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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 26 15
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,588 1,491 2,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.98% 8.85% 12.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% 9.14% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,254 841 1,298
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +13.64% +0.64%
75th Percentile £71,991 £78,750 £72,175
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,647 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.97% +3.78% +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 14,688 16,312 17,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.05% 96.83% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,269 7,885 10,594
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
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 £80,000 £81,500 £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 18 May 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 18 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
North West +14 945 £60,000 -4.38% 196
Yorkshire +10 516 £55,000 -12.00% 101
North East +9 127 £55,000 +15.79% 29
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 (6.30%) ArcGIS
2 85 (5.35%) GeoServer
3 23 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.88%) Apache
5 9 (0.57%) Captiva
5 9 (0.57%) FileNet
5 9 (0.57%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.44%) CMS
6 7 (0.44%) IIS
6 7 (0.44%) NServiceBus
7 6 (0.38%) Confluence
7 6 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.31%) WordPress
9 3 (0.19%) JBoss
9 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.063%) Jetty
11 1 (0.063%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.13%) Sketch
3 1 (0.063%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.57%) Magento
3 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.19%) Shopify
4 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 394 (24.81%) AWS
2 373 (23.49%) Azure
3 76 (4.79%) GCP
4 74 (4.66%) Serverless
5 68 (4.28%) GitHub
6 60 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.72%) SaaS
8 49 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (1.70%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (1.39%) Power Platform
13 20 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (0.94%) OpenShift
17 14 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
18 12 (0.76%) PaaS
19 11 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.45%) MQTT
2 22 (1.39%) RS-232
3 21 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.01%) RS-485
6 15 (0.94%) Wireless
7 12 (0.76%) 3G
7 12 (0.76%) 4G
8 11 (0.69%) AMQP
8 11 (0.69%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.50%) Firewall
9 8 (0.50%) Network Security
10 6 (0.38%) HTTP
11 5 (0.31%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.25%) Internet
13 3 (0.19%) Bluetooth
14 2 (0.13%) DSL
14 2 (0.13%) VoIP
15 1 (0.063%) LTE
15 1 (0.063%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (7.93%) MySQL
3 105 (6.61%) GIS
4 85 (5.35%) QGIS
5 80 (5.04%) SQL Server
6 58 (3.65%) Relational Database
7 55 (3.46%) NoSQL
8 40 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (2.27%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.95%) DynamoDB
11 29 (1.83%) RDBMS
12 27 (1.70%) Redis
13 26 (1.64%) Big Data
14 19 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
17 15 (0.94%) Hadoop
18 14 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
19 11 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
19 11 (0.69%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 143 (9.01%) Git
2 47 (2.96%) JIRA
3 46 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.76%) GitLab
5 23 (1.45%) LabVIEW
6 22 (1.39%) Postman
7 18 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.13%) Visual Studio
8 16 (1.01%) Subversion
9 14 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.82%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (0.76%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.69%) Maven
13 10 (0.63%) JUnit
14 9 (0.57%) JDeveloper
14 9 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.50%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 189 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 101 (6.36%) Finance
3 78 (4.91%) Electronics
4 71 (4.47%) Manufacturing
5 57 (3.59%) Automotive
6 52 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (3.02%) Retail
8 47 (2.96%) Public Sector
9 41 (2.58%) Banking
10 35 (2.20%) Tech for Good
11 27 (1.70%) Legal
11 27 (1.70%) Marketing
12 25 (1.57%) Health Technology
13 23 (1.45%) Games
13 23 (1.45%) Law
14 18 (1.13%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.07%) Mandarin Language
16 15 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,001 (63.04%) Software Engineer
2 466 (29.35%) Senior
3 337 (21.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 276 (17.38%) Developer
5 191 (12.03%) Embedded Engineer
5 191 (12.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 159 (10.01%) Lead
7 77 (4.85%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 77 (4.85%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 72 (4.53%) Software Developer
9 62 (3.90%) Java Engineer
10 58 (3.65%) Technical Leader
11 52 (3.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 52 (3.27%) Senior Developer
12 47 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
