Software Engineering Jobs in Leeds

Software Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 14 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 213 341 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.83% 12.09% 14.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.59% 12.36% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 168 220 406
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £69,563 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 2,760 3,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 83.37% 97.87% 97.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,427 1,614 2,538
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,922
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £41,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £69,789
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Leeds

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 29 (13.62%) ArcGIS
2 28 (13.15%) GeoServer
3 5 (2.35%) NServiceBus
4 3 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 82 (38.50%) Azure
2 81 (38.03%) AWS
3 25 (11.74%) GitHub
4 18 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (7.51%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (6.10%) Serverless
7 12 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.16%) GCP
9 5 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.35%) Firebase
10 3 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.94%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.47%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) Broadband
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (13.62%) GIS
3 28 (13.15%) QGIS
4 22 (10.33%) MySQL
5 11 (5.16%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.23%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.35%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.41%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.47%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (8.45%) CircleCI
2 11 (5.16%) Bitbucket
3 8 (3.76%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.29%) Git
5 4 (1.88%) GitLab
5 4 (1.88%) JIRA
5 4 (1.88%) Postman
6 3 (1.41%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.41%) Toad
7 2 (0.94%) Selenium
8 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.47%) NUnit
8 1 (0.47%) webpack
8 1 (0.47%) XCTest
General
1 25 (11.74%) Public Sector
2 23 (10.80%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (7.98%) Finance
5 13 (6.10%) Automotive
6 10 (4.69%) Legal
7 7 (3.29%) Banking
8 5 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.35%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.88%) Law
10 3 (1.41%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.94%) Electronics
11 2 (0.94%) Marketing
11 2 (0.94%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) French Language
12 1 (0.47%) Games
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 130 (61.03%) Software Engineer
2 71 (33.33%) Senior
3 51 (23.94%) Senior Software Engineer
4 49 (23.00%) Developer
5 34 (15.96%) Lead
6 25 (11.74%) Embedded Engineer
6 25 (11.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 15 (7.04%) C# Developer
8 14 (6.57%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.10%) .NET Software Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Backend Developer
10 11 (5.16%) Node.js Developer
10 11 (5.16%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.69%) C# Software Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) C# Software Developer
12 9 (4.23%) Lead Developer
12 9 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Software Manager
13 8 (3.76%) Engineering Manager
14 7 (3.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (38.03%) .NET
2 69 (32.39%) React
3 51 (23.94%) .NET Core
4 43 (20.19%) AngularJS
5 38 (17.84%) CSS
6 30 (14.08%) RESTful
7 28 (13.15%) Leaflet
7 28 (13.15%) OpenLayers
7 28 (13.15%) PostGIS
8 26 (12.21%) Node.js
9 20 (9.39%) Vue
10 11 (5.16%) ASP.NET
10 11 (5.16%) HTML
11 6 (2.82%) OAuth
11 6 (2.82%) Spring
11 6 (2.82%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.35%) Apache Cordova
12 5 (2.35%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (2.35%) Jest
12 5 (2.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
1 18 (8.45%) Public Cloud
2 17 (7.98%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.88%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.88%) Robotics
6 3 (1.41%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
7 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.47%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.47%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.98%) Linux
2 7 (3.29%) Android
3 6 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.41%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.41%) Windows
6 2 (0.94%) Unix
7 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.09%) DevOps
2 78 (36.62%) Agile
3 51 (23.94%) CI/CD
4 38 (17.84%) Full Stack Development
5 34 (15.96%) Microservices
6 33 (15.49%) Web Development
7 28 (13.15%) Actionable Insight
7 28 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (11.27%) Containerisation
9 24 (11.27%) Mentoring
10 19 (8.92%) Coaching
11 18 (8.45%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (7.98%) Roadmaps
13 16 (7.51%) Computer Science
14 14 (6.57%) Software Testing
14 14 (6.57%) TDD
14 14 (6.57%) Test Automation
15 13 (6.10%) OOP
15 13 (6.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.80%) JavaScript
2 65 (30.52%) C#
3 54 (25.35%) Python
4 35 (16.43%) SQL
5 31 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.04%) Java
7 11 (5.16%) C++
8 5 (2.35%) PHP
8 5 (2.35%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.88%) C
10 3 (1.41%) COBOL
10 3 (1.41%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 3 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Go
11 2 (0.94%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.47%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 50 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 49 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.39%) Degree
4 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 26 (12.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.94%) IAG
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (14.55%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.33%) Terraform
3 3 (1.41%) Grafana
3 3 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 29 (13.62%) ESRI
2 10 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.41%) Micro Focus
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle
3 3 (1.41%) Splunk
4 2 (0.94%) Brio
5 1 (0.47%) Cadence
5 1 (0.47%) F5