Software Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 26 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,560 1,570 2,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.91% 9.10% 11.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.68% 9.39% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 868 1,293
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,970 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +12.73% +0.64%
75th Percentile £71,991 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,610 16,719 16,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.41% 96.85% 93.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,215 8,010 10,606
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +8 928 £60,000 -4.00% 178
Yorkshire +10 507 £55,000 -12.00% 97
North East +9 125 £55,000 +16.40% 28
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 100 (6.41%) ArcGIS
2 85 (5.45%) GeoServer
3 23 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.83%) Apache
5 12 (0.77%) Captiva
5 12 (0.77%) FileNet
5 12 (0.77%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.51%) CMS
7 7 (0.45%) IIS
8 6 (0.38%) NServiceBus
8 6 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.32%) WordPress
10 4 (0.26%) Confluence
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
11 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.13%) Drupal
13 1 (0.064%) Jetty
13 1 (0.064%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.13%) Sketch
3 1 (0.064%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.58%) Magento
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.19%) Shopify
4 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 388 (24.87%) AWS
2 372 (23.85%) Azure
3 80 (5.13%) GCP
4 74 (4.74%) Serverless
5 69 (4.42%) GitHub
6 59 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.72%) SaaS
8 49 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (2.18%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (1.73%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.41%) Power Platform
13 21 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (0.96%) OpenShift
18 14 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
19 13 (0.83%) PaaS
20 11 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.47%) MQTT
2 22 (1.41%) RS-232
3 21 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.03%) RS-485
6 15 (0.96%) Wireless
7 12 (0.77%) 3G
7 12 (0.77%) 4G
8 11 (0.71%) AMQP
8 11 (0.71%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.51%) Firewall
9 8 (0.51%) Network Security
10 6 (0.38%) HTTP
11 5 (0.32%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.26%) Internet
13 3 (0.19%) Bluetooth
14 2 (0.13%) DSL
14 2 (0.13%) VoIP
15 1 (0.064%) Broadband
15 1 (0.064%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (8.14%) MySQL
3 105 (6.73%) GIS
4 85 (5.45%) QGIS
5 77 (4.94%) SQL Server
6 58 (3.72%) Relational Database
7 50 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 40 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (2.37%) MongoDB
10 29 (1.86%) RDBMS
11 26 (1.67%) Big Data
11 26 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 24 (1.54%) Redis
13 19 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
16 15 (0.96%) Hadoop
17 11 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
17 11 (0.71%) OLAP
18 10 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 142 (9.10%) Git
2 48 (3.08%) JIRA
3 44 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.79%) GitLab
5 23 (1.47%) LabVIEW
6 22 (1.41%) Postman
7 18 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 16 (1.03%) Subversion
9 14 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (0.83%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.77%) Maven
11 12 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.58%) JDeveloper
12 9 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.58%) webpack
13 8 (0.51%) IntelliJ
13 8 (0.51%) JUnit
13 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 183 (11.73%) Social Skills
2 105 (6.73%) Finance
3 76 (4.87%) Electronics
4 68 (4.36%) Manufacturing
5 56 (3.59%) Automotive
6 52 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (2.88%) Retail
8 44 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 42 (2.69%) Banking
10 34 (2.18%) Tech for Good
11 27 (1.73%) Legal
11 27 (1.73%) Marketing
12 24 (1.54%) Law
13 23 (1.47%) Games
13 23 (1.47%) Health Technology
14 18 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
16 14 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 977 (62.63%) Software Engineer
2 456 (29.23%) Senior
3 329 (21.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 272 (17.44%) Developer
5 187 (11.99%) Embedded Engineer
5 187 (11.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 152 (9.74%) Lead
7 75 (4.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 75 (4.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 70 (4.49%) Software Developer
9 63 (4.04%) Java Engineer
10 56 (3.59%) Technical Leader
11 53 (3.40%) Java Software Engineer
12 50 (3.21%) Senior Developer
13 48 (3.08%) Software Manager
14 46 (2.95%) Architect
15 45 (2.88%) C++ Software Engineer
16 42 (2.69%) .NET Developer
16 42 (2.69%) Lead Software Engineer
