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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 37 11
Rank change year-on-year +18 -26 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 231 82 241
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.47% 5.42% 10.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.82% 6.03% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 191 64 207
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,563 £46,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +23.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +23.64% -8.33%

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 2,953 1,359 1,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.94% 89.88% 77.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,258 743 1,007
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £84,978
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -8.65% -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +7 191 £69,305 +0.08% 126
Halifax - 13 £65,000 - 2
Huddersfield - 7 £70,000 - 2
Bradford -1 6 £65,000 - 11
Bingley - 6 £40,000 -
Wakefield - 6 £65,000 - 9
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 (1.30%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.54%) AWS
2 31 (13.42%) Azure
3 19 (8.23%) GitHub
4 16 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (5.19%) GCP
6 12 (5.19%) SaaS
7 7 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.30%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) 5G
1 2 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (3.03%) BigQuery
1 7 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.16%) MySQL
4 4 (1.73%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.87%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (5.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.73%) Git
3 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 21 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (4.76%) Manufacturing
2 11 (4.76%) Retail
3 10 (4.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (3.46%) Finance
4 8 (3.46%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.60%) Agriculture
6 6 (2.60%) Automotive
7 3 (1.30%) Electronics
7 3 (1.30%) Legal
8 2 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (66.23%) Software Engineer
2 69 (29.87%) Senior
3 56 (24.24%) Senior Software Engineer
4 21 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 20 (8.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 19 (8.23%) .NET Software Engineer
6 19 (8.23%) C# Software Engineer
7 18 (7.79%) Lead
8 14 (6.06%) Developer
9 13 (5.63%) Consultant
9 13 (5.63%) Engineering Manager
9 13 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) Graduate
10 12 (5.19%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) Software Engineering Manager
10 12 (5.19%) Software Manager
11 11 (4.76%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (3.90%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.90%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.12%) React
2 24 (10.39%) .NET
3 19 (8.23%) Terraform
4 16 (6.93%) Node.js
5 13 (5.63%) Vue
5 13 (5.63%) Web Services
6 10 (4.33%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.46%) CSS
7 8 (3.46%) HTML
8 7 (3.03%) RESTful
9 6 (2.60%) Blazor
9 6 (2.60%) REST
10 5 (2.16%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.16%) Spring
11 4 (1.73%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (1.30%) A2A Protocol
12 3 (1.30%) Kafka
12 3 (1.30%) Spring Boot
13 2 (0.87%) .NET Framework
13 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.60%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.60%) Robotics
5 5 (2.16%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.87%) IoT
7 2 (0.87%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.43%) PMI
8 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (17.75%) Agile
2 36 (15.58%) CI/CD
3 35 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (13.42%) AI
5 27 (11.69%) Mentoring
6 24 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (9.52%) Microservices
8 18 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (6.49%) Containerisation
12 14 (6.06%) Computer Science
12 14 (6.06%) SDLC
12 14 (6.06%) Software Delivery
13 13 (5.63%) LLM
13 13 (5.63%) Network Load Balancing
14 12 (5.19%) E-Commerce
15 11 (4.76%) DevOps
15 11 (4.76%) Observability
15 11 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.35%) Python
2 37 (16.02%) C#
2 37 (16.02%) SQL
3 36 (15.58%) Java
4 26 (11.26%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.63%) Groovy
7 7 (3.03%) Scala
8 6 (2.60%) Bash
8 6 (2.60%) Delphi
9 5 (2.16%) C++
9 5 (2.16%) PHP
10 4 (1.73%) C
11 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) COBOL
13 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.43%) Go
13 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (10.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.76%) Degree
2 11 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.16%) DV Cleared
3 5 (2.16%) PhD
4 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.73%) QA
3 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (7.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (2.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.30%) Databricks
2 3 (1.30%) Foundry
3 2 (0.87%) Google
3 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.43%) SAP