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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 56 41
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 104 21 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.90% 2.65% 4.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.14% 2.81% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 91 11 77
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -7.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - £68,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,788 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +18.18% -8.71%

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 2,510 748 2,159
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 94.56% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,902 489 1,675
10th Percentile £31,275 £27,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £69,957
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 54 (51.92%) AWS
2 36 (34.62%) Java
3 33 (31.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 23 (22.12%) JavaScript
5 23 (22.12%) Serverless
6 22 (21.15%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (20.19%) TypeScript
8 20 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (18.27%) Amazon S3
10 18 (17.31%) Agile
10 18 (17.31%) CI/CD
11 17 (16.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (16.35%) DynamoDB
11 17 (16.35%) Spring Boot
12 16 (15.38%) Spring
13 14 (13.46%) DevOps
13 14 (13.46%) Node.js
13 14 (13.46%) PHP
14 13 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
14 13 (12.50%) Python
14 13 (12.50%) React
15 11 (10.58%) Docker
15 11 (10.58%) SQL
16 9 (8.65%) Kotlin
16 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
17 8 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
17 8 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (7.69%) Amazon ECR

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 (1.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.92%) AWS
2 23 (22.12%) Serverless
3 22 (21.15%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (18.27%) Amazon S3
6 17 (16.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (7.69%) Apigee
9 6 (5.77%) Azure
9 6 (5.77%) GCP
9 6 (5.77%) GitHub
9 6 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.85%) Datadog
10 4 (3.85%) SaaS
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.92%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.35%) DynamoDB
2 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.77%) MySQL
5 4 (3.85%) MariaDB
6 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.96%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.73%) Git
3 5 (4.81%) GitLab
4 3 (2.88%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.88%) Maven
5 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 8 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.92%) Games
4 2 (1.92%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.96%) Finance
5 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.08%) AngularJS
2 17 (16.35%) Spring Boot
3 16 (15.38%) Spring
4 14 (13.46%) Node.js
5 13 (12.50%) React
6 7 (6.73%) .NET
7 6 (5.77%) Flask
7 6 (5.77%) Laravel
8 4 (3.85%) React Native
8 4 (3.85%) Vue
9 3 (2.88%) Jest
9 3 (2.88%) Kafka
9 3 (2.88%) MACH
9 3 (2.88%) REST
10 2 (1.92%) CSS
10 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.92%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.92%) HTML
10 2 (1.92%) Mustache
10 2 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.81%) Educational Technology
3 3 (2.88%) NHS
4 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.96%) CMDB
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.96%) Social Media
5 1 (0.96%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (17.31%) Agile
2 18 (17.31%) CI/CD
3 14 (13.46%) DevOps
4 7 (6.73%) Clean Code
4 7 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (6.73%) Mentoring
5 5 (4.81%) Front End Development
5 5 (4.81%) SDLC
5 5 (4.81%) Secure Coding
5 5 (4.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (3.85%) Data Protection
6 4 (3.85%) DevSecOps
6 4 (3.85%) Microservices
6 4 (3.85%) Principle of Least Privilege
6 4 (3.85%) Software Engineering
6 4 (3.85%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (3.85%) Test Automation
6 4 (3.85%) Workflow
6 4 (3.85%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.62%) Java
2 23 (22.12%) JavaScript
3 21 (20.19%) TypeScript
4 14 (13.46%) PHP
5 13 (12.50%) Python
6 11 (10.58%) SQL
7 9 (8.65%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.88%) Bash
8 3 (2.88%) C#
8 3 (2.88%) Groovy
9 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (10.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.92%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.96%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow