Senior Jobs in Leeds

Senior
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior salary in Leeds is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 137 413 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.79% 18.03% 16.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.95% 18.77% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 77 267 259
10th Percentile £47,000 £40,988 £43,100
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,227 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,991 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £82,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -2.44% +2.50%

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 723 2,200 2,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 96.07% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 478 1,593 1,657
10th Percentile £28,963 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,955 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Senior in Leeds

Senior
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Leeds over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 63 (45.99%) Agile
2 51 (37.23%) Mentoring
3 47 (34.31%) CI/CD
4 46 (33.58%) Social Skills
5 40 (29.20%) AWS
6 36 (26.28%) Azure
7 33 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (23.36%) Software Engineering
9 29 (21.17%) JavaScript
10 28 (20.44%) Finance
11 27 (19.71%) SQL
11 27 (19.71%) DevOps
12 26 (18.98%) Analytics
12 26 (18.98%) Python
13 23 (16.79%) Coaching
14 22 (16.06%) C#
15 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
16 19 (13.87%) GCP
16 19 (13.87%) React
16 19 (13.87%) .NET
17 18 (13.14%) Serverless
17 18 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
18 16 (11.68%) Driving Licence
18 16 (11.68%) Risk Management
18 16 (11.68%) Chartered Engineer
19 15 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
19 15 (10.95%) Migration
19 15 (10.95%) Banking
19 15 (10.95%) ETL
19 15 (10.95%) Terraform

Senior 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 10 (7.30%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.38%) Apache
2 6 (4.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Revit
2 1 (0.73%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 40 (29.20%) AWS
2 36 (26.28%) Azure
3 19 (13.87%) GCP
4 18 (13.14%) Serverless
5 14 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.03%) GitHub
7 9 (6.57%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.38%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.65%) PaaS
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.92%) IaaS
10 4 (2.92%) SaaS
11 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.65%) TETRA
2 3 (2.19%) DNS
3 2 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.46%) LAN
3 2 (1.46%) VPN
3 2 (1.46%) Wireless
4 1 (0.73%) Firewall
4 1 (0.73%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) MySQL
2 11 (8.03%) Data Lake
2 11 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.57%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.57%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.38%) Power BI
5 5 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.92%) Biml
6 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.46%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.46%) Redis
8 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.30%) Git
2 10 (7.30%) JIRA
3 5 (3.65%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.19%) Maven
5 2 (1.46%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.46%) JDeveloper
5 2 (1.46%) JUnit
5 2 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.73%) GitLab
6 1 (0.73%) Gradle
General
1 46 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.44%) Finance
3 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.95%) Banking
5 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.92%) Retail
8 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Marketing
9 2 (1.46%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.87%) .NET
1 19 (13.87%) React
2 10 (7.30%) .NET Framework
2 10 (7.30%) REST
3 9 (6.57%) AngularJS
3 9 (6.57%) SailPoint
4 7 (5.11%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.38%) Flutter
5 6 (4.38%) Node.js
5 6 (4.38%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.38%) Vue
6 5 (3.65%) Kafka
6 5 (3.65%) Spring
7 4 (2.92%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.92%) CSS
7 4 (2.92%) jQuery
8 3 (2.19%) OAuth
8 3 (2.19%) RESTful
8 3 (2.19%) SOAP
8 3 (2.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.38%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.19%) CMDB
7 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.19%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.73%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.38%) zOS
2 3 (2.19%) Linux
3 2 (1.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.73%) VMS
4 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.99%) Agile
2 51 (37.23%) Mentoring
3 47 (34.31%) CI/CD
4 33 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (23.36%) Software Engineering
6 27 (19.71%) DevOps
7 26 (18.98%) Analytics
8 23 (16.79%) Coaching
9 18 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (11.68%) Risk Management
11 15 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.95%) ETL
11 15 (10.95%) Migration
12 14 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (10.22%) Data Engineering
12 14 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (8.03%) Data Science
14 11 (8.03%) Information Security
15 10 (7.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.17%) JavaScript
2 27 (19.71%) SQL
3 26 (18.98%) Python
4 22 (16.06%) C#
5 11 (8.03%) Java
6 8 (5.84%) Go
6 8 (5.84%) R
7 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.65%) Scala
9 4 (2.92%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.46%) F#
10 2 (1.46%) Haskell
10 2 (1.46%) PHP
10 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.46%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.73%) Elixir
11 1 (0.73%) Erlang
11 1 (0.73%) Lisp
11 1 (0.73%) PureScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.68%) Chartered Engineer
2 8 (5.84%) ACCA
2 8 (5.84%) CCAB
2 8 (5.84%) CIMA
2 8 (5.84%) CIPFA
2 8 (5.84%) ICAEW
3 7 (5.11%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) CISM
5 3 (2.19%) CISSP
6 2 (1.46%) CCIE
6 2 (1.46%) CCNP
6 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.46%) Degree
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.19%) GRC
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) PMO
4 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.30%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.73%) NFS
4 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.95%) Terraform
2 12 (8.76%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.03%) Ansible
4 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.46%) Istio
6 1 (0.73%) Argo
6 1 (0.73%) Grafana
6 1 (0.73%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.73%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (6.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.38%) Databricks
2 6 (4.38%) IBM
2 6 (4.38%) Oracle
3 5 (3.65%) Google
4 4 (2.92%) Palantir
4 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.46%) Cisco
5 2 (1.46%) VMware
6 1 (0.73%) Adobe
6 1 (0.73%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (0.73%) Citrix
6 1 (0.73%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.73%) NetApp
6 1 (0.73%) Okta
6 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.73%) Veeam
6 1 (0.73%) Veritas