Software Engineering Jobs in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 227 504 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.49% 8.75% 9.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 10.43% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 182 396 439
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,000 £40,371
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £93,778 £66,250 £79,625
90th Percentile £125,592 £79,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,513 4,834 8,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 94.01% 83.89% 97.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 3,700 3,509
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Yorkshire

Software Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +4 155 £71,991 +19.99% 99
South Yorkshire -8 30 £68,750 +41.03% 24
North Yorkshire -5 24 £52,500 +26.51% 24
Humberside +4 13 £49,050 -1.90% 2
East Yorkshire - 2 £38,750 - 4
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.32%) Apache
1 3 (1.32%) CICS
1 3 (1.32%) Confluence
1 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 54 (23.79%) Azure
2 44 (19.38%) AWS
3 38 (16.74%) GCP
4 23 (10.13%) SaaS
5 17 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.05%) GitHub
7 9 (3.96%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.20%) dbt
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.76%) Apigee
10 4 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.76%) Serverless
10 4 (1.76%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Ethernet
1 2 (0.88%) Wireless
2 1 (0.44%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.44%) RS-232
2 1 (0.44%) RS-485
2 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.41%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.52%) Power BI
4 6 (2.64%) MySQL
5 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.76%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.76%) Biml
6 4 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.32%) Big Data
7 3 (1.32%) DB2
7 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.88%) Endeca
8 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.88%) SQLite
9 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 29 (12.78%) Git
2 12 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.85%) JIRA
4 7 (3.08%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.64%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (2.20%) JUnit
6 5 (2.20%) Maven
6 5 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.76%) Selenium
7 4 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.32%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (1.32%) GitLab
9 2 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.88%) Postman
9 2 (0.88%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (44.49%) Finance
2 89 (39.21%) Banking
3 48 (21.15%) Social Skills
4 24 (10.57%) Electronics
5 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.41%) Law
7 7 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.08%) Marketing
8 6 (2.64%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) Legal
9 5 (2.20%) Online Betting
10 4 (1.76%) Automotive
10 4 (1.76%) Games
10 4 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.76%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.32%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (40.09%) Software Engineer
2 53 (23.35%) Senior
3 30 (13.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 26 (11.45%) Lead
5 20 (8.81%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (8.81%) Software Manager
6 19 (8.37%) Software Assurance Engineer
7 17 (7.49%) Engineering Manager
8 16 (7.05%) Software Engineering Manager
9 15 (6.61%) .NET Software Engineer
9 15 (6.61%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (6.17%) Senior Manager
11 13 (5.73%) Architect
12 12 (5.29%) Junior
13 10 (4.41%) Developer
14 9 (3.96%) Junior Software Engineer
15 8 (3.52%) Data Architect
16 7 (3.08%) Embedded Engineer
16 7 (3.08%) Graduate
17 6 (2.64%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (23.35%) .NET
2 48 (21.15%) React
3 30 (13.22%) Node.js
4 24 (10.57%) Software Packaging
5 23 (10.13%) Spring
6 21 (9.25%) .NET Core
7 20 (8.81%) Spring Boot
8 16 (7.05%) Kafka
9 15 (6.61%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.73%) RESTful
11 11 (4.85%) REST
12 10 (4.41%) CSS
12 10 (4.41%) HTML
13 8 (3.52%) JWT
13 8 (3.52%) OAuth
13 8 (3.52%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.08%) .NET Framework
14 7 (3.08%) ASP.NET
14 7 (3.08%) Bootstrap
14 7 (3.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.45%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.41%) Private Cloud
5 8 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.08%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.20%) Hackathon
8 5 (2.20%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.32%) Clustering
10 3 (1.32%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.88%) IBM Mainframe
11 2 (0.88%) Life Science
11 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.96%) Linux
1 9 (3.96%) zOS
2 4 (1.76%) Unix
3 3 (1.32%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (1.32%) Windows
4 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (48.90%) Agile
2 67 (29.52%) CI/CD
3 66 (29.07%) DevOps
4 48 (21.15%) Mentoring
5 39 (17.18%) Roadmaps
6 38 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (16.74%) Mathematics
7 36 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (15.42%) Artificial Intelligence
8 35 (15.42%) Microservices
9 34 (14.98%) Fintech
10 31 (13.66%) Line Management
11 30 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (11.89%) Decision-Making
13 26 (11.45%) Containerisation
14 25 (11.01%) Coaching
14 25 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (9.69%) SDLC
15 22 (9.69%) Test Automation
16 19 (8.37%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (29.96%) C#
1 68 (29.96%) JavaScript
2 60 (26.43%) Java
3 43 (18.94%) SQL
4 33 (14.54%) TypeScript
5 32 (14.10%) Python
6 14 (6.17%) C++
7 9 (3.96%) C
8 7 (3.08%) Rust
9 6 (2.64%) Go
9 6 (2.64%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.20%) Embedded C
10 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.20%) PHP
10 5 (2.20%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.32%) Ada
11 3 (1.32%) JCL
11 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.32%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.88%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 49 (21.59%) Degree
2 22 (9.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (5.29%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.20%) PhD
5 4 (1.76%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.32%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.88%) HND
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.44%) MCSD
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.64%) QA
1 6 (2.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (0.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.88%) GDPR
2 2 (0.88%) GMP
3 1 (0.44%) Basel III
3 1 (0.44%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.44%) IEC 62304
3 1 (0.44%) IFRS
3 1 (0.44%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.44%) MISRA
3 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (15.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (17.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.69%) Terraform
3 4 (1.76%) Istio
4 2 (0.88%) CA Endevor
4 2 (0.88%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (0.44%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 23 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.17%) IBM
3 10 (4.41%) Google
4 8 (3.52%) Oracle
5 6 (2.64%) Databricks
6 4 (1.76%) Adobe
7 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.88%) BMC
7 2 (0.88%) EMC
7 2 (0.88%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.88%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.44%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.44%) CyberSource
8 1 (0.44%) F5
8 1 (0.44%) New Relic
8 1 (0.44%) Renesas
8 1 (0.44%) Sage