Software Developer Jobs in the North of England

Software Developer
England > North of England

The median Software Developer salary in the North of England is £50,000 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 111 224 78
Rank change year-on-year +113 -146 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 419 219 716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.22% 1.36% 3.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 1.52% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 357 161 305
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +8.43%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £63,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

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 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,627 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
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 Developer within the North of England 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
North West +93 226 £50,000 -9.09% 44
Yorkshire +93 147 £49,500 -12.00% 24
North East +11 46 £47,500 -11.63% 15
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 250 (59.67%) C#
2 221 (52.74%) .NET
3 121 (28.88%) SQL
4 103 (24.58%) Agile
5 101 (24.11%) Azure
6 94 (22.43%) JavaScript
7 93 (22.20%) Full Stack Development
8 79 (18.85%) Software Engineering
9 73 (17.42%) .NET Core
10 67 (15.99%) DevOps
11 62 (14.80%) Java
12 60 (14.32%) AngularJS
13 59 (14.08%) Social Skills
14 54 (12.89%) .NET Framework
15 53 (12.65%) SQL Server
15 53 (12.65%) RESTful
16 50 (11.93%) ASP.NET
17 49 (11.69%) CSS
18 48 (11.46%) React
18 48 (11.46%) Docker
19 47 (11.22%) Degree
20 45 (10.74%) AWS
20 45 (10.74%) HTML
20 45 (10.74%) Mentoring
21 44 (10.50%) TDD
22 43 (10.26%) MySQL
22 43 (10.26%) Kubernetes
22 43 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
23 42 (10.02%) Microservices
24 39 (9.31%) CI/CD

Software Developer 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 6 (1.43%) Confluence
2 5 (1.19%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.95%) IIS
3 4 (0.95%) Mendix
3 4 (0.95%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.72%) CMS
4 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.67%) BPCS
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (24.11%) Azure
2 45 (10.74%) AWS
3 33 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (5.97%) GitHub
5 19 (4.53%) Serverless
6 9 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (2.15%) SaaS
7 7 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.19%) NuGet
9 4 (0.95%) BigCommerce
9 4 (0.95%) OCI
10 3 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.72%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 3 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (0.72%) Azure Functions
10 3 (0.72%) Contentful
10 3 (0.72%) PaaS
10 3 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.19%) Wireless
2 4 (0.95%) Internet
3 2 (0.48%) HTTP
3 2 (0.48%) RS-232
3 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (12.65%) SQL Server
2 43 (10.26%) MySQL
3 27 (6.44%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.73%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.39%) Redis
6 8 (1.91%) GIS
7 6 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (1.19%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.72%) Couchbase
9 3 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (6.92%) Git
2 16 (3.82%) Visual Studio
3 14 (3.34%) JIRA
4 11 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 10 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.15%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.15%) PHPUnit
7 7 (1.67%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.19%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.19%) JetBrains Rider
8 5 (1.19%) Maven
8 5 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.95%) Gradle
9 4 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.48%) GDB
10 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.24%) GitLab
11 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 59 (14.08%) Social Skills
2 26 (6.21%) Public Sector
3 24 (5.73%) Finance
4 23 (5.49%) Manufacturing
5 13 (3.10%) Law
6 11 (2.63%) Marketing
7 10 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.91%) Games
8 8 (1.91%) Retail
9 7 (1.67%) Legal
10 5 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Banking
11 4 (0.95%) Electronics
11 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.48%) Automotive
14 1 (0.24%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (52.74%) .NET
2 73 (17.42%) .NET Core
3 60 (14.32%) AngularJS
4 54 (12.89%) .NET Framework
5 53 (12.65%) RESTful
6 50 (11.93%) ASP.NET
7 49 (11.69%) CSS
8 48 (11.46%) React
9 45 (10.74%) HTML
10 36 (8.59%) Node.js
11 35 (8.35%) REST
11 35 (8.35%) Vue
12 30 (7.16%) Entity Framework
13 20 (4.77%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (4.77%) Laravel
14 17 (4.06%) WPF
15 15 (3.58%) ASP.NET MVC
16 13 (3.10%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (3.10%) JSON
17 12 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 11 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.39%) Podcast
4 9 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.15%) NHS
5 7 (1.67%) iSeries
5 7 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 6 (1.43%) Life Science
7 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.72%) Blog
9 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.72%) Tandem
10 2 (0.48%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.48%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.16%) Linux
2 19 (4.53%) Windows
3 13 (3.10%) Unix
4 2 (0.48%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (24.58%) Agile
2 93 (22.20%) Full Stack Development
3 79 (18.85%) Software Engineering
4 67 (15.99%) DevOps
5 45 (10.74%) Mentoring
6 44 (10.50%) TDD
7 43 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (10.02%) Microservices
9 39 (9.31%) CI/CD
10 38 (9.07%) Design Patterns
11 36 (8.59%) MVC
12 31 (7.40%) Unit Testing
13 30 (7.16%) SDLC
14 26 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (5.73%) Clean Code
16 22 (5.25%) OO
16 22 (5.25%) Test Automation
17 21 (5.01%) Computer Science
17 21 (5.01%) Front End Development
17 21 (5.01%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 250 (59.67%) C#
2 121 (28.88%) SQL
3 94 (22.43%) JavaScript
4 62 (14.80%) Java
5 36 (8.59%) Python
6 19 (4.53%) C++
7 17 (4.06%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.58%) PHP
8 15 (3.58%) VB.NET
9 14 (3.34%) Ruby
10 10 (2.39%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.91%) Go
11 8 (1.91%) Perl
12 7 (1.67%) RPG
12 7 (1.67%) RPG IV
12 7 (1.67%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.19%) C
13 5 (1.19%) COBOL
13 5 (1.19%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 4 (0.95%) XAML
Qualifications
1 47 (11.22%) Degree
2 11 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.95%) CIPD
6 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.72%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.15%) QA
2 7 (1.67%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 48 (11.46%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (0.24%) Ansible
3 1 (0.24%) Kiali
3 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.06%) Oracle
3 12 (2.86%) Facebook
4 9 (2.15%) IBM
5 8 (1.91%) Google
6 5 (1.19%) ESRI
6 5 (1.19%) Micro Focus
7 3 (0.72%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.48%) Northgate
8 2 (0.48%) Peregrine
8 2 (0.48%) Quadient
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.48%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.48%) Twitter
8 2 (0.48%) YouTube