Software Engineer Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Software Engineer salary in Tyne and Wear is £60,000 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 41 72 49
Rank change year-on-year +31 -23 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 60 23 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.07% 2.53% 4.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.20% 3.11% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 46 2 16
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,375 £36,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,313 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £71,991 £62,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,250 £64,125 £68,750
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% +7.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 1,427 739 1,054
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 81.30% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 449 729
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,200 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,460 £38,750 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,000 £60,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £73,775 £82,500
North East median annual salary £46,419 £47,672 £40,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +19.18% -11.11%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 30 £60,000 - 9
Sunderland - 18 £65,000 - 2
Wallsend - 6 £50,000 -
Software Engineer
North East

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (36.67%) SQL
3 20 (33.33%) MySQL
4 19 (31.67%) AWS
5 16 (26.67%) Degree
6 15 (25.00%) RESTful
7 13 (21.67%) Agile
7 13 (21.67%) C#
8 11 (18.33%) C++
8 11 (18.33%) .NET
8 11 (18.33%) Games
8 11 (18.33%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (18.33%) Serverless
9 10 (16.67%) Redis
9 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 10 (16.67%) Client/Server
9 10 (16.67%) ASP.NET
9 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
10 9 (15.00%) Azure
10 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.00%) Vue
11 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
11 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (13.33%) Coaching
11 8 (13.33%) Microservices
11 8 (13.33%) GitHub
11 8 (13.33%) BDD
11 8 (13.33%) MongoDB
11 8 (13.33%) NoSQL

Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) AWS
2 11 (18.33%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (18.33%) Serverless
3 9 (15.00%) Azure
4 8 (13.33%) GitHub
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (1.67%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.33%) MySQL
2 10 (16.67%) Redis
3 8 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Couchbase
4 3 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.67%) Power BI
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (18.33%) Games
2 8 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) RESTful
2 11 (18.33%) .NET
3 10 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 9 (15.00%) Vue
5 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (11.67%) .NET Core
6 7 (11.67%) Node.js
7 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.33%) Yocto
8 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.67%) CSS
8 1 (1.67%) HTML
8 1 (1.67%) Next.js
8 1 (1.67%) QML
8 1 (1.67%) Qt
8 1 (1.67%) React
8 1 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 7 (11.67%) Data Structures
2 7 (11.67%) Online Games
3 2 (3.33%) Robotics
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (21.67%) Agile
3 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.33%) BDD
5 8 (13.33%) Coaching
5 8 (13.33%) Microservices
5 8 (13.33%) MVC
5 8 (13.33%) TDD
6 7 (11.67%) Continuous Deployment
6 7 (11.67%) Design Patterns
6 7 (11.67%) OOP
6 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
7 6 (10.00%) SDLC
8 4 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
9 3 (5.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (5.00%) Functional Programming
9 3 (5.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.67%) SQL
2 13 (21.67%) C#
3 11 (18.33%) C++
4 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.33%) Java
5 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.00%) C
7 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.67%) ABAP
8 1 (1.67%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Degree
2 7 (11.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.67%) SAP