Software Engineering Jobs in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 10 29
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -23
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 30 149 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.81% 11.05% 10.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 13.35% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 30 130 53
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £40,371
25th Percentile £46,563 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £85,938 £62,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,375 £75,000 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 1,116 1,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.63% 82.79% 98.60%
Number of salaries quoted 219 890 526
10th Percentile £27,700 £27,500 £25,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in South Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in South Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield 0 29 £70,000 +40.00% 23
Barnsley +14 1 £42,500 -
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
3 5 (16.67%) SaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.67%) dbt
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Law
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Online Betting
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Head of Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Head of Software Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Architect
5 2 (6.67%) C# Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Graduate
5 2 (6.67%) Graduate Java Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) React
2 6 (20.00%) .NET
3 5 (16.67%) Bootstrap
3 5 (16.67%) Node.js
3 5 (16.67%) Redux
3 5 (16.67%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Robotics
4 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.33%) GNSS
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (3.33%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (13.33%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (13.33%) ETL
5 4 (13.33%) OO
5 4 (13.33%) SDLC
5 4 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (13.33%) Test Management
6 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) DataOps
6 3 (10.00%) KYC
6 3 (10.00%) Parallel Computing
6 3 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) C#
1 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 4 (13.33%) C
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) C++
4 3 (10.00%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) IEC 62304
2 1 (3.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Databricks
2 2 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Renesas
3 1 (3.33%) Xamarin