12 47 (2.96%) Software Manager
13 45 (2.83%) Architect
14 44 (2.77%) C++ Software Engineer
15 42 (2.64%) .NET Developer
15 42 (2.64%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (23.74%) .NET
2 260 (16.37%) React
3 177 (11.15%) CSS
4 176 (11.08%) .NET Core
5 137 (8.63%) Node.js
6 110 (6.93%) AngularJS
7 95 (5.98%) RESTful
8 94 (5.92%) HTML
8 94 (5.92%) PostGIS
9 89 (5.60%) Leaflet
9 89 (5.60%) OpenLayers
10 78 (4.91%) Vue
11 75 (4.72%) Spring
12 71 (4.47%) ASP.NET
13 69 (4.35%) REST
14 55 (3.46%) Spring Boot
15 43 (2.71%) Web Services
16 38 (2.39%) JSON
17 36 (2.27%) .NET Framework
18 29 (1.83%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 60 (3.78%) IoT
2 57 (3.59%) Cloud Native
3 56 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
4 45 (2.83%) Embedded Systems
5 36 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.76%) Product Ownership
8 26 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 26 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.45%) Private Cloud
9 23 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.13%) Client/Server
10 18 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 13 (0.82%) Blog
12 12 (0.76%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.69%) Device Driver
14 10 (0.63%) Media Streaming
14 10 (0.63%) NHS
14 10 (0.63%) Online Games
14 10 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 184 (11.59%) Linux
2 60 (3.78%) Windows
3 33 (2.08%) Embedded Linux
4 23 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 20 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.94%) Unix
7 13 (0.82%) Android
7 13 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
8 11 (0.69%) CentOS
8 11 (0.69%) Debian
9 10 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.31%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.19%) VMS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.13%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.063%) HPUX
14 1 (0.063%) Solaris
14 1 (0.063%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (34.26%) Agile
2 354 (22.29%) DevOps
3 214 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
4 192 (12.09%) Computer Science
5 170 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 165 (10.39%) Mentoring
7 160 (10.08%) Full Stack Development
8 148 (9.32%) Microservices
9 135 (8.50%) TDD
10 124 (7.81%) Open Source
11 119 (7.49%) Web Development
12 113 (7.12%) Coaching
13 108 (6.80%) Actionable Insight
14 98 (6.17%) Test Automation
15 87 (5.48%) Design Patterns
15 87 (5.48%) Scrum
16 84 (5.29%) Continuous Integration
17 83 (5.23%) Roadmaps
18 79 (4.97%) SDLC
19 74 (4.66%) OO
Programming Languages
1 395 (24.87%) C#
2 362 (22.80%) JavaScript
3 318 (20.03%) Python
4 265 (16.69%) Java
5 260 (16.37%) SQL
6 175 (11.02%) C
7 146 (9.19%) C++
8 128 (8.06%) TypeScript
9 63 (3.97%) PHP
10 40 (2.52%) Go
11 32 (2.02%) Embedded C
12 25 (1.57%) COBOL
12 25 (1.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 22 (1.39%) Rust
14 19 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 17 (1.07%) Bash
16 13 (0.82%) Perl
16 13 (0.82%) Scala
17 11 (0.69%) Ruby
17 11 (0.69%) XAML
Qualifications
1 254 (15.99%) Degree
2 170 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 152 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 85 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 24 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.01%) PhD
8 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.31%) HND
10 4 (0.25%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.25%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.19%) HNC
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.13%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.13%) OCP
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.063%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (1.76%) QA
2 24 (1.51%) GDPR
3 18 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.44%) ISO 9000
5 4 (0.25%) PMO
6 3 (0.19%) SLA
7 2 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.063%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.063%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.063%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 98 (6.17%) Docker
2 52 (3.27%) Firmware
3 13 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.76%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.44%) IAG
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.063%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 109 (6.86%) Terraform
3 29 (1.83%) Ansible
4 11 (0.69%) Puppet
5 10 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.31%) Grafana
7 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.19%) Podman
9 1 (0.063%) Istio
9 1 (0.063%) Kiali
9 1 (0.063%) Kibana
9 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.063%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (5.92%) ESRI
2 84 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 39 (2.46%) Oracle
4 26 (1.64%) Google
5 25 (1.57%) Micro Focus
6 21 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.13%) F5
8 12 (0.76%) SAP
9 11 (0.69%) IBM
9 11 (0.69%) SaltStack
9 11 (0.69%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.63%) Cadence
11 9 (0.57%) Kofax
11 9 (0.57%) Pega
11 9 (0.57%) Synopsys
12 7 (0.44%) Confluent
13 6 (0.38%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.38%) Autodesk
13 6 (0.38%) EMC
13 6 (0.38%) Splunk