Software Engineering Job Trends in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 191 83 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.15% 10.40% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.19% 11.19% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 172 75 180
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +14.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,625 £93,778 £69,750
90th Percentile £99,500 £140,677 £85,217
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,874 742 1,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 70.16% 92.98% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 491 1,454
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £41,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Leeds

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.57%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (30.89%) AWS
2 27 (14.14%) SaaS
3 25 (13.09%) Azure
4 13 (6.81%) GitHub
5 11 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.19%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.19%) GCP
8 7 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.66%) Serverless
9 6 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.52%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (0.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.66%) DynamoDB
1 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.14%) MySQL
3 5 (2.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.09%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.09%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.57%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.05%) Redis
6 2 (1.05%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.09%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 12 (6.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (4.71%) Finance
4 7 (3.66%) Agriculture
4 7 (3.66%) Automotive
4 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.52%) Electronics
6 1 (0.52%) Games
6 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 123 (64.40%) Software Engineer
2 59 (30.89%) Senior
3 48 (25.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (17.28%) Developer
5 24 (12.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 24 (12.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 20 (10.47%) .NET Software Engineer
6 20 (10.47%) Lead
7 19 (9.95%) C# Software Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.85%) .NET Software Developer
8 15 (7.85%) C# .NET Developer
8 15 (7.85%) C# Developer
8 15 (7.85%) C# Software Developer
8 15 (7.85%) Lead Software Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) Software Developer
9 14 (7.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 13 (6.81%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.37%) .NET
2 36 (18.85%) React
3 23 (12.04%) Vue
4 17 (8.90%) Node.js
5 13 (6.81%) CSS
5 13 (6.81%) HTML
6 12 (6.28%) AngularJS
6 12 (6.28%) RESTful
7 8 (4.19%) Web Services
8 3 (1.57%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.57%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (1.57%) LangChain
8 3 (1.57%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.57%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (1.57%) REST
9 2 (1.05%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.05%) PySpark
10 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.52%) Blazor
10 1 (0.52%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.62%) AI Agents
3 5 (2.62%) e-Learning
4 4 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.05%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.52%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Android
2 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.85%) Agile
1 36 (18.85%) Mentoring
2 35 (18.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (16.75%) AI
5 27 (14.14%) CI/CD
6 26 (13.61%) Microservices
6 26 (13.61%) SDLC
7 19 (9.95%) Coaching
8 18 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (8.90%) Product Vision
9 17 (8.90%) Resource Allocation
10 15 (7.85%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (7.33%) Analytics
12 13 (6.81%) DevOps
12 13 (6.81%) Observability
13 12 (6.28%) CQRS
13 12 (6.28%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (5.24%) Containerisation
14 10 (5.24%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.18%) C#
2 45 (23.56%) Python
3 37 (19.37%) JavaScript
4 30 (15.71%) SQL
4 30 (15.71%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.99%) Java
6 8 (4.19%) Groovy
7 4 (2.09%) Scala
8 3 (1.57%) PHP
9 2 (1.05%) C++
10 1 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) COBOL
10 1 (0.52%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 6 (3.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.57%) Degree
3 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.24%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (10.47%) Terraform
2 10 (5.24%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (5.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.71%) Cisco
2 9 (4.71%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.57%) Databricks
3 3 (1.57%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.05%) Google
5 1 (0.52%) Foundry