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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 204 132 292
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.69% 9.76% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.36% 10.35% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 185 115 244
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,528 £69,813
90th Percentile £98,000 £140,677 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% +24.55% -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 2,440 1,275 2,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.10% 94.30% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,826 710 1,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,588 £39,660
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,598 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,753 £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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +4 191 £70,000 +2.19% 33
Bingley - 5 £40,000 -
Bradford - 3 £75,000 - 2
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Huddersfield - 1 £70,000 -
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 (1.47%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (28.92%) AWS
2 27 (13.24%) SaaS
3 25 (12.25%) Azure
4 13 (6.37%) GitHub
5 11 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.92%) GCP
8 7 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.43%) Serverless
9 6 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.49%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.49%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.49%) Datadog
13 1 (0.49%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.43%) DynamoDB
1 7 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.94%) MySQL
3 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.96%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.47%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.98%) Redis
6 2 (0.98%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.96%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 14 (6.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (4.41%) Finance
4 7 (3.43%) Agriculture
4 7 (3.43%) Automotive
4 7 (3.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.96%) Retail
7 2 (0.98%) Electronics
7 2 (0.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 132 (64.71%) Software Engineer
2 59 (28.92%) Senior
3 48 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (16.18%) Developer
5 24 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 24 (11.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 21 (10.29%) Lead
7 20 (9.80%) .NET Software Engineer
8 19 (9.31%) C# Software Engineer
9 16 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (7.35%) .NET Developer
10 15 (7.35%) .NET Software Developer
10 15 (7.35%) C# .NET Developer
10 15 (7.35%) C# Developer
10 15 (7.35%) C# Software Developer
10 15 (7.35%) Software Developer
11 14 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (6.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 13 (6.37%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 13 (6.37%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.14%) .NET
2 36 (17.65%) React
3 23 (11.27%) Vue
4 17 (8.33%) Node.js
5 13 (6.37%) CSS
5 13 (6.37%) HTML
6 12 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.88%) RESTful
7 8 (3.92%) Web Services
8 3 (1.47%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.47%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (1.47%) LangChain
8 3 (1.47%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.47%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (1.47%) REST
9 2 (0.98%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.98%) PySpark
10 1 (0.49%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.49%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.45%) AI Agents
3 5 (2.45%) e-Learning
4 4 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.98%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.98%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.49%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Android
2 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 36 (17.65%) Agile
2 36 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 35 (17.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (15.69%) AI
5 27 (13.24%) CI/CD
6 26 (12.75%) Microservices
6 26 (12.75%) SDLC
7 21 (10.29%) Coaching
8 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (8.33%) Product Vision
9 17 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
10 16 (7.84%) Analytics
11 15 (7.35%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (6.37%) DevOps
12 13 (6.37%) Observability
13 12 (5.88%) CQRS
13 12 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (4.90%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (4.90%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.00%) C#
2 45 (22.06%) Python
3 37 (18.14%) JavaScript
4 30 (14.71%) SQL
4 30 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.29%) Java
6 8 (3.92%) Groovy
7 4 (1.96%) Scala
8 3 (1.47%) C++
8 3 (1.47%) PHP
9 2 (0.98%) C
9 2 (0.98%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 6 (2.94%) Degree
1 6 (2.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.96%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.96%) QA
2 3 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.98%) GDPR
3 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (4.90%) Docker
2 7 (3.43%) Firmware
3 2 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.80%) Terraform
2 10 (4.90%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.41%) Cisco
2 9 (4.41%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.47%) Databricks
3 3 (1.47%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.98%) Google
5 1 (0.49%) Foundry