Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 101 46
Rank change year-on-year +72 -55 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,085 582 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.81% 3.58% 6.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.11% 4.01% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 776 328 564
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,842 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 17,767 14,526 17,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.17% 89.31% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,610 7,986 10,952
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,688 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North of England

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North of England

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 Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +73 621 £57,000 -0.87% 113
Yorkshire +55 383 £50,000 -17.70% 41
North East +36 81 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 North of England region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,075 (99.08%) Software Engineering
2 312 (28.76%) Agile
3 274 (25.25%) C#
4 264 (24.33%) AWS
5 253 (23.32%) .NET
6 248 (22.86%) JavaScript
7 238 (21.94%) Azure
8 228 (21.01%) Python
9 194 (17.88%) DevOps
10 168 (15.48%) React
11 162 (14.93%) Degree
12 159 (14.65%) Java
13 152 (14.01%) SQL
14 151 (13.92%) Linux
15 148 (13.64%) C
16 147 (13.55%) PostgreSQL
17 142 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
18 134 (12.35%) CSS
19 129 (11.89%) .NET Core
20 116 (10.69%) Security Cleared
21 115 (10.60%) C++
22 113 (10.41%) Social Skills
23 111 (10.23%) Computer Science
24 107 (9.86%) SC Cleared
25 103 (9.49%) GIS
26 99 (9.12%) Actionable Insight
27 98 (9.03%) ArcGIS
27 98 (9.03%) Web Development
28 95 (8.76%) Full Stack Development
29 93 (8.57%) Microservices

