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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 204 153 243
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.31% 13.16% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 13.86% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 173 136 203
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,996 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +18.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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% -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 2,313 1,104 2,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 71.50% 94.93% 85.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 687 1,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,425 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,890
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 £75,625 £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 2 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 2 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 -2 192 £70,000 +3.70% 50
Bradford -16 6 £75,000 +42.86% 1
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Halifax -6 1 £55,000 -35.49% 1
Huddersfield -9 1 £70,000 +33.33%
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 56 (27.45%) AWS
2 33 (16.18%) SaaS
3 17 (8.33%) Azure
4 8 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (3.92%) Amazon S3
4 8 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (3.92%) Serverless
5 7 (3.43%) GitHub
6 6 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.47%) GCP
9 2 (0.98%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.49%) Datadog
10 1 (0.49%) IaaS
10 1 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.92%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.98%) MySQL
5 2 (0.98%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.98%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.98%) Git
2 2 (0.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 21 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.39%) Finance
3 11 (5.39%) Retail
4 10 (4.90%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.45%) Agriculture
5 5 (2.45%) Automotive
5 5 (2.45%) Financial Institution
5 5 (2.45%) Marketing
5 5 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.47%) Electronics
8 2 (0.98%) Advertising
9 1 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 110 (53.92%) Software Engineer
2 47 (23.04%) Senior
3 35 (17.16%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (16.18%) Developer
5 23 (11.27%) Software Manager
6 17 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
6 17 (8.33%) Lead
7 15 (7.35%) Development Manager
7 15 (7.35%) Software Developer
7 15 (7.35%) Software Development Manager
8 14 (6.86%) .NET Development Manager
9 13 (6.37%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (5.88%) C# Developer
10 12 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 11 (5.39%) Analyst
11 11 (5.39%) Business Analyst
12 10 (4.90%) .NET Developer
12 10 (4.90%) .NET Software Developer
12 10 (4.90%) C# Software Developer
12 10 (4.90%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.57%) .NET
2 27 (13.24%) React
3 16 (7.84%) Vue
4 13 (6.37%) Node.js
5 11 (5.39%) AngularJS
5 11 (5.39%) RESTful
6 9 (4.41%) CSS
6 9 (4.41%) HTML
7 5 (2.45%) REST
7 5 (2.45%) Web Services
8 4 (1.96%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.47%) Blazor
10 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.98%) A2A Protocol
10 2 (0.98%) LangChain
10 2 (0.98%) LangGraph
10 2 (0.98%) Micronaut
10 2 (0.98%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (0.98%) PySpark
10 2 (0.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.45%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 2 (0.98%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.49%) Life Science
5 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.39%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Android
2 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.57%) Agile
2 41 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (19.12%) Mentoring
4 29 (14.22%) Analytics
4 29 (14.22%) Coaching
4 29 (14.22%) SDLC
5 27 (13.24%) AI
6 23 (11.27%) CI/CD
7 22 (10.78%) Product Vision
7 22 (10.78%) Resource Allocation
8 20 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (9.31%) DevOps
9 19 (9.31%) Microservices
10 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (7.35%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (5.88%) E-Commerce
12 12 (5.88%) Observability
13 11 (5.39%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (4.90%) Computer Science
15 9 (4.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.51%) C#
2 39 (19.12%) Python
3 28 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 27 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 22 (10.78%) SQL
6 21 (10.29%) Java
7 7 (3.43%) C
7 7 (3.43%) C++
8 5 (2.45%) Groovy
8 5 (2.45%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.98%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) COBOL
10 1 (0.49%) Delphi
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (5.88%) Degree
2 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.47%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 2 (0.98%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
1 4 (1.96%) GDPR
1 4 (1.96%) PCI DSS
1 4 (1.96%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (4.41%) Docker
2 7 (3.43%) Firmware
3 2 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (8.82%) Terraform
2 8 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.29%) Cisco
2 21 (10.29%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.98%) Adobe
3 2 (0.98%) Databricks
3 2 (0.98%) Google
3 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.49%) New Relic