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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 28 12
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 949 681 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.52% 8.81% 12.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.56% 9.23% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 731 394 629
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £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 £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.97% +5.00% +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 8,207 7,382 9,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.31% 95.54% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 3,877 5,302
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
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 £81,500 £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 20 May 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 20 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 +11 659 £60,000 -5.88% 150
Cheshire +33 137 £60,000 -22.58% 24
Lancashire +17 81 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Merseyside +5 69 £60,000 -27.27% 10
Cumbria -22 2 £65,000 +85.71% 5
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 71 (7.48%) ArcGIS
2 57 (6.01%) GeoServer
3 22 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.37%) Apache
5 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.32%) Captiva
6 3 (0.32%) Confluence
6 3 (0.32%) FileNet
6 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
7 2 (0.21%) JBoss
7 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) Jetty
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.21%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.95%) Magento
2 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.21%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 266 (28.03%) AWS
2 242 (25.50%) Azure
3 51 (5.37%) GCP
4 42 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (4.43%) Serverless
5 38 (4.00%) SaaS
6 33 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (3.27%) GitHub
8 26 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
9 22 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (1.58%) OpenShift
11 15 (1.58%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.16%) PaaS
14 10 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (0.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.69%) RS-232
2 11 (1.16%) AMQP
2 11 (1.16%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.16%) MQTT
3 7 (0.74%) Firewall
3 7 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.63%) HTTP
5 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.53%) ZigBee
6 3 (0.32%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.32%) Network Security
6 3 (0.32%) Wireless
7 2 (0.21%) DSL
7 2 (0.21%) RS-485
8 1 (0.11%) Internet
8 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (10.54%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.01%) GIS
3 57 (6.01%) MySQL
3 57 (6.01%) QGIS
4 39 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 39 (4.11%) Relational Database
5 37 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.74%) Big Data
7 21 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 21 (2.21%) RDBMS
8 20 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.11%) DynamoDB
9 17 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
10 15 (1.58%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.48%) Redis
12 13 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
13 11 (1.16%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 98 (10.33%) Git
2 31 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.53%) JIRA
4 19 (2.00%) GitLab
5 17 (1.79%) Postman
6 14 (1.48%) Subversion
6 14 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 12 (1.26%) LabVIEW
8 10 (1.05%) JUnit
9 9 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.84%) Maven
10 8 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.74%) Gatling
11 7 (0.74%) IntelliJ
11 7 (0.74%) Spinnaker
12 6 (0.63%) JDeveloper
12 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.63%) webpack
13 5 (0.53%) Clang
13 5 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 117 (12.33%) Social Skills
2 56 (5.90%) Finance
3 42 (4.43%) Electronics
4 34 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.37%) Retail
6 30 (3.16%) Automotive
7 26 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.21%) Tech for Good
9 18 (1.90%) Banking
9 18 (1.90%) Law
10 16 (1.69%) Health Technology
11 15 (1.58%) Public Sector
12 13 (1.37%) Legal
13 12 (1.26%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.84%) Games
15 8 (0.84%) Marketing
16 7 (0.74%) Billing
17 5 (0.53%) Retail Finance
18 4 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 575 (60.59%) Software Engineer
2 282 (29.72%) Senior
3 193 (20.34%) Senior Software Engineer
4 166 (17.49%) Developer
5 107 (11.28%) Lead
6 72 (7.59%) Embedded Engineer
6 72 (7.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 44 (4.64%) Java Engineer
8 40 (4.21%) Technical Leader
9 39 (4.11%) Software Developer
10 37 (3.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 37 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (3.58%) Architect
11 34 (3.58%) Senior Developer
12 33 (3.48%) .NET Developer
13 31 (3.27%) Software Manager
14 30 (3.16%) Full Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.06%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 29 (3.06%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 21 (2.21%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (22.97%) .NET
2 172 (18.12%) React
3 113 (11.91%) CSS
4 96 (10.12%) .NET Core
5 79 (8.32%) Node.js
6 65 (6.85%) HTML
6 65 (6.85%) PostGIS
7 64 (6.74%) Spring
8 61 (6.43%) Leaflet
8 61 (6.43%) OpenLayers
9 51 (5.37%) REST
10 49 (5.16%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.74%) Spring Boot
12 41 (4.32%) RESTful
13 31 (3.27%) JSON
13 31 (3.27%) Web Services
14 28 (2.95%) GraphQL
15 25 (2.63%) Vue
16 24 (2.53%) Kafka
17 23 (2.42%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.16%) IoT
2 42 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 33 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (2.42%) Embedded Systems
6 16 (1.69%) Blog
6 16 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 14 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.37%) Media Streaming
9 11 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.05%) Device Driver
10 10 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.84%) FMCG
11 8 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.63%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.63%) NHS
12 6 (0.63%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.53%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.53%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 138 (14.54%) Linux
2 41 (4.32%) Windows
3 20 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.00%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (1.16%) CentOS
6 11 (1.16%) Debian
7 8 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.74%) Unix
9 6 (0.63%) Android
10 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.32%) VMS
13 2 (0.21%) FreeBSD
13 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.11%) HPUX
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.11%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (39.52%) Agile
2 251 (26.45%) DevOps
3 121 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (12.64%) Computer Science
5 99 (10.43%) Open Source
6 98 (10.33%) Mentoring
7 97 (10.22%) CI/CD
7 97 (10.22%) Full Stack Development
8 89 (9.38%) Microservices
8 89 (9.38%) TDD
9 76 (8.01%) Actionable Insight
10 75 (7.90%) Web Development
11 68 (7.17%) Continuous Integration
12 61 (6.43%) Scrum
13 56 (5.90%) Coaching
13 56 (5.90%) Design Patterns
14 52 (5.48%) Infrastructure as Code
15 48 (5.06%) Code Quality
15 48 (5.06%) SDLC
16 47 (4.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (24.34%) JavaScript
2 230 (24.24%) C#
3 220 (23.18%) Python
4 210 (22.13%) Java
5 119 (12.54%) SQL
6 96 (10.12%) C
7 79 (8.32%) TypeScript
8 69 (7.27%) C++
9 42 (4.43%) PHP
10 31 (3.27%) Go
11 21 (2.21%) Rust
12 20 (2.11%) Embedded C
13 16 (1.69%) Scala
14 13 (1.37%) Bash
15 10 (1.05%) COBOL
15 10 (1.05%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 8 (0.84%) Perl
16 8 (0.84%) Ruby
17 7 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (16.97%) Degree
2 114 (12.01%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 56 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.16%) PhD
8 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.53%) HND
10 4 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.21%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.21%) HNC
12 2 (0.21%) OCP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.11%) MBA
13 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.58%) QA
2 10 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.74%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.42%) GDPR
4 4 (0.42%) PMO
5 3 (0.32%) SLA
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 57 (6.01%) Docker
2 25 (2.63%) Firmware
3 11 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.21%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 71 (7.48%) Terraform
3 27 (2.85%) Ansible
4 11 (1.16%) Puppet
5 10 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.32%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Kiali
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (6.85%) ESRI
2 52 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.85%) Oracle
4 21 (2.21%) Red Hat
5 18 (1.90%) Google
6 14 (1.48%) F5
7 11 (1.16%) SaltStack
8 10 (1.05%) Micro Focus
9 7 (0.74%) Confluent
10 6 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.63%) EMC
11 5 (0.53%) IBM
12 4 (0.42%) Cadence
12 4 (0.42%) SAP
12 4 (0.42%) Synopsys
13 3 (0.32%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.32%) Kofax
13 3 (0.32%) Pega
13 3 (0.32%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.32%) Xamarin