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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 193 351 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.50% 11.89% 13.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.86% 12.19% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 148 225 388
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
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 £82,548 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +4.76%

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 1,957 2,880 3,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 86.21% 97.59% 97.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 1,684 2,531
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,000 £41,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,993 £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 11 May 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 (15.03%) ArcGIS
2 28 (14.51%) GeoServer
3 5 (2.59%) NServiceBus
4 3 (1.55%) Captiva
4 3 (1.55%) FileNet
4 3 (1.55%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.97%) Azure
2 80 (41.45%) AWS
3 20 (10.36%) GitHub
4 16 (8.29%) Amazon Kinesis
4 16 (8.29%) Serverless
5 13 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.18%) GCP
8 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.59%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.59%) Firebase
9 3 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.52%) CloudFront
11 1 (0.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.55%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) Broadband
3 1 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.10%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (15.03%) GIS
3 28 (14.51%) QGIS
4 22 (11.40%) MySQL
5 11 (5.70%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.15%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.07%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.52%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (6.74%) CircleCI
2 11 (5.70%) Bitbucket
2 11 (5.70%) Git
3 7 (3.63%) Cypress.io
3 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.63%) JIRA
4 5 (2.59%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (2.07%) GitLab
5 4 (2.07%) Postman
6 3 (1.55%) JDeveloper
7 2 (1.04%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.04%) Toad
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.52%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) webpack
8 1 (0.52%) XCTest
General
1 23 (11.92%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.36%) Finance
2 20 (10.36%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (5.18%) Legal
5 9 (4.66%) Automotive
5 9 (4.66%) Banking
6 5 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.59%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.07%) Law
8 3 (1.55%) Electronics
8 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) French Language
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 114 (59.07%) Software Engineer
2 64 (33.16%) Senior
3 48 (24.87%) Developer
4 44 (22.80%) Senior Software Engineer
5 28 (14.51%) Lead
6 20 (10.36%) Embedded Engineer
6 20 (10.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 14 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.74%) Backend Developer
9 12 (6.22%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.70%) Node.js Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Software Manager
12 9 (4.66%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.15%) .NET Software Engineer
13 8 (4.15%) C# Software Engineer
13 8 (4.15%) Engineering Manager
13 8 (4.15%) Software Developer
14 7 (3.63%) Lead Software Engineer
14 7 (3.63%) Software Engineering Manager
14 7 (3.63%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (37.31%) .NET
2 69 (35.75%) React
3 44 (22.80%) .NET Core
4 37 (19.17%) AngularJS
5 36 (18.65%) CSS
6 29 (15.03%) Node.js
7 28 (14.51%) Leaflet
7 28 (14.51%) OpenLayers
7 28 (14.51%) PostGIS
8 27 (13.99%) RESTful
9 20 (10.36%) Vue
10 9 (4.66%) HTML
11 8 (4.15%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.63%) Spring
13 6 (3.11%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (3.11%) OAuth
13 6 (3.11%) Spring Boot
13 6 (3.11%) Web Services
14 5 (2.59%) Jest
14 5 (2.59%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.63%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.07%) Robotics
6 3 (1.55%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.55%) DataPower
6 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.52%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.52%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.52%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.52%) NHS
8 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.84%) Linux
2 6 (3.11%) Android
2 6 (3.11%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.59%) Unix
4 4 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.55%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.38%) Agile
2 75 (38.86%) DevOps
3 45 (23.32%) CI/CD
4 33 (17.10%) Web Development
5 32 (16.58%) Actionable Insight
5 32 (16.58%) Full Stack Development
5 32 (16.58%) Microservices
6 26 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (11.40%) Coaching
8 22 (11.40%) Containerisation
9 18 (9.33%) Computer Science
9 18 (9.33%) Mentoring
10 16 (8.29%) Roadmaps
11 14 (7.25%) TDD
12 13 (6.74%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (6.74%) Scrum
12 13 (6.74%) Software Testing
12 13 (6.74%) Test Automation
13 12 (6.22%) OO
Programming Languages
1 72 (37.31%) JavaScript
2 57 (29.53%) C#
3 54 (27.98%) Python
4 32 (16.58%) SQL
5 26 (13.47%) TypeScript
6 22 (11.40%) Java
7 12 (6.22%) C++
8 5 (2.59%) Go
8 5 (2.59%) Perl
8 5 (2.59%) PHP
9 4 (2.07%) C
9 4 (2.07%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.55%) Bash
10 3 (1.55%) COBOL
10 3 (1.55%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 3 (1.55%) Ruby
11 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.52%) XAML
Qualifications
1 48 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 47 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.88%) Degree
4 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.07%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (9.84%) Docker
2 6 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) IAG
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) Grafana
3 1 (0.52%) Istio
3 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (15.03%) ESRI
2 9 (4.66%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.15%) Oracle
4 3 (1.55%) IBM
4 3 (1.55%) Kofax
4 3 (1.55%) Micro Focus
4 3 (1.55%) Pega
4 3 (1.55%) SAP
4 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.55%) Splunk
5 2 (1.04%) Brio
6 1 (0.52%) Cadence
6 1 (0.52%) F5