Software Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £78,810 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 28 71
Rank change year-on-year -41 +43 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 43 206 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.89% 6.43% 3.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 6.70% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 39 146 111
10th Percentile £48,794 - £41,227
25th Percentile £59,375 £40,000 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.62% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £95,639 £69,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £140,677 £75,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £68,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +37.00% -20.00% +13.64%

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 1,328 3,076 3,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.13% 95.95% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 759 2,179 2,156
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +8.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,359 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £82,500 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer 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 July 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 July 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 -20 30 £78,810 +57.62% 63
Halifax -9 9 £83,577 +44.63% 1
Heckmondwike - 1 £50,000 -
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (67.44%) CI/CD
3 23 (53.49%) Agile
4 22 (51.16%) Finance
4 22 (51.16%) Banking
4 22 (51.16%) .NET
5 21 (48.84%) C#
5 21 (48.84%) Docker
5 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
6 18 (41.86%) React
6 18 (41.86%) JavaScript
7 17 (39.53%) SQL
7 17 (39.53%) DevOps
8 16 (37.21%) Mentoring
8 16 (37.21%) Microservices
8 16 (37.21%) Java
9 15 (34.88%) Git
9 15 (34.88%) GCP
10 12 (27.91%) GitHub
10 12 (27.91%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
11 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
11 11 (25.58%) TypeScript
11 11 (25.58%) RESTful
12 10 (23.26%) Test Automation
12 10 (23.26%) Azure
12 10 (23.26%) Spring
12 10 (23.26%) TDD
12 10 (23.26%) Clean Code
12 10 (23.26%) Spring Boot

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 3 (6.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (6.98%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) GCP
2 12 (27.91%) GitHub
3 10 (23.26%) Azure
4 7 (16.28%) SaaS
5 5 (11.63%) AWS
6 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) Apigee
8 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.33%) Modbus
1 1 (2.33%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (9.30%) Biml
2 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.30%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.65%) Big Data
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Endeca
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Git
2 7 (16.28%) JIRA
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (9.30%) CircleCI
4 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.30%) Visual Studio
5 2 (4.65%) GitLab
5 2 (4.65%) JUnit
5 2 (4.65%) Maven
5 2 (4.65%) Selenium
5 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (51.16%) Banking
1 22 (51.16%) Finance
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Retail Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Advertising
6 1 (2.33%) Automotive
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (51.16%) .NET
2 18 (41.86%) React
3 11 (25.58%) RESTful
4 10 (23.26%) Spring
4 10 (23.26%) Spring Boot
5 8 (18.60%) Node.js
6 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
6 7 (16.28%) JWT
6 7 (16.28%) OAuth
6 7 (16.28%) OAuth2
7 6 (13.95%) Kafka
8 5 (11.63%) .NET Core
8 5 (11.63%) Express.js
9 4 (9.30%) .NET Framework
10 3 (6.98%) CSS
10 3 (6.98%) J2EE
10 3 (6.98%) JSR 170
10 3 (6.98%) OSGi
11 2 (4.65%) HTML
11 2 (4.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Social Media
4 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (67.44%) CI/CD
3 23 (53.49%) Agile
4 17 (39.53%) DevOps
5 16 (37.21%) Mentoring
5 16 (37.21%) Microservices
6 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
7 10 (23.26%) Clean Code
7 10 (23.26%) TDD
7 10 (23.26%) Test Automation
8 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
8 8 (18.60%) Scrum
9 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.95%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.95%) SDLC
11 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (11.63%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) C#
2 18 (41.86%) JavaScript
3 17 (39.53%) SQL
4 16 (37.21%) Java
5 11 (25.58%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.63%) Go
6 5 (11.63%) PL/SQL
6 5 (11.63%) Python
7 4 (9.30%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.65%) C
8 2 (4.65%) C++
9 1 (2.33%) Elixir
9 1 (2.33%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.33%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.33%) Erlang
9 1 (2.33%) F#
9 1 (2.33%) Haskell
9 1 (2.33%) Lisp
9 1 (2.33%) PHP
9 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (48.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Adobe
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (2.33%) CyberSource
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) New Relic
3 1 (2.33%) Siemens