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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 50 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 711 485 986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.01% 5.62% 5.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.28% 5.81% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 364 294 493
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,650 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,491 £69,237
% change year-on-year -6.46% +0.37% +6.52%

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 13,476 8,349 16,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 96.81% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,904 5,788 10,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,173
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £83,125
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 October 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 October 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 +20 414 £60,000 -1.64% 83
Yorkshire +14 218 £55,250 -7.92% 41
North East +3 79 £56,000 +1.82% 19
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 October 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.

1 710 (99.86%) Software Engineering
2 251 (35.30%) Agile
3 187 (26.30%) AWS
4 174 (24.47%) C#
5 161 (22.64%) .NET
6 154 (21.66%) Mentoring
7 148 (20.82%) Azure
8 146 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
9 145 (20.39%) DevOps
10 126 (17.72%) Social Skills
11 121 (17.02%) Java
12 119 (16.74%) JavaScript
13 113 (15.89%) User Experience
14 110 (15.47%) Python
15 107 (15.05%) SQL
16 97 (13.64%) React
17 93 (13.08%) Machine Learning
18 89 (12.52%) C++
19 81 (11.39%) Microservices
20 80 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
21 79 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 78 (10.97%) Cyberattack
22 78 (10.97%) Data Engineering
22 78 (10.97%) Unit Testing
23 77 (10.83%) TypeScript
23 77 (10.83%) AngularJS
24 76 (10.69%) Creative Thinking
24 76 (10.69%) Degree
25 73 (10.27%) CI/CD
26 71 (9.99%) NoSQL

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 9 (1.27%) Tuxedo
2 7 (0.98%) Apache
3 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.56%) CMS
4 4 (0.56%) Confluence
4 4 (0.56%) nginx
4 4 (0.56%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.42%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 12 (1.69%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.70%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.28%) Simulink
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (26.30%) AWS
2 148 (20.82%) Azure
3 47 (6.61%) Amazon Kinesis
4 42 (5.91%) GCP
5 36 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.22%) GitHub
7 18 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (1.55%) ChatGPT
10 11 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.27%) SaaS
11 9 (1.27%) Serverless
12 7 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.84%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (0.84%) Azure API Management
13 6 (0.84%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.70%) MQTT
1 5 (0.70%) Wireless
2 4 (0.56%) Bluetooth
2 4 (0.56%) SAN
3 3 (0.42%) RS-485
4 2 (0.28%) RS-232
5 1 (0.14%) 3G
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.99%) NoSQL
2 60 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (7.03%) DynamoDB
4 41 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 35 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 33 (4.64%) Redis
7 25 (3.52%) MySQL
8 16 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.98%) Big Data
11 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.84%) Flink
12 5 (0.70%) SQLite
13 4 (0.56%) DocumentDB
13 4 (0.56%) Power BI
14 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (5.63%) Git
2 34 (4.78%) Gatling
3 22 (3.09%) JIRA
4 14 (1.97%) CircleCI
4 14 (1.97%) GitLab
5 11 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.13%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.13%) Selenium
7 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.56%) JMeter
9 4 (0.56%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.56%) Vagrant
9 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.42%) Subversion
10 3 (0.42%) Toad
11 2 (0.28%) LoadUI
General
1 126 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 79 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (5.91%) Manufacturing
4 34 (4.78%) Public Sector
5 33 (4.64%) Finance
6 30 (4.22%) Electronics
7 21 (2.95%) Automotive
8 19 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (2.67%) Legal
9 17 (2.39%) Billing
9 17 (2.39%) Retail
10 16 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.69%) Tech for Good
13 10 (1.41%) Law
14 9 (1.27%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.13%) Avionics
15 8 (1.13%) Games
16 6 (0.84%) Banking
17 5 (0.70%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (22.64%) .NET
2 97 (13.64%) React
3 77 (10.83%) AngularJS
4 64 (9.00%) GraphQL
5 63 (8.86%) REST
6 53 (7.45%) HTML
7 49 (6.89%) CSS
7 49 (6.89%) Web Services
8 44 (6.19%) Node.js
9 43 (6.05%) RESTful
10 42 (5.91%) .NET Core
11 41 (5.77%) http4s
11 41 (5.77%) Scalaz
12 30 (4.22%) ASP.NET
12 30 (4.22%) Vue
13 26 (3.66%) Spring
14 24 (3.38%) Lambda Expressions
15 23 (3.23%) .NET Framework
16 16 (2.25%) Blazor
17 13 (1.83%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.97%) Cyberattack
2 59 (8.30%) Media Streaming
3 55 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (7.31%) Blog
5 34 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
8 13 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.69%) Robotics
10 10 (1.41%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.41%) IoT
10 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.70%) Hackathon
15 4 (0.56%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.03%) Linux
2 15 (2.11%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (1.97%) Windows
4 12 (1.69%) Android
5 9 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.70%) Unix
7 2 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (99.86%) Software Engineering
2 251 (35.30%) Agile
3 154 (21.66%) Mentoring
4 146 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (20.39%) DevOps
6 113 (15.89%) User Experience
7 93 (13.08%) Machine Learning
8 81 (11.39%) Microservices
9 80 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (10.97%) Data Engineering
10 78 (10.97%) Unit Testing
11 76 (10.69%) Creative Thinking
12 73 (10.27%) CI/CD
13 69 (9.70%) Open Source
14 62 (8.72%) Full-Stack Development
15 54 (7.59%) Functional Programming
16 53 (7.45%) Continuous Integration
16 53 (7.45%) TDD
17 51 (7.17%) Computer Science
18 48 (6.75%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 174 (24.47%) C#
2 121 (17.02%) Java
3 119 (16.74%) JavaScript
4 110 (15.47%) Python
5 107 (15.05%) SQL
6 89 (12.52%) C++
7 77 (10.83%) TypeScript
8 60 (8.44%) Scala
9 59 (8.30%) C
10 19 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.53%) Embedded C
12 17 (2.39%) Go
12 17 (2.39%) PHP
13 12 (1.69%) Bash
14 11 (1.55%) Ada
15 10 (1.41%) COBOL
15 10 (1.41%) Rust
16 9 (1.27%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 8 (1.13%) Embedded C++
18 5 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (10.69%) Degree
2 33 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.70%) HND
8 5 (0.70%) PhD
9 3 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.14%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.67%) QA
2 6 (0.84%) SLA
3 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.28%) MISRA
4 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.14%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.14%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (6.33%) Docker
2 14 (1.97%) Firmware
3 12 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
3 12 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.33%) Terraform
3 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.56%) Packer
5 2 (0.28%) Ansible
5 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (7.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.23%) Google
3 9 (1.27%) Micro Focus
4 8 (1.13%) Serena
5 7 (0.98%) IBM
6 6 (0.84%) Databricks
7 5 (0.70%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (0.70%) Oracle
7 5 (0.70%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.56%) EMC
8 4 (0.56%) SAP
9 3 (0.42%) F5
10 2 (0.28%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.14%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.14%) Freescale
11 1 (0.14%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.14%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.14%) Siemens
11 1 (0.14%) Sybase
11 1 (0.14%) YouTube