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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,152 871 1,803
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.80% 10.86% 9.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 11.52% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 995 485 1,304
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.39% -6.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -16.67%

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 13,845 7,564 14,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.68% 94.31% 80.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,713 3,579 11,500
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,280 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +5 676 £69,305 +2.67% 289
Yorkshire +3 329 £65,000 -4.41% 98
North East -6 147 £67,500 +22.73% 80
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 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (0.35%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.35%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.26%) Apache
5 2 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.087%) CMS
6 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.087%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Magento
2 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 235 (20.40%) AWS
2 152 (13.19%) Azure
3 88 (7.64%) SaaS
4 49 (4.25%) Serverless
5 34 (2.95%) GCP
6 30 (2.60%) GitHub
7 20 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
9 18 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (1.22%) Amazon S3
12 13 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (0.78%) Azure AKS
15 8 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 5 (0.43%) Figma
18 4 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
18 4 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.35%) Wireless
2 3 (0.26%) AMQP
3 2 (0.17%) RTP
4 1 (0.087%) Broadband
4 1 (0.087%) LTE
4 1 (0.087%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 33 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 31 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.91%) MySQL
5 12 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.78%) DynamoDB
7 9 (0.78%) Neo4j
8 8 (0.69%) Big Data
9 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.43%) FileMaker
11 5 (0.43%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.43%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.35%) GIS
12 4 (0.35%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 23 (2.00%) Git
2 21 (1.82%) Claude Code
3 18 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.61%) JIRA
5 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.26%) NUnit
6 2 (0.17%) GitLab
6 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.17%) Maven
6 2 (0.17%) MLflow
6 2 (0.17%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.087%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.087%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.087%) GDB
7 1 (0.087%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.087%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.087%) JUnit
7 1 (0.087%) Postman
7 1 (0.087%) Selenium
7 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (9.03%) Finance
2 65 (5.64%) Social Skills
3 54 (4.69%) Public Sector
4 34 (2.95%) Electronics
5 31 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 24 (2.08%) Retail
8 21 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (1.65%) Automotive
10 12 (1.04%) Legal
11 7 (0.61%) Agriculture
12 6 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.52%) Aviation
13 5 (0.43%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.43%) Law
13 5 (0.43%) Marketing
14 4 (0.35%) Banking
14 4 (0.35%) Italian Language
14 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 790 (68.58%) Software Engineer
2 257 (22.31%) Senior
3 193 (16.75%) Senior Software Engineer
4 158 (13.72%) Lead
5 153 (13.28%) Developer
6 98 (8.51%) Lead Software Engineer
7 67 (5.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 65 (5.64%) Software Developer
9 60 (5.21%) Embedded Engineer
10 57 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
11 56 (4.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 55 (4.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 55 (4.77%) Principal Software Engineer
13 52 (4.51%) C# Software Engineer
14 49 (4.25%) Java Engineer
15 46 (3.99%) Senior Developer
16 43 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
17 39 (3.39%) Software Manager
18 38 (3.30%) .NET Developer
18 38 (3.30%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (13.89%) .NET
2 120 (10.42%) React
3 92 (7.99%) Node.js
4 53 (4.60%) RESTful
5 47 (4.08%) REST
6 40 (3.47%) Vue
7 34 (2.95%) AngularJS
8 30 (2.60%) CSS
8 30 (2.60%) Spring
9 29 (2.52%) .NET Core
10 28 (2.43%) Spring Boot
11 23 (2.00%) Next.js
12 20 (1.74%) HTML
13 14 (1.22%) GraphQL
13 14 (1.22%) LangChain
14 13 (1.13%) React Native
15 12 (1.04%) .NET Framework
16 11 (0.95%) Flask
16 11 (0.95%) Ruby on Rails
17 10 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 36 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.26%) Hedge funds
5 24 (2.08%) IoT
5 24 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
9 12 (1.04%) Life Science
10 10 (0.87%) Robotics
11 9 (0.78%) Industry 4.0
11 9 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.69%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.69%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.61%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.43%) e-Learning
15 5 (0.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.60%) Linux
2 10 (0.87%) Android
3 8 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.35%) Windows
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 177 (15.36%) Agile
3 151 (13.11%) CI/CD
4 148 (12.85%) AI
5 138 (11.98%) Mentoring
6 136 (11.81%) DevOps
7 113 (9.81%) Microservices
8 94 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 79 (6.86%) Coaching
9 79 (6.86%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (5.73%) TDD
11 59 (5.12%) Technical Leadership
12 58 (5.03%) Test Automation
13 56 (4.86%) Open Source
14 55 (4.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 54 (4.69%) Fintech
16 51 (4.43%) SDLC
17 50 (4.34%) Containerisation
18 49 (4.25%) Scrum
19 43 (3.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 170 (14.76%) Python
2 166 (14.41%) C#
2 166 (14.41%) Java
3 132 (11.46%) JavaScript
4 117 (10.16%) TypeScript
5 116 (10.07%) SQL
6 43 (3.73%) C++
7 22 (1.91%) C
8 19 (1.65%) PHP
9 16 (1.39%) Go
10 13 (1.13%) COBOL
10 13 (1.13%) Rust
11 11 (0.95%) Ruby
12 8 (0.69%) Groovy
13 6 (0.52%) Bash
13 6 (0.52%) Scala
14 5 (0.43%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.35%) Bicep
15 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 63 (5.47%) Security Cleared
2 47 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 43 (3.73%) DV Cleared
4 40 (3.47%) Degree
5 27 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.087%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.74%) QA
2 15 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.52%) GDPR
4 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.26%) NCSC
7 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.087%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (4.51%) Docker
2 40 (3.47%) Firmware
3 14 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (4.86%) Terraform
2 46 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.87%) Progress Chef
4 6 (0.52%) Ansible
5 3 (0.26%) Grafana
5 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.26%) Puppet
6 2 (0.17%) Packer
7 1 (0.087%) Argo
Vendors
1 39 (3.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.60%) Salesforce
3 24 (2.08%) Cisco
4 11 (0.95%) Rockwell
5 10 (0.87%) Adobe
6 9 (0.78%) Google
7 6 (0.52%) Databricks
7 6 (0.52%) Siemens
8 5 (0.43%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.43%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.26%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.26%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.26%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.26%) Splunk
10 1 (0.087%) BiZZdesign