Software Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 43 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 117 61 138
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.18% 5.46% 4.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.49% 5.93% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 114 57 97
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +30.43% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £121,321 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +36.00% -18.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,608 1,029 2,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 92.12% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,782 647 2,086
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £37,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +6.74% -6.31%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.41%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

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 Software Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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 +7 107 £70,000 -6.67% 21
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Halifax +11 2 £55,000 -35.49%
Bradford -18 2 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Wakefield - 2 £40,000 - 4
Huddersfield -9 1 £70,000 +33.33%
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 7 April 2026, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 117 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 37 (31.62%) AWS
3 27 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 26 (22.22%) C#
4 26 (22.22%) React
5 25 (21.37%) JavaScript
6 24 (20.51%) SQL
7 23 (19.66%) .NET
8 21 (17.95%) Agile
9 19 (16.24%) Java
9 19 (16.24%) Microservices
10 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 18 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (14.53%) DevOps
12 15 (12.82%) Mentoring
12 15 (12.82%) Node.js
12 15 (12.82%) Vue
13 14 (11.97%) Terraform
14 13 (11.11%) E-Commerce
14 13 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (10.26%) Azure
15 12 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (10.26%) RESTful
16 11 (9.40%) SaaS
16 11 (9.40%) SDLC
17 10 (8.55%) Amazon S3
17 10 (8.55%) AngularJS
17 10 (8.55%) DynamoDB
18 9 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
18 9 (7.69%) C

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 37 (31.62%) AWS
2 12 (10.26%) Azure
3 11 (9.40%) SaaS
4 10 (8.55%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (7.69%) Serverless
6 8 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.71%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.85%) Datadog
8 1 (0.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.71%) MySQL
4 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) GitLab
2 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 14 (11.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.26%) Manufacturing
3 11 (9.40%) Finance
4 10 (8.55%) Retail
5 7 (5.98%) Financial Institution
5 7 (5.98%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.42%) Electronics
7 3 (2.56%) Agriculture
7 3 (2.56%) Automotive
7 3 (2.56%) Games
7 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.22%) React
2 23 (19.66%) .NET
3 15 (12.82%) Node.js
3 15 (12.82%) Vue
4 12 (10.26%) RESTful
5 10 (8.55%) AngularJS
6 9 (7.69%) CSS
6 9 (7.69%) HTML
7 5 (4.27%) REST
8 4 (3.42%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.42%) Micronaut
9 3 (2.56%) Blazor
9 3 (2.56%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.56%) Spring
9 3 (2.56%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.71%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.71%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.71%) Apache Cordova
10 2 (1.71%) Ionic Framework
10 2 (1.71%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.98%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
3 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Android
2 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (17.95%) Agile
3 19 (16.24%) Microservices
4 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 18 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (14.53%) DevOps
6 15 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 13 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 13 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (9.40%) SDLC
10 9 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 9 (7.69%) Logistics
10 9 (7.69%) Observability
10 9 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (6.84%) Product Vision
11 8 (6.84%) Resource Allocation
11 8 (6.84%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (5.98%) API Design
12 7 (5.98%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) TypeScript
2 26 (22.22%) C#
3 25 (21.37%) JavaScript
4 24 (20.51%) SQL
5 19 (16.24%) Java
6 9 (7.69%) C
6 9 (7.69%) C++
7 8 (6.84%) Python
8 7 (5.98%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.71%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.85%) COBOL
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (7.69%) Degree
2 7 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) GDPR
2 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.98%) Firmware
2 4 (3.42%) Docker
3 2 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (11.97%) Terraform
2 3 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (1.71%) Adobe
2 1 (0.85%) Google
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.85%) New Relic
2 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
29 Software Engineer jobs in West Yorkshire