Software Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
3 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 33 39
Rank change year-on-year -40 +6 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 42 102 138
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.49% 5.38% 6.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.69% 5.61% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39 88 109
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,125 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.92% -

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 1,563 1,819 2,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 95.99% 97.57%
Number of salaries quoted 878 1,024 1,532
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,875 £40,725 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £86,225
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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 -25 36 £68,500 +5.01% 13
Halifax +3 2 £55,000 +14.58% 3
Wakefield - 2 £40,000 -
Bradford -17 1 - - 4
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, 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 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 14 (33.33%) .NET
3 14 (33.33%) C#
3 14 (33.33%) SQL
4 12 (28.57%) Java
4 12 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 11 (26.19%) DevOps
5 11 (26.19%) React
6 9 (21.43%) Docker
6 9 (21.43%) TypeScript
7 8 (19.05%) Agile
8 7 (16.67%) Azure
8 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
8 7 (16.67%) Microservices
9 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (14.29%) E-Commerce
9 6 (14.29%) Node.js
9 6 (14.29%) RESTful
9 6 (14.29%) Terraform
10 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
10 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.90%) Logistics
11 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
11 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps

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 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.52%) GitHub
3 4 (9.52%) Serverless
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.76%) Datadog
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) AMQP
1 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.38%) Modbus
1 1 (2.38%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) DynamoDB
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Retail
4 4 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Electronics
6 2 (4.76%) Games
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Law
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) .NET
2 11 (26.19%) React
3 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 6 (14.29%) Node.js
3 6 (14.29%) RESTful
4 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 4 (9.52%) Micronaut
4 4 (9.52%) Spring
4 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 3 (7.14%) Vue
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
6 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (4.76%) React Native
6 2 (4.76%) REST
6 2 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.38%) Next.js
7 1 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 11 (26.19%) DevOps
4 8 (19.05%) Agile
5 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (16.67%) Microservices
6 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.90%) Logistics
8 4 (9.52%) Clean Code
8 4 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (9.52%) Fintech
8 4 (9.52%) People Management
8 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 3 (7.14%) Observability
9 3 (7.14%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) C#
1 14 (33.33%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) Java
2 12 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.52%) C
4 4 (9.52%) C++
5 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.14%) Ruby
6 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.38%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) IEC 61508
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (2.38%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
1 1 (2.38%) Siemens
20 Software Engineer jobs in West Yorkshire