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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 143 171 226
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 8.75% 9.34% 10.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.90% 11.91% 11.47%
Number of salaries quoted 115 138 180
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,750 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -5.71% -2.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,505
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 1,445 1,436 1,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.43% 78.47% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 870 757 1,425
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £72,750 £71,991 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,951
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,500 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.49% +0.95% -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -4 117 £70,000 +7.69% 73
Knottingley - 5 - -
Brighouse - 4 £30,500 -
Castleford - 4 - -
Pontefract - 4 - -
Halifax +1 2 £55,000 -35.49% 2
Wakefield -6 2 £40,000 -17.95%
Bradford -16 2 £80,000 +60.00% 3
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 (1.40%) CMS
1 2 (1.40%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.80%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.97%) AWS
2 25 (17.48%) Azure
3 22 (15.38%) SaaS
4 12 (8.39%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.99%) Serverless
6 8 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.59%) GitHub
7 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.40%) Datadog
11 2 (1.40%) Figma
11 2 (1.40%) GCP
12 1 (0.70%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.70%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) AMQP
2 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.70%) Modbus
2 1 (0.70%) MQTT
2 1 (0.70%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) DynamoDB
2 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.40%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.70%) Big Data
7 1 (0.70%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Git
2 2 (1.40%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.40%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.79%) Finance
4 11 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 11 (7.69%) Retail
5 9 (6.29%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.80%) Law
9 4 (2.80%) Marketing
10 3 (2.10%) Legal
11 2 (1.40%) Electronics
11 2 (1.40%) Games
11 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Advertising
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 52 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 31 (21.68%) Senior
3 23 (16.08%) Developer
4 17 (11.89%) Lead
5 16 (11.19%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) PLC Engineer
7 11 (7.69%) Graduate
8 10 (6.99%) Development Manager
8 10 (6.99%) Software Manager
9 8 (5.59%) Python Developer
9 8 (5.59%) Software Development Manager
10 7 (4.90%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Technical Support
10 7 (4.90%) Technical Support Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.48%) React
2 31 (21.68%) .NET
3 17 (11.89%) Node.js
4 12 (8.39%) REST
5 8 (5.59%) AngularJS
5 8 (5.59%) Micronaut
6 7 (4.90%) RESTful
7 6 (4.20%) Spring
7 6 (4.20%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.20%) Vue
8 5 (3.50%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.50%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.80%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.80%) Next.js
10 3 (2.10%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.10%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.10%) Blazor
10 3 (2.10%) CSS
10 3 (2.10%) Django
10 3 (2.10%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.09%) Cyberattack
1 13 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
2 12 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.59%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.10%) Life Science
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) iPad
8 1 (0.70%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.17%) Agile
2 37 (25.87%) CI/CD
3 33 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (22.38%) Mentoring
4 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (20.98%) DevOps
6 21 (14.69%) Coaching
7 20 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (13.29%) Microservices
9 16 (11.19%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.19%) Project Delivery
10 15 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (9.79%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (7.69%) Fintech
14 10 (6.99%) Analytics
14 10 (6.99%) E-Commerce
14 10 (6.99%) Logistics
14 10 (6.99%) People Management
14 10 (6.99%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.78%) C#
2 31 (21.68%) JavaScript
3 24 (16.78%) SQL
3 24 (16.78%) TypeScript
4 20 (13.99%) Java
5 14 (9.79%) Python
6 8 (5.59%) C++
7 6 (4.20%) C
8 5 (3.50%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.80%) Delphi
10 3 (2.10%) Go
10 3 (2.10%) Ruby
11 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.70%) Bash
12 1 (0.70%) Scala
12 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (11.89%) Degree
2 13 (9.09%) HND
3 9 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.80%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.80%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 15 (10.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (14.69%) Terraform
2 11 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.40%) Grafana
3 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.20%) Cisco
2 6 (4.20%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.80%) Autodesk
3 4 (2.80%) Sage
4 2 (1.40%) Databricks
4 2 (1.40%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.70%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.70%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.70%) Siemens