Senior Developer Jobs in Wakefield

Senior Developer
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The median Senior Developer salary in Wakefield is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wakefield 4.55% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 - -
75th Percentile £54,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £68,250 £55,000 £62,625
% change year-on-year +24.09% -12.18% +0.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wakefield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wakefield. 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 Wakefield with a recognized job title 21 103 241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 47.73% 94.50% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11 76 78
10th Percentile £41,280 £25,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £30,688 £39,047
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% +5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,063 £66,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Wakefield

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Wakefield

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Wakefield

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield

For the 6 months to 3 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 Wakefield region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform