Software Engineering Jobs in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 100 198 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 12.94% 8.73% 12.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.81% 10.09% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 87 146 225
10th Percentile £25,313 £40,000 £44,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £93,778 £69,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £81,274 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £71,991 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.99% -7.69% +13.54%

All Process and 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 724 1,963 2,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 93.66% 86.55% 97.64%
Number of salaries quoted 501 1,397 1,702
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £78,648 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,978 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%

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 8 May 2025.

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 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.00%) AWS
2 22 (22.00%) Azure
2 22 (22.00%) GCP
3 17 (17.00%) SaaS
4 13 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.00%) GitHub
6 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.00%) Serverless
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.00%) dbt
8 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.00%) Apigee
9 2 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.00%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.00%) MySQL
2 6 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.00%) Biml
3 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.00%) Power BI
3 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.00%) Big Data
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (17.00%) Git
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.00%) JIRA
3 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.00%) JUnit
4 3 (3.00%) Maven
4 3 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.00%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.00%) Gradle
6 1 (1.00%) Selenium
6 1 (1.00%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.00%) TestNG
General
1 49 (49.00%) Finance
2 44 (44.00%) Banking
3 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Legal
5 4 (4.00%) Games
5 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 33 (33.00%) Senior
3 15 (15.00%) Engineering Manager
4 14 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 14 (14.00%) Software Engineering Manager
4 14 (14.00%) Software Manager
5 13 (13.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 13 (13.00%) Senior Manager
6 11 (11.00%) Lead
7 9 (9.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Junior
9 7 (7.00%) Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Graduate
11 5 (5.00%) Junior Software Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) Head of Development
12 4 (4.00%) Head of Software Development
13 3 (3.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.00%) React
2 32 (32.00%) .NET
3 23 (23.00%) Node.js
4 14 (14.00%) .NET Core
5 13 (13.00%) Kafka
6 12 (12.00%) Software Packaging
7 11 (11.00%) AngularJS
7 11 (11.00%) REST
7 11 (11.00%) Spring
7 11 (11.00%) Spring Boot
8 10 (10.00%) RESTful
9 6 (6.00%) .NET Framework
9 6 (6.00%) Express.js
10 5 (5.00%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.00%) Blazor
11 4 (4.00%) Laravel
12 3 (3.00%) CSS
12 3 (3.00%) Plotly
13 2 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.00%) Virtual Team
5 5 (5.00%) Hackathon
5 5 (5.00%) Learning Management System
5 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.00%) Clustering
7 2 (2.00%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.00%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) zOS
2 2 (2.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (58.00%) Agile
2 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 24 (24.00%) DevOps
5 22 (22.00%) Fintech
6 21 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (18.00%) Line Management
8 17 (17.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 17 (17.00%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (16.00%) Coaching
10 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (15.00%) Mathematics
10 15 (15.00%) Microservices
11 14 (14.00%) Roadmaps
12 12 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (11.00%) SDLC
14 10 (10.00%) Containerisation
14 10 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (9.00%) Event-Driven
15 9 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 38 (38.00%) C#
3 27 (27.00%) TypeScript
4 23 (23.00%) SQL
5 22 (22.00%) Java
6 19 (19.00%) Python
7 6 (6.00%) Go
7 6 (6.00%) PL/SQL
8 5 (5.00%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.00%) PHP
8 5 (5.00%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.00%) F#
9 2 (2.00%) Haskell
9 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.00%) Elixir
10 1 (1.00%) Elm
10 1 (1.00%) Erlang
10 1 (1.00%) Lisp
10 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Degree
2 8 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.00%) PhD
4 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.00%) MCSD
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) Basel III
2 1 (1.00%) GDPR
2 1 (1.00%) IFRS
2 1 (1.00%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 16 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (20.00%) Terraform
2 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.00%) IBM
3 6 (6.00%) Google
3 6 (6.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (1.00%) F5