Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 82 34
Rank change year-on-year +57 -48 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 397 207 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.39% 4.40% 7.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.82% 4.78% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 280 127 276
10th Percentile £39,959 £40,750 £39,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,250 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.43% - +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,078 4,331 5,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 92.11% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 2,588 3,611
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,588
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Manchester

Software Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Salford +17 7 £70,000 +24.44% 1
Oldham +32 5 £52,500 - 1
Stockport +24 2 £50,000 - 6
Altrincham - 1 £47,500 -
Bury - 1 £45,000 -
Software Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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 Manchester region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 397 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 138 (34.76%) AWS
3 134 (33.75%) Agile
4 122 (30.73%) Python
5 110 (27.71%) Java
6 107 (26.95%) JavaScript
7 101 (25.44%) Azure
8 99 (24.94%) DevOps
9 98 (24.69%) C#
10 88 (22.17%) Linux
11 79 (19.90%) .NET
12 78 (19.65%) Open Source
13 76 (19.14%) Degree
14 73 (18.39%) Social Skills
15 69 (17.38%) React
15 69 (17.38%) PostgreSQL
16 62 (15.62%) C
17 60 (15.11%) Computer Science
17 60 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
18 55 (13.85%) CSS
19 52 (13.10%) Security Cleared
20 46 (11.59%) SC Cleared
20 46 (11.59%) GIS
20 46 (11.59%) Microservices
21 44 (11.08%) Continuous Integration
22 42 (10.58%) Actionable Insight
23 41 (10.33%) Node.js
23 41 (10.33%) ArcGIS
24 39 (9.82%) .NET Core
25 37 (9.32%) Mentoring

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 41 (10.33%) ArcGIS
2 28 (7.05%) GeoServer
3 19 (4.79%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.77%) Apache
5 2 (0.50%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.25%) Captiva
6 1 (0.25%) FileNet
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 138 (34.76%) AWS
2 101 (25.44%) Azure
3 29 (7.30%) GCP
4 26 (6.55%) Serverless
5 19 (4.79%) Amazon Kinesis
6 14 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.77%) GitHub
8 11 (2.77%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.01%) SaaS
12 3 (0.76%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.50%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (0.50%) Azure Pipelines
13 2 (0.50%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.77%) AMQP
2 10 (2.52%) Ethernet
3 9 (2.27%) RS-232
4 5 (1.26%) Firewall
4 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.76%) Network Security
6 2 (0.50%) MQTT
6 2 (0.50%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.25%) HTTP
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (17.38%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (11.59%) GIS
3 32 (8.06%) NoSQL
4 29 (7.30%) MySQL
5 28 (7.05%) QGIS
6 23 (5.79%) SQL Server
7 22 (5.54%) DynamoDB
8 19 (4.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (4.28%) Redis
10 16 (4.03%) Geospatial Data
10 16 (4.03%) Relational Database
11 14 (3.53%) Big Data
11 14 (3.53%) Hadoop
12 13 (3.27%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.77%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.50%) RDBMS
17 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (8.56%) Git
2 18 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.77%) Gatling
4 10 (2.52%) GitLab
5 9 (2.27%) JIRA
6 7 (1.76%) Subversion
7 6 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.26%) Clang
8 5 (1.26%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.26%) Spinnaker
8 5 (1.26%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.01%) JUnit
9 4 (1.01%) LabVIEW
9 4 (1.01%) Mockito
10 3 (0.76%) CMake
10 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.76%) GCC
10 3 (0.76%) GDB
10 3 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.50%) JDeveloper
General
1 73 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 29 (7.30%) Finance
3 19 (4.79%) Electronics
4 15 (3.78%) Automotive
5 14 (3.53%) Retail
6 12 (3.02%) Aerospace
6 12 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.77%) Billing
8 10 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.27%) Banking
9 9 (2.27%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.27%) Tech for Good
10 8 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.02%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.76%) Legal
12 5 (1.26%) Retail Finance
13 4 (1.01%) Games
13 4 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Advertising
15 2 (0.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (19.90%) .NET
2 69 (17.38%) React
3 55 (13.85%) CSS
4 41 (10.33%) Node.js
5 39 (9.82%) .NET Core
6 35 (8.82%) PostGIS
7 32 (8.06%) AngularJS
7 32 (8.06%) Leaflet
7 32 (8.06%) OpenLayers
7 32 (8.06%) REST
8 31 (7.81%) HTML
9 26 (6.55%) Web Services
10 24 (6.05%) Spring
11 23 (5.79%) RESTful
12 22 (5.54%) GraphQL
13 19 (4.79%) http4s
13 19 (4.79%) Lambda Expressions
13 19 (4.79%) Scalaz
14 17 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (4.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.79%) Blog
1 19 (4.79%) Media Streaming
2 18 (4.53%) IoT
3 17 (4.28%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 13 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.52%) Device Driver
7 10 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.26%) NHS
9 3 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.50%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.25%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.25%) DataPower
11 1 (0.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.25%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.25%) NB-IoT
11 1 (0.25%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 88 (22.17%) Linux
2 19 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (3.78%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.02%) Windows
5 11 (2.77%) CentOS
5 11 (2.77%) Debian
6 9 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (1.26%) Android
8 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.76%) Unix
9 3 (0.76%) VMS
10 2 (0.50%) FreeBSD
10 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 134 (33.75%) Agile
3 99 (24.94%) DevOps
4 78 (19.65%) Open Source
5 60 (15.11%) Computer Science
5 60 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (11.59%) Microservices
7 44 (11.08%) Continuous Integration
8 42 (10.58%) Actionable Insight
9 37 (9.32%) Mentoring
10 35 (8.82%) Web Development
11 32 (8.06%) Full Stack Development
12 31 (7.81%) TDD
13 29 (7.30%) Unit Testing
14 28 (7.05%) CI/CD
15 27 (6.80%) Coaching
16 26 (6.55%) Code Quality
17 25 (6.30%) Collaborative Working
18 24 (6.05%) Functional Programming
18 24 (6.05%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 122 (30.73%) Python
2 110 (27.71%) Java
3 107 (26.95%) JavaScript
4 98 (24.69%) C#
5 62 (15.62%) C
6 34 (8.56%) SQL
6 34 (8.56%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.55%) C++
8 22 (5.54%) Scala
9 19 (4.79%) Go
10 17 (4.28%) Rust
11 11 (2.77%) Embedded C
12 8 (2.02%) Bash
13 6 (1.51%) PHP
14 5 (1.26%) Fortran
14 5 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.01%) Perl
15 4 (1.01%) SystemVerilog
15 4 (1.01%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (19.14%) Degree
2 52 (13.10%) Security Cleared
3 46 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.26%) PhD
8 4 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.01%) PMO
2 2 (0.50%) QA
3 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (5.04%) Firmware
2 13 (3.27%) Docker
3 10 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.79%) Ansible
3 22 (5.54%) Terraform
4 11 (2.77%) Puppet
5 8 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.76%) Podman
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (8.82%) ESRI
2 19 (4.79%) Red Hat
3 17 (4.28%) Oracle
4 12 (3.02%) Google
5 11 (2.77%) SaltStack
6 8 (2.02%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.76%) F5
8 5 (1.26%) Confluent
9 4 (1.01%) Cadence
9 4 (1.01%) Synopsys
10 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.76%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.76%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.25%) EMC
11 1 (0.25%) IBM
11 1 (0.25%) Kofax
11 1 (0.25%) Pega
11 1 (0.25%) Renesas
11 1 (0.25%) SAP
11 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow