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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 38 12
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 237 85 205
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.74% 5.44% 9.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 5.99% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 189 68 173
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +24.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £71,991
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 2,879 1,420 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.68% 90.91% 77.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 735 878
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,550 £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 £74,028 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -0.94%

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 10 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 10 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 +8 195 £67,153 -4.07% 133
Halifax - 16 £60,000 - 2
Bradford +2 6 £65,000 - 6
Bingley - 6 £40,000 - 2
Huddersfield - 6 - -
Wakefield - 6 £65,000 - 7
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 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.74%) AWS
2 33 (13.92%) Azure
3 19 (8.02%) GitHub
4 16 (6.75%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (6.33%) GCP
6 11 (4.64%) SaaS
7 7 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.69%) Serverless
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.27%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.84%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.84%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) 5G
1 2 (0.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (2.95%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.11%) MySQL
3 5 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.84%) Metadata
6 2 (0.84%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.84%) Redis
6 2 (0.84%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (5.49%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.53%) Git
3 2 (0.84%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.42%) JIRA
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 24 (10.13%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.06%) Retail
3 10 (4.22%) Manufacturing
3 10 (4.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.80%) Finance
5 8 (3.38%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.27%) Agriculture
6 3 (1.27%) Automotive
6 3 (1.27%) Legal
7 2 (0.84%) Advertising
7 2 (0.84%) Banking
7 2 (0.84%) Electronics
7 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.42%) Marketing
8 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (65.40%) Software Engineer
2 68 (28.69%) Senior
3 57 (24.05%) Senior Software Engineer
4 21 (8.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 20 (8.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 18 (7.59%) .NET Software Engineer
6 18 (7.59%) C# Software Engineer
7 16 (6.75%) Graduate
8 15 (6.33%) Lead
9 14 (5.91%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) Consultant
10 13 (5.49%) Developer
10 13 (5.49%) Java Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.64%) Engineering Manager
12 10 (4.22%) Software Engineering Manager
12 10 (4.22%) Software Manager
13 9 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
14 8 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.55%) .NET
1 25 (10.55%) React
2 20 (8.44%) Terraform
3 19 (8.02%) Node.js
4 13 (5.49%) Web Services
5 8 (3.38%) Vue
6 7 (2.95%) Blazor
6 7 (2.95%) CSS
6 7 (2.95%) HTML
6 7 (2.95%) RESTful
7 6 (2.53%) .NET Core
7 6 (2.53%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.53%) REST
8 5 (2.11%) Spring
9 3 (1.27%) Express.js
9 3 (1.27%) Kafka
9 3 (1.27%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.27%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.84%) A2A Protocol
10 2 (0.84%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.95%) AI Agents
3 7 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.53%) Robotics
5 5 (2.11%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.84%) IoT
7 2 (0.84%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.84%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.42%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.42%) PMI
8 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (17.72%) Agile
2 40 (16.88%) CI/CD
3 38 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (14.77%) AI
5 27 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (9.70%) Mentoring
6 23 (9.70%) Microservices
7 19 (8.02%) Computer Science
8 17 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (7.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (6.33%) Containerisation
10 14 (5.91%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (5.49%) Decision-Making
11 13 (5.49%) LLM
11 13 (5.49%) Machine Learning
11 13 (5.49%) Network Load Balancing
11 13 (5.49%) Software Delivery
12 12 (5.06%) DevOps
12 12 (5.06%) E-Commerce
12 12 (5.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.10%) Python
2 43 (18.14%) Java
3 35 (14.77%) SQL
4 32 (13.50%) C#
5 24 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 21 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.49%) Groovy
8 7 (2.95%) Scala
9 6 (2.53%) Bash
9 6 (2.53%) Delphi
10 5 (2.11%) PHP
11 4 (1.69%) C++
11 4 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.27%) C
12 3 (1.27%) Go
12 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.84%) Rust
14 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.75%) Degree
3 12 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.95%) PhD
5 6 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.69%) QA
3 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (8.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (2.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.11%) Foundry
2 5 (2.11%) Google
3 3 (1.27%) Databricks
4 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.84%) Palantir
5 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.42%) SAP