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 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 97 46
Rank change year-on-year +70 -51 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,183 570 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.05% 3.58% 6.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.36% 4.01% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 800 320 561
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £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 £66,313 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 18,613 14,213 18,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 89.24% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14,062 7,976 11,047
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +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 7 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 7 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 +82 694 £57,500 -4.17% 111
Yorkshire +55 400 £50,000 -18.70% 37
North East +35 89 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 1,173 (99.15%) Software Engineering
2 368 (31.11%) Agile
3 280 (23.67%) C#
4 270 (22.82%) AWS
5 257 (21.72%) .NET
6 250 (21.13%) JavaScript
7 241 (20.37%) Azure
8 230 (19.44%) Python
9 197 (16.65%) DevOps
10 191 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
11 170 (14.37%) Degree
12 168 (14.20%) React
13 157 (13.27%) SQL
14 156 (13.19%) Java
15 154 (13.02%) Mentoring
16 153 (12.93%) C
17 151 (12.76%) Linux
17 151 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
18 139 (11.75%) CSS
19 129 (10.90%) .NET Core
20 121 (10.23%) C++
21 120 (10.14%) Social Skills
22 118 (9.97%) Computer Science
23 117 (9.89%) Security Cleared
24 108 (9.13%) SC Cleared
25 103 (8.71%) GIS
26 100 (8.45%) Full Stack Development
27 99 (8.37%) Web Development
28 98 (8.28%) ArcGIS
29 96 (8.11%) Actionable Insight

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 (8.28%) ArcGIS
2 85 (7.19%) GeoServer
3 18 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.01%) Apache
5 8 (0.68%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.51%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Confluence
8 1 (0.085%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.085%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (0.51%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.17%) Sketch
3 1 (0.085%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.51%) Magento
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 270 (22.82%) AWS
2 241 (20.37%) Azure
3 45 (3.80%) Serverless
4 39 (3.30%) GCP
4 39 (3.30%) GitHub
5 27 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
6 24 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (1.10%) SaaS
9 11 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (0.93%) OpenShift
10 10 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (0.68%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.51%) Firebase
13 6 (0.51%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.42%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.94%) RS-232
2 22 (1.86%) MQTT
3 19 (1.61%) RS-485
4 17 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (1.44%) Wireless
5 13 (1.10%) 3G
5 13 (1.10%) 4G
6 11 (0.93%) AMQP
7 10 (0.85%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.59%) Network Security
9 5 (0.42%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.25%) Firewall
10 3 (0.25%) SAN
11 2 (0.17%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.17%) VoIP
12 1 (0.085%) HTTP
12 1 (0.085%) Internet
12 1 (0.085%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (8.71%) GIS
3 85 (7.19%) QGIS
4 81 (6.85%) MySQL
5 60 (5.07%) NoSQL
5 60 (5.07%) SQL Server
6 31 (2.62%) DynamoDB
6 31 (2.62%) Redis
7 29 (2.45%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (1.86%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.61%) Big Data
11 16 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
12 14 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
14 8 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.51%) Power BI
16 5 (0.42%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 75 (6.34%) Git
2 27 (2.28%) JIRA
3 25 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.35%) GitLab
4 16 (1.35%) Subversion
5 15 (1.27%) Gatling
6 14 (1.18%) LabVIEW
7 12 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.85%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.76%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.51%) Maven
11 5 (0.42%) Clang
11 5 (0.42%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.42%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.42%) JUnit
11 5 (0.42%) Mockito
11 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.42%) webpack
12 4 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 120 (10.14%) Social Skills
