31%) New Relic
10 5 (0.31%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.31%) YouTube
11 4 (0.25%) Adobe
11 4 (0.25%) Mistral
11 4 (0.25%) OneTrust
12 3 (0.19%) Aderant
12 3 (0.19%) IBM
12 3 (0.19%) Sage
12 3 (0.19%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.19%) Thales