Developer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 7 22
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 82 449 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.54% 14.97% 11.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.21% 15.59% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 56 388 362
10th Percentile £41,625 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,188 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £63,625
90th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £72,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +2.94%

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 1,138 2,880 4,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 96.03% 93.14%
Number of salaries quoted 659 2,122 2,310
10th Percentile £28,850 £28,000 £31,569
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £83,750 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,507 £49,205 £54,590
% change year-on-year -1.42% -9.86% +9.18%

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 10 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 10 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 -18 63 £58,750 +17.50% 86
Bradford -2 9 £67,500 +35.00% 4
Wakefield +6 5 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Huddersfield -1 3 £38,250 -18.62% 4
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 10 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 42 (51.22%) Azure
2 36 (43.90%) Agile
3 35 (42.68%) SQL
4 34 (41.46%) JavaScript
5 27 (32.93%) CI/CD
6 26 (31.71%) AWS
7 25 (30.49%) SQL Server
8 22 (26.83%) DevOps
8 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (25.61%) Docker
10 20 (24.39%) Social Skills
11 19 (23.17%) C#
11 19 (23.17%) Microsoft
12 18 (21.95%) .NET
12 18 (21.95%) JIRA
12 18 (21.95%) Confluence
13 17 (20.73%) React
13 17 (20.73%) Python
14 16 (19.51%) GCP
14 16 (19.51%) REST
15 15 (18.29%) Microservices
16 14 (17.07%) Serverless
16 14 (17.07%) GitHub
16 14 (17.07%) MySQL
16 14 (17.07%) T-SQL
17 13 (15.85%) Java
17 13 (15.85%) Web Development
17 13 (15.85%) Full-Stack Development
18 12 (14.63%) Security Cleared
18 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement

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 (21.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) nginx
3 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.22%) Azure
2 26 (31.71%) AWS
3 16 (19.51%) GCP
4 14 (17.07%) GitHub
4 14 (17.07%) Serverless
5 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.10%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.10%) SaaS
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Stack
8 4 (4.88%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.44%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.44%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Broadband
2 4 (4.88%) 5G
3 2 (2.44%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) Intranet
3 2 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (30.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (17.07%) MySQL
3 10 (12.20%) NoSQL
3 10 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.76%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.54%) Redis
6 3 (3.66%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (2.44%) Power BI
8 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.22%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.22%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (21.95%) JIRA
2 8 (9.76%) Git
3 3 (3.66%) GitLab
4 2 (2.44%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.44%) Mocha
4 2 (2.44%) Selenium
5 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.22%) Gradle
5 1 (1.22%) gulp
5 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.22%) Maven
5 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 20 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Finance
3 7 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Back Office
4 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.66%) Retail
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.22%) Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Law
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.95%) .NET
2 17 (20.73%) React
3 16 (19.51%) REST
4 10 (12.20%) CSS
4 10 (12.20%) Vue
5 9 (10.98%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.76%) ASP.NET
6 8 (9.76%) HTML
6 8 (9.76%) SOAP
6 8 (9.76%) Web Services
7 7 (8.54%) jQuery
7 7 (8.54%) Node.js
8 6 (7.32%) .NET Framework
9 5 (6.10%) Middleware
10 4 (4.88%) Flutter
10 4 (4.88%) Laravel
10 4 (4.88%) RESTful
11 3 (3.66%) GraphQL
11 3 (3.66%) HTML5
11 3 (3.66%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) CMDB
2 5 (6.10%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.90%) Agile
2 27 (32.93%) CI/CD
3 22 (26.83%) DevOps
3 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.29%) Microservices
5 13 (15.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (15.85%) Web Development
6 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (9.76%) Containerisation
7 8 (9.76%) ITIL
7 8 (9.76%) ITSM
7 8 (9.76%) Scrum
8 7 (8.54%) API Integration
8 7 (8.54%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
9 6 (7.32%) Code Quality
9 6 (7.32%) Mentoring
9 6 (7.32%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.68%) SQL
2 34 (41.46%) JavaScript
3 19 (23.17%) C#
4 17 (20.73%) Python
5 14 (17.07%) T-SQL
6 13 (15.85%) Java
7 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.32%) PHP
9 4 (4.88%) Bash
9 4 (4.88%) Go
10 3 (3.66%) C++
11 2 (2.44%) Bicep
11 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.22%) F#
12 1 (1.22%) Haskell
12 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) DBS Check
2 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (25.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.98%) Terraform
3 4 (4.88%) Ansible
3 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.66%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.44%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle
3 2 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (1.22%) Google
4 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.22%) OpenAI