17 41 (2.63%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (23.46%) .NET
2 258 (16.54%) React
3 175 (11.22%) CSS
4 173 (11.09%) .NET Core
5 137 (8.78%) Node.js
6 108 (6.92%) AngularJS
7 94 (6.03%) PostGIS
7 94 (6.03%) RESTful
8 93 (5.96%) HTML
9 89 (5.71%) Leaflet
9 89 (5.71%) OpenLayers
10 77 (4.94%) Vue
11 73 (4.68%) Spring
12 71 (4.55%) ASP.NET
13 63 (4.04%) REST
14 54 (3.46%) Spring Boot
15 38 (2.44%) JSON
15 38 (2.44%) Web Services
16 34 (2.18%) .NET Framework
17 29 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 59 (3.78%) IoT
2 56 (3.59%) Cloud Native
2 56 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
3 43 (2.76%) Embedded Systems
4 33 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (1.73%) Product Ownership
5 27 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 26 (1.67%) Private Cloud
7 24 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 22 (1.41%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.15%) Client/Server
9 18 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
11 12 (0.77%) DataPower
12 11 (0.71%) Device Driver
13 10 (0.64%) NHS
13 10 (0.64%) Online Games
13 10 (0.64%) SCADA
14 8 (0.51%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.86%) Linux
2 60 (3.85%) Windows
3 32 (2.05%) Embedded Linux
4 23 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 20 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.15%) Unix
7 13 (0.83%) FreeRTOS
8 11 (0.71%) Android
8 11 (0.71%) CentOS
8 11 (0.71%) Debian
9 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.51%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.19%) VMS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.13%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.064%) HPUX
14 1 (0.064%) Solaris
14 1 (0.064%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (34.49%) Agile
2 347 (22.24%) DevOps
3 213 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
4 187 (11.99%) Computer Science
5 168 (10.77%) CI/CD
6 160 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 156 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
8 146 (9.36%) Microservices
9 133 (8.53%) TDD
10 119 (7.63%) Open Source
10 119 (7.63%) Web Development
11 114 (7.31%) Coaching
12 108 (6.92%) Actionable Insight
13 97 (6.22%) Test Automation
14 88 (5.64%) Design Patterns
14 88 (5.64%) Scrum
15 82 (5.26%) Roadmaps
16 80 (5.13%) SDLC
17 79 (5.06%) Continuous Integration
18 72 (4.62%) OO
Programming Languages
1 385 (24.68%) C#
2 358 (22.95%) JavaScript
3 318 (20.38%) Python
4 261 (16.73%) Java
5 260 (16.67%) SQL
6 175 (11.22%) C
7 144 (9.23%) C++
8 127 (8.14%) TypeScript
9 63 (4.04%) PHP
10 40 (2.56%) Go
11 32 (2.05%) Embedded C
12 25 (1.60%) COBOL
12 25 (1.60%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 22 (1.41%) Rust
14 19 (1.22%) T-SQL
15 17 (1.09%) Bash
16 13 (0.83%) Perl
17 11 (0.71%) Ruby
17 11 (0.71%) XAML
18 9 (0.58%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 248 (15.90%) Degree
2 169 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 151 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 81 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 22 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.03%) PhD
8 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.32%) HND
10 4 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.26%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.19%) HNC
11 3 (0.19%) OCP
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.13%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.064%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.064%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (1.79%) QA
2 27 (1.73%) GDPR
3 18 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.45%) ISO 9000
5 4 (0.26%) PMO
6 3 (0.19%) SLA
7 2 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.064%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.064%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.064%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 96 (6.15%) Docker
2 52 (3.33%) Firmware
3 13 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.77%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.45%) IAG
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.064%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (6.92%) Kubernetes
1 108 (6.92%) Terraform
2 28 (1.79%) Ansible
3 11 (0.71%) Puppet
4 10 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.32%) Grafana
6 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.064%) Istio
8 1 (0.064%) Kiali
8 1 (0.064%) Kibana
8 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.064%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (6.03%) ESRI
2 81 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 40 (2.56%) Oracle
4 25 (1.60%) Google
4 25 (1.60%) Micro Focus
5 21 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 18 (1.15%) F5
7 15 (0.96%) SAP
8 14 (0.90%) IBM
8 14 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 12 (0.77%) Kofax
9 12 (0.77%) Pega
10 11 (0.71%) SaltStack
11 10 (0.64%) Cadence
12 9 (0.58%) Synopsys
13 7 (0.45%) Confluent
14 6 (0.38%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.38%) Autodesk
14 6 (0.38%) EMC
14 6 (0.38%) Splunk