Software Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,097 1,583 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.35% 8.98% 8.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.85% 10.80% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 694 1,251 835
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -6.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,991 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £84,964 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,647
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.97% +3.78%

All Process and 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 11,141 14,663 16,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.00% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 11,257 7,869
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025. 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 -9 803 £55,000 -8.33% 417
Yorkshire -9 218 £67,500 +22.73% 217
North East +9 76 £55,000 - 111
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (5.65%) Confluence
2 7 (0.64%) Apache
3 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.27%) CMS
3 3 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.18%) IIS
4 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.091%) CICS
5 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.091%) nginx
5 1 (0.091%) SAS
5 1 (0.091%) Strapi
5 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 140 (12.76%) Simulink
2 8 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.091%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.091%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) Revit
4 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.091%) iTrent
2 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 507 (46.22%) AWS
2 431 (39.29%) Azure
3 301 (27.44%) GCP
4 43 (3.92%) SaaS
5 32 (2.92%) Serverless
6 31 (2.83%) GitHub
7 26 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
10 12 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (1.09%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.00%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.00%) dbt
12 10 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (0.91%) Snowflake
13 9 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (0.64%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.28%) Wireless
2 5 (0.46%) Bluetooth
2 5 (0.46%) Internet
2 5 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (0.36%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.18%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.18%) HTTP
5 1 (0.091%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.091%) Modbus
5 1 (0.091%) MQTT
5 1 (0.091%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.091%) RS-232
5 1 (0.091%) RS-485
5 1 (0.091%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.091%) VPN
5 1 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.091%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.83%) MongoDB
3 29 (2.64%) MySQL
3 29 (2.64%) NoSQL
4 15 (1.37%) BigQuery
5 11 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.91%) Cloud Spanner
6 10 (0.91%) Power BI
6 10 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.64%) Big Data
10 6 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 158 (14.40%) JIRA
2 129 (11.76%) GitLab
3 128 (11.67%) Bitbucket
3 128 (11.67%) SonarQube
4 119 (10.85%) Maven
4 119 (10.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 117 (10.67%) Selenium
6 115 (10.48%) Cucumber
7 73 (6.65%) Git
8 31 (2.83%) Jenkins
9 16 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
10 15 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.91%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.73%) JUnit
13 6 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
14 5 (0.46%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.46%) Jasmine
15 4 (0.36%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.36%) Eclipse RCP
15 4 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 300 (27.35%) Finance
2 289 (26.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 245 (22.33%) Banking
4 134 (12.22%) Social Skills
5 99 (9.02%) Retail
6 72 (6.56%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (6.56%) Investment Banking
7 45 (4.10%) Electronics
8 42 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (2.10%) Law
10 21 (1.91%) Games
11 20 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.82%) Automotive
13 9 (0.82%) Marketing
13 9 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.73%) Public Sector
15 6 (0.55%) Online Betting
15 6 (0.55%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 599 (54.60%) Software Engineer
2 359 (32.73%) Senior
3 304 (27.71%) Senior Software Engineer
4 157 (14.31%) Systems Engineer
5 122 (11.12%) Lead
6 85 (7.75%) Developer
7 43 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
8 42 (3.83%) Principal Engineer
9 39 (3.56%) Software Developer
10 32 (2.92%) Engineering Manager
11 28 (2.55%) Software Assurance Engineer
12 27 (2.46%) Software Manager
13 23 (2.10%) C# Software Engineer
14 22 (2.01%) AWS Engineer
14 22 (2.01%) Software Engineering Manager
15 21 (1.91%) Java Engineer
16 20 (1.82%) .NET Software Engineer
16 20 (1.82%) Senior Developer
17 18 (1.64%) Embedded Engineer
18 17 (1.55%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (28.71%) .NET
2 272 (24.79%) Node.js
3 266 (24.25%) React
4 160 (14.59%) Spring
5 157 (14.31%) CSS
5 157 (14.31%) Spring Boot
6 156 (14.22%) HTML
7 154 (14.04%) Kafka
8 124 (11.30%) Redux
9 115 (10.48%) RESTful
10 112 (10.21%) JPA
11 100 (9.12%) REST
12 79 (7.20%) HTML5
13 76 (6.93%) Sass
14 75 (6.84%) Jest
15 74 (6.75%) CSS3
16 69 (6.29%) AngularJS
17 57 (5.20%) .NET Core
18 47 (4.28%) Hibernate
19 36 (3.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 182 (16.59%) Self-Motivation
2 175 (15.95%) Cyberattack
3 172 (15.68%) Linux Command Line
4 157 (14.31%) Product Ownership
5 126 (11.49%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 35 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.83%) Algorithms
8 31 (2.83%) Cloud Native
9 23 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.91%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
12 17 (1.55%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.28%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.82%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.82%) Hedge funds
16 8 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 214 (19.51%) Linux
2 13 (1.19%) Windows
3 11 (1.00%) Android
4 7 (0.64%) Unix
4 7 (0.64%) zOS
5 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.091%) Solaris
8 1 (0.091%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.091%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (54.33%) Agile
2 406 (37.01%) Microservices
3 381 (34.73%) Mentoring
4 276 (25.16%) User Experience
5 264 (24.07%) CI/CD
5 264 (24.07%) DevOps
6 222 (20.24%) Scrum
7 200 (18.23%) Mathematics
8 199 (18.14%) Machine Learning
9 189 (17.23%) Cloud Security
10 186 (16.96%) Data Engineering
11 183 (16.68%) Systems Engineering
12 182 (16.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 179 (16.32%) Test Automation
14 172 (15.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 168 (15.31%) Containerisation
16 167 (15.22%) SDLC
17 158 (14.40%) SysML
18 155 (14.13%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
19 149 (13.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 511 (46.58%) Java
2 466 (42.48%) JavaScript
3 286 (26.07%) Python
4 217 (19.78%) TypeScript
5 214 (19.51%) SQL
6 207 (18.87%) C++
7 198 (18.05%) Go
8 192 (17.50%) C#
9 185 (16.86%) Rust
10 141 (12.85%) MATLAB
11 61 (5.56%) C
12 41 (3.74%) PHP
13 20 (1.82%) Ada
14 16 (1.46%) VB
15 7 (0.64%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.55%) Embedded C
16 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.55%) R
17 5 (0.46%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 316 (28.81%) Degree
2 193 (17.59%) Security Cleared
3 177 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 174 (15.86%) AWS Certification
5 172 (15.68%) AWS Certified Developer
5 172 (15.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 159 (14.49%) HND
7 141 (12.85%) HNC
8 50 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.64%) SC Cleared
12 4 (0.36%) PhD
13 2 (0.18%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.091%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.091%) MCSD
14 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.091%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.091%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (13.22%) QA
2 86 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.18%) GMP
8 2 (0.18%) SLA
9 1 (0.091%) GDPR
9 1 (0.091%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.091%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.091%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.091%) MISRA
9 1 (0.091%) SEPA
9 1 (0.091%) WCAG
System Software
1 209 (19.05%) Docker
2 15 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.73%) Firmware
4 6 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.091%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.091%) HDFS
5 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 214 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 66 (6.02%) Terraform
3 6 (0.55%) Ansible
3 6 (0.55%) Istio
4 4 (0.36%) Grafana
5 2 (0.18%) Kibana
5 2 (0.18%) Puppet
5 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.091%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.091%) logstash
6 1 (0.091%) Oozie
6 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.091%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (10.21%) Solace
2 42 (3.83%) Oracle
3 41 (3.74%) Google
4 37 (3.37%) Microsoft
5 13 (1.19%) Databricks
6 12 (1.09%) IBM
7 11 (1.00%) Ping Identity
8 5 (0.46%) Adobe
8 5 (0.46%) Xilinx
9 4 (0.36%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.27%) EMC
10 3 (0.27%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.18%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.18%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.18%) New Relic
12 1 (0.091%) Allen-Bradley
12 1 (0.091%) CyberSource
12 1 (0.091%) Workday
12 1 (0.091%) Zend