Software Engineering Jobs in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 155 281 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.32% 9.34% 8.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.07% 10.79% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 138 202 290
10th Percentile £25,313 £40,000 £39,974
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £97,528 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £82,548 £90,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +13.64%

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 1,102 2,604 5,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 94.67% 86.51% 97.95%
Number of salaries quoted 684 1,879 2,323
10th Percentile £25,369 £28,000 £33,550
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,228 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,964 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in West Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 +6 101 £67,500 +12.50% 64
Halifax +5 45 £85,253 +12.92% 4
Wakefield +1 3 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Bradford +11 1 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Huddersfield +10 1 £52,500 +90.91% 3
Heckmondwike - 1 £50,000 -
Software Engineering
Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.94%) CICS
1 3 (1.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.29%) GCP
2 32 (20.65%) AWS
3 31 (20.00%) Azure
4 18 (11.61%) SaaS
5 14 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.39%) GitHub
7 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.58%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.58%) Apigee
8 4 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.94%) dbt
9 3 (1.94%) Serverless
10 2 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.29%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.87%) MySQL
4 5 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.58%) Biml
5 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.58%) Power BI
5 4 (2.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.94%) Big Data
6 3 (1.94%) DB2
6 3 (1.94%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.29%) Endeca
7 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.29%) SQLite
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (15.48%) Git
2 12 (7.74%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.52%) JIRA
4 6 (3.87%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (3.87%) Visual Studio
5 5 (3.23%) JUnit
5 5 (3.23%) Maven
5 5 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.58%) Selenium
6 4 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.94%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.94%) GitLab
8 2 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.29%) Postman
8 2 (1.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.65%) Gradle
9 1 (0.65%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.65%) TestNG
General
1 95 (61.29%) Finance
2 89 (57.42%) Banking
3 38 (24.52%) Social Skills
4 5 (3.23%) Legal
5 4 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.58%) Games
5 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.94%) Automotive
6 3 (1.94%) Electronics
6 3 (1.94%) Marketing
6 3 (1.94%) Retail
6 3 (1.94%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 61 (39.35%) Software Engineer
2 45 (29.03%) Senior
3 24 (15.48%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (12.90%) Lead
5 18 (11.61%) Software Manager
6 16 (10.32%) Engineering Manager
7 15 (9.68%) Software Engineering Manager
8 14 (9.03%) .NET Software Engineer
8 14 (9.03%) Senior Manager
9 10 (6.45%) Architect
9 10 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.16%) Developer
10 8 (5.16%) Junior
11 6 (3.87%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Graduate
12 5 (3.23%) Junior Software Engineer
13 4 (2.58%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (26.45%) .NET
2 38 (24.52%) React
3 25 (16.13%) Node.js
4 24 (15.48%) Software Packaging
5 20 (12.90%) Spring Boot
6 18 (11.61%) Spring
7 17 (10.97%) .NET Core
8 15 (9.68%) AngularJS
9 13 (8.39%) Kafka
9 13 (8.39%) RESTful
10 11 (7.10%) REST
11 8 (5.16%) JWT
11 8 (5.16%) OAuth
11 8 (5.16%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.52%) JSON
13 6 (3.87%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.87%) Express.js
14 5 (3.23%) GraphQL
14 5 (3.23%) XML
15 4 (2.58%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.03%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.74%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.45%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.87%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.23%) Hackathon
6 5 (3.23%) Learning Management System
6 5 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.58%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.94%) Clustering
8 3 (1.94%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.29%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.29%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.65%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.65%) Social Media
10 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.81%) zOS
2 4 (2.58%) Linux
2 4 (2.58%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.19%) Agile
2 60 (38.71%) DevOps
3 57 (36.77%) CI/CD
4 39 (25.16%) Mentoring
5 35 (22.58%) Microservices
6 34 (21.94%) Fintech
7 32 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 30 (19.35%) Line Management
8 30 (19.35%) Mathematics
9 29 (18.71%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (16.77%) Containerisation
11 25 (16.13%) Coaching
11 25 (16.13%) Roadmaps
12 22 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (11.61%) Test Automation
15 17 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (10.97%) Scrum
15 17 (10.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 56 (36.13%) JavaScript
2 46 (29.68%) C#
3 45 (29.03%) Java
4 28 (18.06%) TypeScript
5 27 (17.42%) SQL
6 19 (12.26%) Python
7 6 (3.87%) Go
7 6 (3.87%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.23%) PHP
8 5 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.94%) JCL
10 2 (1.29%) C
10 2 (1.29%) C++
10 2 (1.29%) COBOL
10 2 (1.29%) F#
10 2 (1.29%) Haskell
10 2 (1.29%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.65%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 34 (21.94%) Degree
2 8 (5.16%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.23%) PhD
4 4 (2.58%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.29%) HND
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.65%) MCSD
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.29%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) Basel III
3 1 (0.65%) IFRS
3 1 (0.65%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (23.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (25.16%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.19%) Terraform
3 4 (2.58%) Istio
4 2 (1.29%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.29%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (0.65%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 18 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.03%) IBM
3 8 (5.16%) Google
3 8 (5.16%) Oracle
4 4 (2.58%) Adobe
5 2 (1.29%) BMC
5 2 (1.29%) Databricks
5 2 (1.29%) EMC
6 1 (0.65%) CyberSource
6 1 (0.65%) F5
6 1 (0.65%) New Relic