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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 27 11
Rank change year-on-year +16 -16 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,205 621 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.75% 8.50% 13.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.43% 8.89% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 765 350 635
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,654
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,991 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +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 8,970 6,987 9,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.02% 95.58% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,539 3,850 5,342
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
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 9 June 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 9 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
Manchester +13 792 £60,000 -7.69% 150
Lancashire +33 180 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Cheshire +24 153 £60,000 -22.58% 28
Merseyside +5 78 £60,000 -27.27% 14
Cumbria -32 2 £65,000 +85.71% 2
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 69 (5.73%) ArcGIS
2 55 (4.56%) GeoServer
3 20 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.24%) Apache
5 6 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.25%) Confluence
6 3 (0.25%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.083%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.083%) Jetty
8 1 (0.083%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (0.50%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.17%) Simulink
2 2 (0.17%) Sketch
3 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.75%) Magento
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 282 (23.40%) AWS
2 243 (20.17%) Azure
3 48 (3.98%) GCP
4 44 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (3.32%) Amazon Kinesis
5 40 (3.32%) SaaS
6 38 (3.15%) Serverless
7 33 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (2.16%) GitHub
9 23 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (1.24%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (0.91%) OpenShift
14 10 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (0.75%) PaaS
16 8 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.49%) RS-232
2 12 (1.00%) MQTT
3 11 (0.91%) AMQP
3 11 (0.91%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.50%) HTTP
6 5 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.41%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.33%) RS-485
7 4 (0.33%) Wireless
8 3 (0.25%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.25%) Firewall
8 3 (0.25%) Network Security
9 2 (0.17%) DSL
10 1 (0.083%) Internet
10 1 (0.083%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (6.14%) GIS
3 61 (5.06%) MySQL
4 57 (4.73%) NoSQL
5 55 (4.56%) QGIS
6 38 (3.15%) DynamoDB
7 35 (2.90%) SQL Server
8 31 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 29 (2.41%) Relational Database
10 28 (2.32%) Big Data
11 24 (1.99%) Redis
12 20 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.66%) MongoDB
13 17 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
14 15 (1.24%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.08%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.91%) Cloudera CDH
17 9 (0.75%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 100 (8.30%) Git
2 23 (1.91%) GitLab
2 23 (1.91%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.66%) JIRA
4 18 (1.49%) Postman
5 16 (1.33%) Gatling
5 16 (1.33%) Subversion
6 15 (1.24%) JUnit
7 14 (1.16%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.00%) LabVIEW
9 9 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (0.66%) Maven
11 6 (0.50%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.50%) webpack
12 5 (0.41%) Clang
12 5 (0.41%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.41%) IntelliJ
12 5 (0.41%) Mockito
13 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 196 (16.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 136 (11.29%) Social Skills
3 55 (4.56%) Electronics
4 51 (4.23%) Finance
5 39 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 31 (2.57%) Automotive
7 31 (2.57%) Retail
8 23 (1.91%) Tech for Good
9 16 (1.33%) Billing
9 16 (1.33%) Health Technology
9 16 (1.33%) Law
10 14 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.00%) Public Sector
12 11 (0.91%) Banking
12 11 (0.91%) Legal
13 9 (0.75%) Games
14 8 (0.66%) Marketing
14 8 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.41%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 695 (57.68%) Software Engineer
2 293 (24.32%) Senior
3 203 (16.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 182 (15.10%) Developer
5 178 (14.77%) Lead
6 103 (8.55%) Lead Software Engineer
7 93 (7.72%) Architect
8 78 (6.47%) Embedded Engineer
8 78 (6.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 67 (5.56%) Software Architect
