Senior Jobs in West Yorkshire

Senior
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Senior salary in West Yorkshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 158 501 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.42% 16.14% 19.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.76% 16.74% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 98 326 311
10th Percentile £47,000 £40,988 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,204 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,991 £76,316
90th Percentile £97,528 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.51% -3.39% -

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 1,238 2,992 4,452
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.45% 96.39% 92.87%
Number of salaries quoted 637 2,183 2,230
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £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 £76,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £86,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £49,136 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -6.41% +5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in West Yorkshire

Senior
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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 -2 137 £67,500 +12.50% 168
Halifax -12 10 £88,662 +36.26% 1
Wakefield +6 2 £82,500 -2.94% 6
Bradford -4 1 £53,500 +7.00% 7
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 74 (46.84%) Agile
2 59 (37.34%) CI/CD
3 58 (36.71%) Social Skills
4 51 (32.28%) Mentoring
5 50 (31.65%) Azure
6 43 (27.22%) Software Engineering
7 42 (26.58%) AWS
7 42 (26.58%) DevOps
8 40 (25.32%) Finance
9 37 (23.42%) Python
10 35 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (20.25%) JavaScript
12 31 (19.62%) SQL
13 29 (18.35%) GCP
14 27 (17.09%) Analytics
15 25 (15.82%) C#
16 24 (15.19%) Coaching
17 23 (14.56%) .NET
17 23 (14.56%) Banking
18 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
18 22 (13.92%) Terraform
19 21 (13.29%) Kubernetes
19 21 (13.29%) React
19 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
20 20 (12.66%) Microservices
20 20 (12.66%) Serverless
21 19 (12.03%) Docker
22 18 (11.39%) Jenkins
22 18 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
22 18 (11.39%) Java

Senior 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 10 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.70%) Confluence
3 6 (3.80%) Apache
4 3 (1.90%) IIS
5 2 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.27%) SAS
5 2 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.63%) CICS
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Revit
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (31.65%) Azure
2 42 (26.58%) AWS
3 29 (18.35%) GCP
4 20 (12.66%) Serverless
5 16 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (8.86%) GitHub
7 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.70%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.06%) PaaS
10 7 (4.43%) IaaS
10 7 (4.43%) SaaS
11 6 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.80%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.53%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) TETRA
2 3 (1.90%) DNS
2 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.27%) LAN
3 2 (1.27%) VPN
3 2 (1.27%) Wireless
4 1 (0.63%) Firewall
4 1 (0.63%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.59%) MongoDB
2 12 (7.59%) MySQL
3 11 (6.96%) Data Lake
3 11 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.80%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.80%) Power BI
4 6 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.53%) Biml
6 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.23%) Git
2 13 (8.23%) JIRA
3 5 (3.16%) Selenium
3 5 (3.16%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.16%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.53%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (1.90%) GitLab
5 3 (1.90%) Maven
6 2 (1.27%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.27%) JDeveloper
6 2 (1.27%) JUnit
6 2 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.63%) Gradle
General
1 58 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 40 (25.32%) Finance
3 23 (14.56%) Banking
4 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.16%) Retail
8 4 (2.53%) Marketing
9 3 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.56%) .NET
2 21 (13.29%) React
3 11 (6.96%) AngularJS
3 11 (6.96%) Spring Boot
4 10 (6.33%) .NET Framework
4 10 (6.33%) REST
4 10 (6.33%) Spring
5 9 (5.70%) OAuth
6 8 (5.06%) .NET Core
6 8 (5.06%) SailPoint
7 6 (3.80%) ASP.NET
7 6 (3.80%) CSS
7 6 (3.80%) Flutter
7 6 (3.80%) JWT
7 6 (3.80%) Node.js
7 6 (3.80%) OAuth2
7 6 (3.80%) Vue
8 5 (3.16%) jQuery
8 5 (3.16%) Kafka
8 5 (3.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.80%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.53%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.53%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.90%) CMDB
7 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) zOS
2 6 (3.80%) Linux
3 5 (3.16%) Unix
4 4 (2.53%) Windows
5 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (46.84%) Agile
2 59 (37.34%) CI/CD
3 51 (32.28%) Mentoring
4 43 (27.22%) Software Engineering
5 42 (26.58%) DevOps
6 35 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (17.09%) Analytics
8 24 (15.19%) Coaching
9 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
10 20 (12.66%) Microservices
11 18 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (10.13%) Migration
13 15 (9.49%) ETL
13 15 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (8.86%) Containerisation
14 14 (8.86%) Risk Management
14 14 (8.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.42%) Python
2 32 (20.25%) JavaScript
3 31 (19.62%) SQL
4 25 (15.82%) C#
5 18 (11.39%) Java
6 8 (5.06%) Go
6 8 (5.06%) R
7 7 (4.43%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.16%) Scala
9 4 (2.53%) Bicep
9 4 (2.53%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.90%) Bash
10 3 (1.90%) Groovy
11 2 (1.27%) F#
11 2 (1.27%) Haskell
11 2 (1.27%) PHP
11 2 (1.27%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.63%) JCL
12 1 (0.63%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 16 (10.13%) Chartered Engineer
2 8 (5.06%) ACCA
2 8 (5.06%) CCAB
2 8 (5.06%) CIMA
2 8 (5.06%) CIPFA
2 8 (5.06%) ICAEW
2 8 (5.06%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.80%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.53%) Degree
4 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.90%) CISM
5 3 (1.90%) CISSP
5 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.90%) OCP
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.27%) CCIE
6 2 (1.27%) CCNP
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.90%) GRC
3 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.90%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) PMO
4 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 19 (12.03%) Docker
2 6 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.63%) NFS
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (13.92%) Terraform
2 21 (13.29%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.13%) Ansible
4 6 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.16%) Istio
6 4 (2.53%) Argo
6 4 (2.53%) Grafana
7 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.90%) SCCM
8 1 (0.63%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.33%) IBM
3 8 (5.06%) Oracle
4 6 (3.80%) Databricks
4 6 (3.80%) Google
5 5 (3.16%) VMware
6 4 (2.53%) Palantir
6 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.90%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.27%) Adobe
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco
9 1 (0.63%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.63%) Citrix
9 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.63%) NetApp
9 1 (0.63%) Okta
9 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.63%) Veeam
9 1 (0.63%) Veritas