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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -27 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 83 258 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.53% 11.26% 10.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 14.56% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65 224 198
10th Percentile £30,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,375 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £68,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +24.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and 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 1,350 1,772 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 89.94% 77.31% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 750 1,089 1,711
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering 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 2025.

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 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 -17 57 £70,000 +16.67% 37
Knottingley - 5 - -
Halifax -1 4 £54,601 +21.34%
Pontefract - 4 - -
Castleford - 4 - -
Brighouse - 4 £30,500 -
Bradford -11 1 - - 10
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
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 2 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.41%) Confluence
1 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.82%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Sage 200
2 2 (2.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) Azure
2 18 (21.69%) AWS
3 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.84%) GitHub
4 8 (9.64%) GCP
5 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.23%) SaaS
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.61%) Serverless
7 2 (2.41%) Apigee
7 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.20%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) AMQP
1 2 (2.41%) MQTT
2 1 (1.20%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.20%) Modbus
2 1 (1.20%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) DynamoDB
1 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.41%) Endeca
3 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.41%) Redis
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.20%) Big Data
4 1 (1.20%) ClickHouse
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.61%) GitLab
3 3 (3.61%) Selenium
4 2 (2.41%) JIRA
4 2 (2.41%) JUnit
4 2 (2.41%) Maven
4 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Finance
4 10 (12.05%) Banking
5 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Law
7 3 (3.61%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Legal
8 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Advertising
9 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Software Engineer
2 22 (26.51%) Senior
3 13 (15.66%) PLC Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Lead
5 9 (10.84%) .NET Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (4.82%) C# Software Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Graduate Support Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Graduate Technical Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Graduate Technical Support
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (4.82%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Software Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Software Support Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.12%) .NET
2 22 (26.51%) React
3 12 (14.46%) AngularJS
4 10 (12.05%) RESTful
5 7 (8.43%) Node.js
6 6 (7.23%) .NET Core
6 6 (7.23%) GraphQL
6 6 (7.23%) REST
6 6 (7.23%) Spring
6 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.82%) Software Packaging
7 4 (4.82%) Vue
8 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.61%) CSS
8 3 (3.61%) Flutter
8 3 (3.61%) HTML
8 3 (3.61%) JSON
8 3 (3.61%) Kafka
8 3 (3.61%) XML
9 2 (2.41%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Cyberattack
1 13 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Renewable Energy
2 11 (13.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) iPad
6 1 (1.20%) iPhone
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Social Media
6 1 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Unix
2 2 (2.41%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.53%) DevOps
2 26 (31.33%) Agile
2 26 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (30.12%) CI/CD
4 18 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (21.69%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (20.48%) Project Delivery
6 15 (18.07%) Mentoring
7 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (13.25%) Microservices
9 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (9.64%) Containerisation
10 8 (9.64%) Scrum
11 7 (8.43%) Computer Science
11 7 (8.43%) Kanban
11 7 (8.43%) TDD
11 7 (8.43%) Test Automation
12 6 (7.23%) ERP
12 6 (7.23%) Fintech
13 5 (6.02%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.33%) C#
2 24 (28.92%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.87%) Java
3 14 (16.87%) SQL
4 13 (15.66%) TypeScript
5 12 (14.46%) Python
6 10 (12.05%) Go
7 4 (4.82%) Delphi
8 3 (3.61%) C++
9 2 (2.41%) Ruby
10 1 (1.20%) Bash
10 1 (1.20%) C
10 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.20%) PHP
10 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.20%) R
10 1 (1.20%) Swift
10 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) HND
2 12 (14.46%) Degree
3 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.20%) MCSD
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (15.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.69%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.66%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.82%) Autodesk
2 4 (4.82%) Sage
3 3 (3.61%) Adobe
4 2 (2.41%) Google
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.20%) CyberSource
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) New Relic
5 1 (1.20%) Siemens