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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 12
Rank change year-on-year +13 -21 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 230 104 268
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.55% 6.80% 10.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 7.51% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 193 84 237
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,563 £71,991
90th Percentile £94,500 £93,778 £84,964
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 2,834 1,385 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.34% 90.52% 78.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,183 788 1,264
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £74,548 £71,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -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 28 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 28 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 +2 190 £65,000 -6.14% 97
Halifax -1 10 £65,000 +153.66% 3
Bradford -1 9 £65,000 - 1
Huddersfield - 7 £70,000 - 2
Bingley - 6 £40,000 -
Wakefield - 6 £65,000 - 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 (1.30%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (24.78%) AWS
2 33 (14.35%) Azure
3 19 (8.26%) GitHub
4 15 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (6.09%) SaaS
6 11 (4.78%) GCP
7 8 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.30%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.30%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) 5G
1 2 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (3.04%) BigQuery
1 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.17%) MySQL
2 5 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.30%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.87%) Redis
5 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.74%) Git
3 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 20 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.09%) Retail
3 11 (4.78%) Manufacturing
4 10 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (3.91%) Finance
6 7 (3.04%) Agriculture
6 7 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.04%) Automotive
6 7 (3.04%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.30%) Electronics
7 3 (1.30%) Legal
7 3 (1.30%) Marketing
8 2 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (64.78%) Software Engineer
2 63 (27.39%) Senior
3 52 (22.61%) Senior Software Engineer
4 23 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 22 (9.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 21 (9.13%) .NET Software Engineer
6 21 (9.13%) C# Software Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) Lead
8 17 (7.39%) Developer
9 16 (6.96%) Engineering Manager
10 15 (6.52%) Software Engineering Manager
10 15 (6.52%) Software Manager
11 14 (6.09%) Consultant
12 13 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Embedded Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Graduate
13 12 (5.22%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.61%) React
2 25 (10.87%) .NET
3 18 (7.83%) Terraform
4 17 (7.39%) Vue
5 15 (6.52%) Node.js
6 12 (5.22%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.22%) Web Services
7 10 (4.35%) CSS
7 10 (4.35%) HTML
8 7 (3.04%) RESTful
9 6 (2.61%) Blazor
10 5 (2.17%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.74%) A2A Protocol
11 4 (1.74%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (1.74%) REST
12 3 (1.30%) LangChain
12 3 (1.30%) LangGraph
12 3 (1.30%) Spring
13 2 (0.87%) .NET Framework
13 2 (0.87%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.61%) AI Agents
3 6 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.61%) Robotics
4 5 (2.17%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) IoT
6 2 (0.87%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.87%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.43%) PMI
7 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (16.52%) Agile
2 34 (14.78%) CI/CD
2 34 (14.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 32 (13.91%) AI
4 28 (12.17%) Mentoring
5 23 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (9.57%) Microservices
7 17 (7.39%) SDLC
8 16 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (6.52%) E-Commerce
10 14 (6.09%) Containerisation
10 14 (6.09%) LLM
11 13 (5.65%) Software Delivery
12 12 (5.22%) Computer Science
12 12 (5.22%) Network Load Balancing
13 11 (4.78%) DevOps
13 11 (4.78%) Observability
13 11 (4.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.00%) Python
2 40 (17.39%) C#
2 40 (17.39%) SQL
3 29 (12.61%) JavaScript
4 27 (11.74%) Java
5 23 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.22%) Groovy
7 7 (3.04%) Scala
8 6 (2.61%) Bash
8 6 (2.61%) Delphi
9 5 (2.17%) C++
9 5 (2.17%) PHP
10 4 (1.74%) C
11 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) COBOL
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.78%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.91%) Degree
4 5 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.87%) PhD
7 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.61%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.61%) QA
2 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.87%) GDPR
3 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.74%) Databricks
3 3 (1.30%) Foundry
3 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.87%) Google
5 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.43%) SAP