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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 196 365 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.71% 12.08% 13.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.06% 12.39% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 145 228 391
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,941 £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 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.04% +8.57%

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 1,949 2,946 3,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 86.62% 97.49% 97.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,389 1,709 2,554
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,683 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £41,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +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 6 May 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 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 82 (41.84%) Azure
2 79 (40.31%) AWS
3 18 (9.18%) Serverless
4 17 (8.67%) GitHub
5 16 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
6 12 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.59%) 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%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.02%) SaaS
11 1 (0.51%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.53%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Broadband
3 1 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (14.80%) GIS
3 28 (14.29%) QGIS
4 22 (11.22%) MySQL
5 11 (5.61%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.08%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.53%) MongoDB
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 13 (6.63%) Git
2 12 (6.12%) CircleCI
3 11 (5.61%) Bitbucket
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 26 (13.27%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 20 (10.20%) Finance
4 12 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.10%) Legal
6 9 (4.59%) Automotive
7 7 (3.57%) Banking
8 5 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.04%) Law
10 3 (1.53%) Electronics
10 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) French Language
12 1 (0.51%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 114 (58.16%) Software Engineer
2 66 (33.67%) Senior
3 48 (24.49%) Developer
4 46 (23.47%) Senior Software Engineer
5 28 (14.29%) 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%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.61%) Node.js Developer
10 11 (5.61%) Software Manager
11 9 (4.59%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Engineering Manager
12 8 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (4.08%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.57%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (3.57%) C# Software Engineer
13 7 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (35.71%) .NET
1 70 (35.71%) React
2 43 (21.94%) .NET Core
3 38 (19.39%) AngularJS
4 37 (18.88%) CSS
5 29 (14.80%) Node.js
5 29 (14.80%) RESTful
6 28 (14.29%) Leaflet
6 28 (14.29%) OpenLayers
6 28 (14.29%) PostGIS
7 20 (10.20%) Vue
8 11 (5.61%) Spring
9 9 (4.59%) HTML
10 8 (4.08%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.08%) Web Services
11 7 (3.57%) JSON
11 7 (3.57%) SOAP
12 6 (3.06%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (3.06%) OAuth
12 6 (3.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.67%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.63%) 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
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%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.51%) NHS
8 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) 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 77 (39.29%) Agile
2 73 (37.24%) DevOps
3 45 (22.96%) CI/CD
4 39 (19.90%) Actionable Insight
5 34 (17.35%) Microservices
6 33 (16.84%) Web Development
7 31 (15.82%) Full Stack Development
8 28 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (12.24%) Coaching
9 24 (12.24%) Containerisation
10 22 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (10.71%) Mentoring
12 19 (9.69%) Computer Science
13 16 (8.16%) Roadmaps
14 14 (7.14%) Scrum
14 14 (7.14%) TDD
15 13 (6.63%) Software Testing
15 13 (6.63%) Test Automation
16 12 (6.12%) Deployment Automation
16 12 (6.12%) OO
Programming Languages
1 72 (36.73%) JavaScript
2 58 (29.59%) C#
3 55 (28.06%) Python
4 30 (15.31%) SQL
5 26 (13.27%) Java
6 25 (12.76%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.12%) C++
8 5 (2.55%) Go
8 5 (2.55%) Perl
8 5 (2.55%) PHP
8 5 (2.55%) Ruby
9 4 (2.04%) Bash
9 4 (2.04%) C
9 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.53%) COBOL
10 3 (1.53%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 1 (0.51%) Bicep
11 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.51%) Swift
11 1 (0.51%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 49 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.22%) 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 18 (9.18%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.02%) IAG
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (9.18%) Kubernetes
1 18 (9.18%) Terraform
2 2 (1.02%) Ansible
2 2 (1.02%) Grafana
2 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 29 (14.80%) ESRI
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.06%) Oracle
4 3 (1.53%) IBM
4 3 (1.53%) Kofax
4 3 (1.53%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.53%) Pega
4 3 (1.53%) SAP
4 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.53%) Splunk
5 2 (1.02%) Brio
6 1 (0.51%) Cadence
6 1 (0.51%) F5