2 83 (7.02%) Electronics
2 83 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 57 (4.82%) Manufacturing
4 49 (4.14%) Finance
5 46 (3.89%) Automotive
6 33 (2.79%) Public Sector
7 31 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (2.62%) Tech for Good
8 27 (2.28%) Legal
9 22 (1.86%) Retail
10 19 (1.61%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.61%) Mandarin Language
11 18 (1.52%) Health Technology
12 17 (1.44%) Games
13 15 (1.27%) Billing
14 13 (1.10%) Banking
15 12 (1.01%) Marketing
16 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (21.72%) .NET
2 168 (14.20%) React
3 139 (11.75%) CSS
4 129 (10.90%) .NET Core
5 93 (7.86%) PostGIS
6 89 (7.52%) Leaflet
6 89 (7.52%) OpenLayers
7 80 (6.76%) AngularJS
8 72 (6.09%) Node.js
9 60 (5.07%) RESTful
10 57 (4.82%) REST
10 57 (4.82%) Vue
11 55 (4.65%) HTML
12 51 (4.31%) ASP.NET
13 35 (2.96%) Web Services
14 34 (2.87%) Spring
15 27 (2.28%) GraphQL
15 27 (2.28%) Spring Boot
16 25 (2.11%) Lambda Expressions
17 23 (1.94%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.92%) Cyberattack
2 52 (4.40%) IoT
3 48 (4.06%) Embedded Systems
4 31 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.20%) Blog
6 25 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (2.03%) Media Streaming
8 21 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.10%) Client/Server
12 11 (0.93%) Device Driver
13 10 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.85%) SCADA
14 9 (0.76%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.76%) Robotics
15 7 (0.59%) Online Games
16 6 (0.51%) NHS
17 5 (0.42%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 151 (12.76%) Linux
2 38 (3.21%) Embedded Linux
3 34 (2.87%) Windows
4 23 (1.94%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.27%) FreeRTOS
7 14 (1.18%) Android
8 11 (0.93%) CentOS
8 11 (0.93%) Debian
9 10 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.85%) Unix
10 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.25%) VMS
11 2 (0.17%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.085%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,173 (99.15%) Software Engineering
2 368 (31.11%) Agile
3 197 (16.65%) DevOps
4 191 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
5 154 (13.02%) Mentoring
6 118 (9.97%) Computer Science
7 100 (8.45%) Full Stack Development
8 99 (8.37%) Web Development
9 96 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
10 94 (7.95%) Microservices
10 94 (7.95%) User Experience
11 83 (7.02%) Machine Learning
11 83 (7.02%) Open Source
12 82 (6.93%) TDD
13 73 (6.17%) Data Engineering
13 73 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 70 (5.92%) Creative Thinking
15 61 (5.16%) Test Automation
16 60 (5.07%) OO
17 58 (4.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 280 (23.67%) C#
2 250 (21.13%) JavaScript
3 230 (19.44%) Python
4 157 (13.27%) SQL
5 156 (13.19%) Java
6 153 (12.93%) C
7 121 (10.23%) C++
8 76 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 32 (2.70%) Embedded C
10 27 (2.28%) Scala
11 19 (1.61%) Rust
12 18 (1.52%) Go
13 16 (1.35%) PHP
14 14 (1.18%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.76%) Perl
15 9 (0.76%) SystemVerilog
16 8 (0.68%) Bash
16 8 (0.68%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.59%) XAML
18 6 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 170 (14.37%) Degree
2 117 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 108 (9.13%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 23 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.01%) PhD
8 7 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.42%) HND
10 4 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.17%) HNC
13 1 (0.085%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.085%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.18%) GDPR
2 9 (0.76%) QA
3 7 (0.59%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.34%) PMO
5 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.085%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 55 (4.65%) Docker
2 48 (4.06%) Firmware
3 14 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.04%) Terraform
3 24 (2.03%) Ansible
4 12 (1.01%) Puppet
5 11 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.25%) Podman
7 1 (0.085%) Grafana
7 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (7.78%) ESRI
2 33 (2.79%) Microsoft
3 19 (1.61%) Red Hat
4 17 (1.44%) Google
4 17 (1.44%) Oracle
5 11 (0.93%) F5
5 11 (0.93%) SaltStack
6 9 (0.76%) Cadence
6 9 (0.76%) Synopsys
7 6 (0.51%) Allen-Bradley
7 6 (0.51%) Facebook
8 4 (0.34%) SAP
9 3 (0.25%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.25%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.25%) Confluent
9 3 (0.25%) EMC
9 3 (0.25%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe
10 2 (0.17%) Siemens
11 1 (0.085%) Renesas