Software Engineering Jobs in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 196 373 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.62% 12.25% 13.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.91% 12.57% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 142 230 385
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,750 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,977 2,968 3,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 86.90% 97.47% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 1,711 2,536
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,308 £32,996
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,900 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 29 (14.80%) ArcGIS
2 28 (14.29%) GeoServer
3 5 (2.55%) NServiceBus
4 3 (1.53%) Captiva
4 3 (1.53%) FileNet
4 3 (1.53%) JBoss
4 3 (1.53%) Red Hat Fuse
4 3 (1.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.33%) Azure
2 78 (39.80%) AWS
3 19 (9.69%) Serverless
4 16 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
4 16 (8.16%) GitHub
5 13 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.08%) GCP
8 5 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.55%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.55%) Firebase
9 3 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.02%) SaaS
11 1 (0.51%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.53%) Internet
1 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (14.80%) GIS
3 28 (14.29%) QGIS
4 23 (11.73%) MySQL
5 11 (5.61%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.59%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.08%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Git
2 11 (5.61%) Bitbucket
3 10 (5.10%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.06%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.55%) GitLab
6 5 (2.55%) JIRA
7 4 (2.04%) Postman
8 3 (1.53%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.53%) JDeveloper
8 3 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.51%) NUnit
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.51%) webpack
9 1 (0.51%) XCTest
General
1 27 (13.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.22%) Finance
3 19 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.10%) Legal
4 10 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (4.59%) Automotive
5 9 (4.59%) Banking
6 6 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.55%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.04%) Law
9 3 (1.53%) Electronics
9 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.02%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) French Language
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 114 (58.16%) Software Engineer
2 65 (33.16%) Senior
3 47 (23.98%) Developer
4 45 (22.96%) Senior Software Engineer
5 26 (13.27%) Lead
6 20 (10.20%) Embedded Engineer
6 20 (10.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 14 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.63%) Backend Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Software Manager
10 11 (5.61%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.61%) Node.js Developer
11 9 (4.59%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (4.59%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (4.08%) Software Engineering Manager
13 7 (3.57%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
13 7 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (35.20%) React
2 68 (34.69%) .NET
3 41 (20.92%) .NET Core
4 37 (18.88%) CSS
5 36 (18.37%) AngularJS
6 30 (15.31%) Node.js
7 28 (14.29%) Leaflet
7 28 (14.29%) OpenLayers
7 28 (14.29%) PostGIS
7 28 (14.29%) RESTful
8 19 (9.69%) Vue
9 11 (5.61%) Spring
10 10 (5.10%) HTML
11 8 (4.08%) JSON
11 8 (4.08%) Web Services
12 7 (3.57%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.57%) SOAP
13 6 (3.06%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (3.06%) OAuth
13 6 (3.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.67%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.61%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.04%) Robotics
5 4 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.53%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.53%) DataPower
7 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.51%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.51%) NHS
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.69%) Linux
2 6 (3.06%) Android
2 6 (3.06%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.55%) Unix
4 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.04%) Windows
5 3 (1.53%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.82%) Agile
2 74 (37.76%) DevOps
3 45 (22.96%) CI/CD
4 39 (19.90%) Actionable Insight
5 33 (16.84%) Web Development
6 32 (16.33%) Microservices
7 29 (14.80%) Full Stack Development
7 29 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (12.76%) Coaching
9 23 (11.73%) Containerisation
10 21 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (9.69%) Computer Science
11 19 (9.69%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.67%) Roadmaps
13 16 (8.16%) TDD
14 15 (7.65%) Scrum
14 15 (7.65%) Software Testing
15 14 (7.14%) Test Automation
16 13 (6.63%) SDLC
17 11 (5.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 72 (36.73%) JavaScript
2 56 (28.57%) C#
3 54 (27.55%) Python
4 29 (14.80%) SQL
5 27 (13.78%) Java
6 24 (12.24%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.61%) C++
8 6 (3.06%) Perl
9 5 (2.55%) Go
9 5 (2.55%) PHP
9 5 (2.55%) Ruby
10 4 (2.04%) Bash
10 4 (2.04%) C
10 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.53%) COBOL
11 3 (1.53%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (0.51%) Bicep
12 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.51%) Swift
12 1 (0.51%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 49 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.71%) Degree
3 7 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.04%) QA
2 3 (1.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (8.67%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.02%) IAG
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (9.18%) Terraform
2 16 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Istio
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (14.80%) ESRI
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.06%) Oracle
4 4 (2.04%) Splunk
5 3 (1.53%) IBM
5 3 (1.53%) Kofax
5 3 (1.53%) Micro Focus
5 3 (1.53%) Pega
5 3 (1.53%) SAP
5 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.02%) Brio
7 1 (0.51%) Cadence
7 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.51%) F5