Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in Bradford

Senior Software Engineer
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Bradford is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bradford 1.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £65,465 £66,250
% change year-on-year +14.57% -1.19% +6.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bradford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bradford. 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 Bradford with a recognized job title 174 108 141
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.75% 98.18% 98.60%
Number of salaries quoted 74 47 96
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,400 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,063 £35,000 £36,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% -20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £80,938 £64,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £71,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Bradford

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Bradford

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Bradford.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Bradford

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bradford region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Cordova
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Ionic Framework
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Cordova
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Ionic Framework
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media Marketing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) New Relic