Senior Developer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 60 70
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 49 37 86
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.16% 3.13% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 3.29% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 38 16 74
10th Percentile £48,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,563 £49,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £65,938
90th Percentile - - £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £54,992 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.65% -0.02% -15.38%

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 2,117 1,126 2,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 95.10% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,322 591 1,945
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,600
25th Percentile £38,888 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £97,528 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -8.90%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in West Yorkshire

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 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 -12 48 £72,500 +20.83% 17
Bradford - 1 £50,000 -
Senior Developer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 22 (44.90%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) JavaScript
3 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 17 (34.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (28.57%) Agile
5 13 (26.53%) Docker
5 13 (26.53%) Serverless
6 12 (24.49%) Java
6 12 (24.49%) React
7 11 (22.45%) DevOps
7 11 (22.45%) Python
8 10 (20.41%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (20.41%) SQL
9 9 (18.37%) Azure
9 9 (18.37%) TypeScript
10 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
10 8 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (16.33%) Git
10 8 (16.33%) Node.js
11 7 (14.29%) .NET
11 7 (14.29%) C#
11 7 (14.29%) CSS
11 7 (14.29%) HTML
11 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 6 (12.24%) AngularJS
12 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (12.24%) DynamoDB
12 6 (12.24%) Flask
12 6 (12.24%) Spring Boot
12 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement

Senior 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 2 (4.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) AWS
2 13 (26.53%) Serverless
3 10 (20.41%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (18.37%) Azure
5 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
5 8 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (8.16%) GitHub
8 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.16%) SaaS
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (6.12%) Datadog
9 3 (6.12%) GCP
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.08%) Apigee
11 1 (2.04%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.04%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
4 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.04%) JIRA
5 1 (2.04%) Mockito
General
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.12%) Retail
3 2 (4.08%) Games
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) React
2 8 (16.33%) Node.js
3 7 (14.29%) .NET
3 7 (14.29%) CSS
3 7 (14.29%) HTML
4 6 (12.24%) AngularJS
4 6 (12.24%) Flask
4 6 (12.24%) Spring Boot
5 5 (10.20%) Spring
6 4 (8.16%) Django
6 4 (8.16%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.16%) Kafka
7 3 (6.12%) Laravel
7 3 (6.12%) REST
7 3 (6.12%) Vue
8 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (4.08%) Gherkin
8 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
8 2 (4.08%) Mustache
8 2 (4.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.08%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.04%) NHS
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.04%) Social Media
3 1 (2.04%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
1 17 (34.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (28.57%) Agile
3 11 (22.45%) DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.20%) Code Quality
6 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (10.20%) Microservices
6 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.20%) SDLC
6 5 (10.20%) User Experience
7 4 (8.16%) AI
7 4 (8.16%) Front End Development
7 4 (8.16%) Scrum
7 4 (8.16%) Software Engineering
8 3 (6.12%) Machine Learning
8 3 (6.12%) Principle of Least Privilege
8 3 (6.12%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) JavaScript
2 12 (24.49%) Java
3 11 (22.45%) Python
4 10 (20.41%) SQL
5 9 (18.37%) TypeScript
6 7 (14.29%) C#
7 4 (8.16%) Kotlin
7 4 (8.16%) PHP
8 2 (4.08%) Bash
8 2 (4.08%) Groovy
8 2 (4.08%) R
9 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) OpenAI