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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 32 11
Rank change year-on-year +16 -21 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,603 718 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.67% 7.54% 10.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 8.60% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,344 328 785
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,198 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +20.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -9.72%

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 17,055 8,344 10,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.93% 87.59% 79.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12,680 4,097 5,751
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.46% -5.66%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +14 937 £70,000 - 597
Yorkshire +16 358 £65,000 -1.89% 249
North East +25 308 £75,000 +30.43% 111
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 10 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.44%) Apache
4 5 (0.31%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.19%) Confluence
6 3 (0.19%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) WinCC
8 1 (0.062%) Headless CMS
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%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 299 (18.65%) AWS
2 173 (10.79%) Azure
3 95 (5.93%) SaaS
4 61 (3.81%) GCP
5 60 (3.74%) Serverless
6 51 (3.18%) GitHub
7 34 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (1.43%) Power Platform
12 21 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
13 20 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.06%) Datadog
15 15 (0.94%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (0.81%) Firebase
17 13 (0.81%) Route 53
18 12 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
19 11 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.75%) Wireless
2 8 (0.50%) Internet
2 8 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.19%) 5G
3 3 (0.19%) AMQP
3 3 (0.19%) Firewall
4 2 (0.12%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 2 (0.12%) MQTT
4 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.12%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.062%) DNS
5 1 (0.062%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (2.25%) NoSQL
3 34 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.81%) MongoDB
5 25 (1.56%) MySQL
6 23 (1.43%) 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%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.44%) Power BI
11 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.31%) Chroma
12 5 (0.31%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.25%) Flink
13 4 (0.25%) Metadata
13 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 63 (3.93%) Git
2 22 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.19%) Claude Code
4 18 (1.12%) GitLab
5 12 (0.75%) JIRA
5 12 (0.75%) JUnit
6 11 (0.69%) Maven
7 9 (0.56%) Spock
8 8 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) Selenium
9 4 (0.25%) Storybook
9 4 (0.25%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.19%) Mockito
11 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.12%) MLflow
11 2 (0.12%) Mocha
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 150 (9.36%) Social Skills
2 148 (9.23%) Finance
3 73 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 60 (3.74%) Electronics
5 51 (3.18%) Retail
6 39 (2.43%) Manufacturing
7 37 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (1.87%) Legal
9 21 (1.31%) Law
10 20 (1.25%) Aviation
10 20 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.06%) Automotive
11 17 (1.06%) Publishing
12 12 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.69%) Games
14 10 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.56%) Banking
16 8 (0.50%) Billing
17 7 (0.44%) Marketing
17 7 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,052 (65.63%) Software Engineer
2 451 (28.13%) Senior
3 330 (20.59%) Senior Software Engineer
4 172 (10.73%) Lead
5 167 (10.42%) Developer
6 108 (6.74%) Lead Software Engineer
7 90 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
8 87 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
9 80 (4.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 80 (4.99%) Software Manager
10 78 (4.87%) Principal Software Engineer
11 74 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 69 (4.30%) C# Software Engineer
13 66 (4.12%) Java Engineer
14 63 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
15 57 (3.56%) Software Developer
16 55 (3.43%) Python Engineer
17 54 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 54 (3.37%) Java Software Engineer
18 52 (3.24%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.42%) .NET
2 149 (9.30%) React
3 91 (5.68%) Node.js
4 67 (4.18%) Terraform
5 60 (3.74%) Spring
6 57 (3.56%) REST
7 44 (2.74%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.74%) Spring Boot
8 42 (2.62%) .NET Core
9 39 (2.43%) Next.js
10 38 (2.37%) CSS
11 36 (2.25%) Vue
12 35 (2.18%) RESTful
13 26 (1.62%) React Native
14 25 (1.56%) Kafka
15 20 (1.25%) HTML
16 17 (1.06%) LangChain
17 15 (0.94%) GraphQL
17 15 (0.94%) Ruby on Rails
17 15 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 155 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 78 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 43 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.37%) AI Agents
6 28 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 25 (1.56%) Hedge funds
8 24 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
9 21 (1.31%) IoT
10 20 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (0.87%) Robotics
12 12 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (0.75%) Media Streaming
12 12 (0.75%) Podcast
13 11 (0.69%) Life Science
14 9 (0.56%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.56%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 8 (0.50%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.74%) Linux
2 15 (0.94%) Windows
3 9 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.31%) Android
4 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.25%) VMS
6 3 (0.19%) CentOS
6 3 (0.19%) Debian
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (16.22%) AI
2 254 (15.85%) Agile
3 242 (15.10%) CI/CD
4 205 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 194 (12.10%) Mentoring
6 192 (11.98%) DevOps
7 156 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 139 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (8.05%) Microservices
10 101 (6.30%) Technical Leadership
11 98 (6.11%) Test Automation
12 86 (5.36%) Observability
13 84 (5.24%) Code Quality
14 82 (5.12%) Collaborative Culture
14 82 (5.12%) Containerisation
15 81 (5.05%) Coaching
15 81 (5.05%) Computer Science
15 81 (5.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 80 (4.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 71 (4.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 234 (14.60%) Python
2 220 (13.72%) C#
3 216 (13.47%) Java
4 181 (11.29%) TypeScript
5 148 (9.23%) SQL
6 139 (8.67%) JavaScript
7 79 (4.93%) C++
8 36 (2.25%) Go
9 34 (2.12%) C
10 31 (1.93%) Rust
11 19 (1.19%) PHP
11 19 (1.19%) Ruby
12 18 (1.12%) Bash
13 17 (1.06%) Groovy
14 13 (0.81%) Scala
15 8 (0.50%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.44%) COBOL
17 6 (0.37%) Delphi
17 6 (0.37%) VB.NET
18 5 (0.31%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 130 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 95 (5.93%) SC Cleared
3 79 (4.93%) Degree
4 48 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
6 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.37%) PhD
8 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (0.31%) PMP
9 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.062%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.062%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.062%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.99%) QA
2 27 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.50%) WCAG
5 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.37%) GDPR
7 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.19%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.19%) NCSC
8 2 (0.12%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.062%) GRC
System Software
1 99 (6.18%) Docker
2 48 (2.99%) Firmware
3 22 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.06%) Progress Chef
3 13 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.50%) Grafana
5 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.25%) Packer
7 3 (0.19%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) Argo
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.12%) Podman
9 1 (0.062%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.062%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.062%) Kibana
9 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (2.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.25%) Splunk
3 18 (1.12%) Google
4 14 (0.87%) Databricks
5 10 (0.62%) OpenAI
5 10 (0.62%) Rockwell
6 9 (0.56%) AppDynamics
7 8 (0.50%) Siemens
8 6 (0.37%) Foundry
9 5 (0.31%) New Relic
9 5 (0.31%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.31%) YouTube
10 4 (0.25%) Adobe
10 4 (0.25%) OneTrust
10 4 (0.25%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.25%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.19%) IBM
11 3 (0.19%) Sage
11 3 (0.19%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.12%) MEDITECH