Software Engineer Jobs in the North West

Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Software Engineer salary in the North West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 86 43
Rank change year-on-year +57 -43 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 563 307 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.72% 3.92% 6.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 4.41% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 403 172 318
10th Percentile £38,084 £38,750 £39,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,771 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 9,310 6,965 8,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 88.96% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,147 4,048 5,399
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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 +44 381 £60,000 +4.35% 64
Cheshire +40 95 £60,000 -20.00% 13
Merseyside +12 44 £26,500 -52.89% 3
Lancashire +17 42 £40,000 - 11
Cumbria -8 1 £45,000 - 2
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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.

1 555 (98.58%) Software Engineering
2 187 (33.21%) Agile
3 168 (29.84%) AWS
4 167 (29.66%) Python
5 153 (27.18%) Azure
6 152 (27.00%) JavaScript
7 143 (25.40%) C#
8 141 (25.04%) Java
9 134 (23.80%) .NET
10 129 (22.91%) DevOps
11 120 (21.31%) Linux
12 108 (19.18%) React
13 97 (17.23%) Degree
14 87 (15.45%) Security Cleared
14 87 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (14.56%) Actionable Insight
16 81 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
17 79 (14.03%) CSS
18 78 (13.85%) SC Cleared
19 77 (13.68%) C
20 75 (13.32%) GIS
21 71 (12.61%) .NET Core
22 70 (12.43%) ArcGIS
23 64 (11.37%) ESRI
23 64 (11.37%) Open Source
23 64 (11.37%) Computer Science
23 64 (11.37%) Web Development
23 64 (11.37%) PostGIS
24 62 (11.01%) Git
25 61 (10.83%) Leaflet

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 70 (12.43%) ArcGIS
2 57 (10.12%) GeoServer
3 21 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.95%) Apache
5 5 (0.89%) JBoss
5 5 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (0.71%) Captiva
6 4 (0.71%) FileNet
6 4 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.36%) Sketch
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 168 (29.84%) AWS
2 153 (27.18%) Azure
3 41 (7.28%) Serverless
4 34 (6.04%) GCP
5 20 (3.55%) GitHub
6 15 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (2.66%) OpenShift
7 13 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (1.24%) SaaS
11 5 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (0.53%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon Cognito
14 2 (0.36%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.36%) CloudFront
14 2 (0.36%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.66%) RS-232
2 11 (1.95%) AMQP
3 10 (1.78%) Ethernet
4 8 (1.42%) MQTT
5 7 (1.24%) Firewall
6 6 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.89%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.53%) Network Security
9 3 (0.53%) Wireless
10 2 (0.36%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.36%) RS-485
11 1 (0.18%) HTTP
11 1 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (13.32%) GIS
3 57 (10.12%) QGIS
4 37 (6.57%) MySQL
5 33 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.20%) Big Data
9 16 (2.84%) Geospatial Data
9 16 (2.84%) MongoDB
10 14 (2.49%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.07%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.07%) Redis
13 5 (0.89%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.89%) MS Access
14 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 62 (11.01%) Git
2 23 (4.09%) Jenkins
2 23 (4.09%) JIRA
3 13 (2.31%) Subversion
4 11 (1.95%) GitLab
5 10 (1.78%) IntelliJ
6 7 (1.24%) Maven
6 7 (1.24%) Spinnaker
7 6 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.07%) JDeveloper
8 5 (0.89%) Clang
8 5 (0.89%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.89%) JUnit
8 5 (0.89%) Mockito
8 5 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.71%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 60 (10.66%) Social Skills
2 37 (6.57%) Finance
3 30 (5.33%) Electronics
4 17 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.66%) Automotive
5 15 (2.66%) Manufacturing
5 15 (2.66%) Retail
6 14 (2.49%) Banking
7 13 (2.31%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.31%) Tech for Good
8 12 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.78%) Legal
10 9 (1.60%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.89%) Retail Finance
12 4 (0.71%) Games
12 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Advertising
13 3 (0.53%) Marketing
14 2 (0.36%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (23.80%) .NET
2 108 (19.18%) React
3 79 (14.03%) CSS
4 71 (12.61%) .NET Core
5 64 (11.37%) PostGIS
6 61 (10.83%) Leaflet
6 61 (10.83%) OpenLayers
7 53 (9.41%) Node.js
8 41 (7.28%) Spring
9 35 (6.22%) AngularJS
10 30 (5.33%) HTML
11 27 (4.80%) RESTful
12 25 (4.44%) REST
12 25 (4.44%) Spring Boot
13 18 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.02%) Kafka
14 17 (3.02%) Web Services
15 16 (2.84%) JSON
16 15 (2.66%) Vue
17 14 (2.49%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.46%) IoT
2 21 (3.73%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.78%) Device Driver
6 7 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.89%) Life Science
8 5 (0.89%) NHS
8 5 (0.89%) Smart Energy
9 4 (0.71%) Blog
9 4 (0.71%) DataPower
9 4 (0.71%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.71%) SCADA
9 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.53%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.53%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.53%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.36%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 120 (21.31%) Linux
2 29 (5.15%) Windows
3 19 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (3.37%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.66%) Embedded Linux
5 14 (2.49%) Unix
6 11 (1.95%) CentOS
6 11 (1.95%) Debian
7 5 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.71%) Android
9 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.53%) VMS
10 2 (0.36%) FreeBSD
10 2 (0.36%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (98.58%) Software Engineering
2 187 (33.21%) Agile
3 129 (22.91%) DevOps
4 87 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (14.56%) Actionable Insight
6 64 (11.37%) Computer Science
6 64 (11.37%) Open Source
6 64 (11.37%) Web Development
7 54 (9.59%) Full Stack Development
8 49 (8.70%) Mentoring
9 48 (8.53%) Microservices
10 39 (6.93%) CI/CD
10 39 (6.93%) TDD
11 37 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
12 36 (6.39%) Code Quality
13 29 (5.15%) Collaborative Working
14 28 (4.97%) OO
15 26 (4.62%) Coaching
15 26 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (4.62%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 167 (29.66%) Python
2 152 (27.00%) JavaScript
3 143 (25.40%) C#
4 141 (25.04%) Java
5 77 (13.68%) C
6 60 (10.66%) SQL
7 47 (8.35%) C++
8 33 (5.86%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.73%) Go
10 19 (3.37%) Embedded C
11 17 (3.02%) Rust
12 15 (2.66%) Ruby
13 14 (2.49%) Perl
14 13 (2.31%) Bash
15 11 (1.95%) PHP
16 8 (1.42%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.07%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.89%) Fortran
18 5 (0.89%) Scala
18 5 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (17.23%) Degree
2 87 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 78 (13.85%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.89%) HND
7 5 (0.89%) PhD
8 4 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.36%) HNC
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.24%) ISO 9000
2 6 (1.07%) QA
3 5 (0.89%) GDPR
4 4 (0.71%) PMO
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 28 (4.97%) Docker
2 20 (3.55%) Firmware
3 10 (1.78%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.80%) Terraform
3 24 (4.26%) Ansible
4 11 (1.95%) Puppet
5 10 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (11.37%) ESRI
2 24 (4.26%) Oracle
3 19 (3.37%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.37%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.49%) Google
5 11 (1.95%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.24%) Confluent
6 7 (1.24%) F5
7 6 (1.07%) Facebook
8 5 (0.89%) SAP
9 4 (0.71%) Cadence
9 4 (0.71%) IBM
9 4 (0.71%) Kofax
9 4 (0.71%) Pega
9 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.71%) Synopsys
10 3 (0.53%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.53%) EMC
10 3 (0.53%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.36%) Siemens