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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 217 158 221
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 8.18% 14.34% 7.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.09% 15.00% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 184 139 177
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,572 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -10.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,677 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% -11.54%

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 1,956 1,053 2,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 73.76% 95.55% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 676 1,854
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £84,964
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 1 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 1 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 0 201 £70,000 +3.70% 43
Bradford -18 6 £75,000 +42.86% 4
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Halifax -2 2 £55,000 -35.49%
Wakefield -9 2 £40,000 -38.46% 4
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 2 (0.92%) CMS
1 2 (0.92%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 69 (31.80%) AWS
2 39 (17.97%) SaaS
3 19 (8.76%) Azure
4 14 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 14 (6.45%) Serverless
5 12 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.76%) GitHub
8 2 (0.92%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.92%) Datadog
8 2 (0.92%) Figma
8 2 (0.92%) GCP
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.46%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.45%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.38%) Spark SQL
5 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.92%) MySQL
5 2 (0.92%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Git
2 2 (0.92%) GitLab
2 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 27 (12.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (7.83%) Retail
4 15 (6.91%) Finance
5 12 (5.53%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.69%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.69%) Marketing
7 7 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.84%) Electronics
8 4 (1.84%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.38%) Games
10 2 (0.92%) Advertising
10 2 (0.92%) Agriculture
10 2 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Automotive
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 114 (52.53%) Software Engineer
2 40 (18.43%) Senior
3 38 (17.51%) Developer
4 29 (13.36%) Senior Software Engineer
5 22 (10.14%) Software Manager
6 20 (9.22%) .NET Software Engineer
7 19 (8.76%) Lead
8 17 (7.83%) Development Manager
8 17 (7.83%) Software Development Manager
9 14 (6.45%) .NET Development Manager
10 13 (5.99%) C# Developer
10 13 (5.99%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 13 (5.99%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (5.53%) Analyst
11 12 (5.53%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.53%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.07%) Project Manager
13 10 (4.61%) .NET Developer
13 10 (4.61%) .NET Software Developer
13 10 (4.61%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.50%) .NET
2 39 (17.97%) React
3 21 (9.68%) Node.js
4 16 (7.37%) Vue
5 14 (6.45%) RESTful
6 11 (5.07%) CSS
6 11 (5.07%) HTML
7 10 (4.61%) REST
8 8 (3.69%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.30%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.30%) Micronaut
10 4 (1.84%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.38%) Blazor
11 3 (1.38%) Django
11 3 (1.38%) FastAPI
11 3 (1.38%) Flask
11 3 (1.38%) PySpark
11 3 (1.38%) Spring
11 3 (1.38%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.92%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.07%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.23%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.84%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.38%) Life Science
4 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.92%) Taxonomies
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%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.15%) 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 54 (24.88%) Agile
2 50 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (22.58%) Mentoring
4 38 (17.51%) Coaching
5 32 (14.75%) CI/CD
6 30 (13.82%) Analytics
7 28 (12.90%) Microservices
8 27 (12.44%) DevOps
8 27 (12.44%) SDLC
9 23 (10.60%) Product Vision
9 23 (10.60%) Resource Allocation
10 22 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (9.22%) AI
12 18 (8.29%) E-Commerce
13 17 (7.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (6.91%) Computer Science
14 15 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (6.45%) Observability
16 13 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 54 (24.88%) C#
2 39 (17.97%) JavaScript
3 34 (15.67%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.75%) Python
5 29 (13.36%) Java
5 29 (13.36%) SQL
6 9 (4.15%) C
6 9 (4.15%) C++
7 7 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.92%) Embedded C
8 2 (0.92%) PHP
9 1 (0.46%) Bash
9 1 (0.46%) COBOL
9 1 (0.46%) Delphi
9 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.46%) Ruby
9 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (7.83%) Degree
2 11 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.76%) QA
2 5 (2.30%) GDPR
2 5 (2.30%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (4.15%) Docker
2 7 (3.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (11.52%) Terraform
2 4 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.60%) Cisco
2 23 (10.60%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.38%) Databricks
4 2 (0.92%) Adobe
4 2 (0.92%) Google
4 2 (0.92%) HubSpot
4 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.46%) New Relic