Software Developer Jobs in the North East

Software Developer
England > North East

The median Software Developer salary in the North East is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 92 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 -47 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 35 22 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.92% 1.73% 5.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 2.16% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 30 14 41
10th Percentile £37,501 £37,875 £18,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,563 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,750 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +25.00% +11.69%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,938 £53,500
90th Percentile £70,700 £67,500 £60,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 East with a recognized job title 1,747 1,017 1,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.67% 79.83% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,412 607 995
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,815 £37,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -8.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,563 £74,325 £71,250
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the North East

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in the North East.

Salary trend for Software Developer in the North East

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the North East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the North East

Software Developer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the North East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Tyne and Wear +2 20 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Durham +13 15 £55,000 +12.24% 1
Software Developer
England

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Software Developer 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 East region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 23 (65.71%) C#
2 21 (60.00%) .NET
3 15 (42.86%) Java
3 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
5 12 (34.29%) Full Stack Development
6 11 (31.43%) SQL
7 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 10 (28.57%) Front End Development
8 9 (25.71%) Linux
8 9 (25.71%) AWS
9 8 (22.86%) Azure
9 8 (22.86%) Agile
9 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
9 8 (22.86%) HTML
9 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
10 7 (20.00%) CSS
10 7 (20.00%) MySQL
11 6 (17.14%) Spring
11 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
11 6 (17.14%) GDPR
12 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
12 5 (14.29%) IT Strategy
12 5 (14.29%) Serverless
12 5 (14.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
12 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
12 5 (14.29%) Redis
12 5 (14.29%) OSGi

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (11.43%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) HTTP
1 2 (5.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) MySQL
2 5 (14.29%) Redis
3 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.57%) Couchbase
4 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 4 (11.43%) Gradle
2 4 (11.43%) Maven
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.29%) Games
4 2 (5.71%) Electronics
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (60.00%) .NET
2 8 (22.86%) HTML
3 7 (20.00%) CSS
4 6 (17.14%) Spring
5 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 5 (14.29%) EDI
5 5 (14.29%) OSGi
5 5 (14.29%) Vue
6 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
7 3 (8.57%) React
7 3 (8.57%) RESTful
8 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
8 2 (5.71%) JSON
8 2 (5.71%) Node.js
8 2 (5.71%) WPF
8 2 (5.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.71%) NHS
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Online Games
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Full Stack Development
2 10 (28.57%) Front End Development
3 8 (22.86%) Agile
3 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
3 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
4 5 (14.29%) Time Management
5 4 (11.43%) MVC
5 4 (11.43%) SDLC
6 3 (8.57%) Clean Code
6 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.57%) Mathematics
6 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) SOLID
6 3 (8.57%) TDD
7 2 (5.71%) Design Patterns
7 2 (5.71%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) C#
2 15 (42.86%) Java
3 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
4 11 (31.43%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) COBOL
5 5 (14.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.57%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.71%) PHP
7 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Micro Focus
3 2 (5.71%) Northgate