Software Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £58,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 March 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 35 70
Rank change year-on-year -25 +35 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 98 275 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.86% 5.16% 4.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.05% 5.39% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 75 182 203
10th Percentile £37,530 £38,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £51,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -18.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £93,778 £66,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,375 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +8.87% -10.72% +6.84%

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 2,420 5,098 7,860
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.74% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,216 3,917 3,725
10th Percentile £26,375 £27,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year - -8.90% +9.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £60,567
% change year-on-year +5.45% -9.19% +0.95%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Yorkshire

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 Software Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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 59 £75,000 +15.38% 25
South Yorkshire -11 13 £38,750 -18.42% 6
North Yorkshire -1 11 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Humberside - 5 £49,050 -
East Yorkshire - 2 £37,500 - 1
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 March 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 98 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 50 (51.02%) Agile
3 46 (46.94%) C#
4 37 (37.76%) .NET
5 33 (33.67%) Java
5 33 (33.67%) Finance
6 32 (32.65%) CI/CD
7 30 (30.61%) SQL
8 29 (29.59%) JavaScript
9 28 (28.57%) Banking
10 27 (27.55%) AWS
11 26 (26.53%) Mentoring
12 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
13 22 (22.45%) Git
13 22 (22.45%) Python
14 21 (21.43%) DevOps
15 20 (20.41%) Docker
15 20 (20.41%) C++
16 19 (19.39%) Kubernetes
16 19 (19.39%) React
16 19 (19.39%) Azure
17 18 (18.37%) GCP
17 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (17.35%) Test Automation
18 17 (17.35%) Node.js
18 17 (17.35%) Degree
19 16 (16.33%) Microservices
19 16 (16.33%) TypeScript
20 15 (15.31%) GitHub
20 15 (15.31%) Mathematics

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 3 (3.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (3.06%) Apache
1 3 (3.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) CICS
3 1 (1.02%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.55%) AWS
2 19 (19.39%) Azure
3 18 (18.37%) GCP
4 15 (15.31%) GitHub
5 8 (8.16%) SaaS
6 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (4.08%) ChatGPT
7 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.04%) Apigee
8 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.02%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.04%) Wireless
2 1 (1.02%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.08%) Biml
3 4 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.08%) Power BI
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.06%) SQLite
5 2 (2.04%) Big Data
5 2 (2.04%) DB2
5 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.04%) MySQL
5 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.02%) Redis
6 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (22.45%) Git
2 8 (8.16%) JIRA
2 8 (8.16%) Visual Studio
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (5.10%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.06%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.06%) Eclipse RCP
5 3 (3.06%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.04%) JUnit
6 2 (2.04%) Maven
6 2 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.04%) Postman
6 2 (2.04%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.02%) GitLab
7 1 (1.02%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 33 (33.67%) Finance
2 28 (28.57%) Banking
3 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.10%) Electronics
5 5 (5.10%) Retail
6 4 (4.08%) Automotive
7 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.06%) Law
7 3 (3.06%) Online Betting
7 3 (3.06%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Military
8 2 (2.04%) Tech for Good
8 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.04%) Wearables
9 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (37.76%) .NET
2 19 (19.39%) React
3 17 (17.35%) Node.js
4 14 (14.29%) Spring
5 13 (13.27%) Spring Boot
6 12 (12.24%) .NET Core
7 11 (11.22%) HTML
8 9 (9.18%) .NET Framework
8 9 (9.18%) CSS
8 9 (9.18%) Kafka
9 7 (7.14%) JWT
9 7 (7.14%) OAuth
9 7 (7.14%) OAuth2
9 7 (7.14%) WPF
10 6 (6.12%) ASP.NET
10 6 (6.12%) Blazor
10 6 (6.12%) Express.js
11 5 (5.10%) JSON
11 5 (5.10%) RESTful
12 4 (4.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.10%) Robotics
4 3 (3.06%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Blog
5 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.04%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (2.04%) IoT
5 2 (2.04%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.02%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.02%) EPoS
6 1 (1.02%) GNSS
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Solar Power
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (3.06%) Unix
4 2 (2.04%) Android
4 2 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.04%) VMS
4 2 (2.04%) zOS
5 1 (1.02%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 50 (51.02%) Agile
3 32 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 26 (26.53%) Mentoring
5 21 (21.43%) DevOps
6 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (17.35%) Test Automation
8 16 (16.33%) Microservices
9 15 (15.31%) Mathematics
10 14 (14.29%) Software Testing
10 14 (14.29%) TDD
11 13 (13.27%) SDLC
12 12 (12.24%) Roadmaps
13 11 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (11.22%) Clean Code
14 10 (10.20%) Computer Science
14 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (10.20%) Unit Testing
15 9 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (9.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.94%) C#
2 33 (33.67%) Java
3 30 (30.61%) SQL
4 29 (29.59%) JavaScript
5 22 (22.45%) Python
6 20 (20.41%) C++
7 16 (16.33%) TypeScript
8 13 (13.27%) C
9 9 (9.18%) Rust
10 6 (6.12%) Embedded C
10 6 (6.12%) PL/SQL
11 5 (5.10%) Ada
12 4 (4.08%) T-SQL
13 3 (3.06%) VB.NET
14 2 (2.04%) COBOL
14 2 (2.04%) Embedded C++
14 2 (2.04%) JCL
14 2 (2.04%) Perl
14 2 (2.04%) R
15 1 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (17.35%) Degree
2 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.06%) HND
3 2 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.02%) IEC 61131
1 1 (1.02%) IEC 61508
1 1 (1.02%) IEC 62304
1 1 (1.02%) MISRA
System Software
1 20 (20.41%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Firmware
3 2 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.18%) Terraform
3 2 (2.04%) CA Endevor
3 2 (2.04%) Istio
3 2 (2.04%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) Oracle
3 3 (3.06%) Adobe
3 3 (3.06%) EMC
4 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.04%) BMC
4 2 (2.04%) IBM
4 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.02%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.02%) F5
5 1 (1.02%) Google
5 1 (1.02%) Renesas
5 1 (1.02%) Siemens
5 1 (1.02%) Xamarin