Software Engineering Job Trends in Wakefield

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wakefield requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 +22
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wakefield 2.94% 16.13% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 16.13% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - £62,250 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £58,619 £62,500
% change year-on-year +19.42% -6.21% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wakefield

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 Wakefield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 31 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wakefield 88.24% 100.00% 81.43%
Number of salaries quoted 29 15 43
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,750 £35,100
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £37,898
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,750 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +0.52% +14.12%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £91,500 £58,750 £73,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% -4.09% -0.90%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wakefield.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Wakefield

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Wakefield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wakefield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Entity Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL