Software Engineer Jobs in the North West

Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Software Engineer salary in the North West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 92 43
Rank change year-on-year +63 -49 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 580 295 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.81% 3.83% 7.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.14% 4.28% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 415 162 307
10th Percentile £38,084 £41,250 £39,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,771 £85,000
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,439 6,893 9,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 89.48% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,252 4,020 5,351
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
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 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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 +51 392 £58,500 +1.74% 70
Cheshire +43 98 £60,000 -17.24% 12
Lancashire +20 45 £42,500 -50.00% 14
Merseyside +17 44 £55,000 - 3
Cumbria -8 1 £45,000 - 2
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 572 (98.62%) Software Engineering
2 195 (33.62%) Agile
3 180 (31.03%) AWS
4 167 (28.79%) Python
5 157 (27.07%) JavaScript
5 157 (27.07%) Azure
6 148 (25.52%) C#
7 141 (24.31%) Java
8 138 (23.79%) .NET
8 138 (23.79%) DevOps
9 119 (20.52%) Linux
10 106 (18.28%) Degree
10 106 (18.28%) React
11 90 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
12 85 (14.66%) Security Cleared
13 81 (13.97%) CSS
13 81 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
14 77 (13.28%) C
15 76 (13.10%) SC Cleared
15 76 (13.10%) Actionable Insight
16 75 (12.93%) GIS
17 72 (12.41%) Open Source
17 72 (12.41%) .NET Core
18 70 (12.07%) Social Skills
18 70 (12.07%) Computer Science
18 70 (12.07%) ArcGIS
19 64 (11.03%) ESRI
19 64 (11.03%) Web Development
19 64 (11.03%) PostGIS
20 61 (10.52%) Leaflet

Software Engineer Skill Set
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 70 (12.07%) ArcGIS
2 57 (9.83%) GeoServer
3 21 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.90%) Apache
5 3 (0.52%) Captiva
5 3 (0.52%) FileNet
5 3 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.34%) CMS
6 2 (0.34%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.34%) Sketch
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 180 (31.03%) AWS
2 157 (27.07%) Azure
3 38 (6.55%) Serverless
4 35 (6.03%) GCP
5 20 (3.45%) GitHub
6 15 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (2.59%) OpenShift
7 14 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (1.55%) SaaS
12 7 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (0.52%) Amazon S3
16 2 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 2 (0.34%) CloudFront
16 2 (0.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.59%) RS-232
2 11 (1.90%) AMQP
3 10 (1.72%) Ethernet
4 8 (1.38%) MQTT
5 7 (1.21%) Firewall
6 6 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.86%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.52%) Network Security
9 3 (0.52%) Wireless
10 2 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.34%) RS-485
11 1 (0.17%) HTTP
11 1 (0.17%) Internet
11 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (12.93%) GIS
3 57 (9.83%) QGIS
4 37 (6.38%) MySQL
5 35 (6.03%) SQL Server
6 30 (5.17%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.10%) Big Data
9 17 (2.93%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.76%) Geospatial Data
11 14 (2.41%) Hadoop
12 13 (2.24%) DynamoDB
13 12 (2.07%) Redis
14 11 (1.90%) Cloudera CDH
15 10 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.03%) Oracle Database
16 6 (1.03%) RDBMS
17 5 (0.86%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 59 (10.17%) Git
2 24 (4.14%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.97%) JIRA
4 13 (2.24%) Subversion
5 11 (1.90%) GitLab
6 7 (1.21%) IntelliJ
6 7 (1.21%) Spinnaker
7 6 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.03%) Gatling
7 6 (1.03%) JDeveloper
7 6 (1.03%) Maven
7 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.86%) Clang
8 5 (0.86%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.86%) JUnit
8 5 (0.86%) Mockito
8 5 (0.86%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.69%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 70 (12.07%) Social Skills
2 37 (6.38%) Finance
3 36 (6.21%) Electronics
4 18 (3.10%) Manufacturing
