Software Engineering Jobs in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 197 377 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.64% 12.30% 13.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% 12.62% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 141 236 391
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,750 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,990 2,987 3,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 87.24% 97.42% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,726 2,561
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,308 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,800 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

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 24 April 2024.

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 29 (14.72%) ArcGIS
2 28 (14.21%) GeoServer
3 5 (2.54%) NServiceBus
4 3 (1.52%) Captiva
4 3 (1.52%) FileNet
4 3 (1.52%) JBoss
4 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Fuse
4 3 (1.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.12%) Azure
2 77 (39.09%) AWS
3 18 (9.14%) Serverless
4 16 (8.12%) GitHub
5 15 (7.61%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.06%) GCP
10 5 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.54%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.54%) Firebase
11 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.02%) SaaS
13 1 (0.51%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Internet
1 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.51%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.77%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (14.72%) GIS
3 28 (14.21%) QGIS
4 23 (11.68%) MySQL
5 10 (5.08%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.57%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.06%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.55%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.54%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (8.12%) Git
2 10 (5.08%) Bitbucket
2 10 (5.08%) CircleCI
3 7 (3.55%) Cypress.io
4 6 (3.05%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.54%) GitLab
5 5 (2.54%) JIRA
6 4 (2.03%) Postman
7 3 (1.52%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.52%) JDeveloper
7 3 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.51%) NUnit
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.51%) webpack
8 1 (0.51%) XCTest
General
1 27 (13.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.18%) Finance
3 19 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.58%) Banking
5 10 (5.08%) Legal
5 10 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.57%) Automotive
7 7 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.54%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.03%) Law
10 3 (1.52%) Electronics
10 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) French Language
12 1 (0.51%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (58.88%) Software Engineer
2 63 (31.98%) Senior
3 46 (23.35%) Developer
4 44 (22.34%) Senior Software Engineer
5 26 (13.20%) Lead
6 20 (10.15%) Embedded Engineer
6 20 (10.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 13 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.09%) Backend Developer
8 12 (6.09%) Software Manager
9 11 (5.58%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.08%) Java Engineer
10 10 (5.08%) Node.js Developer
11 9 (4.57%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (4.57%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.06%) Software Engineering Manager
13 7 (3.55%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (3.55%) Senior Java Engineer
13 7 (3.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (35.53%) React
2 67 (34.01%) .NET
3 41 (20.81%) .NET Core
4 37 (18.78%) CSS
5 36 (18.27%) AngularJS
6 30 (15.23%) Node.js
7 29 (14.72%) RESTful
8 28 (14.21%) Leaflet
8 28 (14.21%) OpenLayers
8 28 (14.21%) PostGIS
9 18 (9.14%) Vue
10 11 (5.58%) HTML
10 11 (5.58%) Spring
11 8 (4.06%) JSON
11 8 (4.06%) Web Services
12 7 (3.55%) SOAP
13 6 (3.05%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.05%) OAuth
13 6 (3.05%) Spring Boot
13 6 (3.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.58%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.55%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.03%) Robotics
5 4 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.52%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.52%) DataPower
7 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.64%) Linux
2 6 (3.05%) Android
2 6 (3.05%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.54%) Unix
4 4 (2.03%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.03%) Windows
5 3 (1.52%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.62%) Agile
2 75 (38.07%) DevOps
3 44 (22.34%) CI/CD
4 39 (19.80%) Actionable Insight
5 33 (16.75%) Web Development
6 32 (16.24%) Microservices
7 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (14.72%) Full Stack Development
9 25 (12.69%) Coaching
10 24 (12.18%) Containerisation
11 21 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (9.64%) Computer Science
12 19 (9.64%) Mentoring
13 17 (8.63%) Roadmaps
14 16 (8.12%) TDD
15 15 (7.61%) Scrum
15 15 (7.61%) Software Testing
16 14 (7.11%) SDLC
16 14 (7.11%) Test Automation
17 11 (5.58%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.04%) JavaScript
2 55 (27.92%) C#
3 54 (27.41%) Python
4 29 (14.72%) Java
5 28 (14.21%) SQL
6 23 (11.68%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.58%) C++
8 6 (3.05%) Perl
9 5 (2.54%) Go
9 5 (2.54%) PHP
9 5 (2.54%) Ruby
10 4 (2.03%) Bash
10 4 (2.03%) C
11 3 (1.52%) COBOL
11 3 (1.52%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Bicep
12 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.51%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (24.87%) SC Cleared
1 49 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.66%) Degree
3 7 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.03%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (9.14%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.02%) IAG
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (8.63%) Terraform
2 16 (8.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Istio
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (14.72%) ESRI
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.05%) Oracle
4 4 (2.03%) Splunk
5 3 (1.52%) IBM
5 3 (1.52%) Kofax
5 3 (1.52%) Micro Focus
5 3 (1.52%) Pega
5 3 (1.52%) SAP
5 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.02%) Brio
7 1 (0.51%) Cadence
7 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.51%) F5