Software Engineering Jobs in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 13 27
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -15
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 132 319 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.60% 10.03% 8.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 12.29% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 108 253 258
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £41,243
25th Percentile £39,313 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £97,507 £70,000 £78,491
90th Percentile £140,677 £86,993 £89,852
Yorkshire median annual salary £68,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +24.55% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and 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 1,426 2,596 4,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.96% 81.64% 97.75%
Number of salaries quoted 804 1,793 2,171
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £69,914 £72,823
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,964 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £54,545
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.33% +6.99%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 81 £70,000 +16.67% 202
Halifax 0 31 £86,119 +72.24% 4
Knottingley - 5 - -
Castleford - 4 - -
Pontefract - 4 - -
Wakefield -2 2 £82,500 +17.86% 23
Heckmondwike - 1 £50,000 -
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (2.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.67%) Azure
2 19 (14.39%) AWS
3 18 (13.64%) GCP
4 15 (11.36%) GitHub
4 15 (11.36%) SaaS
5 14 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.79%) Serverless
9 2 (1.52%) Apigee
9 2 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.76%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.76%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.76%) Modbus
1 1 (0.76%) MQTT
1 1 (0.76%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (3.03%) Biml
3 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.03%) Power BI
3 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.27%) Big Data
4 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.52%) Endeca
5 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.52%) MySQL
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (12.12%) Git
2 8 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.30%) JIRA
4 5 (3.79%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.03%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.27%) GitLab
6 3 (2.27%) Selenium
7 2 (1.52%) JUnit
7 2 (1.52%) Maven
7 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (50.76%) Finance
2 65 (49.24%) Banking
3 37 (28.03%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Marketing
7 3 (2.27%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Electronics
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (29.55%) Software Engineer
2 37 (28.03%) Senior
3 23 (17.42%) Lead
4 16 (12.12%) Software Manager
5 14 (10.61%) Engineering Manager
5 14 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (9.85%) Lead Software Engineer
6 13 (9.85%) PLC Engineer
6 13 (9.85%) Software Engineering Manager
7 12 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
7 12 (9.09%) Senior Manager
8 8 (6.06%) Developer
9 7 (5.30%) Architect
10 6 (4.55%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.79%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Junior
11 5 (3.79%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.03%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
13 3 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 3 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.52%) .NET
2 32 (24.24%) React
3 24 (18.18%) Software Packaging
4 14 (10.61%) AngularJS
4 14 (10.61%) Node.js
5 13 (9.85%) .NET Core
6 12 (9.09%) RESTful
7 8 (6.06%) Kafka
8 7 (5.30%) Spring
8 7 (5.30%) Spring Boot
9 6 (4.55%) Express.js
10 5 (3.79%) REST
11 4 (3.03%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.03%) CSS
11 4 (3.03%) GraphQL
12 3 (2.27%) ASP.NET
12 3 (2.27%) Flutter
12 3 (2.27%) JWT
12 3 (2.27%) Plotly
12 3 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.61%) Cyberattack
2 14 (10.61%) Product Ownership
3 13 (9.85%) Renewable Energy
4 11 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.06%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.55%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.27%) Clustering
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.76%) iPad
10 1 (0.76%) iPhone
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) Social Media
10 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.55%) zOS
2 2 (1.52%) Linux
2 2 (1.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.64%) Agile
2 48 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 41 (31.06%) DevOps
4 38 (28.79%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (23.48%) Mentoring
5 31 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (21.97%) Fintech
7 28 (21.21%) Mathematics
8 26 (19.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 26 (19.70%) Line Management
9 22 (16.67%) Coaching
9 22 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (16.67%) Microservices
9 22 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 17 (12.88%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (10.61%) Project Delivery
12 12 (9.09%) Risk Management
13 10 (7.58%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (7.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.03%) JavaScript
2 34 (25.76%) C#
3 25 (18.94%) Java
4 21 (15.91%) SQL
5 18 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.12%) Python
7 10 (7.58%) Go
8 5 (3.79%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.79%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.27%) C++
9 3 (2.27%) PHP
10 2 (1.52%) C
10 2 (1.52%) F#
10 2 (1.52%) Haskell
11 1 (0.76%) Elixir
11 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.76%) PureScript
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) Scala
11 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (21.97%) Degree
2 13 (9.85%) HND
3 4 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.76%) MCSD
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (23.48%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.85%) Terraform
3 2 (1.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.30%) Oracle
3 6 (4.55%) IBM
4 4 (3.03%) Adobe
5 1 (0.76%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.76%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.76%) Databricks
5 1 (0.76%) Google
5 1 (0.76%) New Relic
5 1 (0.76%) Siemens