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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 168 144 191
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 9.19% 9.39% 9.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.07% 10.78% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 138 120 158
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £48,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.70% -7.92% -4.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £88,128 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £63,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.91% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1,518 1,336 1,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 83.04% 87.09% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 904 666 1,400
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,625 £41,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -4.34%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -1 153 £70,000 +27.27% 107
Brighouse - 5 £30,500 -
Bradford -16 4 £65,000 +23.81% 30
Halifax +3 2 £55,000 -35.49% 1
Wakefield -8 2 £40,000 -20.00% 29
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 (1.19%) CMS
1 2 (1.19%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 58 (34.52%) AWS
2 28 (16.67%) SaaS
3 22 (13.10%) Azure
4 14 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 11 (6.55%) Serverless
6 10 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.98%) GitHub
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.19%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.19%) Datadog
10 2 (1.19%) Figma
11 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.60%) GCP
11 1 (0.60%) IaaS
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) AMQP
2 1 (0.60%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.74%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.79%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Git
2 2 (1.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 34 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (9.52%) Retail
4 15 (8.93%) Finance
5 13 (7.74%) Manufacturing
6 12 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.57%) Marketing
9 4 (2.38%) Law
9 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.79%) Legal
11 2 (1.19%) Advertising
11 2 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.19%) Electronics
11 2 (1.19%) Games
11 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 33 (19.64%) Senior
3 23 (13.69%) Developer
4 20 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 17 (10.12%) Software Manager
6 16 (9.52%) Development Manager
7 15 (8.93%) Lead
7 15 (8.93%) Software Development Manager
8 14 (8.33%) Graduate
9 12 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) .NET Development Manager
10 11 (6.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 10 (5.95%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Analyst
12 9 (5.36%) Business Analyst
12 9 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Logistics Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Project Manager
13 8 (4.76%) Software Engineering Graduate
14 7 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.81%) .NET
2 36 (21.43%) React
3 20 (11.90%) Node.js
4 14 (8.33%) REST
5 9 (5.36%) AngularJS
5 9 (5.36%) Micronaut
6 8 (4.76%) RESTful
7 7 (4.17%) Spring
7 7 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.57%) GraphQL
8 6 (3.57%) Vue
9 5 (2.98%) CSS
9 5 (2.98%) HTML
10 4 (2.38%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.38%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.38%) Next.js
10 4 (2.38%) PySpark
11 3 (1.79%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.79%) Django
11 3 (1.79%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 7 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.79%) Life Science
6 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) iPad
7 1 (0.60%) iPhone
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.95%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Android
2 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.55%) Agile
2 45 (26.79%) Mentoring
3 40 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (22.02%) CI/CD
5 33 (19.64%) Coaching
5 33 (19.64%) DevOps
6 24 (14.29%) Analytics
7 22 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (11.90%) Microservices
9 19 (11.31%) Computer Science
10 18 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (8.93%) E-Commerce
12 14 (8.33%) SDLC
13 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (7.74%) Logistics
13 13 (7.74%) Product Vision
13 13 (7.74%) Resource Allocation
13 13 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (7.14%) Fintech
14 12 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.81%) C#
2 33 (19.64%) JavaScript
3 27 (16.07%) SQL
3 27 (16.07%) TypeScript
4 25 (14.88%) Java
5 17 (10.12%) Python
6 10 (5.95%) C++
7 8 (4.76%) C
7 8 (4.76%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.98%) Delphi
9 3 (1.79%) Ruby
10 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.19%) PHP
11 1 (0.60%) Bash
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (13.10%) Degree
2 12 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.98%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.98%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.76%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.79%) GDPR
3 3 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (8.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (13.69%) Terraform
2 9 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.19%) Grafana
3 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.71%) Cisco
2 18 (10.71%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.38%) Autodesk
3 4 (2.38%) Sage
4 3 (1.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.19%) Adobe
5 2 (1.19%) Google
5 2 (1.19%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.60%) New Relic
6 1 (0.60%) OpenAI