Senior Developer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 76 49
Rank change year-on-year +15 -27 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 92 37 93
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.35% 2.37% 3.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 2.64% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 86 27 64
10th Percentile £40,000 £53,100 £47,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -8.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £69,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -0.41%

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 3,726 1,403 2,319
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 89.99% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,753 814 1,640
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,075 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 August 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 August 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 +3 85 £70,000 +3.70% 5
Bradford -10 5 £65,000 +21.50%
Senior Developer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 47 (51.09%) AWS
2 33 (35.87%) Java
3 25 (27.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 18 (19.57%) TypeScript
6 16 (17.39%) Agile
6 16 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (17.39%) Serverless
7 15 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (16.30%) PHP
7 15 (16.30%) Spring Boot
8 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
8 14 (15.22%) Spring
9 13 (14.13%) Amazon S3
9 13 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (14.13%) DynamoDB
10 11 (11.96%) Node.js
11 10 (10.87%) DevOps
11 10 (10.87%) Jenkins
11 10 (10.87%) React
11 10 (10.87%) SQL
12 9 (9.78%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (9.78%) Python
13 8 (8.70%) Kotlin
13 8 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
13 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
14 7 (7.61%) .NET
14 7 (7.61%) Amazon ECR

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 (2.17%) CMS
1 2 (2.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (51.09%) AWS
2 16 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
2 16 (17.39%) Serverless
3 15 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (14.13%) Amazon S3
4 13 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (9.78%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (7.61%) Amazon ECR
6 7 (7.61%) Apigee
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (5.43%) Azure
8 4 (4.35%) GCP
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (1.09%) Asana
11 1 (1.09%) Datadog
11 1 (1.09%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.13%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.52%) MySQL
3 5 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.35%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.35%) GitLab
3 3 (3.26%) Git
4 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.17%) Maven
5 1 (1.09%) JIRA
5 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.61%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Retail
4 3 (3.26%) Back Office
4 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.17%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.17%) Publishing
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Games
6 1 (1.09%) Law
6 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.74%) AngularJS
2 15 (16.30%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.22%) Spring
4 11 (11.96%) Node.js
5 10 (10.87%) React
6 7 (7.61%) .NET
7 5 (5.43%) CSS
7 5 (5.43%) HTML
7 5 (5.43%) Laravel
8 4 (4.35%) Flask
8 4 (4.35%) React Native
9 3 (3.26%) Classic ASP
9 3 (3.26%) CSS3
9 3 (3.26%) HTML5
9 3 (3.26%) Jest
9 3 (3.26%) Vue
10 2 (2.17%) Next.js
10 2 (2.17%) RESTful
10 2 (2.17%) Semantic HTML
11 1 (1.09%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.35%) Educational Technology
2 4 (4.35%) Legacy Code
3 3 (3.26%) NHS
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.09%) CMDB
5 1 (1.09%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.17%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (17.39%) Agile
3 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
4 10 (10.87%) DevOps
5 8 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (6.52%) Clean Code
6 6 (6.52%) Mentoring
7 5 (5.43%) Front End Development
7 5 (5.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (4.35%) Data Protection
8 4 (4.35%) E-Commerce
8 4 (4.35%) Kanban
8 4 (4.35%) Secure Coding
8 4 (4.35%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (4.35%) User Experience
9 3 (3.26%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (3.26%) Event-Driven
9 3 (3.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (3.26%) Test Automation
9 3 (3.26%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.87%) Java
2 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 18 (19.57%) TypeScript
4 15 (16.30%) PHP
5 10 (10.87%) SQL
6 9 (9.78%) Python
7 8 (8.70%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.26%) C#
9 2 (2.17%) Bash
9 2 (2.17%) Groovy
10 1 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.09%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
1 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow