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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 216 157 236
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.33% 13.81% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.10% 14.55% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 183 140 184
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,246 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +17.08% -8.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £72,101
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% -15.38%

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 2,138 1,079 2,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 72.57% 94.90% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,454 680 1,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,625 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £84,487
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -1 202 £70,000 +3.70% 43
Bradford -18 6 £75,000 +42.86% 3
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Halifax -3 2 £55,000 -35.49% 1
Wakefield -9 1 £40,000 -38.46% 1
Huddersfield -10 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.46%) CMS
1 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 63 (29.17%) AWS
2 36 (16.67%) SaaS
3 20 (9.26%) Azure
4 14 (6.48%) Serverless
5 13 (6.02%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.31%) GitHub
8 2 (0.93%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.93%) Datadog
8 2 (0.93%) GCP
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.46%) Figma
9 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.02%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.39%) Spark SQL
5 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.93%) MySQL
5 2 (0.93%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Git
2 2 (0.93%) GitLab
2 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) JIRA
3 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 24 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (6.94%) Retail
4 13 (6.02%) Finance
5 12 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.24%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.78%) Marketing
8 5 (2.31%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.31%) Automotive
9 4 (1.85%) Electronics
9 4 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.93%) Advertising
10 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 119 (55.09%) Software Engineer
2 46 (21.30%) Senior
3 36 (16.67%) Developer
4 34 (15.74%) Senior Software Engineer
5 23 (10.65%) Software Manager
6 19 (8.80%) .NET Software Engineer
7 17 (7.87%) Lead
8 15 (6.94%) Development Manager
8 15 (6.94%) Software Development Manager
9 14 (6.48%) .NET Development Manager
10 13 (6.02%) C# Developer
10 13 (6.02%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 12 (5.56%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.09%) Project Manager
13 10 (4.63%) .NET Developer
13 10 (4.63%) .NET Software Developer
13 10 (4.63%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.22%) .NET
2 37 (17.13%) React
3 19 (8.80%) Node.js
3 19 (8.80%) Vue
4 12 (5.56%) RESTful
5 11 (5.09%) AngularJS
5 11 (5.09%) CSS
5 11 (5.09%) HTML
6 8 (3.70%) REST
7 4 (1.85%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.85%) Micronaut
8 3 (1.39%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.39%) Blazor
8 3 (1.39%) Django
8 3 (1.39%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.39%) Flask
8 3 (1.39%) PySpark
8 3 (1.39%) Spring
8 3 (1.39%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.93%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.24%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.39%) Life Science
5 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.93%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Android
2 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (24.07%) Agile
2 46 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
2 46 (21.30%) Mentoring
3 36 (16.67%) Coaching
4 30 (13.89%) Analytics
5 28 (12.96%) CI/CD
5 28 (12.96%) SDLC
6 25 (11.57%) DevOps
6 25 (11.57%) Microservices
7 22 (10.19%) Product Vision
7 22 (10.19%) Resource Allocation
8 21 (9.72%) AI
9 20 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (7.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (6.94%) E-Commerce
11 15 (6.94%) Observability
12 14 (6.48%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (6.02%) Computer Science
14 11 (5.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 54 (25.00%) C#
2 38 (17.59%) JavaScript
3 34 (15.74%) TypeScript
4 33 (15.28%) Python
5 31 (14.35%) SQL
6 25 (11.57%) Java
7 9 (4.17%) C
7 9 (4.17%) C++
8 7 (3.24%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.93%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.46%) Bash
10 1 (0.46%) COBOL
10 1 (0.46%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 15 (6.94%) Degree
2 10 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.93%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
1 4 (1.85%) GDPR
1 4 (1.85%) PCI DSS
1 4 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.17%) Docker
2 7 (3.24%) Firmware
3 2 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (10.65%) Terraform
2 4 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.65%) Cisco
2 23 (10.65%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.39%) Databricks
4 2 (0.93%) Adobe
4 2 (0.93%) Google
4 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.46%) New Relic