Senior Job Trends in Leeds

Senior
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior salary in Leeds is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 443 172 356
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 14.87% 17.95% 19.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.69% 18.74% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 344 118 233
10th Percentile £40,723 £42,948 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,612 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £71,991
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +9.65% -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 2,824 918 1,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 95.82% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,193 625 1,285
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,850 £31,750
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £42,147
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 £87,500 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Senior job vacancy trend in Leeds

Senior
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Leeds

Senior
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Leeds

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 16 August 2026, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 86 (19.41%) AWS
2 74 (16.70%) Agile
3 54 (12.19%) Software Engineering
4 48 (10.84%) DevOps
5 47 (10.61%) CI/CD
6 45 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 44 (9.93%) Mentoring
8 42 (9.48%) Azure
8 42 (9.48%) Java
9 37 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (8.35%) TypeScript
10 34 (7.67%) Python
11 33 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (7.00%) Coaching
12 31 (7.00%) React
13 29 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 29 (6.55%) JavaScript
14 27 (6.09%) Node.js
14 27 (6.09%) SQL
15 26 (5.87%) AngularJS
15 26 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (5.87%) Security Cleared
16 22 (4.97%) PHP
16 22 (4.97%) Terraform
17 21 (4.74%) Infrastructure as Code
17 21 (4.74%) SC Cleared
18 20 (4.51%) Analytics
18 20 (4.51%) Microsoft
18 20 (4.51%) Roadmaps
19 19 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation

Senior 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 4 (0.90%) IIS
2 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.45%) CMS
3 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.45%) WordPress
4 1 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Trello
2 2 (0.45%) Navisworks
2 2 (0.45%) Revit
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (19.41%) AWS
2 42 (9.48%) Azure
3 19 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (4.29%) GitHub
3 19 (4.29%) Serverless
4 18 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (3.84%) Amazon S3
5 17 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (3.39%) GCP
7 14 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (1.58%) SaaS
11 6 (1.35%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (1.35%) Apigee
12 5 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.13%) dbt
12 5 (1.13%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.90%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.26%) DNS
2 7 (1.58%) LAN
3 6 (1.35%) DHCP
3 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.35%) WAN
4 5 (1.13%) NAS
4 5 (1.13%) SAN
4 5 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.68%) BGP
5 3 (0.68%) Firewall
5 3 (0.68%) Network Security
5 3 (0.68%) OSPF
5 3 (0.68%) TETRA
5 3 (0.68%) VPN
6 2 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.45%) HTTP
6 2 (0.45%) NGFW
6 2 (0.45%) VLAN
6 2 (0.45%) Wireless
6 2 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.84%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.81%) MySQL
3 6 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (1.13%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.13%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.90%) MariaDB
5 4 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.68%) Big Data
6 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.68%) Metadata
6 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.68%) Tableau
7 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.45%) Power BI
8 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 17 (3.84%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.03%) GitLab
3 6 (1.35%) Git
4 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.68%) JIRA
6 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.23%) Gatling
7 1 (0.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 42 (9.48%) Social Skills
2 40 (9.03%) Public Sector
3 29 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.42%) Finance
5 14 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.58%) Agriculture
8 7 (1.58%) Automotive
8 7 (1.58%) Games
8 7 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.35%) Banking
9 6 (1.35%) iGaming
10 4 (0.90%) Retail
11 3 (0.68%) Back Office
11 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.68%) Legal
11 3 (0.68%) Local Government
11 3 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.00%) React
2 27 (6.09%) Node.js
3 26 (5.87%) AngularJS
4 17 (3.84%) Spring
5 16 (3.61%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.48%) .NET
7 8 (1.81%) Vue
8 6 (1.35%) Laravel
8 6 (1.35%) REST
9 5 (1.13%) CSS
9 5 (1.13%) HTML
9 5 (1.13%) RESTful
10 4 (0.90%) Flutter
10 4 (0.90%) React Native
10 4 (0.90%) Web Services
11 3 (0.68%) CSS3
11 3 (0.68%) Flask
11 3 (0.68%) HTML5
11 3 (0.68%) Kafka
11 3 (0.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.19%) Cyberattack
2 21 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (1.81%) NHS
5 7 (1.58%) Driving Licence
5 7 (1.58%) Sports Betting
6 6 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.13%) Educational Technology
8 4 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.45%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.23%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.23%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.23%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.23%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.48%) Windows
2 10 (2.26%) Linux
3 6 (1.35%) Unix
4 5 (1.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (16.70%) Agile
2 54 (12.19%) Software Engineering
3 48 (10.84%) DevOps
4 47 (10.61%) CI/CD
5 45 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (9.93%) Mentoring
7 37 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (7.00%) Coaching
10 29 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (4.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (4.51%) Analytics
13 20 (4.51%) Roadmaps
14 18 (4.06%) Business Development
14 18 (4.06%) Decision-Making
14 18 (4.06%) Scrum
15 17 (3.84%) Data Engineering
16 16 (3.61%) Data Modelling
17 15 (3.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (9.48%) Java
2 37 (8.35%) TypeScript
3 34 (7.67%) Python
4 29 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.09%) SQL
6 22 (4.97%) PHP
7 11 (2.48%) C#
8 10 (2.26%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.13%) Groovy
11 3 (0.68%) Bicep
11 3 (0.68%) Go
11 3 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.45%) Bash
12 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.45%) Ruby
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) Perl
13 1 (0.23%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (5.87%) Security Cleared
2 21 (4.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.26%) Degree
4 8 (1.81%) CISM
5 7 (1.58%) Chartered Engineer
5 7 (1.58%) CISSP
6 3 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.68%) PMP
7 2 (0.45%) CCNP
7 2 (0.45%) CRISC
7 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.45%) HNC
7 2 (0.45%) HND
7 2 (0.45%) IIBA
8 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.23%) CCSP
8 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.35%) GDPR
2 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.13%) GRC
4 3 (0.68%) QA
4 3 (0.68%) WCAG
5 2 (0.45%) ISO 19650
5 2 (0.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (3.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.13%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (4.97%) Terraform
2 11 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.90%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.90%) VxRail
3 4 (0.90%) WSUS
4 3 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Avamar
5 1 (0.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (4.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.93%) SAP
3 7 (1.58%) Cisco
3 7 (1.58%) Oracle
4 5 (1.13%) Dell
4 5 (1.13%) Google
4 5 (1.13%) Veeam
4 5 (1.13%) VMware
4 5 (1.13%) Zerto
5 4 (0.90%) Commvault
5 4 (0.90%) HP
5 4 (0.90%) Meraki
5 4 (0.90%) Pega
5 4 (0.90%) Tenable
6 3 (0.68%) Databricks
6 3 (0.68%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.45%) Arista
7 2 (0.45%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow