Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 84 36
Rank change year-on-year +59 -48 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 421 190 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.51% 4.16% 7.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.92% 4.53% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 283 119 271
10th Percentile £39,669 £42,250 £39,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,318 4,194 5,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.85% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,022 2,562 3,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,526
25th Percentile £40,988 £43,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,392 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Salford +19 8 £70,000 +21.74% 1
Oldham - 7 £52,500 - 3
Stockport +22 4 £50,000 - 4
Sale -2 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Bury - 1 £45,000 -
Dukinfield - 1 - -
Altrincham - 1 £47,500 -
Software Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 421 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 150 (35.63%) Agile
3 143 (33.97%) AWS
4 122 (28.98%) Python
5 108 (25.65%) Java
6 107 (25.42%) JavaScript
7 103 (24.47%) Azure
8 102 (24.23%) C#
9 99 (23.52%) DevOps
10 89 (21.14%) Linux
11 81 (19.24%) .NET
12 80 (19.00%) Open Source
13 77 (18.29%) Degree
14 74 (17.58%) Social Skills
15 72 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (16.86%) PostgreSQL
17 70 (16.63%) React
18 64 (15.20%) C
19 61 (14.49%) Computer Science
20 56 (13.30%) CSS
21 54 (12.83%) Mentoring
22 51 (12.11%) Security Cleared
23 46 (10.93%) GIS
23 46 (10.93%) Microservices
24 45 (10.69%) SC Cleared
24 45 (10.69%) Continuous Integration
25 42 (9.98%) Node.js
26 41 (9.74%) ArcGIS
27 40 (9.50%) .NET Core
28 39 (9.26%) Actionable Insight

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 41 (9.74%) ArcGIS
2 28 (6.65%) GeoServer
3 18 (4.28%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.61%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 143 (33.97%) AWS
2 103 (24.47%) Azure
3 29 (6.89%) GCP
4 24 (5.70%) Serverless
5 21 (4.99%) Amazon Kinesis
6 14 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (2.61%) OpenShift
9 10 (2.38%) GitHub
10 7 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.95%) SaaS
13 3 (0.71%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.48%) Amazon Cognito
14 2 (0.48%) Amazon EventBridge
14 2 (0.48%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.61%) AMQP
2 10 (2.38%) Ethernet
3 9 (2.14%) RS-232
4 5 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.95%) Firewall
6 3 (0.71%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) MQTT
7 2 (0.48%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.24%) HTTP
8 1 (0.24%) LTE
8 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (16.86%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (10.93%) GIS
3 34 (8.08%) NoSQL
4 29 (6.89%) MySQL
5 28 (6.65%) QGIS
6 24 (5.70%) DynamoDB
7 23 (5.46%) SQL Server
8 21 (4.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (4.28%) Redis
10 16 (3.80%) Geospatial Data
11 14 (3.33%) Big Data
11 14 (3.33%) Hadoop
11 14 (3.33%) Relational Database
12 13 (3.09%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.61%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
16 1 (0.24%) CockroachDB
16 1 (0.24%) DocumentDB
16 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (7.36%) Git
2 17 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.85%) Gatling
4 11 (2.61%) GitLab
5 8 (1.90%) JIRA
6 7 (1.66%) Subversion
7 6 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.19%) Clang
8 5 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.95%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.95%) JUnit
9 4 (0.95%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.95%) Mockito
9 4 (0.95%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.71%) CMake
10 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.71%) GCC
10 3 (0.71%) GDB
10 3 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
General
1 74 (17.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (6.41%) Finance
3 24 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (4.75%) Electronics
5 16 (3.80%) Automotive
6 15 (3.56%) Retail
7 12 (2.85%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.85%) Billing
8 10 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.14%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.14%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.66%) Banking
10 7 (1.66%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.43%) Legal
12 5 (1.19%) Retail Finance
13 4 (0.95%) Games
13 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Advertising
15 2 (0.48%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (19.24%) .NET
2 70 (16.63%) React
3 56 (13.30%) CSS
4 42 (9.98%) Node.js
5 40 (9.50%) .NET Core
6 35 (8.31%) PostGIS
7 33 (7.84%) REST
8 32 (7.60%) AngularJS
8 32 (7.60%) HTML
8 32 (7.60%) Leaflet
8 32 (7.60%) OpenLayers
9 27 (6.41%) Web Services
10 24 (5.70%) GraphQL
11 23 (5.46%) Spring
12 22 (5.23%) RESTful
13 21 (4.99%) http4s
13 21 (4.99%) Lambda Expressions
13 21 (4.99%) Scalaz
14 17 (4.04%) Spring Boot
14 17 (4.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.99%) Blog
1 21 (4.99%) Media Streaming
2 18 (4.28%) Embedded Systems
2 18 (4.28%) IoT
3 16 (3.80%) Cyberattack
3 16 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.56%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.38%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.19%) NHS
9 3 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.24%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.24%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.24%) NB-IoT
10 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.24%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.24%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 89 (21.14%) Linux
2 19 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (3.56%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.85%) Windows
5 11 (2.61%) CentOS
5 11 (2.61%) Debian
6 9 (2.14%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (1.19%) Android
8 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.71%) VMS
10 2 (0.48%) FreeBSD
10 2 (0.48%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.48%) Unix
11 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 150 (35.63%) Agile
3 99 (23.52%) DevOps
4 80 (19.00%) Open Source
5 72 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (14.49%) Computer Science
7 54 (12.83%) Mentoring
8 46 (10.93%) Microservices
9 45 (10.69%) Continuous Integration
10 39 (9.26%) Actionable Insight
11 35 (8.31%) Web Development
12 33 (7.84%) Full Stack Development
12 33 (7.84%) TDD
13 30 (7.13%) CI/CD
13 30 (7.13%) Unit Testing
14 27 (6.41%) Coaching
15 26 (6.18%) Functional Programming
15 26 (6.18%) Integration Testing
16 25 (5.94%) Collaborative Working
17 24 (5.70%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 122 (28.98%) Python
2 108 (25.65%) Java
3 107 (25.42%) JavaScript
4 102 (24.23%) C#
5 64 (15.20%) C
6 37 (8.79%) TypeScript
7 34 (8.08%) SQL
8 28 (6.65%) C++
9 24 (5.70%) Scala
10 19 (4.51%) Rust
11 17 (4.04%) Go
12 11 (2.61%) Embedded C
13 6 (1.43%) Bash
13 6 (1.43%) PHP
14 5 (1.19%) Fortran
15 4 (0.95%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.95%) SystemVerilog
15 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.48%) Perl
16 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (18.29%) Degree
2 51 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 45 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.19%) PhD
8 4 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (4.75%) Firmware
2 14 (3.33%) Docker
3 10 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.70%) Ansible
3 23 (5.46%) Terraform
4 12 (2.85%) Puppet
5 9 (2.14%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.71%) Podman
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (8.31%) ESRI
2 19 (4.51%) Red Hat
3 14 (3.33%) Oracle
4 13 (3.09%) Google
5 11 (2.61%) SaltStack
6 8 (1.90%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.66%) F5
8 4 (0.95%) Cadence
8 4 (0.95%) Confluent
8 4 (0.95%) Synopsys
9 3 (0.71%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.71%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.71%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.24%) EMC
10 1 (0.24%) Renesas