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 98 (9.03%) ArcGIS
2 85 (7.83%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.01%) Apache
5 7 (0.65%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.55%) CMS
7 4 (0.37%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) Captiva
8 2 (0.18%) FileNet
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.092%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.092%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) Sketch
3 1 (0.092%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Magento
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 264 (24.33%) AWS
2 238 (21.94%) Azure
3 47 (4.33%) Serverless
4 42 (3.87%) GitHub
5 41 (3.78%) GCP
6 26 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (1.84%) Amazon Kinesis
9 15 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (1.20%) SaaS
11 11 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (1.01%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (0.65%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.46%) Firebase
17 4 (0.37%) Amazon SQS
17 4 (0.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 3 (0.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.03%) MQTT
1 22 (2.03%) RS-232
2 18 (1.66%) RS-485
3 17 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.57%) Wireless
4 13 (1.20%) 3G
4 13 (1.20%) 4G
5 11 (1.01%) AMQP
6 10 (0.92%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.65%) Network Security
8 5 (0.46%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.37%) Firewall
10 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.18%) VoIP
11 1 (0.092%) HTTP
11 1 (0.092%) Internet
11 1 (0.092%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (13.55%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (9.49%) GIS
3 85 (7.83%) QGIS
4 79 (7.28%) MySQL
5 58 (5.35%) SQL Server
6 57 (5.25%) NoSQL
7 29 (2.67%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.58%) Redis
9 26 (2.40%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (1.66%) Big Data
13 16 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
14 14 (1.29%) Hadoop
15 11 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
16 7 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (0.46%) MS Access
18 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 76 (7.00%) Git
2 29 (2.67%) JIRA
3 26 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.38%) GitLab
4 15 (1.38%) Subversion
5 14 (1.29%) LabVIEW
6 12 (1.11%) Gatling
7 11 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.55%) Maven
11 5 (0.46%) Clang
11 5 (0.46%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.46%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.46%) JUnit
11 5 (0.46%) Mockito
11 5 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 113 (10.41%) Social Skills
2 80 (7.37%) Electronics
3 52 (4.79%) Manufacturing
4 47 (4.33%) Finance
5 44 (4.06%) Automotive
6 33 (3.04%) Public Sector
7 31 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (2.76%) Tech for Good
9 29 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.30%) Legal
11 22 (2.03%) Retail
12 19 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.66%) Health Technology
13 18 (1.66%) Mandarin Language
14 17 (1.57%) Banking
15 14 (1.29%) Games
16 12 (1.11%) Billing
16 12 (1.11%) Marketing
17 9 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (23.32%) .NET
2 168 (15.48%) React
3 134 (12.35%) CSS
4 129 (11.89%) .NET Core
5 93 (8.57%) PostGIS
6 89 (8.20%) Leaflet
6 89 (8.20%) OpenLayers
7 76 (7.00%) AngularJS
8 75 (6.91%) Node.js
9 58 (5.35%) RESTful
10 53 (4.88%) REST
10 53 (4.88%) Vue
11 51 (4.70%) HTML
12 50 (4.61%) ASP.NET
13 34 (3.13%) Spring
14 31 (2.86%) Web Services
15 27 (2.49%) Spring Boot
16 23 (2.12%) GraphQL
17 21 (1.94%) Lambda Expressions
18 20 (1.84%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.79%) IoT
2 46 (4.24%) Embedded Systems
3 30 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (2.03%) Blog
7 21 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.84%) Media Streaming
9 16 (1.47%) Cyberattack
10 14 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.20%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.20%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.01%) Device Driver
13 10 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.92%) SCADA
14 9 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.65%) NHS
15 7 (0.65%) Online Games
15 7 (0.65%) Robotics
16 5 (0.46%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 151 (13.92%) Linux
2 37 (3.41%) Embedded Linux
3 34 (3.13%) Windows
4 23 (2.12%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
7 13 (1.20%) Android
8 12 (1.11%) Unix
9 11 (1.01%) CentOS
9 11 (1.01%) Debian
10 9 (0.83%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.28%) VMS
12 2 (0.18%) FreeBSD
12 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.092%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,075 (99.08%) Software Engineering
2 312 (28.76%) Agile
3 194 (17.88%) DevOps
4 142 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
5 111 (10.23%) Computer Science
6 99 (9.12%) Actionable Insight
7 98 (9.03%) Web Development
8 95 (8.76%) Full Stack Development
9 93 (8.57%) Microservices
10 92 (8.48%) Mentoring
11 81 (7.47%) Open Source
12 79 (7.28%) TDD
13 59 (5.44%) Test Automation
14 57 (5.25%) CI/CD
15 55 (5.07%) Continuous Integration
15 55 (5.07%) OO
16 54 (4.98%) Unit Testing
17 48 (4.42%) SDLC
18 47 (4.33%) Software Testing
19 43 (3.96%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 274 (25.25%) C#
2 248 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 228 (21.01%) Python
4 159 (14.65%) Java
5 152 (14.01%) SQL
6 148 (13.64%) C
7 115 (10.60%) C++
8 72 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.86%) Embedded C
10 23 (2.12%) Scala
11 20 (1.84%) Go
12 18 (1.66%) Rust
13 16 (1.47%) PHP
14 14 (1.29%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.11%) Perl
16 11 (1.01%) Bash
17 9 (0.83%) Ruby
17 9 (0.83%) SystemVerilog
18 8 (0.74%) PowerShell
19 7 (0.65%) XAML
Qualifications
1 162 (14.93%) Degree
2 116 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 107 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.01%) PhD
7 7 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.46%) HND
9 4 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.18%) HNC
12 1 (0.092%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.092%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.47%) GDPR
2 11 (1.01%) QA
3 7 (0.65%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.37%) PMO
5 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.092%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 54 (4.98%) Docker
2 47 (4.33%) Firmware
3 14 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.23%) Terraform
3 24 (2.21%) Ansible
4 12 (1.11%) Puppet
5 11 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.28%) Podman
7 1 (0.092%) Grafana
7 1 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (8.48%) ESRI
2 31 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.03%) Oracle
4 19 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 17 (1.57%) Google
6 11 (1.01%) F5
6 11 (1.01%) SaltStack
7 9 (0.83%) Cadence
7 9 (0.83%) Synopsys
8 6 (0.55%) Facebook
9 4 (0.37%) Allen-Bradley
9 4 (0.37%) Confluent
10 3 (0.28%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.28%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.28%) EMC
10 3 (0.28%) SAP
10 3 (0.28%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe
11 2 (0.18%) IBM
11 2 (0.18%) Siemens