Senior Developer Jobs in Leeds

Senior Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Developer salary in Leeds is £73,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 44 77
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 32 102 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.27% 4.29% 3.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.46% 4.46% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 24 73 57
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,250 £48,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £79,063 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £74,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -

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 925 2,288 2,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 96.13% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 600 1,629 1,581
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +7.89%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Leeds

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Leeds

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 15 (46.88%) Agile
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
3 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
4 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 10 (31.25%) DevOps
5 9 (28.13%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (28.13%) Serverless
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) Microservices
6 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (21.88%) Azure
7 7 (21.88%) REST
8 6 (18.75%) Confluence
8 6 (18.75%) GCP
8 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
8 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) JIRA
9 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database 11g
9 5 (15.63%) Retail
9 5 (15.63%) SQL
9 5 (15.63%) Java
9 5 (15.63%) MySQL
9 5 (15.63%) Oracle
9 5 (15.63%) CSS
9 5 (15.63%) Python
9 5 (15.63%) Middleware
9 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database
9 5 (15.63%) Mentoring

Senior 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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (28.13%) Serverless
3 7 (21.88%) Azure
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
5 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 3 (9.38%) SaaS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (3.13%) Datadog
8 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.13%) PaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) MySQL
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database 11g
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.13%) CouchDB
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) JDeveloper
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Gradle
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Retail
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) REST
2 5 (15.63%) CSS
2 5 (15.63%) Middleware
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 4 (12.50%) HTML
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle ADF
4 3 (9.38%) React
4 3 (9.38%) RESTful
4 3 (9.38%) SOAP
4 3 (9.38%) Web Services
5 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.25%) Laravel
5 2 (6.25%) Node.js
5 2 (6.25%) Symfony
5 2 (6.25%) Vue
6 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.13%) Flask
6 1 (3.13%) Kafka
6 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.38%) CMDB
2 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.13%) iPad
2 1 (3.13%) iPhone
2 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.13%) Android
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 10 (31.25%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Microservices
4 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (12.50%) Scrum
7 4 (12.50%) SOA
7 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
8 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (9.38%) BPEL
8 3 (9.38%) BPMN
8 3 (9.38%) ITIL
8 3 (9.38%) ITSM
8 3 (9.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.25%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) F#
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) Haskell
6 1 (3.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Sparx
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) Workday