Backend Developer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Backend Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Backend Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 242 229
Rank change year-on-year +102 -13 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 20 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.66% 0.095% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £43,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £62,813 £60,563 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,900 £68,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £77,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.81% +40.91% +27.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,893 4,886 4,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.02% 93.30% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,117 2,359 3,162
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,136 £54,882 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.47% +9.76% +5.26%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in West Yorkshire

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in West Yorkshire

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in West Yorkshire

Backend Developer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Leeds +59 18 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Wakefield - 2 £45,000 -
Backend Developer
Yorkshire

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Backend Developer 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 13 (65.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (60.00%) AWS
3 10 (50.00%) OO
4 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (30.00%) Finance
6 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (30.00%) C#
6 6 (30.00%) SQL
6 6 (30.00%) .NET
6 6 (30.00%) MySQL
6 6 (30.00%) Waterfall
6 6 (30.00%) Node.js
6 6 (30.00%) OAuth
6 6 (30.00%) RESTful
6 6 (30.00%) Microservices
6 6 (30.00%) API Development
7 5 (25.00%) Azure
7 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (25.00%) People Management
7 5 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (20.00%) Serverless
8 4 (20.00%) PHP
8 4 (20.00%) Laravel
8 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
8 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MySQL
2 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) .NET
1 6 (30.00%) Node.js
1 6 (30.00%) OAuth
1 6 (30.00%) RESTful
2 4 (20.00%) Laravel
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) CakePHP
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) OO
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (30.00%) API Development
5 6 (30.00%) Microservices
5 6 (30.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (25.00%) People Management
6 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) SOLID
8 3 (15.00%) Clean Code
8 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
9 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
9 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
9 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 2 (10.00%) MVC
9 2 (10.00%) OOP
9 2 (10.00%) TDD
9 2 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) C#
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform