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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 99 46
Rank change year-on-year +71 -53 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,110 576 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.89% 3.57% 6.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.18% 4.00% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 780 324 561
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,125 £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 £72,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,200 £84,056 £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 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
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 £80,627 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 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
North West +76 641 £57,000 -5.00% 112
Yorkshire +57 386 £50,000 -16.67% 33
North East +40 83 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 1,100 (99.10%) Software Engineering
2 331 (29.82%) Agile
3 276 (24.86%) C#
4 266 (23.96%) AWS
5 254 (22.88%) .NET
6 247 (22.25%) JavaScript
7 239 (21.53%) Azure
8 227 (20.45%) Python
9 194 (17.48%) DevOps
10 165 (14.86%) React
11 163 (14.68%) Degree
12 157 (14.14%) Java
12 157 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
13 154 (13.87%) SQL
14 152 (13.69%) Linux
15 149 (13.42%) C
16 148 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
17 135 (12.16%) CSS
18 129 (11.62%) .NET Core
19 117 (10.54%) Security Cleared
20 116 (10.45%) C++
21 115 (10.36%) Social Skills
22 112 (10.09%) Computer Science
22 112 (10.09%) Mentoring
23 108 (9.73%) SC Cleared
24 103 (9.28%) GIS
25 98 (8.83%) ArcGIS
25 98 (8.83%) Web Development
26 96 (8.65%) Actionable Insight
27 95 (8.56%) Full Stack Development

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 (8.83%) ArcGIS
2 85 (7.66%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.99%) Apache
5 7 (0.63%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.54%) CMS
7 4 (0.36%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) Captiva
8 2 (0.18%) FileNet
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.090%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Magento
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 266 (23.96%) AWS
2 239 (21.53%) Azure
3 44 (3.96%) Serverless
4 42 (3.78%) GitHub
5 41 (3.69%) GCP
6 26 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
9 15 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (1.17%) SaaS
11 11 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (0.99%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (0.63%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.45%) Firebase
17 4 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
17 4 (0.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 4 (0.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.98%) MQTT
1 22 (1.98%) RS-232
2 18 (1.62%) RS-485
3 17 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (1.53%) Wireless
4 13 (1.17%) 3G
4 13 (1.17%) 4G
5 11 (0.99%) AMQP
6 10 (0.90%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.63%) Network Security
8 5 (0.45%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.36%) Firewall
10 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.18%) VoIP
11 1 (0.090%) HTTP
11 1 (0.090%) Internet
11 1 (0.090%) LTE
11 1 (0.090%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (9.28%) GIS
3 85 (7.66%) QGIS
4 79 (7.12%) MySQL
5 58 (5.23%) NoSQL
5 58 (5.23%) SQL Server
6 29 (2.61%) MongoDB
7 28 (2.52%) Redis
8 27 (2.43%) DynamoDB
9 21 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.62%) Big Data
12 16 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
13 14 (1.26%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
15 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.45%) MS Access
17 4 (0.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (6.58%) Git
2 29 (2.61%) JIRA
3 26 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.35%) GitLab
4 15 (1.35%) Subversion
5 14 (1.26%) LabVIEW
6 12 (1.08%) Gatling
7 11 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.54%) Maven
11 5 (0.45%) Clang
11 5 (0.45%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.45%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.45%) JUnit
11 5 (0.45%) Mockito
11 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 115 (10.36%) Social Skills
2 80 (7.21%) Electronics
3 52 (4.68%) Manufacturing
4 48 (4.32%) Finance
5 47 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (3.96%) Automotive
7 33 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 31 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
9 30 (2.70%) Tech for Good
10 25 (2.25%) Legal
11 22 (1.98%) Retail
12 19 (1.71%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.62%) Health Technology
13 18 (1.62%) Mandarin Language
14 17 (1.53%) Banking
15 15 (1.35%) Games
16 12 (1.08%) Billing
16 12 (1.08%) Marketing
17 9 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (22.88%) .NET
2 165 (14.86%) React
3 135 (12.16%) CSS
4 129 (11.62%) .NET Core
5 93 (8.38%) PostGIS
6 89 (8.02%) Leaflet
6 89 (8.02%) OpenLayers
7 76 (6.85%) AngularJS
8 72 (6.49%) Node.js
9 58 (5.23%) RESTful
10 54 (4.86%) REST
10 54 (4.86%) Vue
11 52 (4.68%) HTML
12 50 (4.50%) ASP.NET
13 34 (3.06%) Spring
14 32 (2.88%) Web Services
15 27 (2.43%) Spring Boot
16 24 (2.16%) GraphQL
17 21 (1.89%) Lambda Expressions
17 21 (1.89%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.68%) IoT
2 47 (4.23%) Embedded Systems
3 34 (3.06%) Cyberattack
4 31 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.07%) Blog
8 21 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 21 (1.89%) Media Streaming
9 14 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.26%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 11 (0.99%) Device Driver
12 10 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.90%) SCADA
13 9 (0.81%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.63%) NHS
14 7 (0.63%) Online Games
14 7 (0.63%) Robotics
15 5 (0.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 152 (13.69%) Linux
2 37 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
3 34 (3.06%) Windows
4 23 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.26%) FreeRTOS
7 13 (1.17%) Android
8 12 (1.08%) Unix
9 11 (0.99%) CentOS
9 11 (0.99%) Debian
10 9 (0.81%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) VMS
12 2 (0.18%) FreeBSD
12 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.090%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (99.10%) Software Engineering
2 331 (29.82%) Agile
3 194 (17.48%) DevOps
4 157 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (10.09%) Computer Science
5 112 (10.09%) Mentoring
6 98 (8.83%) Web Development
7 96 (8.65%) Actionable Insight
8 95 (8.56%) Full Stack Development
9 90 (8.11%) Microservices
10 80 (7.21%) Open Source
11 79 (7.12%) TDD
12 59 (5.32%) Test Automation
13 57 (5.14%) CI/CD
13 57 (5.14%) User Experience
14 56 (5.05%) OO
15 53 (4.77%) Continuous Integration
16 52 (4.68%) Unit Testing
17 48 (4.32%) SDLC
17 48 (4.32%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 276 (24.86%) C#
2 247 (22.25%) JavaScript
3 227 (20.45%) Python
4 157 (14.14%) Java
5 154 (13.87%) SQL
6 149 (13.42%) C
7 116 (10.45%) C++
8 74 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.79%) Embedded C
10 24 (2.16%) Scala
11 19 (1.71%) Rust
12 17 (1.53%) Go
13 16 (1.44%) PHP
14 14 (1.26%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.81%) Perl
15 9 (0.81%) SystemVerilog
16 8 (0.72%) Bash
16 8 (0.72%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.63%) XAML
18 6 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 163 (14.68%) Degree
2 117 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 108 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.07%) Master's Degree
6 11 (0.99%) PhD
7 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.45%) HND
9 4 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.18%) HNC
12 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.44%) GDPR
2 8 (0.72%) QA
3 7 (0.63%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.36%) PMO
5 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.090%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 54 (4.86%) Docker
2 47 (4.23%) Firmware
3 14 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.15%) Terraform
3 24 (2.16%) Ansible
4 12 (1.08%) Puppet
5 11 (0.99%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.27%) Podman
7 1 (0.090%) Grafana
7 1 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (8.29%) ESRI
2 31 (2.79%) Microsoft
3 19 (1.71%) Oracle
3 19 (1.71%) Red Hat
4 17 (1.53%) Google
5 11 (0.99%) F5
5 11 (0.99%) SaltStack
6 9 (0.81%) Cadence
6 9 (0.81%) Synopsys
7 6 (0.54%) Facebook
8 4 (0.36%) Allen-Bradley
8 4 (0.36%) Confluent
8 4 (0.36%) SAP
9 3 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.27%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.27%) EMC
9 3 (0.27%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.18%) Pega
10 2 (0.18%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.18%) Siemens