Senior Developer Job Trends in Leeds

Senior Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Developer salary in Leeds is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 54 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 78 24 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.59% 3.15% 3.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.84% 3.35% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66 12 64
10th Percentile £55,625 £43,875 £43,866
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,625 £62,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £68,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £68,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +24.09% -21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,031 716 1,992
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 93.96% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,507 500 1,544
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,723 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.84% -7.27%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Leeds

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Leeds

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 15 April 2026, Senior Developer 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 Leeds region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 41 (52.56%) AWS
2 28 (35.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (32.05%) Java
4 22 (28.21%) Serverless
5 20 (25.64%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (25.64%) JavaScript
6 19 (24.36%) CI/CD
6 19 (24.36%) TypeScript
7 18 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (21.79%) Amazon S3
9 16 (20.51%) Agile
9 16 (20.51%) Python
10 15 (19.23%) DynamoDB
11 14 (17.95%) AngularJS
11 14 (17.95%) DevOps
11 14 (17.95%) Node.js
11 14 (17.95%) React
12 13 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (16.67%) Spring Boot
12 13 (16.67%) SQL
13 12 (15.38%) Docker
13 12 (15.38%) Spring
14 11 (14.10%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (11.54%) Jenkins
15 9 (11.54%) Kotlin
15 9 (11.54%) NoSQL
16 8 (10.26%) .NET
16 8 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (10.26%) Amazon OpenSearch

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (52.56%) AWS
2 22 (28.21%) Serverless
3 20 (25.64%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (21.79%) Amazon S3
6 13 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (14.10%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (10.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (10.26%) Azure
9 7 (8.97%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (8.97%) Apigee
10 6 (7.69%) GCP
10 6 (7.69%) GitHub
10 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (5.13%) Datadog
11 4 (5.13%) SaaS
12 3 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.23%) DynamoDB
2 9 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.28%) MySQL
6 1 (1.28%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.26%) Git
3 4 (5.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.56%) Maven
4 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 10 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Games
4 2 (2.56%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (1.28%) Finance
5 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) AngularJS
1 14 (17.95%) Node.js
1 14 (17.95%) React
2 13 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 12 (15.38%) Spring
4 8 (10.26%) .NET
4 8 (10.26%) Flask
5 5 (6.41%) Laravel
5 5 (6.41%) Vue
6 4 (5.13%) CSS
6 4 (5.13%) HTML
7 3 (3.85%) Django
7 3 (3.85%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.85%) Kafka
7 3 (3.85%) MACH
7 3 (3.85%) React Native
7 3 (3.85%) REST
8 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.56%) Jest
8 2 (2.56%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.41%) Educational Technology
3 3 (3.85%) NHS
4 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.28%) Social Media
5 1 (1.28%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (24.36%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.51%) Agile
4 14 (17.95%) DevOps
5 7 (8.97%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (8.97%) Mentoring
6 6 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (6.41%) Code Quality
7 5 (6.41%) Front End Development
8 4 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (5.13%) DevSecOps
8 4 (5.13%) Microservices
8 4 (5.13%) Principle of Least Privilege
8 4 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (5.13%) RBAC
8 4 (5.13%) SDLC
8 4 (5.13%) Secrets Management
8 4 (5.13%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (5.13%) Test Automation
8 4 (5.13%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.05%) Java
2 20 (25.64%) JavaScript
3 19 (24.36%) TypeScript
4 16 (20.51%) Python
5 13 (16.67%) SQL
6 9 (11.54%) Kotlin
7 8 (10.26%) PHP
8 4 (5.13%) C#
9 2 (2.56%) Bash
9 2 (2.56%) Groovy
10 1 (1.28%) R
10 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 12 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.28%) OpenAI