Software Engineering Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 39 15
Rank change year-on-year +14 -24 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 103 59 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.95% 6.48% 10.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.13% 6.68% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 88 16 81
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,069 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,732 £51,029 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% -2.80% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,118 £59,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,725 £65,000 £85,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £49,557 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.98% -5.61% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,267 883 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 85.43% 97.03% 88.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 445 674
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,000 £25,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £75,000 £83,750
North East median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +14.12% -5.56%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 63 £60,000 +21.07% 22
Sunderland -3 21 £62,500 - 2
Wallsend - 12 £50,000 -
Gateshead - 1 £55,000 -
Software Engineering
North East

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (2.91%) IIS
2 1 (0.97%) Apache
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.97%) CMS
2 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.30%) AWS
2 16 (15.53%) Azure
3 15 (14.56%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (14.56%) Serverless
4 9 (8.74%) GitHub
5 6 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.88%) SaaS
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.94%) GCP
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.97%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) Network Security
2 2 (1.94%) SAN
3 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.27%) MySQL
2 13 (12.62%) Redis
3 8 (7.77%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.85%) Power BI
5 3 (2.91%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.91%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (7.77%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.94%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
General
1 18 (17.48%) Manufacturing
2 15 (14.56%) Games
3 11 (10.68%) Finance
3 11 (10.68%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Electronics
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 62 (60.19%) Software Engineer
2 43 (41.75%) Senior
3 38 (36.89%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (16.50%) Embedded Engineer
4 17 (16.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 15 (14.56%) Lead
6 13 (12.62%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 13 (12.62%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 11 (10.68%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) .NET Software Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) C# Software Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Senior C# Software Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Senior Java Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.45%) RESTful
2 17 (16.50%) .NET
3 13 (12.62%) ASP.NET
3 13 (12.62%) Node.js
4 12 (11.65%) Vue
5 11 (10.68%) .NET Core
5 11 (10.68%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (2.91%) REST
7 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.94%) Laravel
7 2 (1.94%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (1.94%) Yocto
8 1 (0.97%) Next.js
8 1 (0.97%) NumPy
8 1 (0.97%) Pandas
8 1 (0.97%) QML
8 1 (0.97%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Client/Server
2 10 (9.71%) Online Games
3 8 (7.77%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.91%) Robotics
5 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.97%) NHS
6 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Windows
2 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.18%) Mentoring
2 23 (22.33%) Agile
3 21 (20.39%) Coaching
4 16 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (14.56%) Computer Science
6 13 (12.62%) Test Automation
7 12 (11.65%) CI/CD
7 12 (11.65%) Manufacturing Engineering
8 11 (10.68%) MVC
8 11 (10.68%) TDD
9 9 (8.74%) Roadmaps
9 9 (8.74%) SDLC
10 8 (7.77%) Architectural Design
10 8 (7.77%) BDD
10 8 (7.77%) Design Patterns
10 8 (7.77%) DevOps
10 8 (7.77%) Full Stack Development
10 8 (7.77%) Microservices
10 8 (7.77%) OOP
11 7 (6.80%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (28.16%) SQL
2 19 (18.45%) C#
3 17 (16.50%) C++
4 13 (12.62%) Python
5 12 (11.65%) C
5 12 (11.65%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.71%) Java
8 6 (5.83%) COBOL
8 6 (5.83%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 3 (2.91%) Go
9 3 (2.91%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.94%) ABAP
10 2 (1.94%) PHP
11 1 (0.97%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 27 (26.21%) Degree
2 14 (13.59%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.94%) PhD
4 1 (0.97%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.97%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 13 (12.62%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.91%) IAG
3 1 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Terraform
2 5 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.88%) Grafana
4 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.83%) Micro Focus
2 3 (2.91%) Autodesk
2 3 (2.91%) Epicor
2 3 (2.91%) Splunk
3 2 (1.94%) Google
3 2 (1.94%) SAP
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.97%) Panasonic