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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 201 142 248
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.95% 11.27% 8.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 11.84% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 174 131 209
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +14.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,528 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,677 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -12.00%

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 2,355 1,199 2,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.74% 95.16% 85.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,651 695 1,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

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 May 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 May 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 -5 188 £70,000 +3.32% 53
Bradford -14 5 £75,000 +42.86% 5
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Bingley - 3 £40,000 - 1
Huddersfield -8 1 £70,000 +33.33%
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 2 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.86%) AWS
2 30 (14.93%) SaaS
3 21 (10.45%) Azure
4 9 (4.48%) Amazon S3
4 9 (4.48%) GitHub
5 8 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (3.98%) Serverless
6 7 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.99%) GCP
8 4 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.50%) Datadog
11 1 (0.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.48%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.99%) MySQL
4 4 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.00%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.00%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.49%) Git
3 2 (1.00%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 17 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (7.96%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.48%) Manufacturing
3 9 (4.48%) Retail
4 7 (3.48%) Agriculture
4 7 (3.48%) Automotive
4 7 (3.48%) Finance
5 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.99%) Marketing
6 4 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Electronics
9 1 (0.50%) Advertising
9 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 119 (59.20%) Software Engineer
2 50 (24.88%) Senior
3 39 (19.40%) Senior Software Engineer
4 31 (15.42%) Developer
5 20 (9.95%) Lead
6 19 (9.45%) Software Manager
7 17 (8.46%) .NET Software Engineer
8 16 (7.96%) Lead Software Engineer
9 15 (7.46%) Software Developer
10 13 (6.47%) .NET Developer
10 13 (6.47%) .NET Software Developer
10 13 (6.47%) C# .NET Developer
10 13 (6.47%) C# Developer
10 13 (6.47%) C# Software Developer
10 13 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 11 (5.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 11 (5.47%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.90%) .NET
2 28 (13.93%) React
3 21 (10.45%) Vue
4 14 (6.97%) Node.js
5 13 (6.47%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.97%) CSS
6 12 (5.97%) HTML
7 11 (5.47%) RESTful
8 6 (2.99%) Web Services
9 5 (2.49%) REST
10 3 (1.49%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.00%) Apache Cordova
11 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.00%) HTML5
11 2 (1.00%) Ionic Framework
11 2 (1.00%) jQuery
11 2 (1.00%) LangChain
11 2 (1.00%) LangGraph
11 2 (1.00%) Model Context Protocol
11 2 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.99%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.00%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (20.90%) Agile
2 41 (20.40%) Mentoring
3 39 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (15.42%) SDLC
5 28 (13.93%) AI
5 28 (13.93%) Coaching
6 26 (12.94%) Analytics
7 25 (12.44%) CI/CD
8 23 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (11.44%) Microservices
9 22 (10.95%) Product Vision
9 22 (10.95%) Resource Allocation
10 19 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (8.46%) DevOps
12 15 (7.46%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (5.47%) Observability
14 10 (4.98%) CQRS
14 10 (4.98%) E-Commerce
14 10 (4.98%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (4.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.38%) C#
2 42 (20.90%) Python
3 32 (15.92%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.93%) TypeScript
5 27 (13.43%) SQL
6 24 (11.94%) Java
7 7 (3.48%) C++
8 6 (2.99%) C
8 6 (2.99%) Groovy
9 4 (1.99%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.49%) PHP
10 3 (1.49%) Scala
11 2 (1.00%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.50%) Bash
12 1 (0.50%) COBOL
12 1 (0.50%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 11 (5.47%) Degree
2 7 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.49%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.99%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.49%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.49%) GDPR
2 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.48%) Docker
2 7 (3.48%) Firmware
3 2 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (9.45%) Terraform
2 8 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.46%) Cisco
2 17 (8.46%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.00%) Adobe
3 2 (1.00%) Databricks
3 2 (1.00%) Google
3 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.50%) New Relic