Developer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 7 20
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 80 478 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.86% 15.62% 11.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.56% 16.22% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 49 409 354
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,625
90th Percentile £76,500 £70,000 £72,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,220 2,947 4,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 96.28% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 622 2,160 2,262
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £31,612
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,692 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,525 £82,668 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £48,620 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% -8.26% +6.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in West Yorkshire

Developer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Developer in West Yorkshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 -19 63 £57,500 +15.00% 105
Bradford -5 13 £63,750 +27.50% 7
Wakefield +1 1 £47,500 -17.39% 5
Huddersfield -1 1 - - 2
Sowerby Bridge - 1 - -
Todmorden - 1 - -
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 39 (48.75%) Azure
2 35 (43.75%) SQL
3 32 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 32 (40.00%) Agile
4 28 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 26 (32.50%) AWS
6 22 (27.50%) DevOps
7 21 (26.25%) SQL Server
7 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 19 (23.75%) Docker
10 18 (22.50%) Confluence
10 18 (22.50%) Python
10 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
10 18 (22.50%) JIRA
11 16 (20.00%) REST
11 16 (20.00%) GCP
12 15 (18.75%) React
12 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
12 15 (18.75%) Java
13 14 (17.50%) C#
13 14 (17.50%) Microservices
14 13 (16.25%) GitHub
14 13 (16.25%) T-SQL
14 13 (16.25%) MySQL
14 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
14 13 (16.25%) Serverless
15 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (13.75%) Web Development

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 18 (22.50%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) nginx
3 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.25%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) Azure
2 26 (32.50%) AWS
3 16 (20.00%) GCP
4 13 (16.25%) GitHub
4 13 (16.25%) Serverless
5 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.50%) PowerApps
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Stack
9 4 (5.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.50%) Datadog
11 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Broadband
2 4 (5.00%) 5G
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) Intranet
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) SQL Server
2 13 (16.25%) MySQL
3 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 9 (11.25%) MongoDB
6 7 (8.75%) Redis
7 3 (3.75%) Power BI
7 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (2.50%) Power Query
9 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.25%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.25%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 18 (22.50%) JIRA
2 8 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (3.75%) GitLab
4 2 (2.50%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.50%) Mocha
4 2 (2.50%) Selenium
5 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.25%) Gradle
5 1 (1.25%) gulp
5 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.25%) Maven
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Back Office
5 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.00%) REST
2 15 (18.75%) React
3 10 (12.50%) .NET
4 9 (11.25%) Node.js
4 9 (11.25%) Vue
5 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 8 (10.00%) SOAP
5 8 (10.00%) Web Services
6 7 (8.75%) ASP.NET
6 7 (8.75%) CSS
7 6 (7.50%) jQuery
8 5 (6.25%) HTML
8 5 (6.25%) Middleware
8 5 (6.25%) RESTful
9 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
9 4 (5.00%) Flutter
10 3 (3.75%) Django
10 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.75%) HTML5
10 3 (3.75%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) CMDB
2 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Agile
2 28 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 22 (27.50%) DevOps
4 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.50%) Microservices
6 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.75%) Web Development
8 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (11.25%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (11.25%) Scrum
10 8 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (10.00%) ITIL
10 8 (10.00%) ITSM
11 7 (8.75%) Code Quality
11 7 (8.75%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (8.75%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (8.75%) Mentoring
12 6 (7.50%) API Integration
12 6 (7.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.75%) SQL
2 32 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 18 (22.50%) Python
4 15 (18.75%) Java
5 14 (17.50%) C#
6 13 (16.25%) T-SQL
7 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.25%) PHP
9 4 (5.00%) Bash
9 4 (5.00%) Go
10 3 (3.75%) C++
10 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.25%) F#
12 1 (1.25%) Haskell
12 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 7 (8.75%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) PhD
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (23.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.00%) Terraform
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.75%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) PayPal
3 2 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (1.25%) Google
4 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft