Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £78,810 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 120 188
Rank change year-on-year -27 +68 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 21 107 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.56% 1.66% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.74% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 17 77 63
10th Percentile £56,000 £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £62,500 £67,529
Median % change year-on-year +26.10% -7.45% +22.78%
75th Percentile £93,778 £71,991 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% -6.90% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,136 6,132 6,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.72% 94.91% 90.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,609 4,504 3,334
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
West Yorkshire +10 16 £82,626 +26.22% 14
North Yorkshire -12 2 £58,000 +16.00%
Humberside - 2 £58,000 -
South Yorkshire +11 1 £60,000 - 8
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
3 15 (71.43%) Agile
4 14 (66.67%) Java
5 10 (47.62%) Finance
5 10 (47.62%) Banking
5 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
6 9 (42.86%) DevOps
6 9 (42.86%) Python
7 8 (38.10%) .NET
7 8 (38.10%) Docker
7 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
7 8 (38.10%) Clean Code
8 7 (33.33%) Microservices
8 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (33.33%) C#
8 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
8 7 (33.33%) SQL
8 7 (33.33%) Spring
9 6 (28.57%) TDD
9 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 6 (28.57%) GCP
9 6 (28.57%) Git
9 6 (28.57%) Scrum
9 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
10 5 (23.81%) JWT
10 5 (23.81%) OAuth2
10 5 (23.81%) Coaching
10 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Integration Services

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) GCP
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) Apigee
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (19.05%) Biml
2 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (19.05%) Power BI
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Endeca
4 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Maven
3 2 (9.52%) Selenium
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (47.62%) Banking
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) .NET
2 7 (33.33%) Spring
2 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 5 (23.81%) JWT
3 5 (23.81%) OAuth
3 5 (23.81%) OAuth2
4 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
5 3 (14.29%) React
5 3 (14.29%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) CSS
6 2 (9.52%) Flutter
6 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
7 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
7 1 (4.76%) HTML
7 1 (4.76%) JSON
7 1 (4.76%) LDAP
7 1 (4.76%) SOAP
7 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Social Media
1 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
3 15 (71.43%) Agile
4 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
5 9 (42.86%) DevOps
6 8 (38.10%) Clean Code
7 7 (33.33%) Microservices
8 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 6 (28.57%) Scrum
8 6 (28.57%) TDD
9 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (23.81%) Coaching
10 4 (19.05%) Agile Project Management
10 4 (19.05%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (19.05%) ETL
10 4 (19.05%) ETL Development
10 4 (19.05%) Fintech
10 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (19.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
2 9 (42.86%) Python
3 7 (33.33%) C#
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Go
4 4 (19.05%) Rust
4 4 (19.05%) T-SQL
5 3 (14.29%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) Elixir
6 1 (4.76%) Elm
6 1 (4.76%) Erlang
6 1 (4.76%) F#
6 1 (4.76%) Haskell
6 1 (4.76%) Lisp
6 1 (4.76%) PureScript
6 1 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe
1 1 (4.76%) CyberSource
1 1 (4.76%) Google
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) New Relic
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle