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 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 162 476 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.75% 15.80% 20.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.06% 16.44% 22.07%
Number of salaries quoted 101 315 338
10th Percentile £47,000 £40,988 £45,679
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,433 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.82% -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 1,240 2,895 4,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.92% 96.12% 93.04%
Number of salaries quoted 651 2,130 2,296
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £31,569
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,548 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £49,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.69% -9.26% +8.00%

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 21 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 21 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 -1 141 £67,500 +12.50% 224
Halifax -13 10 £88,662 +36.26% 4
Wakefield +8 3 £80,000 -5.88% 8
Bradford -1 1 £53,500 +7.00% 16
Senior
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 75 (46.30%) Agile
2 60 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 59 (36.42%) CI/CD
4 53 (32.72%) Azure
4 53 (32.72%) Mentoring
5 44 (27.16%) Software Engineering
6 43 (26.54%) DevOps
7 41 (25.31%) AWS
7 41 (25.31%) Finance
8 35 (21.60%) Python
8 35 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (20.37%) JavaScript
10 32 (19.75%) SQL
11 29 (17.90%) Analytics
12 28 (17.28%) GCP
12 28 (17.28%) C#
13 27 (16.67%) .NET
14 25 (15.43%) Banking
14 25 (15.43%) Coaching
15 23 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
15 23 (14.20%) React
16 22 (13.58%) Kubernetes
16 22 (13.58%) Terraform
17 20 (12.35%) Microservices
17 20 (12.35%) Docker
18 19 (11.73%) Jenkins
18 19 (11.73%) Serverless
19 18 (11.11%) Java
19 18 (11.11%) Test Automation
19 18 (11.11%) Data Pipeline

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 9 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 9 (5.56%) Confluence
2 6 (3.70%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) IIS
4 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.62%) CICS
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.62%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Revit
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.72%) Azure
2 41 (25.31%) AWS
3 28 (17.28%) GCP
4 19 (11.73%) Serverless
5 15 (9.26%) GitHub
6 14 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.94%) PaaS
10 7 (4.32%) IaaS
10 7 (4.32%) SaaS
11 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.70%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.09%) TETRA
2 3 (1.85%) DNS
2 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.23%) LAN
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
3 2 (1.23%) Wireless
4 1 (0.62%) Firewall
4 1 (0.62%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.41%) Data Lake
2 12 (7.41%) MySQL
3 11 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.79%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.32%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.70%) Power BI
5 6 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.47%) Biml
7 4 (2.47%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.02%) Git
2 13 (8.02%) JIRA
3 5 (3.09%) Selenium
3 5 (3.09%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.09%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.47%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (1.85%) GitLab
5 3 (1.85%) Maven
6 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.23%) JDeveloper
6 2 (1.23%) JUnit
6 2 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.62%) Gradle
General
1 60 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.31%) Finance
3 25 (15.43%) Banking
4 23 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.47%) Marketing
7 4 (2.47%) Retail
8 3 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.67%) .NET
2 23 (14.20%) React
3 13 (8.02%) AngularJS
4 11 (6.79%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.17%) .NET Framework
5 10 (6.17%) REST
5 10 (6.17%) Spring
6 9 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 9 (5.56%) OAuth
6 9 (5.56%) SailPoint
7 7 (4.32%) Vue
8 6 (3.70%) ASP.NET
8 6 (3.70%) Flutter
8 6 (3.70%) JWT
8 6 (3.70%) Node.js
8 6 (3.70%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.09%) CSS
9 5 (3.09%) jQuery
9 5 (3.09%) Kafka
10 4 (2.47%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.88%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.47%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.85%) CMDB
7 3 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.62%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.32%) zOS
2 6 (3.70%) Linux
3 5 (3.09%) Unix
4 4 (2.47%) Windows
5 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (46.30%) Agile
2 59 (36.42%) CI/CD
3 53 (32.72%) Mentoring
4 44 (27.16%) Software Engineering
5 43 (26.54%) DevOps
6 35 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (17.90%) Analytics
8 25 (15.43%) Coaching
9 20 (12.35%) Microservices
10 18 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 17 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (9.88%) ETL
12 16 (9.88%) Risk Management
12 16 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (9.26%) Migration
14 14 (8.64%) Collaborative Working
14 14 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (8.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.60%) Python
2 33 (20.37%) JavaScript
3 32 (19.75%) SQL
4 28 (17.28%) C#
5 18 (11.11%) Java
6 9 (5.56%) R
7 8 (4.94%) Go
8 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.09%) Bicep
9 5 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.47%) Scala
10 4 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.85%) Bash
11 3 (1.85%) Groovy
11 3 (1.85%) PHP
12 2 (1.23%) F#
12 2 (1.23%) Haskell
12 2 (1.23%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.62%) JCL
13 1 (0.62%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 16 (9.88%) Chartered Engineer
2 8 (4.94%) ACCA
2 8 (4.94%) CCAB
2 8 (4.94%) CIMA
2 8 (4.94%) CIPFA
2 8 (4.94%) ICAEW
2 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.47%) Degree
4 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.85%) CISM
5 3 (1.85%) CISSP
5 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.85%) OCP
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.23%) CCIE
6 2 (1.23%) CCNP
6 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.85%) GRC
3 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.85%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 20 (12.35%) Docker
2 6 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.62%) NFS
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (13.58%) Kubernetes
1 22 (13.58%) Terraform
2 17 (10.49%) Ansible
3 6 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.09%) Istio
5 4 (2.47%) Argo
5 4 (2.47%) Grafana
6 3 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.85%) SCCM
7 1 (0.62%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.17%) IBM
3 6 (3.70%) Google
3 6 (3.70%) Oracle
4 5 (3.09%) Databricks
4 5 (3.09%) VMware
5 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.85%) Palantir
7 2 (1.23%) Adobe
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco
8 1 (0.62%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.62%) Citrix
8 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.62%) NetApp
8 1 (0.62%) Okta
8 1 (0.62%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.62%) Veeam
8 1 (0.62%) Veritas