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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 146 179 227
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 9.10% 9.60% 10.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.35% 12.18% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 118 146 181
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,745 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%

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 1,410 1,470 1,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.91% 78.82% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 870 795 1,421
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,125
25th Percentile £37,888 £41,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,025 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 22 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 22 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 -4 123 £70,000 +16.67% 65
Brighouse - 4 £30,500 -
Knottingley - 4 - -
Castleford - 3 - -
Pontefract - 3 - -
Halifax +2 2 £55,000 -35.49% 2
Wakefield -7 2 £40,000 -17.95% 1
Bradford -16 2 £80,000 +56.10% 6
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 (1.37%) CMS
1 2 (1.37%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.74%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.62%) AWS
2 25 (17.12%) Azure
3 23 (15.75%) SaaS
4 12 (8.22%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.85%) Serverless
6 8 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.48%) GitHub
7 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.37%) Datadog
11 2 (1.37%) Figma
11 2 (1.37%) GCP
12 1 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.68%) Modbus
2 1 (0.68%) MQTT
2 1 (0.68%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.22%) DynamoDB
2 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.37%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Git
2 2 (1.37%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.37%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.59%) Finance
3 12 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.22%) Retail
4 11 (7.53%) Financial Institution
5 10 (6.85%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.74%) Law
8 4 (2.74%) Marketing
9 3 (2.05%) Legal
10 2 (1.37%) Electronics
10 2 (1.37%) Games
10 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 53 (36.30%) Software Engineer
2 31 (21.23%) Senior
3 24 (16.44%) Developer
4 17 (11.64%) Lead
5 16 (10.96%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (8.90%) .NET Software Engineer
7 12 (8.22%) Graduate
8 11 (7.53%) Development Manager
8 11 (7.53%) Software Manager
9 10 (6.85%) PLC Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Software Development Manager
11 8 (5.48%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.79%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Logistics Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Technical Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Technical Support
12 7 (4.79%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.97%) React
2 33 (22.60%) .NET
3 17 (11.64%) Node.js
4 13 (8.90%) REST
5 8 (5.48%) AngularJS
5 8 (5.48%) Micronaut
6 7 (4.79%) RESTful
7 6 (4.11%) Spring
7 6 (4.11%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.11%) Vue
8 5 (3.42%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.42%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.74%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.74%) Next.js
10 3 (2.05%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.05%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.05%) Blazor
10 3 (2.05%) CSS
10 3 (2.05%) HTML
10 3 (2.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.85%) Cyberattack
2 10 (6.85%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.11%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.05%) Life Science
7 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) iPad
8 1 (0.68%) iPhone
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.88%) Agile
2 37 (25.34%) CI/CD
3 34 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 34 (23.29%) Mentoring
4 30 (20.55%) DevOps
5 29 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (15.75%) Coaching
7 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (13.01%) Microservices
9 17 (11.64%) Computer Science
10 14 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (9.59%) Project Delivery
11 12 (8.22%) Analytics
11 12 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (7.53%) E-Commerce
12 11 (7.53%) Fintech
12 11 (7.53%) Logistics
13 10 (6.85%) People Management
13 10 (6.85%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.66%) C#
2 31 (21.23%) JavaScript
3 26 (17.81%) SQL
4 24 (16.44%) TypeScript
5 21 (14.38%) Java
6 15 (10.27%) Python
7 9 (6.16%) C++
8 7 (4.79%) C
9 6 (4.11%) PL/SQL
10 5 (3.42%) Delphi
11 3 (2.05%) Go
11 3 (2.05%) PHP
11 3 (2.05%) Ruby
12 2 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.68%) Bash
13 1 (0.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (13.01%) Degree
2 10 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.85%) HND
3 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.37%) GDPR
3 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 16 (10.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (14.38%) Terraform
2 11 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.37%) Grafana
3 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.48%) Cisco
2 8 (5.48%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.74%) Autodesk
3 4 (2.74%) Sage
4 2 (1.37%) Databricks
4 2 (1.37%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.68%) Google
5 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.68%) Siemens