Software Engineering Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 38 11
Rank change year-on-year +19 -27 +11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 227 83 258
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.44% 5.53% 11.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 6.15% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 189 65 224
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +24.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £90,000 £86,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% +24.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,876 1,350 1,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.92% 89.94% 77.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,218 750 1,089
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £82,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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 +11 188 £65,000 -7.14% 87
Halifax -2 12 £65,000 +19.05% 1
Huddersfield - 7 £70,000 - 2
Bradford -3 6 £65,000 -
Bingley - 6 £40,000 -
Wakefield - 6 £65,000 - 4
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.55%) AWS
2 30 (13.22%) Azure
3 18 (7.93%) GitHub
4 15 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (5.73%) SaaS
7 11 (4.85%) GCP
8 7 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.76%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (1.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.32%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.88%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) 5G
1 2 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (3.08%) BigQuery
1 7 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.20%) MySQL
2 5 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.88%) Redis
5 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.76%) Git
3 2 (0.88%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 19 (8.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
2 11 (4.85%) Retail
3 10 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (3.52%) Finance
5 7 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.64%) Agriculture
6 6 (2.64%) Automotive
7 3 (1.32%) Electronics
7 3 (1.32%) Legal
8 2 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (66.52%) Software Engineer
2 66 (29.07%) Senior
3 54 (23.79%) Senior Software Engineer
4 23 (10.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 22 (9.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 21 (9.25%) .NET Software Engineer
6 21 (9.25%) C# Software Engineer
7 18 (7.93%) Lead
8 17 (7.49%) Developer
9 13 (5.73%) Consultant
9 13 (5.73%) Engineering Manager
10 12 (5.29%) Graduate
10 12 (5.29%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 12 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.29%) Software Engineering Manager
10 12 (5.29%) Software Manager
11 11 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (3.96%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.89%) React
2 25 (11.01%) .NET
3 17 (7.49%) Terraform
4 15 (6.61%) Node.js
4 15 (6.61%) Vue
5 12 (5.29%) Web Services
6 10 (4.41%) AngularJS
6 10 (4.41%) CSS
6 10 (4.41%) HTML
7 7 (3.08%) RESTful
8 6 (2.64%) Blazor
9 5 (2.20%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.20%) REST
10 4 (1.76%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (1.76%) Spring
11 3 (1.32%) A2A Protocol
11 3 (1.32%) Kafka
12 2 (0.88%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.64%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.64%) Robotics
5 5 (2.20%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.88%) IoT
7 2 (0.88%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.44%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.44%) PMI
8 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (17.18%) Agile
2 34 (14.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (14.54%) CI/CD
4 31 (13.66%) AI
5 26 (11.45%) Mentoring
6 23 (10.13%) Microservices
6 23 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (6.61%) SDLC
9 15 (6.61%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (6.17%) Containerisation
11 13 (5.73%) Software Delivery
12 12 (5.29%) Computer Science
12 12 (5.29%) E-Commerce
12 12 (5.29%) LLM
12 12 (5.29%) Network Load Balancing
13 11 (4.85%) Observability
13 11 (4.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (4.41%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.26%) Python
2 38 (16.74%) C#
3 37 (16.30%) SQL
4 32 (14.10%) Java
5 27 (11.89%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.69%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.29%) Groovy
8 7 (3.08%) Scala
9 6 (2.64%) Bash
9 6 (2.64%) Delphi
10 5 (2.20%) C++
10 5 (2.20%) PHP
11 4 (1.76%) C
12 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) COBOL
13 1 (0.44%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.96%) Degree
4 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (1.76%) PhD
6 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.76%) QA
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (7.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.76%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.32%) Databricks
2 3 (1.32%) Foundry
3 2 (0.88%) Google
3 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.44%) SAP