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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 135 171 238
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.86% 9.10% 11.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 11.74% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 109 145 189
10th Percentile £32,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.55% -12.00% +1.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,500 £82,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 1,531 1,457 2,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 89.17% 77.50% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 865 778 1,482
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,015
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,938 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,419
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -3 110 £70,000 +12.00% 74
Knottingley - 5 - -
Brighouse - 4 £30,500 -
Castleford - 4 - -
Pontefract - 4 - -
Halifax +2 2 £55,000 +14.58% 3
Wakefield -9 2 £40,000 -17.95%
Bradford -20 1 - - 29
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 (1.48%) CMS
1 2 (1.48%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.96%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.56%) AWS
2 26 (19.26%) Azure
3 17 (12.59%) SaaS
4 12 (8.89%) Amazon S3
5 10 (7.41%) GitHub
5 10 (7.41%) Serverless
6 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.22%) GCP
11 2 (1.48%) Datadog
11 2 (1.48%) Figma
12 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.74%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) AMQP
1 2 (1.48%) MQTT
2 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.74%) Modbus
2 1 (0.74%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.89%) DynamoDB
2 9 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.48%) Redis
5 2 (1.48%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.74%) Big Data
6 1 (0.74%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Git
2 3 (2.22%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.48%) JIRA
General
1 43 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.37%) Finance
4 11 (8.15%) Financial Institution
5 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.93%) Retail
6 7 (5.19%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.96%) Law
8 3 (2.22%) Legal
8 3 (2.22%) Marketing
8 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.48%) Electronics
9 2 (1.48%) Games
9 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (37.78%) Software Engineer
2 33 (24.44%) Senior
3 22 (16.30%) Developer
4 18 (13.33%) Lead
5 16 (11.85%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) .NET Software Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) PLC Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) Graduate
9 8 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Python Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Support Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Technical Support
10 7 (5.19%) Technical Support Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.70%) Development Manager
11 5 (3.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (3.70%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Lead Developer
11 5 (3.70%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (26.67%) React
2 29 (21.48%) .NET
3 18 (13.33%) Node.js
4 12 (8.89%) REST
5 9 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 8 (5.93%) Micronaut
6 8 (5.93%) RESTful
7 7 (5.19%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.44%) GraphQL
8 6 (4.44%) Spring
8 6 (4.44%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.44%) Vue
9 4 (2.96%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.96%) Next.js
10 3 (2.22%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.22%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.22%) Blazor
10 3 (2.22%) CSS
10 3 (2.22%) HTML
10 3 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.63%) Cyberattack
2 13 (9.63%) Renewable Energy
3 9 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.22%) Life Science
6 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) iPad
8 1 (0.74%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Android
2 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.63%) Agile
2 38 (28.15%) CI/CD
3 31 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (22.22%) DevOps
5 29 (21.48%) Mentoring
6 28 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (14.81%) Microservices
9 19 (14.07%) Coaching
10 16 (11.85%) Project Delivery
11 15 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (10.37%) Computer Science
13 12 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (8.15%) Fintech
15 10 (7.41%) People Management
15 10 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
16 9 (6.67%) Clean Code
17 8 (5.93%) Containerisation
17 8 (5.93%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 32 (23.70%) C#
1 32 (23.70%) JavaScript
2 24 (17.78%) TypeScript
3 22 (16.30%) SQL
4 18 (13.33%) Java
5 15 (11.11%) Python
6 6 (4.44%) C++
7 5 (3.70%) Go
8 4 (2.96%) C
8 4 (2.96%) Delphi
9 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.22%) Ruby
10 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.48%) PHP
11 1 (0.74%) Bash
11 1 (0.74%) R
11 1 (0.74%) Scala
11 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (11.11%) Degree
2 13 (9.63%) HND
3 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.96%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (12.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (17.04%) Terraform
2 14 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) Grafana
3 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.96%) Autodesk
2 4 (2.96%) Cisco
2 4 (2.96%) Sage
2 4 (2.96%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.22%) Databricks
4 2 (1.48%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.74%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.74%) Google
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.74%) Siemens