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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 46 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 83 35 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.80% 3.65% 4.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.95% 3.82% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 79 25 60
10th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £49,625
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £68,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,288 £67,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -3.28% +18.42% -5.00%

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 2,813 917 1,784
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 95.52% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,185 624 1,283
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,825 £31,750
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £42,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,250 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -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 15 August 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 August 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 (55.42%) AWS
2 31 (37.35%) Java
3 23 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (25.30%) AngularJS
5 18 (21.69%) TypeScript
6 17 (20.48%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (20.48%) Serverless
7 16 (19.28%) Agile
7 16 (19.28%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (19.28%) Spring
7 16 (19.28%) Spring Boot
8 14 (16.87%) Amazon S3
8 14 (16.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (16.87%) CI/CD
8 14 (16.87%) DynamoDB
8 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
8 14 (16.87%) PHP
9 13 (15.66%) Node.js
10 10 (12.05%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (12.05%) DevOps
10 10 (12.05%) Kotlin
10 10 (12.05%) React
11 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
11 9 (10.84%) SQL
12 8 (9.64%) Python
12 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
12 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
13 7 (8.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (8.43%) Docker
14 6 (7.23%) 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 (2.41%) CMS
1 2 (2.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (55.42%) AWS
2 17 (20.48%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (20.48%) Serverless
3 16 (19.28%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (16.87%) Amazon S3
4 14 (16.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (12.05%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (7.23%) Apigee
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.02%) Azure
8 5 (6.02%) GitHub
8 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.82%) GCP
10 3 (3.61%) Datadog
11 2 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (1.20%) Asana
12 1 (1.20%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.23%) MySQL
3 5 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.82%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.61%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Maven
General
1 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.41%) Banking
3 2 (2.41%) Finance
3 2 (2.41%) Health Technology
3 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.41%) Publishing
4 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) AngularJS
2 16 (19.28%) Spring
2 16 (19.28%) Spring Boot
3 13 (15.66%) Node.js
4 10 (12.05%) React
5 5 (6.02%) CSS
5 5 (6.02%) HTML
5 5 (6.02%) Laravel
6 4 (4.82%) .NET
6 4 (4.82%) React Native
7 3 (3.61%) CSS3
7 3 (3.61%) Flask
7 3 (3.61%) HTML5
7 3 (3.61%) Vue
8 2 (2.41%) Jest
8 2 (2.41%) Next.js
8 2 (2.41%) RESTful
8 2 (2.41%) Semantic HTML
9 1 (1.20%) NestJS
9 1 (1.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Educational Technology
2 3 (3.61%) NHS
3 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.20%) CMDB
4 1 (1.20%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (19.28%) Agile
3 14 (16.87%) CI/CD
4 10 (12.05%) DevOps
5 6 (7.23%) Clean Code
5 6 (7.23%) Front End Development
5 6 (7.23%) Mentoring
6 5 (6.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (4.82%) Data Protection
7 4 (4.82%) Microservices
7 4 (4.82%) Secure Coding
7 4 (4.82%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (4.82%) User Experience
8 3 (3.61%) Asynchronous Programming
8 3 (3.61%) Decision-Making
8 3 (3.61%) Event-Driven
8 3 (3.61%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (3.61%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (3.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (3.61%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (37.35%) Java
2 18 (21.69%) TypeScript
3 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.87%) PHP
4 10 (12.05%) Kotlin
5 9 (10.84%) SQL
6 8 (9.64%) Python
7 1 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) Groovy
7 1 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow