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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 29 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 227 106 270
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.53% 6.91% 11.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 7.62% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 190 86 237
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,938 £71,991
90th Percentile £92,750 £93,778 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 2,796 1,391 1,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.16% 90.74% 78.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,140 794 1,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,900 £55,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.29% -3.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £51,560 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.55% -5.00% -5.66%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +5 190 £65,000 -5.11% 27
Bradford -1 9 £65,000 - 1
Halifax -2 7 £65,000 +153.66% 2
Huddersfield - 7 £70,000 - 1
Wakefield - 6 £65,000 -
Bingley - 6 £40,000 -
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 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.99%) AWS
2 33 (14.54%) Azure
3 19 (8.37%) GitHub
4 16 (7.05%) SaaS
5 15 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (4.85%) GCP
8 8 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.32%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (1.32%) Serverless
13 2 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (3.08%) BigQuery
1 7 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.20%) MySQL
2 5 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.76%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.88%) Redis
5 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (5.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.76%) Git
3 2 (0.88%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 20 (8.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.17%) Retail
3 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
4 10 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.52%) Finance
6 7 (3.08%) Agriculture
6 7 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.08%) Automotive
6 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.32%) Electronics
7 3 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (0.88%) Advertising
8 2 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 150 (66.08%) Software Engineer
2 63 (27.75%) Senior
3 52 (22.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 24 (10.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 23 (10.13%) .NET Software Engineer
6 23 (10.13%) C# Software Engineer
7 20 (8.81%) Lead
8 19 (8.37%) Developer
9 16 (7.05%) Engineering Manager
10 15 (6.61%) Software Engineering Manager
10 15 (6.61%) Software Manager
11 14 (6.17%) Consultant
12 13 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (5.29%) Embedded Engineer
13 12 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (5.29%) Graduate
13 12 (5.29%) Graduate Software Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.22%) React
2 27 (11.89%) .NET
3 19 (8.37%) Terraform
3 19 (8.37%) Vue
4 16 (7.05%) Node.js
5 12 (5.29%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.29%) CSS
5 12 (5.29%) HTML
5 12 (5.29%) Web Services
6 8 (3.52%) RESTful
7 6 (2.64%) Blazor
8 5 (2.20%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.76%) A2A Protocol
9 4 (1.76%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (1.76%) REST
10 3 (1.32%) Spring
11 2 (0.88%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.88%) Kafka
11 2 (0.88%) LangGraph
11 2 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.64%) Robotics
4 5 (2.20%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.20%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.88%) IoT
6 2 (0.88%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.44%) PMI
7 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.44%) Android
2 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (16.74%) Agile
2 36 (15.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (15.42%) CI/CD
4 30 (13.22%) AI
5 29 (12.78%) Mentoring
6 24 (10.57%) Microservices
7 23 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (8.37%) SDLC
9 17 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (7.49%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (6.61%) E-Commerce
11 13 (5.73%) Containerisation
11 13 (5.73%) Software Delivery
12 12 (5.29%) LLM
12 12 (5.29%) Network Load Balancing
12 12 (5.29%) Observability
13 11 (4.85%) DevOps
13 11 (4.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (4.41%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 43 (18.94%) Python
2 42 (18.50%) C#
3 40 (17.62%) SQL
4 29 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.01%) Java
6 24 (10.57%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.29%) Groovy
8 7 (3.08%) Scala
9 6 (2.64%) Delphi
10 5 (2.20%) C++
10 5 (2.20%) PHP
11 4 (1.76%) Bash
11 4 (1.76%) C
12 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) COBOL
13 1 (0.44%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.08%) Degree
4 4 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.64%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.64%) QA
2 5 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) GDPR
3 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (7.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (2.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.76%) Databricks
3 3 (1.32%) Foundry
4 2 (0.88%) Google
4 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.44%) SAP