Software Engineering Jobs in the North West

Software Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 524 507 1,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.90% 12.51% 14.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 13.18% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 305 288 693
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +7.44% +5.22%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,715 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,714 3,847 8,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 88.39% 94.92% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,387 2,588 4,969
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,175 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 December 2024. 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 -6 354 £60,000 -7.69% 109
Lancashire -13 75 £54,793 -8.68% 32
Cheshire +2 56 £50,000 -28.57% 14
Merseyside -10 29 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Cumbria -64 9 £49,000 - 6
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 24 (4.58%) Apache
2 22 (4.20%) nginx
3 7 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.15%) Confluence
4 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.76%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.19%) Strapi
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (4.77%) Simulink
2 6 (1.15%) CPLEX
3 5 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 170 (32.44%) AWS
2 119 (22.71%) Azure
3 67 (12.79%) GCP
4 25 (4.77%) Amazon Kinesis
5 20 (3.82%) Datadog
6 19 (3.63%) SaaS
7 18 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.86%) GitHub
9 14 (2.67%) Serverless
10 8 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.15%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (1.15%) ChatGPT
12 6 (1.15%) IBM Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) Power Platform
13 5 (0.95%) Amazon MSK
14 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.76%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Bluetooth
2 3 (0.57%) MQTT
2 3 (0.57%) Wireless
3 2 (0.38%) DNS
3 2 (0.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.38%) SAN
3 2 (0.38%) Skype
3 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.69%) MySQL
2 43 (8.21%) NoSQL
3 37 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (6.49%) SQL Server
5 27 (5.15%) DynamoDB
6 20 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (3.05%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.05%) Redis
8 13 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.72%) Big Data
11 7 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.15%) Flink
13 3 (0.57%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.57%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.57%) Metadata
14 2 (0.38%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.38%) Power BI
14 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (4.01%) Git
2 19 (3.63%) GitLab
3 18 (3.44%) Rational Rhapsody
4 17 (3.24%) PHPUnit
5 16 (3.05%) Jenkins
6 15 (2.86%) Gatling
7 8 (1.53%) JIRA
7 8 (1.53%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.15%) Maven
9 5 (0.95%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.76%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.38%) CMake
12 2 (0.38%) GCC
12 2 (0.38%) GDB
12 2 (0.38%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.38%) JUnit
12 2 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 95 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.82%) Finance
2 41 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.58%) Manufacturing
5 23 (4.39%) Retail
6 19 (3.63%) Legal
6 19 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 15 (2.86%) Automotive
7 15 (2.86%) Electronics
8 11 (2.10%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.91%) Law
10 9 (1.72%) Games
10 9 (1.72%) Marketing
11 8 (1.53%) Avionics
11 8 (1.53%) Military
12 7 (1.34%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.15%) Banking
13 6 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 267 (50.95%) Software Engineer
2 153 (29.20%) Senior
3 90 (17.18%) Developer
4 84 (16.03%) Lead
5 82 (15.65%) Senior Software Engineer
6 43 (8.21%) Lead Software Engineer
7 34 (6.49%) PHP Developer
8 33 (6.30%) Embedded Engineer
8 33 (6.30%) Systems Engineer
9 30 (5.73%) Senior Developer
10 25 (4.77%) Java Engineer
11 19 (3.63%) Backend Developer
11 19 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
12 18 (3.44%) Senior PHP Developer
13 17 (3.24%) PHP Web Developer
13 17 (3.24%) Senior Backend Developer
13 17 (3.24%) Senior PHP Web Developer
13 17 (3.24%) Senior Web Developer
13 17 (3.24%) Web Developer
14 16 (3.05%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (20.42%) React
2 83 (15.84%) .NET
3 61 (11.64%) HTML
4 59 (11.26%) CSS
5 46 (8.78%) AngularJS
6 44 (8.40%) REST
7 36 (6.87%) Node.js
8 32 (6.11%) GraphQL
9 31 (5.92%) .NET Core
10 29 (5.53%) Vue
11 27 (5.15%) Web Services
12 23 (4.39%) Spring
13 21 (4.01%) .NET Framework
14 20 (3.82%) http4s
14 20 (3.82%) Scalaz
14 20 (3.82%) Symfony
15 18 (3.44%) LAMP
16 17 (3.24%) LEMP Stack
16 17 (3.24%) RESTful
17 16 (3.05%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.25%) Media Streaming
2 36 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.15%) Cyberattack
3 27 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.96%) Blog
5 23 (4.39%) IoT
6 22 (4.20%) Embedded Systems
7 13 (2.48%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.48%) ASIC
7 13 (2.48%) FPGA
7 13 (2.48%) Verilog
7 13 (2.48%) VHDL
8 11 (2.10%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.91%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.72%) Blockchain
10 9 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.64%) Linux
2 13 (2.48%) Unix
3 11 (2.10%) Android
4 8 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.34%) Windows
6 3 (0.57%) VMS
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (41.60%) Agile
2 133 (25.38%) Mentoring
3 120 (22.90%) DevOps
4 102 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (14.69%) TDD
6 73 (13.93%) Microservices
7 60 (11.45%) SDLC
8 59 (11.26%) Roadmaps
9 55 (10.50%) User Experience
10 52 (9.92%) Open Source
11 49 (9.35%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (8.97%) CI/CD
13 45 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
13 45 (8.59%) Software Testing
14 44 (8.40%) Containerisation
14 44 (8.40%) Integration Testing
15 43 (8.21%) Coaching
15 43 (8.21%) Computer Science
16 39 (7.44%) Unit Testing
17 37 (7.06%) OO
Programming Languages
1 130 (24.81%) Java
2 117 (22.33%) JavaScript
3 99 (18.89%) Python
4 91 (17.37%) C#
5 73 (13.93%) C++
6 66 (12.60%) C
7 60 (11.45%) TypeScript
8 52 (9.92%) SQL
9 47 (8.97%) PHP
10 40 (7.63%) Scala
11 23 (4.39%) Kotlin
12 18 (3.44%) Go
13 13 (2.48%) Assembly Language
13 13 (2.48%) Shell Script
13 13 (2.48%) SystemVerilog
13 13 (2.48%) Tcl
14 11 (2.10%) Bash
15 9 (1.72%) Ada
15 9 (1.72%) Perl
15 9 (1.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 108 (20.61%) Degree
2 35 (6.68%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.63%) HND
5 17 (3.24%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.53%) HNC
8 8 (1.53%) PhD
9 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.38%) CCNA
11 2 (0.38%) CCNP
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.53%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.24%) QA
3 7 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.15%) SLA
5 2 (0.38%) MISRA
5 2 (0.38%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.19%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (10.31%) Docker
2 25 (4.77%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.10%) Firmware
4 9 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 45 (8.59%) Terraform
3 6 (1.15%) Ansible
4 5 (0.95%) Argo
4 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
4 5 (0.95%) Puppet
5 4 (0.76%) Packer
6 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.38%) WSUS
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (8.97%) Google
2 37 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.48%) Xilinx
4 11 (2.10%) IBM
5 8 (1.53%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.53%) Serena
6 7 (1.34%) Databricks
6 7 (1.34%) Oracle
7 6 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.38%) BMC
8 2 (0.38%) Micro Focus
8 2 (0.38%) Remedy
8 2 (0.38%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.38%) Veeam
8 2 (0.38%) VMware
9 1 (0.19%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.19%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.19%) Splunk
9 1 (0.19%) Talend
9 1 (0.19%) Xamarin