Software Engineering Jobs in Lancashire

Software Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 42 16
Rank change year-on-year +29 -26 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 132 34 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.19% 4.80% 14.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.74% 5.13% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 74 13 28
10th Percentile £35,000 - £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,299
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +20.91% +7.03%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £58,945
90th Percentile £84,964 £84,000 £59,637
North West median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,124 663 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 78.22% 93.64% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 898 373 364
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,250 £24,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,250 £31,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +9.83% +8.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £70,600 £69,885
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Lancashire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Lancashire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Chorley +26 21 £77,500 - 2
Burnley - 11 £40,000 - 2
Blackburn -5 9 £40,000 - 1
Blackpool - 6 £79,932 - 2
Preston +1 4 £47,500 -44.12% 5
Accrington - 3 £30,000 -
Nelson - 2 £48,000 -
Lancaster -13 1 £55,000 - 1
Rossendale - 1 £30,000 -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 4 (3.03%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.76%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.61%) AWS
2 9 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
2 9 (6.82%) Amazon S3
3 7 (5.30%) SaaS
4 4 (3.03%) Azure
5 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.27%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) Wireless
2 3 (2.27%) HTTP
2 3 (2.27%) MQTT
2 3 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.27%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.52%) RS-232
3 2 (1.52%) RS-485
4 1 (0.76%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (6.82%) MySQL
1 9 (6.82%) RDBMS
1 9 (6.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Git
2 9 (6.82%) Postman
3 8 (6.06%) JUnit
4 6 (4.55%) Maven
5 2 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 42 (31.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (12.12%) Electronics
3 9 (6.82%) Tech for Good
4 5 (3.79%) Finance
5 3 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (48.48%) Software Engineer
2 37 (28.03%) Lead
3 16 (12.12%) Senior
4 15 (11.36%) Electronics Engineer
4 15 (11.36%) Embedded Engineer
4 15 (11.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (11.36%) Technical Leader
5 14 (10.61%) Architect
5 14 (10.61%) Lead Software Engineer
5 14 (10.61%) Programmer
5 14 (10.61%) Software Architect
5 14 (10.61%) Software Programmer
6 10 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Team Leader
8 7 (5.30%) Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Java Team Leader
10 4 (3.03%) Software Engineering Team Leader
10 4 (3.03%) Software Team Leader
11 3 (2.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.42%) Spring
2 15 (11.36%) Spring Boot
3 11 (8.33%) CSS
3 11 (8.33%) HTML
4 9 (6.82%) JSON
5 8 (6.06%) Hibernate
6 5 (3.79%) React
7 4 (3.03%) Node.js
8 3 (2.27%) Laravel
9 2 (1.52%) .NET
10 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (31.82%) Cyberattack
2 19 (14.39%) IoT
3 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.82%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.52%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (61.36%) Agile
2 58 (43.94%) Mentoring
3 52 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 42 (31.82%) Creative Thinking
5 42 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 42 (31.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 42 (31.82%) User Experience
6 18 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 14 (10.61%) DevOps
8 13 (9.85%) CI/CD
9 12 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 12 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
10 10 (7.58%) SDLC
10 10 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (6.82%) Agile Project Management
11 9 (6.82%) Coaching
11 9 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (6.82%) Logical Data Model
11 9 (6.82%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.45%) Java
2 14 (10.61%) PHP
3 13 (9.85%) C
4 10 (7.58%) Python
4 10 (7.58%) SQL
5 8 (6.06%) C#
6 7 (5.30%) C++
7 6 (4.55%) COBOL
7 6 (4.55%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 4 (3.03%) Embedded C
8 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.76%) Ada
9 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (11.36%) Degree
2 10 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.52%) HNC
5 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.03%) Firmware
2 2 (1.52%) IAG
3 1 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (6.82%) Terraform
2 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.55%) Micro Focus
2 4 (3.03%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.52%) EMC
4 2 (1.52%) Siemens