5 17 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.59%) Automotive
6 15 (2.59%) Retail
6 15 (2.59%) Tech for Good
7 14 (2.41%) Banking
8 12 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.90%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.72%) Legal
11 9 (1.55%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.03%) Billing
13 5 (0.86%) Retail Finance
14 4 (0.69%) Games
14 4 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.52%) Advertising
15 3 (0.52%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (23.79%) .NET
2 106 (18.28%) React
3 81 (13.97%) CSS
4 72 (12.41%) .NET Core
5 64 (11.03%) PostGIS
6 61 (10.52%) Leaflet
6 61 (10.52%) OpenLayers
7 54 (9.31%) Node.js
8 35 (6.03%) Spring
9 33 (5.69%) AngularJS
10 32 (5.52%) HTML
11 30 (5.17%) REST
12 26 (4.48%) Spring Boot
13 24 (4.14%) RESTful
14 22 (3.79%) Web Services
15 18 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (2.93%) Kafka
17 16 (2.76%) Vue
18 14 (2.41%) ASP.NET
19 13 (2.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.24%) IoT
2 22 (3.79%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.07%) Blog
6 10 (1.72%) Device Driver
6 10 (1.72%) Media Streaming
7 9 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.21%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.86%) Life Science
10 5 (0.86%) NHS
10 5 (0.86%) Smart Energy
11 4 (0.69%) SCADA
12 3 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.52%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.52%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.52%) DataPower
12 3 (0.52%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (20.52%) Linux
2 29 (5.00%) Windows
3 19 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (3.28%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.59%) Embedded Linux
5 13 (2.24%) Unix
6 11 (1.90%) CentOS
6 11 (1.90%) Debian
7 6 (1.03%) Android
8 5 (0.86%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.52%) VMS
11 2 (0.34%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (98.62%) Software Engineering
2 195 (33.62%) Agile
3 138 (23.79%) DevOps
4 81 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (13.10%) Actionable Insight
6 72 (12.41%) Open Source
7 70 (12.07%) Computer Science
8 64 (11.03%) Web Development
9 57 (9.83%) Full Stack Development
10 50 (8.62%) Microservices
11 47 (8.10%) Mentoring
12 42 (7.24%) Continuous Integration
12 42 (7.24%) TDD
13 40 (6.90%) CI/CD
14 35 (6.03%) Code Quality
15 30 (5.17%) OO
16 29 (5.00%) Unit Testing
17 26 (4.48%) Collaborative Working
17 26 (4.48%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (4.48%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 167 (28.79%) Python
2 157 (27.07%) JavaScript
3 148 (25.52%) C#
4 141 (24.31%) Java
5 77 (13.28%) C
6 60 (10.34%) SQL
7 49 (8.45%) C++
8 33 (5.69%) TypeScript
9 22 (3.79%) Go
10 19 (3.28%) Embedded C
11 17 (2.93%) Rust
12 14 (2.41%) Perl
13 13 (2.24%) Bash
13 13 (2.24%) Scala
14 12 (2.07%) Ruby
15 11 (1.90%) PHP
16 8 (1.38%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.03%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.86%) Fortran
18 5 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 106 (18.28%) Degree
2 85 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 76 (13.10%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.21%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.86%) HND
7 5 (0.86%) PhD
8 4 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.34%) HNC
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.21%) ISO 9000
2 6 (1.03%) QA
3 4 (0.69%) GDPR
3 4 (0.69%) PMO
4 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 28 (4.83%) Docker
2 20 (3.45%) Firmware
3 10 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.66%) Terraform
3 24 (4.14%) Ansible
4 11 (1.90%) Puppet
5 10 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.52%) Podman
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (11.03%) ESRI
2 23 (3.97%) Oracle
3 19 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.28%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.59%) Google
5 11 (1.90%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.21%) Confluent
6 7 (1.21%) F5
7 6 (1.03%) Facebook
8 4 (0.69%) Cadence
8 4 (0.69%) SAP
8 4 (0.69%) Synopsys
9 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.52%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.52%) EMC
9 3 (0.52%) IBM
9 3 (0.52%) Kofax
9 3 (0.52%) Pega
9 3 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.52%) Xamarin