Developer Jobs in Leeds

Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Developer salary in Leeds is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 67 404 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.60% 17.02% 14.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.14% 17.67% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 42 340 290
10th Percentile £42,175 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £40,000 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.91% -1.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 733 2,287 2,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 96.38% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 482 1,652 1,636
10th Percentile £28,525 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -0.18% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,959 £86,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Leeds

Developer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Developer in Leeds

Developer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Leeds

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 35 (52.24%) Azure
2 31 (46.27%) JavaScript
3 29 (43.28%) CI/CD
4 27 (40.30%) Agile
5 26 (38.81%) SQL
5 26 (38.81%) AWS
6 23 (34.33%) DevOps
7 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
9 16 (23.88%) REST
9 16 (23.88%) SQL Server
10 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
10 14 (20.90%) Confluence
10 14 (20.90%) JIRA
10 14 (20.90%) Serverless
11 13 (19.40%) Microservices
11 13 (19.40%) React
11 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
11 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
11 13 (19.40%) MySQL
11 13 (19.40%) Java
12 12 (17.91%) Python
12 12 (17.91%) Docker
12 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (17.91%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (16.42%) GCP
13 11 (16.42%) C#
13 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (16.42%) Web Development
14 10 (14.93%) NoSQL

Developer Skill Set
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 14 (20.90%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) nginx
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.99%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.49%) CMS
4 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (52.24%) Azure
2 26 (38.81%) AWS
3 14 (20.90%) Serverless
4 12 (17.91%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (16.42%) GCP
6 9 (13.43%) GitHub
7 6 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
8 5 (7.46%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (7.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (7.46%) Power Automate
8 5 (7.46%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Stack
9 4 (5.97%) SaaS
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.99%) Datadog
11 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) SQL Server
2 13 (19.40%) MySQL
3 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (14.93%) NoSQL
5 9 (13.43%) MongoDB
6 7 (10.45%) Redis
7 3 (4.48%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database
7 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
7 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.99%) Power BI
8 2 (2.99%) Power Query
9 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.49%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.49%) Data Mart
9 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) JIRA
2 7 (10.45%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) GitLab
4 2 (2.99%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.99%) Mocha
4 2 (2.99%) Selenium
5 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.49%) Gradle
5 1 (1.49%) gulp
5 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.49%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Finance
4 4 (5.97%) Retail
5 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Law
6 2 (2.99%) Marketing
6 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) REST
2 13 (19.40%) React
3 9 (13.43%) CSS
3 9 (13.43%) Node.js
3 9 (13.43%) Vue
4 8 (11.94%) .NET
4 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
4 8 (11.94%) SOAP
4 8 (11.94%) Web Services
5 7 (10.45%) HTML
5 7 (10.45%) jQuery
6 6 (8.96%) Middleware
7 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.97%) .NET Framework
8 4 (5.97%) Flutter
8 4 (5.97%) HTML5
8 4 (5.97%) Laravel
8 4 (5.97%) RESTful
9 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.48%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) CMDB
2 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.30%) Agile
3 23 (34.33%) DevOps
4 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (19.40%) Microservices
6 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (16.42%) Web Development
8 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (11.94%) ITIL
9 8 (11.94%) ITSM
9 8 (11.94%) Scrum
10 7 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (10.45%) Code Quality
10 7 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (10.45%) Mentoring
10 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.45%) Thought Leadership
11 6 (8.96%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.27%) JavaScript
2 26 (38.81%) SQL
3 13 (19.40%) Java
4 12 (17.91%) Python
5 11 (16.42%) C#
6 10 (14.93%) T-SQL
7 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
8 7 (10.45%) PHP
9 2 (2.99%) Go
9 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) F#
10 1 (1.49%) Haskell
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.97%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
1 5 (7.46%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.99%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle
4 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.99%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.99%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) Google