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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 87 33 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.19% 3.54% 4.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.36% 3.75% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 82 26 65
10th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £69,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +14.04% -5.20%

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 2,589 879 1,931
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 94.41% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,018 606 1,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year - +11.65% -6.36%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 46 (52.87%) AWS
2 29 (33.33%) Java
3 28 (32.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (22.99%) AngularJS
5 18 (20.69%) JavaScript
6 17 (19.54%) TypeScript
7 16 (18.39%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (18.39%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (18.39%) Serverless
8 15 (17.24%) Agile
8 15 (17.24%) PHP
9 14 (16.09%) Spring Boot
10 13 (14.94%) Amazon S3
10 13 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (14.94%) DynamoDB
10 13 (14.94%) Spring
11 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
12 11 (12.64%) React
13 10 (11.49%) DevOps
13 10 (11.49%) Jenkins
13 10 (11.49%) Node.js
13 10 (11.49%) Python
14 9 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (8.05%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (8.05%) Apigee
15 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
15 7 (8.05%) Security Cleared
16 6 (6.90%) Azure
16 6 (6.90%) Clean Code
16 6 (6.90%) Kotlin

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 1 (1.15%) CMS
1 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (52.87%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) Amazon ECS
2 16 (18.39%) AWS Lambda
2 16 (18.39%) Serverless
3 13 (14.94%) Amazon S3
3 13 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
5 7 (8.05%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (8.05%) Apigee
6 6 (6.90%) Azure
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (5.75%) GCP
8 3 (3.45%) GitHub
8 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.30%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.30%) SaaS
10 1 (1.15%) Asana
10 1 (1.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.90%) MySQL
3 5 (5.75%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.75%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.60%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.15%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.60%) GitLab
3 3 (3.45%) Git
4 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.30%) Maven
5 1 (1.15%) JIRA
5 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
2 6 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.30%) Health Technology
3 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.15%) Finance
4 1 (1.15%) Games
4 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.99%) AngularJS
2 14 (16.09%) Spring Boot
3 13 (14.94%) Spring
4 11 (12.64%) React
5 10 (11.49%) Node.js
6 6 (6.90%) Laravel
7 5 (5.75%) .NET
8 4 (4.60%) Flask
8 4 (4.60%) React Native
9 3 (3.45%) CSS
9 3 (3.45%) HTML
9 3 (3.45%) Jest
9 3 (3.45%) Vue
10 2 (2.30%) CSS3
10 2 (2.30%) HTML5
10 2 (2.30%) MACH
10 2 (2.30%) Next.js
10 2 (2.30%) REST
11 1 (1.15%) LangChain
11 1 (1.15%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Educational Technology
3 3 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.15%) CMDB
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.15%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 15 (17.24%) Agile
3 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
4 10 (11.49%) DevOps
5 6 (6.90%) Clean Code
5 6 (6.90%) Mentoring
6 5 (5.75%) Front End Development
6 5 (5.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (4.60%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (4.60%) Data Protection
7 4 (4.60%) Secure Coding
7 4 (4.60%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (3.45%) Asynchronous Programming
8 3 (3.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (3.45%) Software Engineering
8 3 (3.45%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (3.45%) Test Automation
8 3 (3.45%) User Experience
8 3 (3.45%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.33%) Java
2 18 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 17 (19.54%) TypeScript
4 15 (17.24%) PHP
5 10 (11.49%) Python
6 6 (6.90%) Kotlin
6 6 (6.90%) SQL
7 2 (2.30%) Bash
7 2 (2.30%) Groovy
8 1 (1.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow