Senior Developer Jobs 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 24 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 69 128
Rank change year-on-year -13 +59 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 21 96 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.54% 3.17% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 3.29% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10 72 59
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,300
25th Percentile £51,438 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.71% -0.41%
75th Percentile £76,875 £62,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £68,750 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +2.47%

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 1,223 2,917 4,627
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 96.24% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 621 2,148 2,273
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,840 £67,617 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £83,750 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £48,750 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.19% -8.88% +7.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in West Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -10 20 £70,000 +25.00% 74
Bradford - 1 £53,500 - 44
Senior Developer
Yorkshire

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 24 May 2025, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) AWS
3 12 (57.14%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 11 (52.38%) Azure
5 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
7 8 (38.10%) Serverless
7 8 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (38.10%) React
7 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (33.33%) REST
8 7 (33.33%) C#
9 6 (28.57%) JIRA
9 6 (28.57%) Confluence
9 6 (28.57%) Microservices
9 6 (28.57%) GCP
9 6 (28.57%) Vue
10 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (23.81%) SQL
10 5 (23.81%) .NET
10 5 (23.81%) MySQL
10 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET
11 4 (19.05%) Python
11 4 (19.05%) Scrum
11 4 (19.05%) Java
11 4 (19.05%) Web Development
11 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
11 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (38.10%) Serverless
4 6 (28.57%) GCP
5 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (14.29%) GitHub
6 3 (14.29%) SaaS
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (4.76%) Datadog
8 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MySQL
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.76%) CouchDB
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) JDeveloper
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Gradle
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) React
2 7 (33.33%) REST
3 6 (28.57%) Vue
4 5 (23.81%) .NET
4 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET
5 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
5 4 (19.05%) Flutter
5 4 (19.05%) jQuery
6 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 3 (14.29%) CSS
6 3 (14.29%) SOAP
6 3 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
7 2 (9.52%) HTML
7 2 (9.52%) Laravel
7 2 (9.52%) Middleware
7 2 (9.52%) Node.js
7 2 (9.52%) Oracle ADF
7 2 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (9.52%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Mobile App
2 3 (14.29%) CMDB
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
3 12 (57.14%) DevOps
4 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (28.57%) Microservices
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (19.05%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (19.05%) Open Source
8 4 (19.05%) Scrum
8 4 (19.05%) Web Development
9 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (14.29%) ITIL
9 3 (14.29%) ITSM
9 3 (14.29%) SDLC
9 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 7 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (9.52%) PHP
7 1 (4.76%) F#
7 1 (4.76%) Go
7 1 (4.76%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk