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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 71 72
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 70 29 83
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.64% 2.63% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.83% 2.84% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 59 15 70
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,500 £49,063
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £68,875
Yorkshire median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% -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 2,476 1,020 2,657
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.56% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,674 640 2,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,750
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 £69,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -3 67 £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 1 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 36 (51.43%) AWS
2 25 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (34.29%) JavaScript
4 21 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (30.00%) Java
5 20 (28.57%) Serverless
6 17 (24.29%) Agile
6 17 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (24.29%) Python
6 17 (24.29%) SQL
7 15 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (21.43%) React
7 15 (21.43%) TypeScript
8 14 (20.00%) Amazon S3
8 14 (20.00%) DevOps
8 14 (20.00%) Docker
8 14 (20.00%) Node.js
9 12 (17.14%) DynamoDB
10 10 (14.29%) .NET
10 10 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (14.29%) Azure
11 9 (12.86%) AngularJS
11 9 (12.86%) Flask
11 9 (12.86%) Git
11 9 (12.86%) Kotlin
11 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
12 8 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (11.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (11.43%) AWS Step Functions

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 (2.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (51.43%) AWS
2 20 (28.57%) Serverless
3 17 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 10 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (14.29%) Azure
7 8 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (11.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (11.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (8.57%) GitHub
8 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (7.14%) GCP
10 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (5.71%) Apigee
10 4 (5.71%) Datadog
10 4 (5.71%) SaaS
11 3 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) DynamoDB
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.71%) GitLab
4 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.86%) Maven
4 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Retail
3 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Back Office
5 2 (2.86%) Games
5 2 (2.86%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.43%) Finance
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) React
2 14 (20.00%) Node.js
3 10 (14.29%) .NET
4 9 (12.86%) AngularJS
4 9 (12.86%) Flask
5 8 (11.43%) Spring Boot
6 7 (10.00%) CSS
6 7 (10.00%) HTML
6 7 (10.00%) Spring
7 5 (7.14%) Vue
8 4 (5.71%) Django
8 4 (5.71%) FastAPI
9 3 (4.29%) Kafka
9 3 (4.29%) Laravel
9 3 (4.29%) MACH
9 3 (4.29%) REST
10 2 (2.86%) Blazor
10 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.86%) Jest
10 2 (2.86%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Educational Technology
3 3 (4.29%) NHS
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Social Media
5 1 (1.43%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (24.29%) Agile
4 14 (20.00%) DevOps
5 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
6 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.57%) Code Quality
9 5 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.14%) Front End Development
9 5 (7.14%) User Experience
10 4 (5.71%) AI
10 4 (5.71%) Kanban
10 4 (5.71%) Microservices
10 4 (5.71%) Scrum
10 4 (5.71%) Software Engineering
10 4 (5.71%) Test Automation
10 4 (5.71%) Workflow
10 4 (5.71%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) JavaScript
2 21 (30.00%) Java
3 17 (24.29%) Python
3 17 (24.29%) SQL
4 15 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.86%) Kotlin
6 8 (11.43%) C#
7 6 (8.57%) PHP
8 2 (2.86%) Bash
8 2 (2.86%) Groovy
8 2 (2.86%) R
9 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) OpenAI