Software Engineer Jobs in Halifax

Software Engineer
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The median Software Engineer salary in Halifax is £85,253 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 +50 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 14 13 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Halifax 16.09% 14.77% 4.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.29% 14.94% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 14
10th Percentile £58,055 £35,750 -
25th Percentile £75,219 £62,164 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £75,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% +22.76% +32.26%
75th Percentile £97,528 £82,548 £65,750
90th Percentile - - £68,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £78,810 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +43.29% -10.57% +11.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Halifax

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Halifax. 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 Halifax with a recognized job title 69 87 497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.31% 98.86% 91.03%
Number of salaries quoted 59 83 272
10th Percentile £26,663 £41,474 £38,999
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,172 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,576 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +15.36% +14.35%
75th Percentile £97,528 £84,056 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £100,064 £90,390
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.50% -9.09% +7.84%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Halifax

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Halifax

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Halifax

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Halifax

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Halifax over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Halifax

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax

For the 6 months to 12 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 Halifax region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Finance
1 14 (100.00%) Banking
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) DevOps
3 12 (85.71%) Java
4 11 (78.57%) Agile
5 9 (64.29%) TDD
5 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
5 9 (64.29%) Docker
5 9 (64.29%) Microservices
5 9 (64.29%) GCP
5 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
5 9 (64.29%) Spring Boot
5 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
6 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 7 (50.00%) JWT
6 7 (50.00%) OAuth2
6 7 (50.00%) Azure
6 7 (50.00%) OAuth
6 7 (50.00%) Scrum
6 7 (50.00%) Spring
7 6 (42.86%) Git
8 5 (35.71%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
8 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
9 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
10 3 (21.43%) OSGi
10 3 (21.43%) Adobe Experience Manager

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 3 (21.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) GCP
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Apigee
4 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (14.29%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (7.14%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (100.00%) Banking
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Retail Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Spring Boot
2 7 (50.00%) JWT
2 7 (50.00%) OAuth
2 7 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 7 (50.00%) Spring
3 3 (21.43%) J2EE
3 3 (21.43%) JSR 170
3 3 (21.43%) OSGi
4 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.14%) ISPF
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) SOAP
5 1 (7.14%) Web Services
5 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) DevOps
3 11 (78.57%) Agile
4 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
4 9 (64.29%) Microservices
4 9 (64.29%) TDD
4 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
5 7 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (50.00%) Scrum
6 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
6 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
6 5 (35.71%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (21.43%) Content Management
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Web Development
8 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) COBOL
3 1 (7.14%) JCL
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Istio
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) CA Endevor
3 1 (7.14%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) BMC
2 1 (7.14%) IBM