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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 206 138 253
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.93% 10.04% 8.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 10.50% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 179 125 214
10th Percentile £42,000 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,528 £70,000
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% -12.00%

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 2,419 1,314 2,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.67% 95.63% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 704 1,867
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,150
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,313 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 0 193 £70,000 +2.19% 39
Bradford -7 5 £75,000 +42.86%
Brighouse - 3 £60,000 -
Bingley - 3 £40,000 - 2
Huddersfield -9 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 3 (1.46%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 60 (29.13%) AWS
2 30 (14.56%) SaaS
3 22 (10.68%) Azure
4 11 (5.34%) GitHub
5 9 (4.37%) Amazon S3
5 9 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.88%) Serverless
7 6 (2.91%) GCP
8 4 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.97%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.49%) Datadog
11 1 (0.49%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.37%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.91%) MySQL
3 6 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.43%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.94%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.97%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.97%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.49%) Redis
8 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.46%) Git
3 2 (0.97%) GitLab
4 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 17 (8.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (6.80%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.40%) Agriculture
3 7 (3.40%) Automotive
3 7 (3.40%) Finance
3 7 (3.40%) Manufacturing
3 7 (3.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (3.40%) Retail
4 4 (1.94%) Marketing
5 3 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.97%) Electronics
6 2 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.49%) Advertising
7 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 126 (61.17%) Software Engineer
2 54 (26.21%) Senior
3 43 (20.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (16.02%) Developer
5 21 (10.19%) Lead
6 20 (9.71%) .NET Software Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Software Manager
8 15 (7.28%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.28%) .NET Software Developer
8 15 (7.28%) C# .NET Developer
8 15 (7.28%) C# Developer
8 15 (7.28%) C# Software Developer
8 15 (7.28%) Software Developer
9 14 (6.80%) C# Software Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 13 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.36%) .NET
2 30 (14.56%) React
3 23 (11.17%) Vue
4 16 (7.77%) Node.js
5 15 (7.28%) CSS
5 15 (7.28%) HTML
6 13 (6.31%) AngularJS
6 13 (6.31%) RESTful
7 7 (3.40%) Web Services
8 5 (2.43%) REST
9 3 (1.46%) A2A Protocol
9 3 (1.46%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.46%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.46%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (0.97%) HTML5
10 2 (0.97%) Ionic Framework
10 2 (0.97%) jQuery
10 2 (0.97%) LangChain
10 2 (0.97%) LangGraph
10 2 (0.97%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (0.97%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.49%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.49%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Android
2 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (20.39%) Mentoring
2 41 (19.90%) Agile
3 40 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (15.05%) SDLC
5 29 (14.08%) AI
5 29 (14.08%) Coaching
6 27 (13.11%) CI/CD
6 27 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (13.11%) Microservices
7 26 (12.62%) Analytics
8 22 (10.68%) Product Vision
8 22 (10.68%) Resource Allocation
9 20 (9.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (8.25%) DevOps
11 16 (7.77%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (6.31%) Observability
13 12 (5.83%) CQRS
14 11 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (4.85%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (4.37%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.76%) C#
2 42 (20.39%) Python
3 34 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 29 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 27 (13.11%) SQL
6 23 (11.17%) Java
7 7 (3.40%) Groovy
8 5 (2.43%) C++
9 4 (1.94%) C
10 3 (1.46%) PHP
10 3 (1.46%) Scala
11 2 (0.97%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) COBOL
12 1 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (4.37%) Degree
2 6 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.43%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.94%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.43%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.46%) GDPR
2 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.46%) QA
System Software
1 11 (5.34%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) Firmware
3 2 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.71%) Terraform
2 10 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.25%) Cisco
2 17 (8.25%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.97%) Adobe
3 2 (0.97%) Databricks
3 2 (0.97%) Google
3 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.49%) New Relic