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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 30 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 219 110 264
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.45% 7.11% 10.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 7.77% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 191 89 233
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £86,993
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -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 2,728 1,415 1,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 67.95% 91.47% 79.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,087 810 1,306
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.77%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +2 185 £65,000 -7.14% 63
Bradford -3 9 £65,000 - 1
Halifax -2 7 £65,000 +153.66% 1
Wakefield - 6 £65,000 -
Bingley - 6 £40,000 -
Huddersfield - 5 £70,000 - 2
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 (1.37%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.94%) AWS
2 33 (15.07%) Azure
3 17 (7.76%) SaaS
4 16 (7.31%) GitHub
5 12 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (5.02%) GCP
7 8 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.28%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.37%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.37%) Serverless
11 2 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (3.20%) BigQuery
1 7 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (3.20%) MySQL
2 6 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.91%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.91%) Redis
5 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.37%) Git
3 2 (0.91%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (9.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.94%) Retail
3 12 (5.48%) Manufacturing
4 10 (4.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 10 (4.57%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.65%) Finance
6 7 (3.20%) Agriculture
6 7 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.20%) Automotive
7 4 (1.83%) Electronics
8 2 (0.91%) Advertising
8 2 (0.91%) Legal
8 2 (0.91%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Games
9 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 146 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 64 (29.22%) Senior
3 53 (24.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 24 (10.96%) .NET Software Engineer
4 24 (10.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 24 (10.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 22 (10.05%) Developer
6 21 (9.59%) C# Software Engineer
6 21 (9.59%) Lead
7 17 (7.76%) Engineering Manager
8 16 (7.31%) Software Engineering Manager
8 16 (7.31%) Software Manager
9 14 (6.39%) Consultant
9 14 (6.39%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.48%) Graduate
10 12 (5.48%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 10 (4.57%) .NET Software Developer
11 10 (4.57%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.61%) React
2 29 (13.24%) .NET
3 19 (8.68%) Vue
4 17 (7.76%) Node.js
5 12 (5.48%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.48%) CSS
5 12 (5.48%) HTML
6 9 (4.11%) RESTful
6 9 (4.11%) Web Services
7 6 (2.74%) Blazor
8 5 (2.28%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.83%) A2A Protocol
9 4 (1.83%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (0.91%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.91%) LangChain
10 2 (0.91%) LangGraph
10 2 (0.91%) REST
10 2 (0.91%) Spring
10 2 (0.91%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.46%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.74%) Robotics
4 5 (2.28%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.28%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.37%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.91%) IoT
6 2 (0.91%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.46%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.46%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Android
2 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (17.81%) Agile
2 35 (15.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 32 (14.61%) CI/CD
4 31 (14.16%) Mentoring
5 30 (13.70%) AI
6 25 (11.42%) Microservices
7 22 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (8.22%) SDLC
9 17 (7.76%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (7.31%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (6.39%) E-Commerce
11 14 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (5.48%) Coaching
12 12 (5.48%) LLM
13 11 (5.02%) Computer Science
13 11 (5.02%) Observability
13 11 (5.02%) Software Delivery
14 10 (4.57%) Logistics
14 10 (4.57%) Resource Allocation
14 10 (4.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.18%) C#
1 42 (19.18%) Python
1 42 (19.18%) SQL
2 32 (14.61%) JavaScript
3 27 (12.33%) Java
4 26 (11.87%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.11%) Groovy
6 7 (3.20%) Scala
7 6 (2.74%) C++
8 5 (2.28%) C
8 5 (2.28%) PHP
9 4 (1.83%) Bash
9 4 (1.83%) Delphi
10 3 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.91%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.46%) COBOL
12 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (7.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.11%) Degree
3 8 (3.65%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (1.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.28%) QA
3 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Firmware
3 2 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (7.31%) Terraform
2 12 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.83%) Databricks
2 3 (1.37%) Foundry
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.91%) Google
3 2 (0.91%) OpenAI