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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 77 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 -33 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 84 34 93
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.99% 2.18% 4.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 2.36% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 79 23 42
10th Percentile £40,000 £56,000 £45,500
25th Percentile £63,626 £61,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% -7.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,800 £80,000 £69,797
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -

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 3,978 1,443 2,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 92.32% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,908 756 1,223
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -5 77 £70,000 +3.70% 12
Bradford -1 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 30 September 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 32 (38.10%) AWS
2 29 (34.52%) Java
3 26 (30.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (23.81%) AngularJS
5 18 (21.43%) Kotlin
6 17 (20.24%) Spring
6 17 (20.24%) Spring Boot
6 17 (20.24%) TypeScript
7 16 (19.05%) Agile
8 13 (15.48%) JavaScript
9 12 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (13.10%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (13.10%) Node.js
10 11 (13.10%) PHP
10 11 (13.10%) Serverless
11 10 (11.90%) Amazon S3
11 10 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
11 10 (11.90%) DynamoDB
12 9 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (9.52%) DevOps
13 8 (9.52%) Docker
13 8 (9.52%) Mentoring
13 8 (9.52%) SQL
14 7 (8.33%) Front End Development
14 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
15 6 (7.14%) .NET
15 6 (7.14%) Accessibility
15 6 (7.14%) CSS
15 6 (7.14%) HTML

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 (2.38%) CMS
1 2 (2.38%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.10%) AWS
2 12 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (13.10%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (13.10%) Serverless
4 10 (11.90%) Amazon S3
4 10 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (5.95%) Azure
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (4.76%) Apigee
7 4 (4.76%) Datadog
7 4 (4.76%) GitHub
7 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.38%) GCP
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.14%) MySQL
2 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.76%) MariaDB
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) Maven
General
1 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (7.14%) Finance
3 5 (5.95%) Retail
4 4 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Back Office
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Publishing
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Law
7 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.81%) AngularJS
2 17 (20.24%) Spring
2 17 (20.24%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.10%) Node.js
4 6 (7.14%) .NET
4 6 (7.14%) CSS
4 6 (7.14%) HTML
5 5 (5.95%) React
6 4 (4.76%) Laravel
6 4 (4.76%) React Native
7 3 (3.57%) CSS3
7 3 (3.57%) HTML5
7 3 (3.57%) RESTful
8 2 (2.38%) Classic ASP
8 2 (2.38%) Jest
8 2 (2.38%) REST
8 2 (2.38%) Semantic HTML
8 2 (2.38%) Terraform
9 1 (1.19%) Next.js
9 1 (1.19%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.57%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.19%) CMDB
3 1 (1.19%) Hackathon
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.95%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (19.05%) Agile
3 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
4 8 (9.52%) DevOps
4 8 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 7 (8.33%) Front End Development
6 6 (7.14%) Microservices
6 6 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (7.14%) User Experience
6 6 (7.14%) UX Design
7 5 (5.95%) Clean Code
7 5 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (5.95%) Decision-Making
7 5 (5.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (4.76%) Data Protection
8 4 (4.76%) Secure Coding
8 4 (4.76%) TDD
9 3 (3.57%) Coaching
9 3 (3.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (3.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.52%) Java
2 18 (21.43%) Kotlin
3 17 (20.24%) TypeScript
4 13 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.10%) PHP
6 8 (9.52%) SQL
7 4 (4.76%) C#
8 1 (1.19%) Bash
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
8 1 (1.19%) Perl
8 1 (1.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.95%) WCAG
3 1 (1.19%) GRC
3 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft