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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 86 200 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 11.17% 8.73% 12.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.86% 10.21% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 78 155 227
10th Percentile £25,313 £40,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.42% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £93,778 £69,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £83,269 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £71,991 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.99% -7.69% +18.18%

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 725 1,959 2,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 94.16% 85.55% 97.69%
Number of salaries quoted 477 1,398 1,645
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £34,734
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% -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 22 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 (1.16%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.07%) AWS
2 19 (22.09%) Azure
3 18 (20.93%) GCP
4 14 (16.28%) SaaS
5 12 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.47%) GitHub
7 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.65%) Serverless
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.49%) dbt
10 2 (2.33%) Apigee
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.16%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.65%) Biml
3 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.65%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.65%) MySQL
3 4 (4.65%) Power BI
3 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.33%) Big Data
4 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.65%) JIRA
3 4 (4.65%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.49%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.33%) JUnit
5 2 (2.33%) Maven
5 2 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (46.51%) Finance
2 37 (43.02%) Banking
3 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Games
5 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (40.70%) Software Engineer
2 32 (37.21%) Senior
3 14 (16.28%) Engineering Manager
4 13 (15.12%) .NET Software Engineer
4 13 (15.12%) Senior Software Engineer
4 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering Manager
4 13 (15.12%) Software Manager
5 12 (13.95%) Senior Manager
6 10 (11.63%) Lead
7 9 (10.47%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Junior
9 6 (6.98%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Head of Development
11 4 (4.65%) Head of Software Development
12 3 (3.49%) Senior Developer
13 2 (2.33%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (38.37%) React
2 31 (36.05%) .NET
3 20 (23.26%) Node.js
4 14 (16.28%) .NET Core
5 12 (13.95%) Kafka
5 12 (13.95%) Software Packaging
6 11 (12.79%) AngularJS
7 9 (10.47%) RESTful
8 7 (8.14%) Express.js
8 7 (8.14%) REST
8 7 (8.14%) Spring
8 7 (8.14%) Spring Boot
9 6 (6.98%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.65%) Blazor
10 4 (4.65%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.65%) Laravel
11 3 (3.49%) CSS
11 3 (3.49%) Plotly
12 2 (2.33%) Hibernate
12 2 (2.33%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (12.79%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.14%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.98%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.49%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.49%) Clustering
5 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.16%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.16%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.98%) zOS
2 2 (2.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.33%) Agile
2 35 (40.70%) CI/CD
3 23 (26.74%) Mentoring
4 18 (20.93%) Fintech
5 17 (19.77%) DevOps
5 17 (19.77%) Line Management
6 15 (17.44%) Coaching
6 15 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (17.44%) Mathematics
7 13 (15.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (15.12%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (15.12%) Roadmaps
8 12 (13.95%) Microservices
9 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (12.79%) SDLC
10 9 (10.47%) Event-Driven
10 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (9.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.84%) JavaScript
2 33 (38.37%) C#
3 24 (27.91%) TypeScript
4 21 (24.42%) SQL
5 16 (18.60%) Python
6 11 (12.79%) Java
7 8 (9.30%) Go
8 6 (6.98%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.81%) PHP
9 5 (5.81%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.33%) F#
10 2 (2.33%) Haskell
10 2 (2.33%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.16%) Erlang
11 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.16%) Lisp
11 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.16%) PureScript
11 1 (1.16%) R
11 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) Degree
2 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.49%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.16%) MCSD
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (19.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.77%) Terraform
3 2 (2.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) IBM
3 6 (6.98%) Oracle
4 3 (3.49%) Databricks
5 2 (2.33%) Google