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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 25 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 214 122 264
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.46% 7.83% 10.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.97% 8.53% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 189 101 233
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,250 £45,000
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 £90,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £90,500 £98,474 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -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 2,684 1,430 1,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.42% 91.73% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,053 823 1,321
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.33%

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 3 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 3 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 +3 182 £65,000 -6.14% 65
Bradford -4 9 £65,000 - 1
Halifax -3 7 £65,000 +153.66%
Bingley - 6 £40,000 -
Wakefield - 5 £65,000 - 2
Huddersfield - 4 £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 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (28.50%) AWS
2 33 (15.42%) Azure
3 18 (8.41%) SaaS
4 15 (7.01%) GitHub
5 11 (5.14%) GCP
5 11 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.80%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.87%) Serverless
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (1.40%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (3.27%) BigQuery
1 7 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (3.27%) MySQL
2 6 (2.80%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.34%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.93%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.93%) Redis
5 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.74%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.40%) Git
3 2 (0.93%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (9.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (4.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (4.67%) Retail
3 9 (4.21%) Manufacturing
4 8 (3.74%) Finance
5 7 (3.27%) Agriculture
5 7 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.27%) Automotive
5 7 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (1.87%) Electronics
7 2 (0.93%) Advertising
7 2 (0.93%) Legal
7 2 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.47%) Games
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 141 (65.89%) Software Engineer
2 64 (29.91%) Senior
3 52 (24.30%) Senior Software Engineer
4 25 (11.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 25 (11.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 24 (11.21%) .NET Software Engineer
5 24 (11.21%) Developer
6 21 (9.81%) C# Software Engineer
6 21 (9.81%) Lead
7 17 (7.94%) Engineering Manager
8 16 (7.48%) Software Engineering Manager
8 16 (7.48%) Software Manager
9 14 (6.54%) Consultant
9 14 (6.54%) Lead Software Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.14%) .NET Developer
11 11 (5.14%) .NET Software Developer
11 11 (5.14%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (5.14%) C# Developer
11 11 (5.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.89%) React
2 30 (14.02%) .NET
3 20 (9.35%) Vue
4 18 (8.41%) Node.js
5 13 (6.07%) CSS
5 13 (6.07%) HTML
6 12 (5.61%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.67%) RESTful
8 8 (3.74%) Web Services
9 6 (2.80%) Blazor
10 5 (2.34%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.87%) A2A Protocol
11 4 (1.87%) Model Context Protocol
12 2 (0.93%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.93%) LangChain
12 2 (0.93%) LangGraph
12 2 (0.93%) REST
12 2 (0.93%) Spring
12 2 (0.93%) Spring Boot
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.80%) Robotics
4 5 (2.34%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.34%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.93%) IoT
6 2 (0.93%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.93%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Android
2 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (18.22%) Agile
2 36 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (15.42%) CI/CD
4 31 (14.49%) AI
4 31 (14.49%) Mentoring
5 27 (12.62%) Microservices
6 23 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (8.88%) SDLC
8 17 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (7.01%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (5.61%) Coaching
11 12 (5.61%) LLM
11 12 (5.61%) Observability
12 11 (5.14%) Computer Science
12 11 (5.14%) CQRS
12 11 (5.14%) E-Commerce
12 11 (5.14%) Product Vision
12 11 (5.14%) Resource Allocation
13 10 (4.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.09%) C#
2 42 (19.63%) Python
3 39 (18.22%) SQL
4 33 (15.42%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.08%) Java
5 28 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.74%) Groovy
7 7 (3.27%) Scala
8 6 (2.80%) C++
9 5 (2.34%) C
9 5 (2.34%) PHP
10 4 (1.87%) Bash
11 3 (1.40%) Delphi
11 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.47%) COBOL
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (7.01%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.21%) Degree
3 7 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.34%) QA
3 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.61%) Docker
2 5 (2.34%) Firmware
3 2 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (7.48%) Terraform
2 11 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.87%) Databricks
2 3 (1.40%) Foundry
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.93%) Google
3 2 (0.93%) OpenAI