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 30 April 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 135 205
Rank change year-on-year +18 +70 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 30 86 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.12% 1.49% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.57% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24 53 69
10th Percentile £52,650 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,250 £52,500 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.10% -3.85% +6.12%
75th Percentile £93,778 £71,991 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £74,487 £86,250
England median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 2,510 5,491 7,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 95.30% 91.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 4,235 3,552
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £49,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year - -9.81% +9.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +7.48% -11.67% +0.95%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +32 24 £80,000 +22.20% 14
North Yorkshire -1 4 £56,500 -9.60% 4
Humberside - 2 £58,000 -
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (70.00%) Agile
3 17 (56.67%) Java
4 16 (53.33%) Finance
5 14 (46.67%) Banking
6 13 (43.33%) DevOps
7 12 (40.00%) C#
7 12 (40.00%) .NET
8 11 (36.67%) Git
8 11 (36.67%) Test Automation
9 10 (33.33%) Python
9 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
10 9 (30.00%) Microservices
10 9 (30.00%) Docker
10 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
10 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
10 9 (30.00%) Clean Code
10 9 (30.00%) Spring
10 9 (30.00%) Azure
11 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
11 8 (26.67%) SQL
12 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
12 7 (23.33%) TDD
12 7 (23.33%) Scrum
12 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
12 7 (23.33%) GCP
13 6 (20.00%) Coaching
13 6 (20.00%) JWT
13 6 (20.00%) Social Skills

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) GCP
3 4 (13.33%) GitHub
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) Apigee
5 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (13.33%) Biml
3 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.33%) Power BI
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.67%) DB2
5 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.67%) MySQL
6 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.33%) Endeca
6 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 4 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (6.67%) GitLab
5 2 (6.67%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) Maven
5 2 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (6.67%) Postman
5 2 (6.67%) Selenium
5 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
5 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (53.33%) Finance
2 14 (46.67%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) .NET
2 9 (30.00%) Spring
2 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 6 (20.00%) JWT
3 6 (20.00%) OAuth
3 6 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 4 (13.33%) React
5 3 (10.00%) JSON
5 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 3 (10.00%) SOAP
5 3 (10.00%) WPF
5 3 (10.00%) XML
6 2 (6.67%) CSS
6 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
6 2 (6.67%) ISPF
6 2 (6.67%) Node.js
6 2 (6.67%) REST
6 2 (6.67%) Web Services
6 2 (6.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.33%) Social Media
2 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (6.67%) zOS
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (43.33%) DevOps
4 11 (36.67%) Test Automation
5 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 9 (30.00%) Clean Code
6 9 (30.00%) Microservices
7 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
7 7 (23.33%) Scrum
7 7 (23.33%) TDD
8 6 (20.00%) Coaching
9 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
10 4 (13.33%) Fintech
10 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.33%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Java
2 12 (40.00%) C#
3 10 (33.33%) Python
4 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) SQL
5 4 (13.33%) C++
5 4 (13.33%) Go
5 4 (13.33%) Rust
5 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (10.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (6.67%) COBOL
7 2 (6.67%) JCL
7 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.33%) Erlang
8 1 (3.33%) F#
8 1 (3.33%) Haskell
8 1 (3.33%) Lisp
8 1 (3.33%) Perl
8 1 (3.33%) R
8 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) CA Endevor
3 2 (6.67%) Istio
3 2 (6.67%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) BMC
1 2 (6.67%) IBM
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) CyberSource
2 1 (3.33%) F5
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) New Relic
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat