Software Engineer Jobs in the North West

Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Software Engineer salary in the North West is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 24 87
Rank change year-on-year -23 +63 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 441 734 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.60% 6.66% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.16% 6.98% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 128 455 143
10th Percentile £49,250 £39,752 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -2.50% +7.75%
75th Percentile £93,778 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £113,000 £80,000 £83,510
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,160 10,517 6,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 95.36% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,850 7,748 3,999
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £30,110
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,469 £40,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,225 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Manchester -8 237 £78,500 +30.83% 374
Lancashire -49 94 £58,000 +24.73% 66
Cheshire -2 86 £74,500 +24.17% 43
Merseyside +2 20 £65,000 - 20
Cumbria -61 1 £60,000 +33.33% 21
Software Engineer
England

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Software Engineer 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 West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 441 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 370 (83.90%) AWS
3 349 (79.14%) Java
4 344 (78.00%) Agile
5 335 (75.96%) JavaScript
6 315 (71.43%) Azure
6 315 (71.43%) Microservices
7 281 (63.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 268 (60.77%) Mentoring
9 251 (56.92%) User Experience
10 233 (52.83%) GCP
11 209 (47.39%) Node.js
12 200 (45.35%) Python
13 194 (43.99%) .NET
14 187 (42.40%) Machine Learning
15 186 (42.18%) Security Cleared
16 185 (41.95%) Linux
17 183 (41.50%) Cloud Security
18 182 (41.27%) C++
18 182 (41.27%) Scrum
18 182 (41.27%) Go
19 181 (41.04%) DV Cleared
20 176 (39.91%) Rust
21 175 (39.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
22 173 (39.23%) Cyberattack
23 172 (39.00%) Data Engineering
23 172 (39.00%) AWS Certification
23 172 (39.00%) Self-Motivation
23 172 (39.00%) Linux Command Line
23 172 (39.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 53 (12.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.23%) Apache
2 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) GNU Octave
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 370 (83.90%) AWS
2 315 (71.43%) Azure
3 233 (52.83%) GCP
4 12 (2.72%) Serverless
5 10 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.13%) GitHub
7 5 (1.13%) SaaS
8 3 (0.68%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.68%) Apigee
8 3 (0.68%) AWS IoT
8 3 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.68%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.59%) Wireless
2 5 (1.13%) Internet
3 4 (0.91%) LoRaWAN
3 4 (0.91%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.45%) HTTP
5 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (25.40%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 13 (2.95%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.27%) Cloud Spanner
4 10 (2.27%) MySQL
5 7 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.68%) TimescaleDB
7 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.45%) Big Data
7 2 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 123 (27.89%) JIRA
2 118 (26.76%) SonarQube
3 117 (26.53%) GitLab
4 113 (25.62%) Cucumber
4 113 (25.62%) Selenium
5 112 (25.40%) Maven
5 112 (25.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 110 (24.94%) Bitbucket
7 21 (4.76%) Git
8 7 (1.59%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.91%) JUnit
10 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.45%) webpack
11 1 (0.23%) Eclipse RCP
11 1 (0.23%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (63.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 160 (36.28%) Finance
3 134 (30.39%) Banking
4 84 (19.05%) Retail
5 70 (15.87%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (15.87%) Investment Banking
6 31 (7.03%) Social Skills
7 18 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.13%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.91%) Electronics
11 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.45%) Legal
12 2 (0.45%) Marketing
12 2 (0.45%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.23%) Law
13 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.23%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (47.39%) Node.js
2 194 (43.99%) .NET
3 157 (35.60%) React
4 133 (30.16%) Spring Boot
5 129 (29.25%) Spring
6 124 (28.12%) CSS
6 124 (28.12%) HTML
7 122 (27.66%) Kafka
8 111 (25.17%) Redux
9 109 (24.72%) JPA
10 95 (21.54%) RESTful
11 81 (18.37%) REST
12 73 (16.55%) CSS3
12 73 (16.55%) Jest
13 71 (16.10%) HTML5
14 70 (15.87%) Sass
15 42 (9.52%) Hibernate
16 12 (2.72%) AngularJS
17 10 (2.27%) Web Services
18 7 (1.59%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 173 (39.23%) Cyberattack
2 172 (39.00%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (39.00%) Self-Motivation
3 124 (28.12%) Product Ownership
4 109 (24.72%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.95%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.59%) Wiki
11 6 (1.36%) IoT
12 5 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.91%) EMV
13 4 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 185 (41.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.91%) Android
3 3 (0.68%) Unix
4 2 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 344 (78.00%) Agile
3 315 (71.43%) Microservices
4 268 (60.77%) Mentoring
5 251 (56.92%) User Experience
6 187 (42.40%) Machine Learning
7 183 (41.50%) Cloud Security
8 182 (41.27%) Scrum
9 175 (39.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 172 (39.00%) Data Engineering
11 161 (36.51%) CI/CD
12 145 (32.88%) DevOps
13 139 (31.52%) Test Automation
14 126 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 122 (27.66%) Containerisation
16 118 (26.76%) SDLC
17 115 (26.08%) Performance Optimisation
18 112 (25.40%) Front End Development
19 71 (16.10%) Responsive Web Design
19 71 (16.10%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 349 (79.14%) Java
2 335 (75.96%) JavaScript
3 200 (45.35%) Python
4 182 (41.27%) C++
4 182 (41.27%) Go
5 176 (39.91%) Rust
6 131 (29.71%) SQL
7 125 (28.34%) TypeScript
8 24 (5.44%) C#
9 9 (2.04%) C
10 8 (1.81%) PHP
11 4 (0.91%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) Ada
12 1 (0.23%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.23%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 186 (42.18%) Security Cleared
2 181 (41.04%) DV Cleared
3 172 (39.00%) AWS Certification
3 172 (39.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (39.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (4.54%) Degree
5 16 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (25.17%) QA
2 78 (17.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) MISRA
4 1 (0.23%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 151 (34.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 149 (33.79%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.22%) Terraform
3 3 (0.68%) Istio
4 2 (0.45%) Ansible
4 2 (0.45%) Grafana
4 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (24.72%) Solace
2 19 (4.31%) Google
3 8 (1.81%) Ping Identity
4 4 (0.91%) Xilinx
5 2 (0.45%) ForgeRock
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle
5 2 (0.45%) SAP
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.23%) Workday