Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 263 215
Rank change year-on-year +127 -48 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 363 167 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.81% 1.06% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.19% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 254 109 121
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,625 £57,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 19,059 14,033 18,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.31% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 7,943 10,955
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the North of England

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +88 203 £60,000 -4.00% 33
Yorkshire +83 110 £62,500 -7.45% 7
North East +30 50 £58,000 +10.48% 4
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 North of England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 363 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 124 (34.16%) Agile
3 123 (33.88%) AWS
4 115 (31.68%) .NET
5 108 (29.75%) Azure
6 105 (28.93%) JavaScript
7 98 (27.00%) C#
8 77 (21.21%) DevOps
9 76 (20.94%) SQL
10 75 (20.66%) Python
11 72 (19.83%) CSS
12 69 (19.01%) PostgreSQL
13 67 (18.46%) React
14 61 (16.80%) Security Cleared
15 60 (16.53%) TypeScript
16 58 (15.98%) SC Cleared
17 57 (15.70%) .NET Core
18 49 (13.50%) Actionable Insight
18 49 (13.50%) GeoServer
18 49 (13.50%) OpenLayers
18 49 (13.50%) QGIS
18 49 (13.50%) PostGIS
18 49 (13.50%) Leaflet
18 49 (13.50%) Web Development
18 49 (13.50%) GIS
18 49 (13.50%) ESRI
18 49 (13.50%) ArcGIS
19 46 (12.67%) MySQL
19 46 (12.67%) Java
19 46 (12.67%) Problem-Solving

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 49 (13.50%) ArcGIS
1 49 (13.50%) GeoServer
2 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Magento
2 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (33.88%) AWS
2 108 (29.75%) Azure
3 14 (3.86%) Serverless
4 9 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.93%) GitHub
6 5 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.38%) GCP
7 3 (0.83%) Slack
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) Network Security
2 5 (1.38%) MQTT
3 4 (1.10%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.10%) RS-232
3 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (19.01%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (13.50%) GIS
2 49 (13.50%) QGIS
3 46 (12.67%) MySQL
4 20 (5.51%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.51%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.68%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.93%) Redis
7 6 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.83%) Big Data
8 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (5.79%) Git
2 8 (2.20%) TeamCity
3 6 (1.65%) Maven
4 5 (1.38%) GitLab
4 5 (1.38%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.10%) Subversion
6 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 25 (6.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (5.79%) Public Sector
3 17 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.41%) Finance
5 14 (3.86%) Retail
6 12 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.03%) Health Technology
7 11 (3.03%) Legal
8 10 (2.75%) Automotive
8 10 (2.75%) Games
9 9 (2.48%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.65%) Electronics
11 5 (1.38%) Retail Finance
12 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (31.68%) .NET
2 72 (19.83%) CSS
3 67 (18.46%) React
4 57 (15.70%) .NET Core
5 49 (13.50%) Leaflet
5 49 (13.50%) OpenLayers
5 49 (13.50%) PostGIS
6 37 (10.19%) RESTful
7 36 (9.92%) Vue
8 33 (9.09%) ASP.NET
9 29 (7.99%) AngularJS
10 27 (7.44%) Node.js
11 25 (6.89%) HTML
12 19 (5.23%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (4.68%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (2.75%) .NET Framework
14 10 (2.75%) Spring
14 10 (2.75%) Spring Boot
15 9 (2.48%) ASP.NET MVC
16 8 (2.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.58%) IoT
2 11 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (1.93%) Client/Server
3 7 (1.93%) Cloud Native
3 7 (1.93%) Data Structures
3 7 (1.93%) Online Games
4 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (0.83%) FMCG
6 2 (0.55%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.28%) FPGA
7 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.28%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.71%) Linux
2 8 (2.20%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (1.65%) Ubuntu
3 6 (1.65%) Windows
4 2 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 124 (34.16%) Agile
3 77 (21.21%) DevOps
4 49 (13.50%) Actionable Insight
4 49 (13.50%) Web Development
5 46 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (10.47%) Microservices
7 34 (9.37%) TDD
8 33 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
9 31 (8.54%) Mentoring
10 27 (7.44%) Computer Science
11 23 (6.34%) Continuous Deployment
11 23 (6.34%) Test Automation
12 22 (6.06%) Coaching
12 22 (6.06%) SDLC
13 21 (5.79%) BDD
14 19 (5.23%) Functional Programming
14 19 (5.23%) Open Source
15 18 (4.96%) CI/CD
16 17 (4.68%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 105 (28.93%) JavaScript
2 98 (27.00%) C#
3 76 (20.94%) SQL
4 75 (20.66%) Python
5 60 (16.53%) TypeScript
6 46 (12.67%) Java
7 28 (7.71%) C++
8 25 (6.89%) C
9 7 (1.93%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.83%) Rust
10 3 (0.83%) Scala
11 2 (0.55%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) Ada
12 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.37%) Degree
4 10 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.38%) HND
8 4 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.93%) ISO 9000
2 4 (1.10%) PMO
3 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (4.68%) Firmware
2 11 (3.03%) Docker
3 7 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (4.68%) Terraform
2 9 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (13.50%) ESRI
2 8 (2.20%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.93%) F5
4 3 (0.83%) Autodesk
5 2 (0.55%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.28%) SAP