10 62 (5.15%) Programmer
10 62 (5.15%) Software Programmer
11 44 (3.65%) Java Engineer
11 44 (3.65%) Technical Leader
12 40 (3.32%) Software Developer
13 39 (3.24%) .NET Developer
13 39 (3.24%) Senior Developer
14 37 (3.07%) Java Software Engineer
15 31 (2.57%) Full Stack Engineer
16 30 (2.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (19.17%) .NET
2 167 (13.86%) React
3 120 (9.96%) CSS
4 98 (8.13%) .NET Core
5 78 (6.47%) Node.js
6 72 (5.98%) HTML
7 68 (5.64%) Spring
8 66 (5.48%) REST
9 63 (5.23%) PostGIS
10 59 (4.90%) Leaflet
10 59 (4.90%) OpenLayers
11 49 (4.07%) AngularJS
12 46 (3.82%) Spring Boot
13 43 (3.57%) Web Services
14 41 (3.40%) GraphQL
15 39 (3.24%) RESTful
16 29 (2.41%) JSON
17 27 (2.24%) ASP.NET
18 26 (2.16%) Lambda Expressions
18 26 (2.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 186 (15.44%) Cyberattack
2 49 (4.07%) IoT
3 44 (3.65%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (2.49%) Blog
6 27 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (2.24%) Media Streaming
7 25 (2.07%) Embedded Systems
8 15 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.08%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (0.91%) Private Cloud
12 10 (0.83%) Device Driver
12 10 (0.83%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.66%) FMCG
14 6 (0.50%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.50%) NHS
15 5 (0.41%) Client/Server
15 5 (0.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 137 (11.37%) Linux
2 41 (3.40%) Windows
3 20 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.58%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (0.91%) Android
6 11 (0.91%) CentOS
6 11 (0.91%) Debian
7 8 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.33%) Unix
11 3 (0.25%) VMS
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.17%) FreeBSD
12 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.083%) HPUX
13 1 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.083%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (46.89%) Agile
2 298 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
3 292 (24.23%) Mentoring
4 254 (21.08%) DevOps
5 214 (17.76%) User Experience
6 201 (16.68%) Machine Learning
7 192 (15.93%) Data Engineering
7 192 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 186 (15.44%) Creative Thinking
9 133 (11.04%) Computer Science
10 113 (9.38%) Open Source
11 106 (8.80%) Full Stack Development
12 99 (8.22%) CI/CD
13 95 (7.88%) TDD
14 94 (7.80%) Microservices
15 78 (6.47%) Continuous Integration
16 70 (5.81%) Web Development
17 66 (5.48%) Actionable Insight
18 63 (5.23%) Scrum
19 57 (4.73%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 247 (20.50%) C#
2 227 (18.84%) JavaScript
3 220 (18.26%) Python
4 213 (17.68%) Java
5 124 (10.29%) SQL
6 102 (8.46%) C
7 87 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 73 (6.06%) C++
9 41 (3.40%) PHP
10 30 (2.49%) Scala
11 28 (2.32%) Go
12 23 (1.91%) Embedded C
12 23 (1.91%) Rust
13 10 (0.83%) COBOL
13 10 (0.83%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 8 (0.66%) Bash
15 7 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.58%) R
16 5 (0.41%) Fortran
16 5 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (15.02%) Degree
2 114 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 97 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 70 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.91%) PhD
8 6 (0.50%) HND
8 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.25%) BC Cleared
10 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.25%) HNC
11 2 (0.17%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.17%) OCP
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.083%) MBA
12 1 (0.083%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.75%) QA
3 7 (0.58%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.33%) PMO
5 3 (0.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.083%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.083%) GDPR
6 1 (0.083%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.083%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 54 (4.48%) Docker
2 27 (2.24%) Firmware
3 13 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) IAG
4 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (6.22%) Terraform
2 69 (5.73%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.24%) Ansible
4 12 (1.00%) Puppet
5 11 (0.91%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.25%) Podman
7 1 (0.083%) Kiali
7 1 (0.083%) Kibana
7 1 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (5.23%) ESRI
2 52 (4.32%) Microsoft
3 21 (1.74%) Google
3 21 (1.74%) Red Hat
4 18 (1.49%) Oracle
5 14 (1.16%) F5
6 11 (0.91%) SaltStack
7 10 (0.83%) Micro Focus
8 7 (0.58%) EMC
9 6 (0.50%) Allen-Bradley
10 5 (0.41%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.33%) Cadence
11 4 (0.33%) Synopsys
12 3 (0.25%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.25%) Confluent
12 3 (0.25%) Xamarin
13 2 (0.17%) Adobe
13 2 (0.17%) Databricks
13 2 (0.17%) Siemens
13 2 (0.17%) Twitter