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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 12 21
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 88 194 240
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.58% 9.70% 10.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 12.57% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 71 166 196
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,806 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -

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 1,436 1,543 2,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.00% 77.15% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 754 848 1,576
10th Percentile £28,475 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,022
Median % change year-on-year - -0.04% +0.04%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,229 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -9.52% -0.47% +0.48%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -13 67 £70,000 +16.67% 38
Knottingley - 5 - -
Brighouse - 4 £30,500 - 1
Castleford - 4 - -
Pontefract - 4 - -
Bradford -17 1 - - 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 1 (1.14%) CMS
1 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.14%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.55%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.09%) AWS
2 22 (25.00%) Azure
3 11 (12.50%) SaaS
4 8 (9.09%) GitHub
5 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.55%) GCP
7 4 (4.55%) Serverless
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.14%) Datadog
9 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.14%) Figma
9 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) AMQP
1 2 (2.27%) MQTT
2 1 (1.14%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.14%) Modbus
2 1 (1.14%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.27%) Redis
4 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.14%) Big Data
5 1 (1.14%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) CircleCI
2 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 35 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.09%) Finance
5 5 (5.68%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.68%) Retail
6 3 (3.41%) Law
6 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Games
7 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
7 2 (2.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Senior
1 24 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 15 (17.05%) Lead
3 13 (14.77%) Developer
3 13 (14.77%) PLC Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Graduate
7 4 (4.55%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Development Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Graduate Support Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Software Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Software Support Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Technical Support
7 4 (4.55%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.41%) React
2 22 (25.00%) .NET
3 10 (11.36%) Node.js
4 9 (10.23%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.09%) REST
6 6 (6.82%) RESTful
7 5 (5.68%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.68%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.68%) Micronaut
8 4 (4.55%) Spring
8 4 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.41%) Kafka
9 3 (3.41%) Next.js
9 3 (3.41%) Vue
10 2 (2.27%) Flutter
10 2 (2.27%) PySpark
10 2 (2.27%) React Native
10 2 (2.27%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
11 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (14.77%) Cyberattack
2 13 (14.77%) Renewable Energy
3 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) iPad
8 1 (1.14%) iPhone
8 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Android
1 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
1 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.95%) Agile
1 29 (32.95%) CI/CD
2 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (26.14%) DevOps
4 22 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
6 16 (18.18%) Project Delivery
7 15 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (14.77%) Microservices
9 12 (13.64%) Computer Science
9 12 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (11.36%) Coaching
11 8 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 7 (7.95%) Clean Code
13 6 (6.82%) CRM
13 6 (6.82%) Data Engineering
13 6 (6.82%) People Management
13 6 (6.82%) Roadmaps
13 6 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.27%) C#
2 20 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 15 (17.05%) TypeScript
4 13 (14.77%) Java
5 11 (12.50%) Python
5 11 (12.50%) SQL
6 7 (7.95%) Go
7 4 (4.55%) C++
7 4 (4.55%) Delphi
8 3 (3.41%) Ruby
9 2 (2.27%) C
9 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.14%) Bash
10 1 (1.14%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.14%) R
10 1 (1.14%) Scala
10 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
1 13 (14.77%) HND
2 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) Autodesk
2 4 (4.55%) Sage
3 2 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.14%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.14%) Siemens