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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 197 153 242
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.98% 12.71% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.45% 13.40% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 166 136 204
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +15.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,507 £71,991
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% -10.57%

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 2,330 1,142 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 70.73% 94.85% 85.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,599 700 1,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -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 7 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 7 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 -5 185 £70,000 +3.70% 59
Bradford -12 6 £75,000 +42.86% 1
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Huddersfield -9 1 £70,000 +33.33%
Bingley - 1 £40,000 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 53 (26.90%) AWS
2 31 (15.74%) SaaS
3 19 (9.64%) Azure
4 8 (4.06%) Amazon S3
4 8 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (4.06%) GitHub
4 8 (4.06%) Serverless
5 7 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.54%) GCP
7 3 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.02%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.51%) Datadog
9 1 (0.51%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.61%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.06%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.52%) MySQL
4 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.02%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.02%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.02%) Git
2 2 (1.02%) GitLab
3 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 21 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (8.63%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.58%) Retail
4 10 (5.08%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.55%) Agriculture
5 7 (3.55%) Automotive
5 7 (3.55%) Finance
6 5 (2.54%) Marketing
6 5 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.02%) Advertising
8 2 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Electronics
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 107 (54.31%) Software Engineer
2 45 (22.84%) Senior
3 34 (17.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 29 (14.72%) Developer
5 23 (11.68%) Software Manager
6 17 (8.63%) Lead
7 15 (7.61%) Development Manager
7 15 (7.61%) Software Developer
7 15 (7.61%) Software Development Manager
8 14 (7.11%) .NET Development Manager
8 14 (7.11%) .NET Software Engineer
8 14 (7.11%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (5.58%) Analyst
9 11 (5.58%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.58%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 10 (5.08%) .NET Developer
10 10 (5.08%) .NET Software Developer
10 10 (5.08%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.08%) C# Software Developer
10 10 (5.08%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.81%) .NET
2 28 (14.21%) React
3 18 (9.14%) Vue
4 13 (6.60%) AngularJS
5 12 (6.09%) Node.js
6 10 (5.08%) RESTful
7 9 (4.57%) CSS
7 9 (4.57%) HTML
8 6 (3.05%) Web Services
9 5 (2.54%) REST
10 3 (1.52%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.02%) Apache Cordova
11 2 (1.02%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.02%) HTML5
11 2 (1.02%) Ionic Framework
11 2 (1.02%) jQuery
11 2 (1.02%) LangChain
11 2 (1.02%) LangGraph
11 2 (1.02%) Model Context Protocol
11 2 (1.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.54%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.02%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.51%) Life Science
5 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.51%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.09%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (22.84%) Agile
2 41 (20.81%) Mentoring
3 40 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (15.23%) SDLC
5 29 (14.72%) Analytics
5 29 (14.72%) Coaching
6 27 (13.71%) AI
7 23 (11.68%) CI/CD
8 22 (11.17%) Product Vision
8 22 (11.17%) Resource Allocation
9 19 (9.64%) Microservices
10 18 (9.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (9.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (8.63%) DevOps
12 15 (7.61%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (6.09%) E-Commerce
14 11 (5.58%) Observability
14 11 (5.58%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (5.08%) Computer Science
16 9 (4.57%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.37%) C#
2 41 (20.81%) Python
3 28 (14.21%) JavaScript
3 28 (14.21%) TypeScript
4 25 (12.69%) SQL
5 21 (10.66%) Java
6 7 (3.55%) C
6 7 (3.55%) C++
7 6 (3.05%) Groovy
8 5 (2.54%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.02%) PHP
9 2 (1.02%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) COBOL
10 1 (0.51%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 12 (6.09%) Degree
2 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.03%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.03%) GDPR
1 4 (2.03%) PCI DSS
1 4 (2.03%) QA
2 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (4.57%) Docker
2 7 (3.55%) Firmware
3 2 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (9.14%) Terraform
2 8 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.05%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.66%) Cisco
2 21 (10.66%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.02%) Adobe
3 2 (1.02%) Databricks
3 2 (1.02%) Google
3 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.51%) New Relic