Software Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £61,250 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 65 30 73
Rank change year-on-year -35 +43 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 91 342 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.40% 5.94% 4.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.63% 6.23% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 80 246 188
10th Percentile £37,566 £34,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £93,778 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £74,443 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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%

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 30 April 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 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 -12 61 £78,810 +43.29% 56
South Yorkshire -18 12 £53,750 +19.44% 10
North Yorkshire -5 10 £50,000 -2.44% 14
Humberside - 4 £49,050 - 1
East Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 - 2
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 91 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (56.04%) Agile
3 44 (48.35%) C#
4 37 (40.66%) Finance
5 36 (39.56%) JavaScript
6 35 (38.46%) Java
6 35 (38.46%) .NET
6 35 (38.46%) CI/CD
7 33 (36.26%) SQL
8 32 (35.16%) Banking
9 30 (32.97%) Mentoring
10 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
10 26 (28.57%) Git
11 25 (27.47%) DevOps
11 25 (27.47%) Kubernetes
12 23 (25.27%) Docker
13 22 (24.18%) GCP
13 22 (24.18%) Azure
14 21 (23.08%) React
15 20 (21.98%) AWS
16 19 (20.88%) Test Automation
16 19 (20.88%) Microservices
17 17 (18.68%) TypeScript
17 17 (18.68%) TDD
17 17 (18.68%) Spring
18 16 (17.58%) Spring Boot
18 16 (17.58%) Node.js
18 16 (17.58%) Roadmaps
19 15 (16.48%) Distributed Systems
19 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving

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 (3.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (3.30%) Apache
1 3 (3.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) Azure
1 22 (24.18%) GCP
2 20 (21.98%) AWS
3 13 (14.29%) GitHub
4 12 (13.19%) SaaS
5 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.40%) Apigee
6 4 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.10%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.10%) dbt
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.10%) PaaS
8 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) Wireless
2 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.10%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.40%) Biml
4 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.40%) Power BI
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.20%) Big Data
6 2 (2.20%) DB2
6 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.20%) MySQL
6 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.20%) SQLite
7 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.10%) Endeca
7 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (28.57%) Git
2 8 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.69%) JIRA
3 7 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 6 (6.59%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (4.40%) JUnit
5 4 (4.40%) Maven
5 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.30%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.30%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (2.20%) GitLab
7 2 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.20%) Postman
7 2 (2.20%) Selenium
7 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
General
1 37 (40.66%) Finance
2 32 (35.16%) Banking
3 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.49%) Electronics
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
6 4 (4.40%) Automotive
7 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.30%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Online Betting
7 3 (3.30%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Military
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.46%) .NET
2 21 (23.08%) React
3 17 (18.68%) Spring
4 16 (17.58%) Node.js
4 16 (17.58%) Spring Boot
5 10 (10.99%) .NET Core
5 10 (10.99%) HTML
5 10 (10.99%) RESTful
6 9 (9.89%) CSS
7 8 (8.79%) JWT
7 8 (8.79%) Kafka
7 8 (8.79%) OAuth
7 8 (8.79%) OAuth2
8 6 (6.59%) .NET Framework
8 6 (6.59%) Express.js
8 6 (6.59%) JSON
9 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET
9 5 (5.49%) WPF
10 4 (4.40%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.19%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.99%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.20%) Robotics
6 1 (1.10%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.10%) EPoS
6 1 (1.10%) GNSS
6 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Social Media
6 1 (1.10%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Unix
3 3 (3.30%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (3.30%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.20%) VMS
4 2 (2.20%) zOS
5 1 (1.10%) Android
5 1 (1.10%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (56.04%) Agile
3 35 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 30 (32.97%) Mentoring
5 25 (27.47%) DevOps
6 19 (20.88%) Microservices
6 19 (20.88%) Test Automation
7 17 (18.68%) TDD
8 16 (17.58%) Roadmaps
9 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (14.29%) SDLC
11 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (13.19%) Software Testing
12 11 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (12.09%) Clean Code
12 11 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (12.09%) Event-Driven
13 10 (10.99%) Containerisation
13 10 (10.99%) Mathematics
13 10 (10.99%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 44 (48.35%) C#
2 36 (39.56%) JavaScript
3 35 (38.46%) Java
4 33 (36.26%) SQL
5 17 (18.68%) TypeScript
6 15 (16.48%) Python
7 13 (14.29%) C++
8 8 (8.79%) C
9 7 (7.69%) Rust
10 6 (6.59%) PL/SQL
11 5 (5.49%) Embedded C
11 5 (5.49%) Go
12 4 (4.40%) T-SQL
13 3 (3.30%) Ada
13 3 (3.30%) VB.NET
14 2 (2.20%) COBOL
14 2 (2.20%) Embedded C++
14 2 (2.20%) JCL
14 2 (2.20%) Perl
14 2 (2.20%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.20%) HND
3 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.10%) IEC 62304
2 1 (1.10%) MISRA
2 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (25.27%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Firmware
3 1 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (27.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.99%) Terraform
3 4 (4.40%) Istio
4 2 (2.20%) CA Endevor
4 2 (2.20%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) Adobe
4 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.20%) BMC
4 2 (2.20%) EMC
4 2 (2.20%) Google
4 2 (2.20%) IBM
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.20%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.10%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.10%) CyberSource
5 1 (1.10%) F5
5 1 (1.10%) New Relic
5 1 (1.10%) Renesas