Developer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 208 178 287
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 11.22% 12.40% 14.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.01% 12.79% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 122 91 248
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,625
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -8.47% +4.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,732 1,392 1,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 97.00% 97.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 687 1,532
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,550 £29,775
25th Percentile £36,125 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,100 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Developer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Developer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Developer in West Yorkshire

Developer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -2 177 £58,750 +17.50% 44
Bradford -15 13 £42,500 -22.73% 11
Huddersfield -4 10 - - 4
Wakefield -10 4 £66,250 +35.90% 6
Halifax - 2 - -
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 99 (47.60%) AWS
2 84 (40.38%) JavaScript
3 69 (33.17%) Agile
4 65 (31.25%) Docker
5 64 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 60 (28.85%) Serverless
7 58 (27.88%) DevOps
8 56 (26.92%) Azure
9 55 (26.44%) React
10 54 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (25.48%) Java
12 52 (25.00%) SQL
13 49 (23.56%) Git
14 47 (22.60%) Mentoring
15 46 (22.12%) Python
16 45 (21.63%) GitHub
17 44 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (18.75%) CSS
19 37 (17.79%) .NET
19 37 (17.79%) HTML
20 36 (17.31%) Amazon S3
21 34 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
21 34 (16.35%) Microservices
22 33 (15.87%) Terraform
23 32 (15.38%) AWS Certification
23 32 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
24 31 (14.90%) AWS Lambda
25 30 (14.42%) JIRA
25 30 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
26 29 (13.94%) Amazon ECS

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 10 (4.81%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.88%) CMS
2 6 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.92%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.44%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 2 (0.96%) Drupal
5 2 (0.96%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.96%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.96%) IIS
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Markit EDM
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.96%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 99 (47.60%) AWS
2 60 (28.85%) Serverless
3 56 (26.92%) Azure
4 45 (21.63%) GitHub
5 36 (17.31%) Amazon S3
6 31 (14.90%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (13.94%) Amazon ECS
7 29 (13.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (8.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (8.17%) SaaS
12 16 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (5.29%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (5.29%) Apigee
15 10 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (2.88%) GCP
17 5 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.77%) Internet
2 2 (0.96%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) AMQP
3 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (13.94%) DynamoDB
3 21 (10.10%) NoSQL
4 20 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 14 (6.73%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (2.88%) MySQL
8 5 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.40%) OLAP
9 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.44%) Power BI
11 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.96%) Metadata
11 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.96%) Redis
12 1 (0.48%) ClickHouse
12 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 49 (23.56%) Git
2 30 (14.42%) JIRA
3 24 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.77%) SonarQube
5 11 (5.29%) Cypress.io
5 11 (5.29%) GitLab
5 11 (5.29%) Maven
6 2 (0.96%) Grunt
6 2 (0.96%) gulp
6 2 (0.96%) Storybook
6 2 (0.96%) webpack
7 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Mockito
7 1 (0.48%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 60 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.17%) Public Sector
3 12 (5.77%) Multimedia
4 11 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Finance
6 6 (2.88%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.88%) Retail
7 5 (2.40%) Legal
7 5 (2.40%) Marketing
8 2 (0.96%) Law
8 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.48%) Games
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.44%) React
2 39 (18.75%) CSS
3 37 (17.79%) .NET
3 37 (17.79%) HTML
4 26 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 22 (10.58%) AngularJS
5 22 (10.58%) RESTful
6 21 (10.10%) Node.js
7 20 (9.62%) Spring
8 19 (9.13%) ASP.NET
9 17 (8.17%) .NET Core
9 17 (8.17%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (8.17%) Flask
10 16 (7.69%) Blazor
10 16 (7.69%) Django
10 16 (7.69%) FastAPI
11 14 (6.73%) Vue
12 13 (6.25%) AWS CDK
12 13 (6.25%) REST
13 11 (5.29%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.10%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.29%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.96%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.96%) IoT
6 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.48%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Android
1 1 (0.48%) Linux
1 1 (0.48%) Windows
1 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (33.17%) Agile
2 64 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 58 (27.88%) DevOps
4 54 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (22.60%) Mentoring
6 44 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (16.35%) Microservices
8 32 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (13.46%) Front End Development
9 28 (13.46%) ITIL
10 27 (12.98%) Computer Science
11 24 (11.54%) SDLC
11 24 (11.54%) Software Engineering
12 22 (10.58%) Containerisation
13 21 (10.10%) Asset Management
13 21 (10.10%) Change Management
13 21 (10.10%) Incident Management
13 21 (10.10%) ITSM
13 21 (10.10%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (40.38%) JavaScript
2 53 (25.48%) Java
3 52 (25.00%) SQL
4 46 (22.12%) Python
5 25 (12.02%) C#
6 24 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 21 (10.10%) PowerShell
8 13 (6.25%) PHP
9 11 (5.29%) Kotlin
10 10 (4.81%) Bash
10 10 (4.81%) Groovy
11 8 (3.85%) Scala
12 7 (3.37%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.40%) Go
14 3 (1.44%) C++
15 2 (0.96%) R
16 1 (0.48%) DataWeave
16 1 (0.48%) Delphi
16 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 28 (13.46%) Degree
3 21 (10.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 13 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.85%) Security Cleared
7 7 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (3.37%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.96%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) SLA
2 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (15.87%) Terraform
2 17 (8.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.29%) HP Fortify
4 4 (1.92%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 22 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.10%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.44%) Pega
3 3 (1.44%) Progress
3 3 (1.44%) WSO2
4 2 (0.96%) HubSpot
4 2 (0.96%) JDA
4 2 (0.96%) Lotus
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe
5 1 (0.48%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.48%) Splunk