Software Engineer Jobs in Barnsley

Software Engineer
South Yorkshire > Barnsley

The median Software Engineer salary in Barnsley is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 15 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Barnsley 16.67% 1.67% -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% 2.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 -
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £53,750 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +19.44% +5.88% -26.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Barnsley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Barnsley. 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 Barnsley with a recognized job title 6 50 70
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 83.33% 72.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3 48 15
10th Percentile - £34,750 £23,750
25th Percentile - £40,980 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £33,875 £50,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £39,800 £60,750 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Barnsley

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Barnsley.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Barnsley

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Barnsley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineer in Barnsley.

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Barnsley

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 8 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Barnsley

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Barnsley region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) ThreadX
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Renesas
1 1 (100.00%) FreeRTOS

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Barnsley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (100.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Renesas