Senior Developer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 74 69
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 72 28 84
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.69% 2.52% 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 2.73% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 61 15 71
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £68,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 2,498 1,026 2,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.35% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 643 2,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,025 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 April 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 3 April 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 69 £70,000 - 21
Bradford - 2 £57,500 - 3
Senior Developer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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 38 (52.78%) AWS
2 25 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (31.94%) JavaScript
4 22 (30.56%) Java
5 21 (29.17%) CI/CD
6 20 (27.78%) Serverless
7 18 (25.00%) Python
8 17 (23.61%) Agile
8 17 (23.61%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (23.61%) SQL
9 16 (22.22%) TypeScript
10 15 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (20.83%) DevOps
10 15 (20.83%) React
11 14 (19.44%) Amazon S3
11 14 (19.44%) Docker
11 14 (19.44%) Node.js
12 12 (16.67%) DynamoDB
13 11 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (13.89%) .NET
14 10 (13.89%) Azure
15 9 (12.50%) AngularJS
15 9 (12.50%) Flask
15 9 (12.50%) Git
15 9 (12.50%) Kotlin
15 9 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 9 (12.50%) NoSQL
15 9 (12.50%) Spring Boot
16 8 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) AWS
2 20 (27.78%) Serverless
3 17 (23.61%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (19.44%) Amazon S3
6 11 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (13.89%) Azure
8 8 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (8.33%) GCP
9 6 (8.33%) GitHub
9 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (5.56%) Apigee
10 4 (5.56%) Datadog
10 4 (5.56%) SaaS
11 3 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 9 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Git
2 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.56%) GitLab
4 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.78%) Maven
4 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.94%) Retail
3 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Back Office
5 2 (2.78%) Games
5 2 (2.78%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Finance
6 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) React
2 14 (19.44%) Node.js
3 10 (13.89%) .NET
4 9 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 9 (12.50%) Flask
4 9 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 8 (11.11%) Spring
6 6 (8.33%) CSS
6 6 (8.33%) HTML
7 5 (6.94%) Vue
8 4 (5.56%) Django
8 4 (5.56%) FastAPI
9 3 (4.17%) Kafka
9 3 (4.17%) Laravel
9 3 (4.17%) MACH
9 3 (4.17%) REST
10 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.78%) Gherkin
10 2 (2.78%) Grails
10 2 (2.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.94%) Educational Technology
3 3 (4.17%) NHS
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.78%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Social Media
5 1 (1.39%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 17 (23.61%) Agile
4 15 (20.83%) DevOps
5 9 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (9.72%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (8.33%) Code Quality
8 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.94%) Front End Development
9 4 (5.56%) Containerisation
9 4 (5.56%) DevSecOps
9 4 (5.56%) Microservices
9 4 (5.56%) Principle of Least Privilege
9 4 (5.56%) RBAC
9 4 (5.56%) SDLC
9 4 (5.56%) Secrets Management
9 4 (5.56%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) JavaScript
2 22 (30.56%) Java
3 18 (25.00%) Python
4 17 (23.61%) SQL
5 16 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.50%) Kotlin
7 7 (9.72%) C#
8 6 (8.33%) PHP
9 2 (2.78%) Bash
9 2 (2.78%) Groovy
9 2 (2.78%) R
10 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.39%) OpenAI