Senior Software Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 135 126
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 58 20 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.88% 0.73% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.80% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 56 18 75
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,725 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,344 £61,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,405 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +27.05% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £96,590 £70,995
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -6.90%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 6,247 2,487 5,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 90.50% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,253 1,246 4,521
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £48,507
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +1.02% -7.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.87%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Senior Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

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 6 June 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
West Yorkshire -4 47 £70,000 -11.84% 18
South Yorkshire - 7 £80,000 - 6
North Yorkshire - 4 £47,500 - 3
Senior Software Engineer
England

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 6 June 2026, Senior Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (32.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (31.03%) React
3 18 (31.03%) TypeScript
4 17 (29.31%) AWS
5 15 (25.86%) Azure
5 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
6 13 (22.41%) Python
7 12 (20.69%) C#
8 11 (18.97%) Agile
8 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
9 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
10 9 (15.52%) SQL
11 8 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
11 8 (13.79%) Node.js
12 6 (10.34%) SaaS
12 6 (10.34%) SDLC
12 6 (10.34%) Unit Testing
13 5 (8.62%) .NET
13 5 (8.62%) Acceptance Criteria
13 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
13 5 (8.62%) Containerisation
13 5 (8.62%) DevOps
13 5 (8.62%) Docker
13 5 (8.62%) Microservices
13 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
13 5 (8.62%) Performance Engineering
13 5 (8.62%) Vue
14 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 4 (6.90%) GitHub

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (6.90%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) SaaS
4 4 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.17%) Big Data
3 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.72%) Redis
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Git
General
1 7 (12.07%) Agriculture
1 7 (12.07%) Automotive
2 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.72%) Finance
3 1 (1.72%) Local Government
3 1 (1.72%) Retail
3 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) React
2 8 (13.79%) Node.js
3 5 (8.62%) .NET
3 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.62%) Vue
4 4 (6.90%) RESTful
5 3 (5.17%) Flask
6 2 (3.45%) REST
7 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.72%) Kafka
7 1 (1.72%) Laravel
7 1 (1.72%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Cloud Native
1 8 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.17%) Life Science
2 3 (5.17%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (32.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (18.97%) Agile
3 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
4 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 8 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (10.34%) SDLC
6 6 (10.34%) Unit Testing
7 5 (8.62%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (8.62%) Containerisation
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps
7 5 (8.62%) Microservices
7 5 (8.62%) Performance Engineering
8 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.17%) Bioinformatics
9 3 (5.17%) Biology
9 3 (5.17%) Coaching
9 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.17%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (5.17%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) TypeScript
2 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
3 13 (22.41%) Python
4 12 (20.69%) C#
5 9 (15.52%) SQL
6 4 (6.90%) Java
7 2 (3.45%) C++
7 2 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
1 1 (1.72%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes