Software Engineering Jobs in Stockport

Software Engineering
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Stockport 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 23 51
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 -41
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 15 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 25.00% 5.88% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% 6.52% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile - £46,500 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £53,750 -
90th Percentile £82,500 £55,625 -
Manchester median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.58%

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 60 92 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 100.00% 90.20% 99.53%
Number of salaries quoted 30 66 38
10th Percentile £27,375 £21,984 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £31,813 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £44,257
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +12.98% -8.75%
75th Percentile £73,125 £61,250 £53,029
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,875 -
Manchester median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Stockport.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Stockport

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Stockport

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Stockport.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Stockport

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Stockport

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Stockport over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Stockport

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stockport 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) Maven
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
1 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) PHP Developer
3 4 (26.67%) PHP Web Developer
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Web Developer
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Node.js
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
3 5 (33.33%) React
4 3 (20.00%) CSS
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) JPA
4 3 (20.00%) Kafka
4 3 (20.00%) Redux
4 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (13.33%) CSS3
5 2 (13.33%) HTML5
5 2 (13.33%) Jest
5 2 (13.33%) REST
5 2 (13.33%) RESTful
5 2 (13.33%) Sass
6 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cyberattack
1 6 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) Microservices
2 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
2 8 (53.33%) User Experience
3 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (40.00%) Scrum
3 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (26.67%) Web Development
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) SDLC
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (60.00%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 6 (40.00%) C++
3 6 (40.00%) Go
3 6 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) Rust
4 4 (26.67%) PHP
5 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Solace