Software Engineering Jobs in the North West

Software Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 24 13
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 930 783 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.53% 9.86% 12.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.48% 10.30% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 720 431 648
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,637
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.11% +5.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,102 7,605 8,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.02% 95.73% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,153 3,962 5,341
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,758 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Manchester +7 645 £60,000 -4.00% 140
Cheshire +30 135 £60,000 -22.58% 23
Lancashire +11 75 £49,000 +3.16% 17
Merseyside +2 72 £60,000 -27.27% 8
Cumbria -21 2 £65,000 +85.71% 5
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 71 (7.63%) ArcGIS
2 57 (6.13%) GeoServer
3 22 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.29%) Apache
5 6 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.54%) JBoss
6 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (0.43%) Captiva
7 4 (0.43%) FileNet
7 4 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.11%) Jetty
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.22%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.97%) Magento
2 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.22%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 249 (26.77%) AWS
2 239 (25.70%) Azure
3 53 (5.70%) GCP
4 45 (4.84%) Serverless
5 44 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (3.66%) SaaS
7 33 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (3.44%) GitHub
9 21 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
11 15 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 15 (1.61%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.18%) PaaS
14 10 (1.08%) IaaS
15 9 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.72%) RS-232
2 11 (1.18%) AMQP
2 11 (1.18%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.18%) MQTT
3 7 (0.75%) Firewall
3 7 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.54%) ZigBee
5 4 (0.43%) HTTP
5 4 (0.43%) Wireless
6 3 (0.32%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.32%) Network Security
7 2 (0.22%) RS-485
8 1 (0.11%) Internet
8 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.17%) GIS
3 57 (6.13%) MySQL
3 57 (6.13%) QGIS
4 39 (4.19%) Relational Database
5 35 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.80%) Big Data
7 25 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 21 (2.26%) RDBMS
9 20 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 17 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
12 15 (1.61%) Hadoop
13 13 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
14 11 (1.18%) OLAP
15 9 (0.97%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.75%) Redis
17 6 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 97 (10.43%) Git
2 32 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.37%) JIRA
4 21 (2.26%) GitLab
5 15 (1.61%) Postman
6 14 (1.51%) Subversion
6 14 (1.51%) Visual Studio
7 11 (1.18%) LabVIEW
8 10 (1.08%) IntelliJ
9 9 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.97%) Maven
10 8 (0.86%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.75%) JUnit
11 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.65%) JDeveloper
12 6 (0.65%) webpack
13 5 (0.54%) Clang
13 5 (0.54%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 109 (11.72%) Social Skills
2 61 (6.56%) Finance
3 34 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (3.66%) Electronics
4 30 (3.23%) Retail
5 29 (3.12%) Automotive
6 23 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 21 (2.26%) Banking
8 19 (2.04%) Law
8 19 (2.04%) Tech for Good
9 16 (1.72%) Health Technology
9 16 (1.72%) Public Sector
10 14 (1.51%) Legal
11 12 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.86%) Games
13 8 (0.86%) Marketing
14 5 (0.54%) Retail Finance
15 4 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.32%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 553 (59.46%) Software Engineer
2 284 (30.54%) Senior
3 196 (21.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 162 (17.42%) Developer
5 101 (10.86%) Lead
6 72 (7.74%) Embedded Engineer
7 71 (7.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 52 (5.59%) Java Engineer
9 45 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
10 38 (4.09%) Architect
11 37 (3.98%) Software Developer
12 36 (3.87%) Technical Leader
13 32 (3.44%) .NET Developer
13 32 (3.44%) Senior Developer
14 31 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (3.33%) Software Manager
15 30 (3.23%) Full Stack Engineer
15 30 (3.23%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 29 (3.12%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 24 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (22.69%) .NET
2 172 (18.49%) React
3 108 (11.61%) CSS
4 95 (10.22%) .NET Core
5 76 (8.17%) Node.js
6 67 (7.20%) Spring
7 65 (6.99%) PostGIS
8 61 (6.56%) HTML
8 61 (6.56%) Leaflet
8 61 (6.56%) OpenLayers
9 51 (5.48%) AngularJS
10 44 (4.73%) Spring Boot
11 41 (4.41%) RESTful
12 40 (4.30%) REST
13 32 (3.44%) JSON
14 25 (2.69%) Kafka
15 24 (2.58%) Vue
16 23 (2.47%) ASP.NET
17 21 (2.26%) Web Services
18 20 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.27%) IoT
2 41 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 33 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
5 20 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.51%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.08%) Device Driver
9 10 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.86%) FMCG
10 8 (0.86%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.65%) NHS
12 5 (0.54%) Blog
12 5 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.54%) Life Science
12 5 (0.54%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 141 (15.16%) Linux
2 43 (4.62%) Windows
3 20 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.72%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (1.18%) CentOS
6 11 (1.18%) Debian
7 8 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.86%) Unix
8 5 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.43%) Android
10 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.22%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) HPUX
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (39.14%) Agile
2 237 (25.48%) DevOps
3 126 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (11.94%) Computer Science
5 98 (10.54%) CI/CD
5 98 (10.54%) Mentoring
6 91 (9.78%) Full Stack Development
7 88 (9.46%) Actionable Insight
7 88 (9.46%) Open Source
8 86 (9.25%) Microservices
8 86 (9.25%) TDD
9 75 (8.06%) Web Development
10 61 (6.56%) Scrum
11 59 (6.34%) Continuous Integration
11 59 (6.34%) Design Patterns
12 55 (5.91%) Coaching
13 54 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (5.38%) SDLC
15 49 (5.27%) Code Quality
16 46 (4.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 223 (23.98%) C#
1 223 (23.98%) JavaScript
2 219 (23.55%) Python
3 208 (22.37%) Java
4 116 (12.47%) SQL
5 95 (10.22%) C
6 79 (8.49%) TypeScript
7 67 (7.20%) C++
8 42 (4.52%) PHP
9 30 (3.23%) Go
10 21 (2.26%) Rust
11 19 (2.04%) Embedded C
12 16 (1.72%) Bash
13 11 (1.18%) Ruby
14 10 (1.08%) COBOL
14 10 (1.08%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 8 (0.86%) Perl
16 7 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.54%) Fortran
17 5 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 148 (15.91%) Degree
2 113 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 100 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.18%) PhD
7 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.54%) HND
8 5 (0.54%) OCP
8 5 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.22%) HNC
11 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.11%) MBA
12 1 (0.11%) MCSE
12 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.29%) QA
2 10 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.75%) ISO 9000
4 5 (0.54%) GDPR
5 4 (0.43%) PMO
6 3 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 58 (6.24%) Docker
2 25 (2.69%) Firmware
3 11 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.22%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 72 (7.74%) Terraform
3 28 (3.01%) Ansible
4 11 (1.18%) Puppet
5 10 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.32%) Podman
7 2 (0.22%) Grafana
7 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Kiali
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (6.99%) ESRI
2 50 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.90%) Oracle
4 21 (2.26%) Red Hat
5 16 (1.72%) Google
6 14 (1.51%) F5
7 11 (1.18%) SaltStack
8 10 (1.08%) Micro Focus
9 7 (0.75%) Confluent
10 6 (0.65%) EMC
10 6 (0.65%) IBM
11 5 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.54%) SAP
12 4 (0.43%) Cadence
12 4 (0.43%) Kofax
12 4 (0.43%) Pega
12 4 (0.43%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.43%) Synopsys
13 3 (0.32%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.32%) Xamarin