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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 25
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 731 1,229 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.30% 11.11% 8.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.04% 13.95% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 365 770 322
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,200 £85,000 £88,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +3.57%

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 7,282 8,811 6,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 92.67% 79.68% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,720 6,320 3,873
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
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 £80,000 £81,900
England median annual salary £57,435 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.43% -12.00% +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 5 July 2025.

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 5 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 -2 378 £72,500 +20.83% 684
Lancashire -32 230 £47,683 -5.58% 158
Cheshire -7 95 £60,000 - 104
Merseyside -6 22 £65,000 +4.00% 52
Cumbria -62 2 £60,000 -7.69% 31
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 60 (8.21%) Confluence
2 3 (0.41%) IIS
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.27%) Apache
3 2 (0.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 108 (14.77%) Simulink
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.14%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 435 (59.51%) AWS
2 344 (47.06%) Azure
3 254 (34.75%) GCP
4 26 (3.56%) Serverless
5 16 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (2.05%) SaaS
7 12 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
8 11 (1.50%) GitHub
9 10 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.96%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (0.68%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (0.68%) CloudFront
13 4 (0.55%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.41%) Apigee
14 3 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.41%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.09%) Internet
2 7 (0.96%) Wireless
3 4 (0.55%) LoRaWAN
3 4 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Broadband
5 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (16.96%) SQL Server
2 29 (3.97%) MongoDB
3 22 (3.01%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.78%) MySQL
6 11 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.37%) Cloud Spanner
8 7 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.41%) Data Hub
11 3 (0.41%) SQL CLR
11 3 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
12 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.27%) Big Data
12 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.27%) Metadata
13 1 (0.14%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 131 (17.92%) JIRA
2 126 (17.24%) GitLab
3 119 (16.28%) SonarQube
4 115 (15.73%) Cucumber
4 115 (15.73%) Selenium
5 112 (15.32%) Maven
5 112 (15.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 110 (15.05%) Bitbucket
7 36 (4.92%) Git
8 15 (2.05%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.68%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.55%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.27%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.27%) TestRail
12 2 (0.27%) webpack
13 1 (0.14%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.14%) PHPUnit
General
1 282 (38.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 201 (27.50%) Finance
3 159 (21.75%) Banking
4 90 (12.31%) Retail
5 79 (10.81%) Social Skills
6 70 (9.58%) Corporate Banking
6 70 (9.58%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.50%) Electronics
9 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.82%) Games
11 6 (0.82%) Law
12 5 (0.68%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.55%) Legal
13 4 (0.55%) Marketing
13 4 (0.55%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.41%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.41%) Back Office
15 2 (0.27%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 442 (60.47%) Software Engineer
2 262 (35.84%) Senior
3 232 (31.74%) Senior Software Engineer
4 126 (17.24%) Systems Engineer
5 89 (12.18%) Lead
6 43 (5.88%) Developer
7 27 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 22 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (2.74%) Java Engineer
10 16 (2.19%) Java Software Engineer
11 15 (2.05%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (2.05%) AWS Software Engineer
11 15 (2.05%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 14 (1.92%) Senior Developer
13 12 (1.64%) Engineering Manager
14 11 (1.50%) Team Leader
15 10 (1.37%) Technical Leader
16 9 (1.23%) Principal Software Engineer
17 8 (1.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 8 (1.09%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (30.51%) Node.js
2 220 (30.10%) .NET
3 184 (25.17%) React
4 147 (20.11%) Spring Boot
5 143 (19.56%) Spring
6 140 (19.15%) Kafka
7 138 (18.88%) CSS
8 137 (18.74%) HTML
9 113 (15.46%) Redux
10 109 (14.91%) JPA
11 97 (13.27%) RESTful
12 84 (11.49%) REST
13 76 (10.40%) HTML5
14 75 (10.26%) Sass
15 74 (10.12%) Jest
16 73 (9.99%) CSS3
17 46 (6.29%) Hibernate
18 33 (4.51%) AngularJS
19 21 (2.87%) .NET Core
20 17 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 174 (23.80%) Cyberattack
2 172 (23.53%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
3 138 (18.88%) Product Ownership
4 110 (15.05%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (1.37%) Wiki
11 9 (1.23%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.82%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.82%) IoT
14 6 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (26.27%) Linux
2 9 (1.23%) Windows
3 7 (0.96%) Android
4 3 (0.41%) Unix
4 3 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (58.00%) Agile
2 365 (49.93%) Microservices
3 310 (42.41%) Mentoring
4 265 (36.25%) User Experience
5 204 (27.91%) DevOps
6 200 (27.36%) CI/CD
7 194 (26.54%) Machine Learning
8 190 (25.99%) Scrum
9 185 (25.31%) Cloud Security
10 183 (25.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 177 (24.21%) Data Engineering
12 156 (21.34%) Full-Stack Development
13 151 (20.66%) Containerisation
14 149 (20.38%) Test Automation
15 129 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
16 128 (17.51%) Mathematics
17 123 (16.83%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
17 123 (16.83%) SDLC
17 123 (16.83%) SysML
18 121 (16.55%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 402 (54.99%) Java
2 373 (51.03%) JavaScript
3 230 (31.46%) Python
4 190 (25.99%) Go
5 187 (25.58%) C++
6 176 (24.08%) Rust
7 161 (22.02%) TypeScript
8 153 (20.93%) SQL
9 109 (14.91%) MATLAB
10 50 (6.84%) C#
11 26 (3.56%) C
12 20 (2.74%) PHP
13 5 (0.68%) Ruby
14 3 (0.41%) Bash
14 3 (0.41%) R
15 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.14%) Julia
16 1 (0.14%) Perl
16 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 192 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 184 (25.17%) DV Cleared
3 181 (24.76%) Degree
4 172 (23.53%) AWS Certification
4 172 (23.53%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 123 (16.83%) HND
6 108 (14.77%) HNC
7 34 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.55%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (15.87%) QA
2 82 (11.22%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.14%) GDPR
4 1 (0.14%) MISRA
4 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.14%) SEPA
4 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (24.21%) Docker
2 15 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 171 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.61%) Terraform
3 4 (0.55%) Ansible
3 4 (0.55%) Grafana
4 3 (0.41%) Istio
4 3 (0.41%) Puppet
5 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (14.91%) Solace
2 30 (4.10%) Google
3 13 (1.78%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.23%) Ping Identity
5 4 (0.55%) Xilinx
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle
6 3 (0.41%) VMware
7 2 (0.27%) Avaya
7 2 (0.27%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.27%) IBM
7 2 (0.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.27%) SAP
7 2 (0.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe
8 1 (0.14%) Facebook
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.14%) Talend
8 1 (0.14%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.14%) Workday
8 1 (0.14%) Zend