Software Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £52,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 80 60
Rank change year-on-year +53 -20 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 191 191 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.24% 3.90% 4.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.48% 4.20% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 129 101 151
10th Percentile - £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,350 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £76,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +1.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,948 4,548 4,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 92.95% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 2,253 3,087
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +0.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,750 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.88% +7.00% +5.26%

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 25 May 2024.

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 25 May 2024. 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 +18 124 £48,507 -23.00% 17
Hebden Bridge - 19 - -
Wakefield +29 14 £55,000 -
Halifax +55 11 £73,038 +18.76% 1
Wetherby - 11 £65,000 - 2
Bradford +31 9 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Huddersfield +25 2 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 £30,000 -
Software Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, 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.

1 191 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 70 (36.65%) JavaScript
3 58 (30.37%) Azure
3 58 (30.37%) React
4 56 (29.32%) .NET
5 52 (27.23%) Python
6 51 (26.70%) DevOps
7 48 (25.13%) AWS
8 46 (24.08%) C#
9 45 (23.56%) Agile
10 35 (18.32%) CSS
11 34 (17.80%) Security Cleared
11 34 (17.80%) .NET Core
12 33 (17.28%) SC Cleared
12 33 (17.28%) Web Development
13 31 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (16.23%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (14.66%) GeoServer
14 28 (14.66%) OpenLayers
14 28 (14.66%) QGIS
14 28 (14.66%) PostGIS
14 28 (14.66%) Leaflet
14 28 (14.66%) GIS
14 28 (14.66%) ESRI
14 28 (14.66%) ArcGIS
15 27 (14.14%) AngularJS
16 26 (13.61%) SQL
17 24 (12.57%) TypeScript
17 24 (12.57%) Full Stack Development
18 21 (10.99%) Electronics

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 28 (14.66%) ArcGIS
1 28 (14.66%) GeoServer
2 5 (2.62%) NServiceBus
3 4 (2.09%) Captiva
3 4 (2.09%) FileNet
3 4 (2.09%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (30.37%) Azure
2 48 (25.13%) AWS
3 17 (8.90%) GitHub
4 11 (5.76%) GCP
5 8 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.62%) Firebase
7 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (14.66%) GIS
2 28 (14.66%) QGIS
3 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.14%) MySQL
5 3 (1.57%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) CircleCI
1 8 (4.19%) Git
2 7 (3.66%) Cypress.io
2 7 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.66%) JIRA
2 7 (3.66%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.57%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.57%) Toad
4 2 (1.05%) JDeveloper
4 2 (1.05%) Selenium
5 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 21 (10.99%) Electronics
2 17 (8.90%) Automotive
3 15 (7.85%) Finance
4 14 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.28%) Legal
6 11 (5.76%) Banking
7 10 (5.24%) Social Skills
8 8 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.14%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.62%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.05%) Agriculture
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Law
13 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (30.37%) React
2 56 (29.32%) .NET
3 35 (18.32%) CSS
4 34 (17.80%) .NET Core
5 28 (14.66%) Leaflet
5 28 (14.66%) OpenLayers
5 28 (14.66%) PostGIS
6 27 (14.14%) AngularJS
7 18 (9.42%) Vue
8 13 (6.81%) RESTful
9 12 (6.28%) Node.js
10 8 (4.19%) ASP.NET
11 7 (3.66%) HTML
12 5 (2.62%) Apache Cordova
12 5 (2.62%) Jest
12 5 (2.62%) Svelte
12 5 (2.62%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (2.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 4 (2.09%) Django
14 3 (1.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.28%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.19%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.09%) DataPower
3 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.09%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.09%) Robotics
4 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.05%) NHS
6 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.52%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (0.52%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.33%) Linux
2 8 (4.19%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (3.14%) Android
4 5 (2.62%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.09%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.09%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (26.70%) DevOps
3 45 (23.56%) Agile
4 33 (17.28%) Web Development
5 31 (16.23%) Actionable Insight
6 24 (12.57%) Full Stack Development
7 19 (9.95%) Microservices
8 17 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (6.81%) Computer Science
10 12 (6.28%) Containerisation
11 11 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (5.76%) TDD
11 11 (5.76%) Test Automation
12 10 (5.24%) CI/CD
12 10 (5.24%) OOP
13 9 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (4.19%) Coaching
14 8 (4.19%) Deployment Automation
15 6 (3.14%) Front End Development
15 6 (3.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 70 (36.65%) JavaScript
2 52 (27.23%) Python
3 46 (24.08%) C#
4 26 (13.61%) SQL
5 24 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.90%) Java
7 15 (7.85%) C
8 11 (5.76%) C++
9 5 (2.62%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.57%) Perl
10 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.05%) Bash
11 2 (1.05%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.05%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.05%) Go
11 2 (1.05%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.52%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.47%) Degree
4 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.09%) GDPR
1 4 (2.09%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.28%) Docker
2 8 (4.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (6.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (14.66%) ESRI
2 9 (4.71%) Oracle
3 7 (3.66%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.09%) IBM
4 4 (2.09%) Kofax
4 4 (2.09%) Pega
4 4 (2.09%) SAP
4 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.52%) F5
5 1 (0.52%) Workday