Software Manager Jobs in the North of England

Software Manager
England > North of England

The median Software Manager salary in the North of England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 275 385
Rank change year-on-year -39 +110 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 30 118 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.65% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.69% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23 102 38
10th Percentile £62,750 £41,488 £47,500
25th Percentile £71,984 £52,656 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £107,500 £77,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £86,125 £96,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +30.77% -16.13% -6.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 10,560 17,161 14,899
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 95.07% 89.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,436 13,253 8,076
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Software Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the North of England

Software Manager
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Manager in the North of England

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in the North of England

Software Manager
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 Manager within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
Yorkshire +53 20 £85,000 +13.33% 11
North West -60 9 £85,000 +36.00% 28
North East +30 1 £35,000 -36.36% 5
Software Manager
England

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 27 May 2025, Software Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 28 (93.33%) Software Engineering
2 24 (80.00%) Agile
3 14 (46.67%) DevOps
4 12 (40.00%) Finance
4 12 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
5 11 (36.67%) .NET
6 10 (33.33%) C#
6 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 10 (33.33%) Banking
6 10 (33.33%) Azure
6 10 (33.33%) Coaching
6 10 (33.33%) Roadmaps
7 8 (26.67%) React
7 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
8 7 (23.33%) Risk Management
8 7 (23.33%) Performance Management
8 7 (23.33%) .NET Core
8 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
8 7 (23.33%) AngularJS
9 6 (20.00%) People Management
9 6 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.00%) Virtual Team

Software Manager Skill Set
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 3 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Retail Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) .NET
2 8 (26.67%) React
3 7 (23.33%) .NET Core
3 7 (23.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.00%) J2EE
4 3 (10.00%) JSR 170
4 3 (10.00%) OSGi
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.67%) Spring
5 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.33%) MSMQ
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (3.33%) RSS
6 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Software Engineering
2 24 (80.00%) Agile
3 14 (46.67%) DevOps
4 12 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
5 11 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (33.33%) Coaching
6 10 (33.33%) Roadmaps
7 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
8 7 (23.33%) Performance Management
8 7 (23.33%) Risk Management
9 6 (20.00%) Batch Scheduling
9 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (20.00%) ITIL
9 6 (20.00%) People Management
9 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (13.33%) Microservices
10 4 (13.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) C#
2 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) Go
4 1 (3.33%) PHP
4 1 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (10.00%) Adobe
4 1 (3.33%) Facebook
4 1 (3.33%) Sage