Senior Software Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 107 174
Rank change year-on-year +33 +67 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 24 48 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.06% 1.60% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 1.66% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 37
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,465 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.20% +4.74% -
75th Percentile £93,778 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £72,433 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £78,810 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.10% -3.85% +6.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,066 2,886 4,866
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 96.07% 93.27%
Number of salaries quoted 646 2,121 2,344
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,000 £31,325
25th Percentile £41,750 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £83,750 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,500 £49,136 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.74% -10.47% +9.76%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds +24 14 £75,655 +15.57% 14
Halifax +2 8 £88,662 +25.63% 1
Senior Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (70.83%) CI/CD
3 16 (66.67%) Agile
3 16 (66.67%) Finance
4 14 (58.33%) Banking
5 13 (54.17%) DevOps
6 12 (50.00%) Java
7 11 (45.83%) .NET
8 10 (41.67%) C#
8 10 (41.67%) Git
9 9 (37.50%) Docker
9 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
9 9 (37.50%) Microservices
9 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
9 9 (37.50%) Spring
9 9 (37.50%) Clean Code
9 9 (37.50%) Spring Boot
10 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
10 8 (33.33%) SQL
10 8 (33.33%) Azure
11 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
11 7 (29.17%) GCP
11 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
11 7 (29.17%) TDD
11 7 (29.17%) Scrum
11 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
12 6 (25.00%) JWT
12 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
12 6 (25.00%) .NET Framework
12 6 (25.00%) Coaching

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub
3 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.33%) Apigee
5 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.17%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (16.67%) Biml
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.67%) Power BI
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.33%) DB2
5 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (8.33%) MySQL
6 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.17%) Endeca
6 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Git
2 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (8.33%) GitLab
4 2 (8.33%) JUnit
4 2 (8.33%) Maven
4 2 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (8.33%) Postman
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
4 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (66.67%) Finance
2 14 (58.33%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Advertising
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) .NET
2 9 (37.50%) Spring
2 9 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 6 (25.00%) JWT
3 6 (25.00%) OAuth
3 6 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 4 (16.67%) React
5 3 (12.50%) JSON
5 3 (12.50%) RESTful
5 3 (12.50%) SOAP
5 3 (12.50%) XML
6 2 (8.33%) CSS
6 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
6 2 (8.33%) ISPF
6 2 (8.33%) Node.js
6 2 (8.33%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) Web Services
6 2 (8.33%) WinForms
6 2 (8.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.17%) Social Media
2 1 (4.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
1 2 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (70.83%) CI/CD
3 16 (66.67%) Agile
4 13 (54.17%) DevOps
5 9 (37.50%) Clean Code
5 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 9 (37.50%) Microservices
6 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 7 (29.17%) Scrum
6 7 (29.17%) TDD
6 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
7 6 (25.00%) Coaching
8 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (20.83%) Code Quality
8 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (20.83%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
9 4 (16.67%) ETL
9 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) C#
3 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (20.83%) Python
5 4 (16.67%) Go
5 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.33%) COBOL
6 2 (8.33%) JCL
6 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.33%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.17%) Elixir
7 1 (4.17%) Elm
7 1 (4.17%) Erlang
7 1 (4.17%) F#
7 1 (4.17%) Haskell
7 1 (4.17%) Lisp
7 1 (4.17%) PureScript
7 1 (4.17%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) CA Endevor
3 2 (8.33%) Istio
3 2 (8.33%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) BMC
1 2 (8.33%) IBM
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe
2 1 (4.17%) CyberSource
2 1 (4.17%) F5
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) New Relic
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle