Software Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Software Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 162 92 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.52% 4.01% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.80% 4.21% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 155 68 177
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,619 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +12.73% -16.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,795 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -10.00%

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 4,260 2,185 4,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 95.33% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,705 1,124 3,883
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Software Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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 +8 110 £70,000 -6.67% 31
North Yorkshire +19 25 £47,500 -5.00% 8
South Yorkshire -25 24 £57,500 +48.39% 6
East Yorkshire -20 1 - - 2
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 March 2026, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 162 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 46 (28.40%) AWS
3 32 (19.75%) C#
4 28 (17.28%) SQL
5 27 (16.67%) Java
6 26 (16.05%) CI/CD
7 25 (15.43%) Agile
7 25 (15.43%) JavaScript
7 25 (15.43%) React
7 25 (15.43%) TypeScript
8 24 (14.81%) .NET
8 24 (14.81%) Firmware
9 23 (14.20%) DevOps
10 22 (13.58%) Node.js
11 21 (12.96%) Azure
12 20 (12.35%) Mentoring
12 20 (12.35%) Microservices
13 18 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (9.26%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (9.26%) RESTful
14 15 (9.26%) Terraform
15 14 (8.64%) C++
15 14 (8.64%) E-Commerce
15 14 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
16 12 (7.41%) Python
17 11 (6.79%) SaaS
18 10 (6.17%) Amazon S3
18 10 (6.17%) AngularJS
18 10 (6.17%) AWS Lambda

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:

Cloud Services
1 46 (28.40%) AWS
2 21 (12.96%) Azure
3 11 (6.79%) SaaS
4 10 (6.17%) Amazon S3
4 10 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (6.17%) Serverless
5 8 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.70%) GitHub
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.23%) Datadog
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.62%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.17%) DynamoDB
1 10 (6.17%) NoSQL
1 10 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.94%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.09%) MySQL
4 3 (1.85%) Big Data
4 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.62%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.47%) Git
3 3 (1.85%) JIRA
4 2 (1.23%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.62%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.62%) Selenium
General
1 19 (11.73%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.02%) Finance
3 12 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.79%) Retail
5 8 (4.94%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (3.70%) Electronics
6 6 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.47%) Automotive
8 3 (1.85%) Games
9 2 (1.23%) Local Government
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.43%) React
2 24 (14.81%) .NET
3 22 (13.58%) Node.js
4 15 (9.26%) RESTful
5 10 (6.17%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.56%) CSS
6 9 (5.56%) HTML
6 9 (5.56%) Vue
7 7 (4.32%) ASP.NET
8 5 (3.09%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.09%) HTML5
8 5 (3.09%) Micronaut
8 5 (3.09%) REST
8 5 (3.09%) Spring
8 5 (3.09%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.85%) Blazor
9 3 (1.85%) CSS3
9 3 (1.85%) Flask
9 3 (1.85%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.94%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.47%) Robotics
3 3 (1.85%) IoT
3 3 (1.85%) Life Science
3 3 (1.85%) Private Cloud
3 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.23%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.62%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.56%) Linux
2 5 (3.09%) Windows
3 1 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (16.05%) CI/CD
3 25 (15.43%) Agile
4 23 (14.20%) DevOps
5 20 (12.35%) Mentoring
5 20 (12.35%) Microservices
6 18 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (9.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (8.64%) E-Commerce
8 14 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (6.17%) Logistics
10 10 (6.17%) Observability
11 9 (5.56%) Computer Science
11 9 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (5.56%) SDLC
12 8 (4.94%) Fintech
13 7 (4.32%) API Design
13 7 (4.32%) Coaching
13 7 (4.32%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.75%) C#
2 28 (17.28%) SQL
3 27 (16.67%) Java
4 25 (15.43%) JavaScript
4 25 (15.43%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.64%) C++
6 12 (7.41%) Python
7 9 (5.56%) C
8 8 (4.94%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.23%) Ruby
9 2 (1.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.62%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (5.56%) Degree
2 8 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (14.81%) Firmware
2 9 (5.56%) Docker
2 9 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (9.26%) Terraform
2 4 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.23%) Grafana
3 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (1.23%) Adobe
1 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.62%) Google
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.62%) New Relic