Software Engineer Jobs in the North West

Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Software Engineer salary in the North West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 89 44
Rank change year-on-year +57 -45 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 563 305 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.72% 3.88% 6.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 4.34% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 406 171 304
10th Percentile £38,084 £38,750 £39,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,309 7,023 9,056
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 89.39% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,154 4,096 5,408
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
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 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,345 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the North West

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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 +46 382 £59,250 +3.04% 68
Cheshire +38 95 £60,000 -17.24% 16
Lancashire +19 43 £40,000 -36.00% 12
Merseyside +14 42 £26,500 -52.89% 3
Cumbria -7 1 £45,000 - 2
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 North West region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 555 (98.58%) Software Engineering
2 189 (33.57%) Agile
3 174 (30.91%) AWS
4 167 (29.66%) Python
5 155 (27.53%) JavaScript
5 155 (27.53%) Azure
6 143 (25.40%) C#
7 138 (24.51%) Java
8 134 (23.80%) .NET
9 133 (23.62%) DevOps
10 120 (21.31%) Linux
11 105 (18.65%) React
12 102 (18.12%) Degree
13 84 (14.92%) Security Cleared
13 84 (14.92%) PostgreSQL
14 81 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
15 80 (14.21%) CSS
16 77 (13.68%) C
17 76 (13.50%) Actionable Insight
18 75 (13.32%) GIS
18 75 (13.32%) SC Cleared
19 71 (12.61%) .NET Core
20 70 (12.43%) ArcGIS
21 67 (11.90%) Open Source
21 67 (11.90%) Computer Science
22 65 (11.55%) Social Skills
23 64 (11.37%) PostGIS
23 64 (11.37%) Web Development
23 64 (11.37%) ESRI
24 61 (10.83%) Leaflet

Software Engineer Skill Set
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 70 (12.43%) ArcGIS
2 57 (10.12%) GeoServer
3 21 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.95%) Apache
5 4 (0.71%) Captiva
5 4 (0.71%) FileNet
5 4 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.36%) CMS
6 2 (0.36%) JBoss
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.36%) Sketch
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 174 (30.91%) AWS
2 155 (27.53%) Azure
3 38 (6.75%) Serverless
4 36 (6.39%) GCP
5 21 (3.73%) GitHub
6 15 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (2.66%) OpenShift
7 13 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.42%) SaaS
11 7 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (0.53%) Amazon S3
15 2 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 2 (0.36%) CloudFront
15 2 (0.36%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.66%) RS-232
2 11 (1.95%) AMQP
3 10 (1.78%) Ethernet
4 8 (1.42%) MQTT
5 7 (1.24%) Firewall
6 6 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.89%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.53%) Network Security
9 3 (0.53%) Wireless
10 2 (0.36%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.36%) RS-485
11 1 (0.18%) HTTP
11 1 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (14.92%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (13.32%) GIS
3 57 (10.12%) QGIS
4 37 (6.57%) MySQL
5 34 (6.04%) SQL Server
6 25 (4.44%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.20%) Big Data
9 17 (3.02%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.84%) Geospatial Data
11 14 (2.49%) Hadoop
12 11 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
13 9 (1.60%) Redis
14 8 (1.42%) DynamoDB
15 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.07%) Oracle Database
15 6 (1.07%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (0.89%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 59 (10.48%) Git
2 24 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.09%) JIRA
4 13 (2.31%) Subversion
5 11 (1.95%) GitLab
6 7 (1.24%) IntelliJ
6 7 (1.24%) Spinnaker
7 6 (1.07%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.07%) JDeveloper
7 6 (1.07%) Maven
7 6 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.89%) Clang
8 5 (0.89%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.89%) JUnit
8 5 (0.89%) Mockito
8 5 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.71%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 65 (11.55%) Social Skills
2 38 (6.75%) Finance
3 33 (5.86%) Electronics
4 17 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.66%) Automotive
5 15 (2.66%) Banking
5 15 (2.66%) Manufacturing
5 15 (2.66%) Retail
6 14 (2.49%) Tech for Good
7 12 (2.13%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.78%) Legal
8 10 (1.78%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.60%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.89%) Retail Finance
11 4 (0.71%) Games
11 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Advertising
12 3 (0.53%) Billing
12 3 (0.53%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (23.80%) .NET
2 105 (18.65%) React
3 80 (14.21%) CSS
4 71 (12.61%) .NET Core
5 64 (11.37%) PostGIS
6 61 (10.83%) Leaflet
6 61 (10.83%) OpenLayers
7 54 (9.59%) Node.js
8 34 (6.04%) Spring
9 32 (5.68%) AngularJS
10 31 (5.51%) HTML
11 25 (4.44%) REST
11 25 (4.44%) Spring Boot
12 24 (4.26%) RESTful
13 18 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.02%) Kafka
14 17 (3.02%) Web Services
15 15 (2.66%) Vue
16 14 (2.49%) ASP.NET
17 13 (2.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.46%) IoT
2 21 (3.73%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.78%) Device Driver
6 7 (1.24%) Blog
6 7 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.89%) Life Science
8 5 (0.89%) Media Streaming
8 5 (0.89%) NHS
8 5 (0.89%) Smart Energy
9 4 (0.71%) DataPower
9 4 (0.71%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.71%) SCADA
9 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.53%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.53%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (21.31%) Linux
2 29 (5.15%) Windows
3 19 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (3.37%) Ubuntu
4 15 (2.66%) Embedded Linux
5 14 (2.49%) Unix
6 11 (1.95%) CentOS
6 11 (1.95%) Debian
7 5 (0.89%) Android
7 5 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.53%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) FreeBSD
9 2 (0.36%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (98.58%) Software Engineering
2 189 (33.57%) Agile
3 133 (23.62%) DevOps
4 81 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (13.50%) Actionable Insight
6 67 (11.90%) Computer Science
6 67 (11.90%) Open Source
7 64 (11.37%) Web Development
8 56 (9.95%) Full Stack Development
9 47 (8.35%) Microservices
10 44 (7.82%) Mentoring
11 40 (7.10%) CI/CD
11 40 (7.10%) TDD
12 37 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (6.04%) Code Quality
14 28 (4.97%) OO
15 26 (4.62%) Collaborative Working
15 26 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (4.62%) Embedded Software Development
16 25 (4.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 167 (29.66%) Python
2 155 (27.53%) JavaScript
3 143 (25.40%) C#
4 138 (24.51%) Java
5 77 (13.68%) C
6 60 (10.66%) SQL
7 47 (8.35%) C++
8 33 (5.86%) TypeScript
9 22 (3.91%) Go
10 19 (3.37%) Embedded C
11 17 (3.02%) Rust
12 14 (2.49%) Perl
13 13 (2.31%) Bash
14 12 (2.13%) Ruby
15 11 (1.95%) PHP
16 8 (1.42%) PowerShell
16 8 (1.42%) Scala
17 6 (1.07%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.89%) Fortran
18 5 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (18.12%) Degree
2 84 (14.92%) Security Cleared
3 75 (13.32%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.89%) HND
7 5 (0.89%) PhD
8 4 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.36%) HNC
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.24%) ISO 9000
2 6 (1.07%) QA
3 5 (0.89%) GDPR
4 4 (0.71%) PMO
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 28 (4.97%) Docker
2 20 (3.55%) Firmware
3 10 (1.78%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.80%) Terraform
3 24 (4.26%) Ansible
4 11 (1.95%) Puppet
5 10 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.53%) Podman
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (11.37%) ESRI
2 24 (4.26%) Oracle
3 19 (3.37%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.37%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.66%) Google
5 11 (1.95%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.24%) Confluent
6 7 (1.24%) F5
7 6 (1.07%) Facebook
8 5 (0.89%) SAP
9 4 (0.71%) Cadence
9 4 (0.71%) IBM
9 4 (0.71%) Kofax
9 4 (0.71%) Pega
9 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.71%) Synopsys
10 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.53%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.53%) EMC
10 3 (0.53%) Xamarin