Senior Developer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in West Yorkshire is £72,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 43 68
Rank change year-on-year -28 +25 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 37 84 91
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.36% 4.30% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% 4.47% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 27 36 80
10th Percentile £58,500 £50,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,875 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £56,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -7.05% -1.22%
75th Percentile £78,125 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.81% -5.00% -

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 1,447 1,878 2,170
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 96.06% 97.66%
Number of salaries quoted 781 1,082 1,610
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £42,252
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 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 -12 35 £72,000 +26.32% 17
Bradford -14 2 - - 2
Senior Developer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, 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 9 (24.32%) Agile
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
1 9 (24.32%) C#
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 7 (18.92%) .NET
3 7 (18.92%) CSS
3 7 (18.92%) DevOps
3 7 (18.92%) HTML
3 7 (18.92%) Java
3 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.92%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) Serverless
4 6 (16.22%) Kotlin
4 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
4 6 (16.22%) React
4 6 (16.22%) SDLC
5 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (13.51%) Code Quality
5 5 (13.51%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (13.51%) Oracle
5 5 (13.51%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (13.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (13.51%) Scala
5 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
5 5 (13.51%) SOA
5 5 (13.51%) SQL
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy

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 5 (13.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) HCL Notes
2 2 (5.41%) IIS
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 7 (18.92%) Serverless
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.70%) npm
7 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Mockito
2 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Retail
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) .NET
1 7 (18.92%) CSS
1 7 (18.92%) HTML
2 6 (16.22%) React
3 3 (8.11%) Flutter
3 3 (8.11%) Middleware
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (8.11%) RESTful
3 3 (8.11%) Spring
3 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (5.41%) Blazor
4 2 (5.41%) REST
4 2 (5.41%) SOAP
4 2 (5.41%) WCF
4 2 (5.41%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) CMDB
1 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) iPad
2 1 (2.70%) iPhone
2 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Agile
2 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 7 (18.92%) DevOps
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.22%) SDLC
5 5 (13.51%) Code Quality
5 5 (13.51%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (13.51%) SOA
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy
6 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.81%) Microservices
6 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) TDD
6 4 (10.81%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (10.81%) User Experience
7 3 (8.11%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) C#
2 7 (18.92%) Java
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.92%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) Kotlin
4 5 (13.51%) Scala
4 5 (13.51%) SQL
5 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) C++
7 2 (5.41%) Go
7 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.70%) R
8 1 (2.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.41%) Lotus
4 1 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Sparx
4 1 (2.70%) Workday