Software Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Software Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 27 12
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,782 1,353 2,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.42% 8.42% 12.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.60% 8.70% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,304 768 1,307
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,243 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,358 15,551 17,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.16% 96.76% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,581 7,807 10,650
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,600 £81,250 £80,000
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 of England

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North of England

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +16 1,079 £60,000 -6.25% 222
Yorkshire +12 559 £55,000 -10.57% 80
North East +17 144 £55,000 +10.98% 32
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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
1 100 (5.61%) ArcGIS
2 85 (4.77%) GeoServer
3 20 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.79%) Apache
5 7 (0.39%) CMS
5 7 (0.39%) IIS
5 7 (0.39%) NServiceBus
6 6 (0.34%) Confluence
6 6 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.28%) WordPress
8 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.11%) Captiva
9 2 (0.11%) FileNet
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.056%) Drupal
10 1 (0.056%) Jetty
10 1 (0.056%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.22%) AutoCAD
1 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.11%) Simulink
2 2 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.51%) Magento
3 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.17%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 407 (22.84%) AWS
2 380 (21.32%) Azure
3 73 (4.10%) GCP
4 65 (3.65%) GitHub
4 65 (3.65%) Serverless
5 64 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (3.54%) SaaS
7 51 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
8 49 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.57%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (1.29%) Power Platform
13 21 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (0.62%) OpenShift
18 11 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.40%) MQTT
2 23 (1.29%) RS-232
3 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) RS-485
4 18 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (0.95%) Wireless
6 13 (0.73%) 3G
6 13 (0.73%) 4G
7 11 (0.62%) AMQP
7 11 (0.62%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.45%) Network Security
9 6 (0.34%) HTTP
10 5 (0.28%) Firewall
10 5 (0.28%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.22%) Internet
12 3 (0.17%) Bluetooth
13 2 (0.11%) DSL
13 2 (0.11%) SAN
13 2 (0.11%) VoIP
14 1 (0.056%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (7.30%) MySQL
3 105 (5.89%) GIS
4 85 (4.77%) QGIS
5 75 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 74 (4.15%) NoSQL
7 49 (2.75%) Relational Database
8 46 (2.58%) DynamoDB
9 41 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (2.08%) MongoDB
11 34 (1.91%) Redis
12 29 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
13 26 (1.46%) Big Data
14 22 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.01%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
17 15 (0.84%) Hadoop
18 11 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
18 11 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 139 (7.80%) Git
2 39 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.08%) JIRA
4 30 (1.68%) GitLab
5 22 (1.23%) LabVIEW
5 22 (1.23%) Postman
6 18 (1.01%) CircleCI
7 17 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 16 (0.90%) Subversion
9 14 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.73%) Gatling
10 13 (0.73%) JUnit
11 12 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.62%) Maven
13 9 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.45%) webpack
15 5 (0.28%) Clang
15 5 (0.28%) Mockito
General
1 205 (11.50%) Social Skills
2 123 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 98 (5.50%) Finance
4 91 (5.11%) Electronics
5 82 (4.60%) Manufacturing
6 60 (3.37%) Automotive
7 56 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (2.69%) Public Sector
8 48 (2.69%) Retail
9 36 (2.02%) Tech for Good
10 32 (1.80%) Banking
11 28 (1.57%) Legal
12 26 (1.46%) Marketing
13 25 (1.40%) Games
13 25 (1.40%) Health Technology
14 21 (1.18%) Law
15 20 (1.12%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
18 13 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,104 (61.95%) Software Engineer
2 484 (27.16%) Senior
3 353 (19.81%) Senior Software Engineer
4 290 (16.27%) Developer
5 211 (11.84%) Embedded Engineer
5 211 (11.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 207 (11.62%) Lead
7 88 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
8 82 (4.60%) Architect
9 79 (4.43%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 79 (4.43%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 79 (4.43%) Software Developer
10 62 (3.48%) Technical Leader
11 61 (3.42%) Java Engineer
12 58 (3.25%) Senior Developer
13 51 (2.86%) .NET Software Engineer
13 51 (2.86%) C++ Software Engineer
13 51 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
14 46 (2.58%) Software Manager
15 45 (2.53%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (22.39%) .NET
2 252 (14.14%) React
3 185 (10.38%) .NET Core
4 182 (10.21%) CSS
5 131 (7.35%) Node.js
6 112 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 99 (5.56%) HTML
8 97 (5.44%) RESTful
9 94 (5.27%) PostGIS
10 89 (4.99%) Leaflet
10 89 (4.99%) OpenLayers
11 82 (4.60%) REST
12 78 (4.38%) ASP.NET
13 75 (4.21%) Spring
13 75 (4.21%) Vue
14 55 (3.09%) Spring Boot
15 49 (2.75%) Web Services
16 36 (2.02%) .NET Framework
16 36 (2.02%) GraphQL
17 35 (1.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 110 (6.17%) Cyberattack
2 60 (3.37%) IoT
3 58 (3.25%) Cloud Native
4 57 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (2.69%) Embedded Systems
6 44 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 26 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 26 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.40%) Blog
10 25 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.23%) Media Streaming
12 18 (1.01%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.01%) Private Cloud
13 12 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.62%) Device Driver
14 11 (0.62%) NHS
15 10 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 188 (10.55%) Linux
2 59 (3.31%) Windows
3 39 (2.19%) Embedded Linux
4 26 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 20 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.95%) Android
7 14 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
8 11 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.62%) CentOS
8 11 (0.62%) Debian
9 8 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.45%) Unix
10 5 (0.28%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.11%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.056%) HPUX
13 1 (0.056%) Solaris
13 1 (0.056%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (36.70%) Agile
2 360 (20.20%) DevOps
3 311 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
4 286 (16.05%) Mentoring
5 199 (11.17%) Computer Science
6 176 (9.88%) CI/CD
7 170 (9.54%) Full Stack Development
8 156 (8.75%) User Experience
9 153 (8.59%) Microservices
10 139 (7.80%) TDD
11 132 (7.41%) Machine Learning
12 131 (7.35%) Open Source
13 124 (6.96%) Data Engineering
14 119 (6.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 116 (6.51%) Web Development
16 111 (6.23%) Coaching
17 107 (6.00%) Creative Thinking
18 101 (5.67%) Test Automation
19 96 (5.39%) Actionable Insight
20 89 (4.99%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 416 (23.34%) C#
2 358 (20.09%) JavaScript
3 317 (17.79%) Python
4 271 (15.21%) SQL
5 255 (14.31%) Java
6 184 (10.33%) C
7 154 (8.64%) C++
8 136 (7.63%) TypeScript
9 62 (3.48%) PHP
10 33 (1.85%) Embedded C
11 32 (1.80%) Go
12 25 (1.40%) COBOL
12 25 (1.40%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 25 (1.40%) Scala
13 24 (1.35%) Rust
14 20 (1.12%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.62%) XAML
16 9 (0.51%) SystemVerilog
17 8 (0.45%) Bash
18 6 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 270 (15.15%) Degree
2 172 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 153 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 93 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 17 (0.95%) PhD
8 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.34%) HND
10 4 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.22%) HNC
11 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.17%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.11%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.11%) OCP
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.056%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.056%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.12%) QA
2 18 (1.01%) Accessibility
2 18 (1.01%) GDPR
3 7 (0.39%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.22%) PMO
5 3 (0.17%) SLA
6 2 (0.11%) GRC
7 1 (0.056%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.056%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 101 (5.67%) Docker
2 53 (2.97%) Firmware
3 15 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.67%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.39%) IAG
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (6.51%) Terraform
2 115 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.63%) Ansible
4 12 (0.67%) Puppet
5 11 (0.62%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.39%) Grafana
7 6 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.17%) Podman
9 1 (0.056%) Istio
9 1 (0.056%) Kiali
9 1 (0.056%) Kibana
9 1 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (5.27%) ESRI
2 84 (4.71%) Microsoft
3 28 (1.57%) Google
4 25 (1.40%) Micro Focus
5 23 (1.29%) Oracle
6 21 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.01%) F5
8 11 (0.62%) SaltStack
9 10 (0.56%) Cadence
10 9 (0.51%) Synopsys
11 8 (0.45%) EMC
12 7 (0.39%) SAP
13 6 (0.34%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.34%) Autodesk
13 6 (0.34%) Splunk
14 4 (0.22%) Allen-Bradley
14 4 (0.22%) Confluent
14 4 (0.22%) IBM
14 4 (0.22%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.17%) MuleSoft