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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 27 13
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,939 1,331 2,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.83% 8.39% 12.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.22% 8.67% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 749 1,316
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £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 15,869 15,355 17,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.46% 96.77% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,723 7,789 10,714
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,275 £40,000 £38,750
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 £79,000 £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 9 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 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
North West +16 1,205 £60,000 -6.25% 200
Yorkshire +14 581 £55,000 -12.00% 80
North East +15 153 £55,000 +10.00% 34
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 97 (5.00%) ArcGIS
2 82 (4.23%) GeoServer
3 21 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.83%) Apache
5 8 (0.41%) NServiceBus
6 7 (0.36%) CMS
6 7 (0.36%) IIS
7 6 (0.31%) Confluence
7 6 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.26%) WordPress
9 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.052%) Drupal
11 1 (0.052%) Jetty
11 1 (0.052%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.21%) Simulink
3 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.46%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.15%) Shopify
5 2 (0.10%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 416 (21.45%) AWS
2 380 (19.60%) Azure
3 74 (3.82%) GCP
4 67 (3.46%) Serverless
5 63 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (3.25%) GitHub
6 62 (3.20%) SaaS
7 56 (2.89%) Amazon Kinesis
8 51 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.50%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (1.29%) Power Platform
13 20 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (0.57%) OpenShift
19 10 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.29%) MQTT
2 24 (1.24%) RS-232
3 22 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.98%) RS-485
5 18 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (0.88%) Wireless
7 13 (0.67%) 3G
7 13 (0.67%) 4G
8 11 (0.57%) AMQP
8 11 (0.57%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.41%) Network Security
10 6 (0.31%) HTTP
11 5 (0.26%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.21%) Firewall
12 4 (0.21%) Internet
12 4 (0.21%) SAN
13 3 (0.15%) Bluetooth
14 2 (0.10%) DSL
14 2 (0.10%) VoIP
15 1 (0.052%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (6.81%) MySQL
3 102 (5.26%) GIS
4 82 (4.23%) QGIS
5 78 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 77 (3.97%) SQL Server
7 53 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 51 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (1.96%) Redis
11 37 (1.91%) MongoDB
12 32 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 28 (1.44%) Big Data
14 24 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (0.93%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
17 15 (0.77%) Hadoop
18 13 (0.67%) Power BI
19 11 (0.57%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 142 (7.32%) Git
2 38 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.75%) JIRA
4 32 (1.65%) GitLab
5 23 (1.19%) Postman
6 22 (1.13%) LabVIEW
7 18 (0.93%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.88%) Subversion
8 17 (0.88%) Visual Studio
9 16 (0.83%) Gatling
10 15 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.77%) JUnit
11 14 (0.72%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.62%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.57%) Maven
14 10 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
15 9 (0.46%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.41%) webpack
17 5 (0.26%) Clang
17 5 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 227 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 213 (10.99%) Social Skills
3 98 (5.05%) Finance
4 95 (4.90%) Electronics
5 86 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 61 (3.15%) Automotive
7 57 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 48 (2.48%) Retail
9 37 (1.91%) Tech for Good
10 30 (1.55%) Legal
11 28 (1.44%) Banking
11 28 (1.44%) Games
12 26 (1.34%) Marketing
13 25 (1.29%) Health Technology
14 22 (1.13%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.08%) Law
16 19 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
16 19 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.83%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,184 (61.06%) Software Engineer
2 490 (25.27%) Senior
3 359 (18.51%) Senior Software Engineer
4 295 (15.21%) Developer
5 251 (12.94%) Lead
6 221 (11.40%) Embedded Engineer
6 221 (11.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 127 (6.55%) Lead Software Engineer
8 114 (5.88%) Architect
9 80 (4.13%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 80 (4.13%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 79 (4.07%) Software Developer
11 76 (3.92%) Software Architect
12 70 (3.61%) Programmer
12 70 (3.61%) Software Programmer
13 64 (3.30%) Technical Leader
14 61 (3.15%) Java Engineer
15 58 (2.99%) Senior Developer
16 52 (2.68%) .NET Software Engineer
16 52 (2.68%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (20.84%) .NET
2 255 (13.15%) React
3 188 (9.70%) CSS
4 185 (9.54%) .NET Core
5 130 (6.70%) Node.js
6 117 (6.03%) AngularJS
7 104 (5.36%) HTML
8 99 (5.11%) RESTful
9 91 (4.69%) PostGIS
10 87 (4.49%) REST
11 86 (4.44%) Leaflet
11 86 (4.44%) OpenLayers
12 80 (4.13%) ASP.NET
13 78 (4.02%) Spring
13 78 (4.02%) Vue
14 56 (2.89%) Spring Boot
15 54 (2.78%) Web Services
16 41 (2.11%) GraphQL
17 37 (1.91%) .NET Framework
18 35 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 214 (11.04%) Cyberattack
2 60 (3.09%) IoT
3 59 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 55 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
5 49 (2.53%) Embedded Systems
6 47 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 30 (1.55%) Blog
10 27 (1.39%) Media Streaming
11 26 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 26 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 18 (0.93%) Client/Server
13 18 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.62%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.57%) Device Driver
16 11 (0.57%) NHS
17 10 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 184 (9.49%) Linux
2 59 (3.04%) Windows
3 40 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
4 23 (1.19%) Ubuntu
5 20 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.93%) Android
7 15 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
8 12 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.57%) CentOS
9 11 (0.57%) Debian
10 8 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.31%) Unix
12 5 (0.26%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.15%) VMS
13 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
14 2 (0.10%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.052%) HPUX
15 1 (0.052%) Solaris
15 1 (0.052%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (39.40%) Agile
2 415 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
3 400 (20.63%) Mentoring
4 364 (18.77%) DevOps
5 261 (13.46%) User Experience
6 237 (12.22%) Machine Learning
7 228 (11.76%) Data Engineering
8 225 (11.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 211 (10.88%) Creative Thinking
10 207 (10.68%) Computer Science
11 176 (9.08%) Full Stack Development
12 175 (9.03%) CI/CD
13 156 (8.05%) Microservices
14 140 (7.22%) TDD
15 138 (7.12%) Open Source
16 114 (5.88%) Coaching
16 114 (5.88%) Web Development
17 103 (5.31%) Test Automation
18 94 (4.85%) Continuous Integration
19 93 (4.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 423 (21.82%) C#
2 360 (18.57%) JavaScript
3 319 (16.45%) Python
4 275 (14.18%) SQL
5 259 (13.36%) Java
6 189 (9.75%) C
7 160 (8.25%) C++
8 143 (7.37%) TypeScript
9 61 (3.15%) PHP
10 35 (1.81%) Embedded C
11 32 (1.65%) Go
12 30 (1.55%) Scala
13 25 (1.29%) COBOL
13 25 (1.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 24 (1.24%) Rust
15 20 (1.03%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.57%) XAML
17 9 (0.46%) SystemVerilog
18 8 (0.41%) Bash
19 7 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 282 (14.54%) Degree
2 172 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 153 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 97 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 18 (0.93%) PhD
8 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.41%) HND
10 6 (0.31%) HNC
11 4 (0.21%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.15%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.15%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.10%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.10%) OCP
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.052%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.052%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.08%) QA
2 18 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.83%) GDPR
4 7 (0.36%) ISO 9000
5 4 (0.21%) PMO
6 3 (0.15%) SLA
7 2 (0.10%) GRC
8 1 (0.052%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.052%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.052%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 102 (5.26%) Docker
2 55 (2.84%) Firmware
3 16 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.62%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.36%) IAG
6 3 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (6.09%) Terraform
2 116 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.50%) Ansible
4 12 (0.62%) Puppet
5 11 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.31%) Grafana
7 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.15%) Podman
9 1 (0.052%) Istio
9 1 (0.052%) Kiali
9 1 (0.052%) Kibana
9 1 (0.052%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (4.69%) ESRI
2 86 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 29 (1.50%) Google
4 25 (1.29%) Micro Focus
5 21 (1.08%) Oracle
5 21 (1.08%) Red Hat
6 18 (0.93%) F5
7 11 (0.57%) SaltStack
8 10 (0.52%) Cadence
9 9 (0.46%) Synopsys
10 8 (0.41%) EMC
11 7 (0.36%) SAP
12 6 (0.31%) Allen-Bradley
12 6 (0.31%) Autodesk
13 5 (0.26%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.21%) Splunk
15 3 (0.15%) Confluent
15 3 (0.15%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.15%) Workday
15 3 (0.15%) Xamarin