Software Engineering Job Trends in Stockport

Software Engineering
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 11 21 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 18.97% 20.00% 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.97% 20.00% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £40,125 £43,625 -
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,313 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £48,750 -
75th Percentile £54,688 £55,000 -
90th Percentile £56,375 £59,500 -
Manchester median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 105 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 100.00% 100.00% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 22 48 40
10th Percentile £30,000 - £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £47,500 £30,250
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +57.02% -39.50%
75th Percentile £47,500 £60,625 £44,688
90th Percentile £57,000 £65,000 £52,500
Manchester median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Stockport

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Stockport

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Stockport over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Stockport

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
1 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
1 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (81.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate C# Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
1 6 (54.55%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) JPA
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) Redux
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) CSS3
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Sass
3 2 (18.18%) WinForms
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cyberattack
1 6 (54.55%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (54.55%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Microservices
2 8 (72.73%) Mentoring
2 8 (72.73%) User Experience
3 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
3 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Machine Learning
3 6 (54.55%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) C++
2 6 (54.55%) Go
2 6 (54.55%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Rust
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) AWS Certification
1 6 (54.55%) AWS Certified Developer
1 6 (54.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Solace