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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 86 32
Rank change year-on-year +63 -54 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 460 185 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.83% 4.09% 7.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.24% 4.46% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 291 114 272
10th Percentile £39,586 £42,500 £39,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% +5.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +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 5,581 4,152 5,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 91.88% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,140 2,577 3,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,588
25th Percentile £40,750 £43,750 £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 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 9 June 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 9 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
Salford +13 10 £70,000 +21.74% 1
Oldham - 9 £52,500 - 2
Stockport +23 6 £50,000 - 4
Sale 0 4 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 4 - -
Dukinfield - 3 - -
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 9 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 Manchester region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 460 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 172 (37.39%) Agile
3 153 (33.26%) AWS
4 124 (26.96%) Python
5 112 (24.35%) Java
6 109 (23.70%) JavaScript
7 106 (23.04%) Azure
8 104 (22.61%) DevOps
8 104 (22.61%) C#
9 88 (19.13%) Linux
9 88 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (18.91%) Open Source
11 82 (17.83%) .NET
11 82 (17.83%) Degree
12 80 (17.39%) Social Skills
13 77 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
14 76 (16.52%) Mentoring
15 72 (15.65%) React
16 66 (14.35%) Computer Science
17 65 (14.13%) C
18 58 (12.61%) CSS
19 52 (11.30%) Microservices
20 51 (11.09%) Continuous Integration
20 51 (11.09%) Security Cleared
21 45 (9.78%) SC Cleared
21 45 (9.78%) GIS
22 43 (9.35%) Node.js
23 42 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 41 (8.91%) TypeScript
25 40 (8.70%) Machine Learning

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 40 (8.70%) ArcGIS
2 27 (5.87%) GeoServer
3 19 (4.13%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.83%) Apache
5 3 (0.65%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 153 (33.26%) AWS
2 106 (23.04%) Azure
3 29 (6.30%) GCP
4 27 (5.87%) Amazon Kinesis
5 26 (5.65%) Serverless
6 16 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (2.39%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.17%) GitHub
11 7 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.87%) Amazon S3
15 3 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (0.65%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (0.65%) CloudFront
15 3 (0.65%) SaaS
15 3 (0.65%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.39%) AMQP
2 10 (2.17%) Ethernet
3 9 (1.96%) RS-232
4 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.65%) Firewall
5 3 (0.65%) Network Security
6 2 (0.43%) MQTT
6 2 (0.43%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.22%) HTTP
7 1 (0.22%) LTE
7 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (9.78%) GIS
3 39 (8.48%) NoSQL
4 32 (6.96%) DynamoDB
5 31 (6.74%) MySQL
6 27 (5.87%) QGIS
7 25 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 24 (5.22%) SQL Server
9 23 (5.00%) Redis
10 16 (3.48%) Big Data
10 16 (3.48%) Geospatial Data
11 14 (3.04%) Hadoop
11 14 (3.04%) Relational Database
12 13 (2.83%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.39%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
17 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
17 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (6.96%) Git
2 16 (3.48%) Gatling
2 16 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.61%) GitLab
4 8 (1.74%) JIRA
5 7 (1.52%) Subversion
6 6 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.09%) Clang
7 5 (1.09%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.87%) JUnit
8 4 (0.87%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.87%) Mockito
9 3 (0.65%) CMake
9 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.65%) GCC
9 3 (0.65%) GDB
9 3 (0.65%) Postman
9 3 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.65%) Spinnaker
General
1 80 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (5.65%) Finance
4 25 (5.43%) Electronics
5 16 (3.48%) Automotive
5 16 (3.48%) Billing
6 15 (3.26%) Retail
7 12 (2.61%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.96%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.96%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.52%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.09%) Banking
11 5 (1.09%) Games
11 5 (1.09%) Legal
11 5 (1.09%) Retail Finance
12 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Advertising
14 2 (0.43%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (17.83%) .NET
2 72 (15.65%) React
3 58 (12.61%) CSS
4 43 (9.35%) Node.js
5 40 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 39 (8.48%) REST
7 34 (7.39%) AngularJS
7 34 (7.39%) HTML
7 34 (7.39%) PostGIS
8 33 (7.17%) Web Services
9 31 (6.74%) Leaflet
9 31 (6.74%) OpenLayers
10 30 (6.52%) GraphQL
11 26 (5.65%) Lambda Expressions
12 25 (5.43%) http4s
12 25 (5.43%) Scalaz
13 24 (5.22%) Spring
14 22 (4.78%) RESTful
15 19 (4.13%) Vue
16 18 (3.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.39%) Cyberattack
2 27 (5.87%) Blog
2 27 (5.87%) Media Streaming
3 18 (3.91%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (3.91%) IoT
4 16 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.17%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.09%) NHS
9 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.22%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.22%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.22%) NB-IoT
10 1 (0.22%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.22%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 88 (19.13%) Linux
2 19 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (3.04%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.61%) Windows
5 11 (2.39%) CentOS
5 11 (2.39%) Debian
6 9 (1.96%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (1.30%) Android
8 5 (1.09%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.65%) VMS
10 2 (0.43%) FreeBSD
10 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.43%) Unix
11 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 172 (37.39%) Agile
3 104 (22.61%) DevOps
4 88 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (18.91%) Open Source
6 76 (16.52%) Mentoring
7 66 (14.35%) Computer Science
8 52 (11.30%) Microservices
9 51 (11.09%) Continuous Integration
10 40 (8.70%) Machine Learning
10 40 (8.70%) User Experience
11 38 (8.26%) Actionable Insight
11 38 (8.26%) Unit Testing
12 37 (8.04%) Data Engineering
12 37 (8.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 35 (7.61%) Full Stack Development
13 35 (7.61%) TDD
14 34 (7.39%) Creative Thinking
14 34 (7.39%) Web Development
15 33 (7.17%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 124 (26.96%) Python
2 112 (24.35%) Java
3 109 (23.70%) JavaScript
4 104 (22.61%) C#
5 65 (14.13%) C
6 41 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 34 (7.39%) SQL
8 30 (6.52%) Scala
9 29 (6.30%) C++
10 19 (4.13%) Rust
11 18 (3.91%) Go
12 12 (2.61%) Embedded C
13 6 (1.30%) Bash
13 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.30%) PHP
14 5 (1.09%) Fortran
15 4 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
15 4 (0.87%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.43%) Perl
16 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 82 (17.83%) Degree
2 51 (11.09%) Security Cleared
3 45 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.09%) PhD
8 4 (0.87%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.87%) PMO
2 1 (0.22%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 21 (4.57%) Firmware
2 15 (3.26%) Docker
3 11 (2.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.43%) Terraform
3 24 (5.22%) Ansible
4 12 (2.61%) Puppet
5 9 (1.96%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.65%) Podman
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (7.39%) ESRI
2 19 (4.13%) Red Hat
3 14 (3.04%) Google
3 14 (3.04%) Oracle
4 11 (2.39%) SaltStack
5 9 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.52%) F5
7 4 (0.87%) Cadence
7 4 (0.87%) Synopsys
8 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.65%) Autodesk
8 3 (0.65%) Confluent
8 3 (0.65%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.43%) Databricks
10 1 (0.22%) EMC
10 1 (0.22%) Renesas