Software Engineering Job Trends in Oldham

Software Engineering
Manchester > Oldham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oldham requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 1 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Oldham 3.23% 57.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 64.71% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 -
Manchester median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +7.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oldham

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 Oldham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31 17 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oldham 100.00% 89.47% 79.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 12
10th Percentile £33,902 £30,825 £39,713
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £49,068 £67,500 £53,235
90th Percentile £58,676 - £55,944
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oldham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oldham.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Oldham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Oldham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oldham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell