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 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 115 157
Rank change year-on-year -32 +42 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 14 65 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.42% 1.32% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.39% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 50 40
10th Percentile £52,600 £45,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,000 £50,000 £55,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,493 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £93,750 £85,625
England median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% - -

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 2,831 4,664 3,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.61% 94.68% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 2,594 2,650
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £38,000 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,900 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 0 10 £78,810 +20.39% 13
South Yorkshire +2 2 £60,000 - 4
North Yorkshire -11 2 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Docker
3 7 (50.00%) Java
4 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 5 (35.71%) C#
5 5 (35.71%) Python
6 4 (28.57%) Linux
6 4 (28.57%) C++
6 4 (28.57%) SQL
6 4 (28.57%) .NET
6 4 (28.57%) Spring
6 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
6 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
6 4 (28.57%) Go
6 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
7 3 (21.43%) Microservices
7 3 (21.43%) React
7 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
7 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) TDD
7 3 (21.43%) RESTful
7 3 (21.43%) Finance
8 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (14.29%) Hibernate

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 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Apigee
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
1 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Endeca
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
1 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Flutter
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) jQuery
4 1 (7.14%) JWT
4 1 (7.14%) LDAP
4 1 (7.14%) Micronaut
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Social Media
1 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) B2C
6 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Kanban
6 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
6 2 (14.29%) OO
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) Python
4 4 (28.57%) C++
4 4 (28.57%) Go
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Istio
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe
1 1 (7.14%) CyberSource
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) New Relic
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle