Senior Developer Jobs in Leeds

Senior Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Developer salary in Leeds is £68,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
9 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 50 84
Rank change year-on-year -6 +34 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 21 94 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.68% 4.15% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 4.32% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10 68 60
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,514 £47,950
25th Percentile £55,625 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,250 £57,500 £62,625
Median % change year-on-year +18.70% -8.18% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,875 £62,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £68,750 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.71% -1.22%

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 733 2,175 2,816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 95.94% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 506 1,578 1,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,486 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,056 £87,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.50% -9.09% +4.76%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) AWS
3 12 (57.14%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 11 (52.38%) Azure
5 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
7 8 (38.10%) React
7 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (33.33%) REST
8 7 (33.33%) C#
8 7 (33.33%) Vue
8 7 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (33.33%) Serverless
9 6 (28.57%) MySQL
9 6 (28.57%) JIRA
9 6 (28.57%) GCP
9 6 (28.57%) Confluence
10 5 (23.81%) Microservices
10 5 (23.81%) SQL
10 5 (23.81%) .NET
11 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET
11 4 (19.05%) Python
11 4 (19.05%) Scrum
11 4 (19.05%) Java
11 4 (19.05%) Web Development
11 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
11 4 (19.05%) jQuery
11 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration

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 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (33.33%) Serverless
4 6 (28.57%) GCP
5 4 (19.05%) GitHub
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (14.29%) SaaS
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) Datadog
8 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MySQL
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.76%) CouchDB
4 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) JDeveloper
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Gradle
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) React
2 7 (33.33%) REST
2 7 (33.33%) Vue
3 5 (23.81%) .NET
4 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
4 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
4 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET
4 4 (19.05%) Flutter
4 4 (19.05%) jQuery
5 3 (14.29%) CSS
5 3 (14.29%) Laravel
5 3 (14.29%) SOAP
5 3 (14.29%) Web Services
6 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
6 2 (9.52%) HTML
6 2 (9.52%) Middleware
6 2 (9.52%) Node.js
6 2 (9.52%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (9.52%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Mobile App
2 3 (14.29%) CMDB
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (57.14%) DevOps
3 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (23.81%) Microservices
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (19.05%) Open Source
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum
6 4 (19.05%) Web Development
7 3 (14.29%) API Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (14.29%) ITIL
7 3 (14.29%) ITSM
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 7 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) PHP
5 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.76%) F#
6 1 (4.76%) Go
6 1 (4.76%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
34 Senior Developer jobs in West Yorkshire