Software Engineering Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 24 43
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 -26
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 70 90 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 14.99% 6.71% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.77% 7.67% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 61 78 16
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £35,313
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,389 £73,175
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year - +16.40% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 444 1,174 889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 95.07% 87.48% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 302 987 448
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £31,599 £37,049 £38,634
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,963 £75,300
North East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +12.94%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 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 +30 63 £55,000 -15.98% 76
Sunderland +5 4 £70,000 +12.00% 9
Gateshead +6 1 £52,500 -4.55% 3
Software Engineering
North East

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.86%) Apache
1 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) IIS
2 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.86%) AWS
2 22 (31.43%) Azure
3 7 (10.00%) GCP
4 6 (8.57%) GitHub
5 5 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
6 2 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.43%) dbt
7 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.14%) MySQL
4 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.43%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.43%) Redis
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Git
1 5 (7.14%) GitLab
2 4 (5.71%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Maven
2 4 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.29%) Selenium
3 3 (4.29%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.43%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.43%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.43%) JUnit
General
1 20 (28.57%) Finance
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Games
4 5 (7.14%) Retail
5 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.29%) Advertising
6 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Automotive
6 3 (4.29%) Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 43 (61.43%) Software Engineer
2 20 (28.57%) Senior
3 14 (20.00%) Developer
4 13 (18.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) PHP Software Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) C# Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 5 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (4.29%) C# Software Developer
9 3 (4.29%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (50.00%) .NET
2 20 (28.57%) React
3 15 (21.43%) AngularJS
4 14 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 10 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 9 (12.86%) Node.js
7 8 (11.43%) CSS
8 7 (10.00%) HTML
9 6 (8.57%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (7.14%) Spring
10 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
11 4 (5.71%) Blazor
11 4 (5.71%) Kafka
11 4 (5.71%) LAMP
11 4 (5.71%) Laravel
12 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (4.29%) JPA
12 3 (4.29%) Next.js
12 3 (4.29%) Redux
12 3 (4.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 9 (12.86%) Hedge funds
3 7 (10.00%) Client/Server
4 6 (8.57%) Algorithms
4 6 (8.57%) Data Structures
4 6 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.29%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.86%) Online Games
8 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.43%) PropTech
8 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Solaris
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Agile
2 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (24.29%) Mentoring
4 15 (21.43%) E-Commerce
5 14 (20.00%) DevOps
5 14 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (18.57%) SDLC
7 12 (17.14%) OOP
8 11 (15.71%) Computer Science
8 11 (15.71%) Fintech
8 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.29%) MVC
9 10 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
10 9 (12.86%) TDD
11 8 (11.43%) Clean Code
11 8 (11.43%) Microservices
11 8 (11.43%) Web Development
12 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) C#
2 25 (35.71%) SQL
3 22 (31.43%) Java
4 21 (30.00%) TypeScript
5 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
6 14 (20.00%) Python
7 9 (12.86%) PHP
8 1 (1.43%) C++
8 1 (1.43%) Scala
8 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.29%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.71%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.71%) SOC 2
3 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.86%) Terraform
3 4 (5.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) Solace
3 1 (1.43%) Databricks
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat