Software Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Software Engineering
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 10 21 13
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 723 450 857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.86% 9.85% 14.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 10.24% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 499 290 523
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £39,905
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +7.10% +4.89%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £85,000
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
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,743 4,394 5,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.33% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,524 2,479 3,544
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £32,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Manchester

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Manchester 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
Salford +19 15 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Altrincham - 12 £55,000 - 2
Stockport +29 11 £50,000 - 11
Oldham +27 11 £52,500 - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - -
Sale +1 6 - - 1
Bury - 5 £45,000 -
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
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 42 (5.81%) ArcGIS
2 28 (3.87%) GeoServer
3 19 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.80%) Apache
5 6 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.28%) Confluence
6 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) Jetty
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
Business Applications
1 9 (1.24%) Magento
2 6 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 222 (30.71%) AWS
2 181 (25.03%) Azure
3 45 (6.22%) GCP
4 31 (4.29%) SaaS
4 31 (4.29%) Serverless
5 30 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
7 21 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (2.63%) GitHub
9 18 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.52%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (1.38%) PaaS
14 9 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.11%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (0.97%) IaaS
17 6 (0.83%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.52%) AMQP
1 11 (1.52%) Ethernet
2 10 (1.38%) RS-232
3 6 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.55%) Firewall
5 3 (0.41%) HTTP
5 3 (0.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.28%) DSL
6 2 (0.28%) MQTT
6 2 (0.28%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.14%) LTE
7 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (6.92%) NoSQL
3 47 (6.50%) GIS
4 46 (6.36%) MySQL
5 31 (4.29%) DynamoDB
6 28 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 28 (3.87%) QGIS
6 28 (3.87%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.04%) Big Data
8 20 (2.77%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.77%) Redis
8 20 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
10 15 (2.07%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
11 11 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.69%) DocumentDB
13 5 (0.69%) OLAP
14 4 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 60 (8.30%) Git
2 24 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.77%) GitLab
4 13 (1.80%) Gatling
4 13 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.66%) JIRA
5 12 (1.66%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.11%) Postman
7 7 (0.97%) Subversion
7 7 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.69%) Clang
9 5 (0.69%) webpack
10 4 (0.55%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.55%) JUnit
10 4 (0.55%) Mockito
10 4 (0.55%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.41%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
General
1 108 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 62 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (5.81%) Finance
4 31 (4.29%) Automotive
4 31 (4.29%) Retail
5 27 (3.73%) Electronics
6 22 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.07%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.80%) Billing
9 12 (1.66%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.66%) Banking
9 12 (1.66%) Tech for Good
10 11 (1.52%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.24%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.24%) Law
11 9 (1.24%) Legal
12 7 (0.97%) Games
13 5 (0.69%) Retail Finance
14 4 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 422 (58.37%) Software Engineer
2 206 (28.49%) Senior
3 138 (19.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 115 (15.91%) Developer
5 101 (13.97%) Lead
6 52 (7.19%) Lead Software Engineer
7 50 (6.92%) Architect
8 37 (5.12%) Java Engineer
9 35 (4.84%) Embedded Engineer
9 35 (4.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 32 (4.43%) Senior Developer
11 30 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (3.87%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.73%) .NET Developer
13 27 (3.73%) Technical Leader
14 26 (3.60%) Software Manager
15 23 (3.18%) Software Architect
16 19 (2.63%) Engineering Manager
17 18 (2.49%) Programmer
17 18 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (19.50%) .NET
2 123 (17.01%) React
3 77 (10.65%) CSS
4 73 (10.10%) Node.js
5 57 (7.88%) .NET Core
6 54 (7.47%) HTML
7 49 (6.78%) REST
8 42 (5.81%) AngularJS
9 38 (5.26%) Spring
10 37 (5.12%) RESTful
11 36 (4.98%) PostGIS
12 35 (4.84%) GraphQL
13 34 (4.70%) Web Services
14 32 (4.43%) Leaflet
14 32 (4.43%) OpenLayers
15 27 (3.73%) Spring Boot
16 22 (3.04%) http4s
16 22 (3.04%) Lambda Expressions
16 22 (3.04%) Scalaz
17 20 (2.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.19%) Cyberattack
2 32 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (3.32%) IoT
5 23 (3.18%) Blog
6 22 (3.04%) Media Streaming
7 21 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
9 15 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.38%) Device Driver
11 10 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.83%) FMCG
12 6 (0.83%) NHS
13 4 (0.55%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.55%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.63%) Linux
2 23 (3.18%) Windows
3 20 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.52%) CentOS
5 11 (1.52%) Debian
6 9 (1.24%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (1.11%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.83%) Android
9 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.55%) Unix
11 3 (0.41%) VMS
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.28%) FreeBSD
12 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.14%) HPUX
13 1 (0.14%) Solaris
13 1 (0.14%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (43.15%) Agile
2 191 (26.42%) DevOps
3 131 (18.12%) Mentoring
4 126 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (13.97%) Open Source
6 90 (12.45%) Computer Science
7 82 (11.34%) Microservices
8 78 (10.79%) User Experience
9 77 (10.65%) CI/CD
10 76 (10.51%) Full Stack Development
11 73 (10.10%) TDD
12 68 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
13 67 (9.27%) Machine Learning
14 58 (8.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 56 (7.75%) Data Engineering
16 54 (7.47%) Scrum
17 52 (7.19%) Creative Thinking
18 45 (6.22%) Coaching
19 44 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code
20 43 (5.95%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 174 (24.07%) Python
2 160 (22.13%) Java
3 156 (21.58%) JavaScript
4 153 (21.16%) C#
5 80 (11.07%) SQL
5 80 (11.07%) TypeScript
6 76 (10.51%) C
7 42 (5.81%) C++
8 25 (3.46%) Go
8 25 (3.46%) Scala
9 23 (3.18%) Rust
10 19 (2.63%) PHP
11 11 (1.52%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.83%) Bash
13 5 (0.69%) Fortran
13 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.55%) COBOL
14 4 (0.55%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 4 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
14 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (16.18%) Degree
2 77 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 63 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 48 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.69%) PhD
8 4 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (0.41%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.28%) OCP
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.14%) MBA
11 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
1 8 (1.11%) QA
2 4 (0.55%) PMO
3 3 (0.41%) SLA
4 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (6.22%) Docker
2 21 (2.90%) Firmware
3 10 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (7.47%) Terraform
2 53 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.73%) Ansible
4 12 (1.66%) Puppet
5 9 (1.24%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.41%) Podman
7 1 (0.14%) Kiali
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (4.98%) ESRI
2 28 (3.87%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.90%) Red Hat
4 18 (2.49%) Oracle
5 16 (2.21%) Google
6 11 (1.52%) SaltStack
7 7 (0.97%) F5
8 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
8 5 (0.69%) EMC
9 4 (0.55%) Cadence
9 4 (0.55%) Confluent
9 4 (0.55%) Micro Focus
9 4 (0.55%) Synopsys
10 3 (0.41%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.41%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.28%) IBM
12 1 (0.14%) HP
12 1 (0.14%) Renesas
12 1 (0.14%) Sun
12 1 (0.14%) Unisys