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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 40 12
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 241 88 194
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.83% 5.58% 9.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 6.13% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 191 71 166
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +24.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £71,806
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
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 2,900 1,436 1,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 70.12% 91.00% 77.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,185 754 848
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -0.04%
75th Percentile £74,985 £71,250 £71,229
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -0.47%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +9 197 £65,000 -7.14% 110
Halifax - 16 £60,000 - 3
Bingley - 8 £40,000 - 2
Bradford +3 6 £65,000 - 3
Huddersfield - 6 - - 1
Wakefield - 6 £65,000 - 4
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 (1.24%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.31%) AWS
2 36 (14.94%) Azure
3 19 (7.88%) GitHub
4 16 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (6.22%) GCP
6 10 (4.15%) SaaS
7 7 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.07%) Serverless
9 4 (1.66%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (1.66%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.24%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) 5G
1 2 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (2.90%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.07%) MySQL
3 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.66%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.83%) Metadata
6 2 (0.83%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.83%) Redis
6 2 (0.83%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (5.39%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.49%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.41%) JIRA
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 24 (9.96%) Social Skills
2 12 (4.98%) Retail
3 10 (4.15%) Manufacturing
3 10 (4.15%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.73%) Finance
5 8 (3.32%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.24%) Agriculture
6 3 (1.24%) Automotive
6 3 (1.24%) Banking
6 3 (1.24%) Legal
6 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
7 2 (0.83%) Advertising
7 2 (0.83%) Electronics
8 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.41%) Marketing
8 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (65.98%) Software Engineer
2 67 (27.80%) Senior
3 57 (23.65%) Senior Software Engineer
4 22 (9.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 21 (8.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 18 (7.47%) .NET Software Engineer
6 18 (7.47%) C# Software Engineer
7 17 (7.05%) Graduate
8 15 (6.22%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 15 (6.22%) Lead
9 14 (5.81%) Developer
10 13 (5.39%) Consultant
10 13 (5.39%) Java Engineer
10 13 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.15%) Engineering Manager
12 9 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) Junior
12 9 (3.73%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) Software Engineering Manager
12 9 (3.73%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.20%) .NET
2 25 (10.37%) React
3 20 (8.30%) Terraform
4 19 (7.88%) Node.js
5 13 (5.39%) Web Services
6 8 (3.32%) Vue
7 7 (2.90%) Blazor
7 7 (2.90%) CSS
7 7 (2.90%) HTML
7 7 (2.90%) RESTful
8 6 (2.49%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.49%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.49%) REST
9 5 (2.07%) Spring
10 3 (1.24%) Express.js
10 3 (1.24%) Kafka
10 3 (1.24%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.24%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.83%) A2A Protocol
11 2 (0.83%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.90%) AI Agents
3 7 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.49%) Robotics
5 5 (2.07%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.24%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (0.83%) IoT
7 2 (0.83%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.41%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.41%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.41%) PMI
8 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (17.01%) Agile
2 40 (16.60%) CI/CD
3 38 (15.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (15.35%) AI
5 27 (11.20%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (9.54%) Mentoring
6 23 (9.54%) Microservices
7 19 (7.88%) Computer Science
8 17 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (6.22%) Containerisation
10 15 (6.22%) Machine Learning
11 14 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (5.39%) Decision-Making
12 13 (5.39%) DevOps
12 13 (5.39%) LLM
12 13 (5.39%) Network Load Balancing
13 12 (4.98%) E-Commerce
13 12 (4.98%) SDLC
13 12 (4.98%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.58%) Python
2 44 (18.26%) Java
3 35 (14.52%) SQL
4 34 (14.11%) C#
5 24 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.39%) Groovy
8 7 (2.90%) Scala
9 6 (2.49%) Bash
9 6 (2.49%) Delphi
10 5 (2.07%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.07%) PHP
11 4 (1.66%) C++
11 4 (1.66%) Go
12 3 (1.24%) C
12 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.24%) Rust
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.64%) Degree
3 12 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.90%) PhD
5 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.66%) QA
3 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (7.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (3.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.49%) Google
3 5 (2.07%) Foundry
4 3 (1.24%) Databricks
5 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.83%) Palantir
5 2 (0.83%) Rockwell
5 2 (0.83%) Siemens
6 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.41%) SAP