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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 91 51
Rank change year-on-year +46 -40 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 104 22 116
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.91% 1.57% 3.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.10% 1.76% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 93 14 86
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,700 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +24.56% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £68,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 3,360 1,252 2,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.24% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,466 698 2,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,813 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,961 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £49,274
% change year-on-year +2.04% -0.56% -6.14%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +17 97 £70,000 -2.78% 2
Bradford -4 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 25 June 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 50 (48.08%) AWS
2 37 (35.58%) Java
3 30 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 23 (22.12%) AngularJS
6 21 (20.19%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (20.19%) Serverless
7 19 (18.27%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (18.27%) TypeScript
8 18 (17.31%) Amazon S3
9 17 (16.35%) Spring Boot
10 16 (15.38%) Agile
10 16 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (15.38%) DynamoDB
11 15 (14.42%) CI/CD
11 15 (14.42%) Spring
12 14 (13.46%) PHP
13 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
14 12 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (11.54%) DevOps
14 12 (11.54%) Node.js
15 11 (10.58%) Python
15 11 (10.58%) React
15 11 (10.58%) SQL
16 9 (8.65%) .NET
17 8 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (7.69%) Apigee
17 8 (7.69%) Docker
17 8 (7.69%) Kotlin
18 7 (6.73%) Amazon Athena

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 (1.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.08%) AWS
2 21 (20.19%) Amazon ECS
2 21 (20.19%) Serverless
3 19 (18.27%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (17.31%) Amazon S3
5 16 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (7.69%) Apigee
8 7 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (6.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (4.81%) Azure
9 5 (4.81%) GCP
9 5 (4.81%) GitHub
9 5 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.88%) Datadog
10 3 (2.88%) SaaS
11 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.92%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (6.73%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.77%) MySQL
3 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.85%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.96%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.77%) Git
3 5 (4.81%) GitLab
4 3 (2.88%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.88%) Maven
5 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 7 (6.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.77%) Retail
3 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.88%) Back Office
5 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.92%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.96%) Finance
6 1 (0.96%) Games
6 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.96%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.12%) AngularJS
2 17 (16.35%) Spring Boot
3 15 (14.42%) Spring
4 12 (11.54%) Node.js
5 11 (10.58%) React
6 9 (8.65%) .NET
7 6 (5.77%) Laravel
8 5 (4.81%) Flask
9 4 (3.85%) React Native
10 3 (2.88%) Classic ASP
10 3 (2.88%) Jest
10 3 (2.88%) REST
10 3 (2.88%) Vue
11 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.92%) Gherkin
11 2 (1.92%) Kafka
11 2 (1.92%) MACH
11 2 (1.92%) Mustache
11 2 (1.92%) Web Services
12 1 (0.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.81%) Educational Technology
3 3 (2.88%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.88%) NHS
4 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.96%) CMDB
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (15.38%) Agile
3 15 (14.42%) CI/CD
4 12 (11.54%) DevOps
5 7 (6.73%) Clean Code
6 6 (5.77%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (4.81%) Front End Development
7 5 (4.81%) Mentoring
7 5 (4.81%) SDLC
7 5 (4.81%) Secure Coding
8 4 (3.85%) Data Protection
8 4 (3.85%) E-Commerce
8 4 (3.85%) Kanban
8 4 (3.85%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (3.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (2.88%) Scrum
9 3 (2.88%) Test Automation
9 3 (2.88%) Web Development
9 3 (2.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.58%) Java
2 24 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 19 (18.27%) TypeScript
4 14 (13.46%) PHP
5 11 (10.58%) Python
5 11 (10.58%) SQL
6 8 (7.69%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.81%) C#
8 3 (2.88%) Bash
8 3 (2.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
1 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.92%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
1 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
2 1 (0.96%) OpenAI