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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 195 129 294
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.29% 8.41% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.67% 9.10% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 182 104 250
10th Percentile £40,250 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £94,708 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,677 £85,217
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 2,544 1,418 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.96% 92.50% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 811 1,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,818 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -1 171 £70,000 - 45
Bradford -5 7 £65,000 - 5
Halifax -5 6 £65,000 -22.23% 10
Bingley - 6 £40,000 -
Brighouse - 2 £60,000 -
Huddersfield - 1 £70,000 - 11
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 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.79%) AWS
2 30 (15.38%) Azure
3 20 (10.26%) SaaS
4 14 (7.18%) GitHub
5 11 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.62%) GCP
8 8 (4.10%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (3.08%) Serverless
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.54%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.51%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.59%) DynamoDB
1 7 (3.59%) MySQL
2 6 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (3.08%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.54%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.03%) Redis
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.05%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.51%) GitLab
General
1 19 (9.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.13%) Finance
3 8 (4.10%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.59%) Agriculture
4 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.59%) Automotive
5 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.54%) Electronics
6 3 (1.54%) Retail
7 2 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 127 (65.13%) Software Engineer
2 57 (29.23%) Senior
3 48 (24.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 28 (14.36%) Developer
5 27 (13.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 27 (13.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 23 (11.79%) Lead
7 22 (11.28%) .NET Software Engineer
8 20 (10.26%) C# Software Engineer
9 16 (8.21%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (6.67%) .NET Developer
11 13 (6.67%) .NET Software Developer
11 13 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
11 13 (6.67%) C# Developer
11 13 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
11 13 (6.67%) Consultant
11 13 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 13 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 13 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.97%) React
2 30 (15.38%) .NET
3 23 (11.79%) Vue
4 19 (9.74%) Node.js
5 13 (6.67%) CSS
5 13 (6.67%) HTML
6 12 (6.15%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.13%) RESTful
8 8 (4.10%) Web Services
9 4 (2.05%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.05%) Blazor
10 3 (1.54%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (1.54%) LangChain
10 3 (1.54%) LangGraph
10 3 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
11 2 (1.03%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.03%) REST
12 1 (0.51%) Kafka
12 1 (0.51%) Laravel
12 1 (0.51%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.08%) AI Agents
3 6 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.56%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.05%) Robotics
6 3 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.03%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.03%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.51%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) IoT
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
2 35 (17.95%) Agile
3 31 (15.90%) AI
4 30 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 29 (14.87%) CI/CD
6 25 (12.82%) Microservices
7 22 (11.28%) SDLC
8 17 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (6.67%) Observability
10 13 (6.67%) Product Vision
10 13 (6.67%) Resource Allocation
11 12 (6.15%) Coaching
11 12 (6.15%) CQRS
11 12 (6.15%) LLM
12 11 (5.64%) DevOps
13 10 (5.13%) Software Delivery
13 10 (5.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (23.59%) Python
2 44 (22.56%) C#
3 36 (18.46%) JavaScript
4 31 (15.90%) SQL
4 31 (15.90%) TypeScript
5 25 (12.82%) Java
6 8 (4.10%) Groovy
7 6 (3.08%) Scala
8 5 (2.56%) Bash
8 5 (2.56%) PHP
9 3 (1.54%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) C
10 2 (1.03%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.51%) COBOL
11 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.08%) Degree
2 6 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.56%) QA
3 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.03%) GDPR
4 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.13%) Docker
2 7 (3.59%) Firmware
3 2 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (9.74%) Terraform
2 10 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (2.05%) Databricks
2 3 (1.54%) Foundry
2 3 (1.54%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.03%) Google
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft