Software Engineer Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Software Engineer salary in Tyne and Wear is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 45 62
Rank change year-on-year +26 +17 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 40 52 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.05% 3.93% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.48% 4.08% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 37 40 6
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £51,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £67,950
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.70% +35.90%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,991 £73,850
90th Percentile £76,000 £73,250 -
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 422 1,276 752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 96.52% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 306 1,066 462
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £38,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,011 £75,900
North East median annual salary £47,750 £47,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.36% +19.18%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +50 35 £55,000 -12.00% 52
Sunderland +9 4 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Software Engineer
North East

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 25 (62.50%) C#
3 23 (57.50%) .NET
4 17 (42.50%) SQL
5 16 (40.00%) AWS
6 15 (37.50%) E-Commerce
7 14 (35.00%) Agile
7 14 (35.00%) Azure
8 13 (32.50%) Games
8 13 (32.50%) Finance
8 13 (32.50%) Java
9 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
9 11 (27.50%) AngularJS
10 10 (25.00%) MVC
10 10 (25.00%) Mobile App
10 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (22.50%) .NET Core
11 9 (22.50%) React
11 9 (22.50%) PHP
12 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET
12 8 (20.00%) Python
12 8 (20.00%) Degree
12 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
13 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
13 7 (17.50%) QA
13 7 (17.50%) TDD
13 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
14 6 (15.00%) OOP
14 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
14 6 (15.00%) Unit Testing

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.50%) JUnit
2 1 (2.50%) Maven
2 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
1 13 (32.50%) Games
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Automotive
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (57.50%) .NET
2 11 (27.50%) AngularJS
3 9 (22.50%) .NET Core
3 9 (22.50%) React
4 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (15.00%) Node.js
6 5 (12.50%) CSS
7 4 (10.00%) HTML
7 4 (10.00%) LAMP
7 4 (10.00%) Laravel
8 2 (5.00%) Blazor
9 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
9 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.50%) Spring
9 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (10.00%) Hedge funds
4 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
5 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (5.00%) Online Games
5 2 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) PropTech
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (37.50%) E-Commerce
3 14 (35.00%) Agile
4 10 (25.00%) MVC
4 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
5 7 (17.50%) TDD
6 6 (15.00%) Clean Code
6 6 (15.00%) High Availability
6 6 (15.00%) OOP
6 6 (15.00%) Unit Testing
7 5 (12.50%) DevOps
7 5 (12.50%) SDLC
7 5 (12.50%) SOLID
7 5 (12.50%) Web Development
8 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
9 3 (7.50%) Fintech
10 2 (5.00%) Investment Management
10 2 (5.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) C#
2 17 (42.50%) SQL
3 13 (32.50%) Java
4 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
5 9 (22.50%) PHP
6 8 (20.00%) Python
7 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) C++
8 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) QA
2 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft