Senior Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Developer salary in Yorkshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 113 54
Rank change year-on-year +42 -59 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 139 42 142
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.82% 1.25% 3.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.44% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 133 31 69
10th Percentile £40,000 £58,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 7,119 2,917 4,382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 86.48% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,082 1,538 2,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,570 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,969 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 Yorkshire.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Yorkshire

Senior Developer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
West Yorkshire +8 77 £70,000 - 22
South Yorkshire +17 55 £50,000 -41.18% 5
East Yorkshire 0 6 £70,000 +47.37%
North Yorkshire +7 1 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 6 October 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 42 (30.22%) PHP
2 34 (24.46%) AWS
3 29 (20.86%) Laravel
4 26 (18.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (17.27%) Java
6 20 (14.39%) JavaScript
7 18 (12.95%) AngularJS
8 17 (12.23%) Agile
8 17 (12.23%) Kotlin
8 17 (12.23%) TypeScript
9 15 (10.79%) Spring
9 15 (10.79%) Spring Boot
10 12 (8.63%) MySQL
11 11 (7.91%) CI/CD
11 11 (7.91%) Clean Code
11 11 (7.91%) Front End Development
11 11 (7.91%) Node.js
12 10 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.19%) Data Protection
12 10 (7.19%) MariaDB
12 10 (7.19%) Secure Coding
12 10 (7.19%) Serverless
13 9 (6.47%) Amazon S3
13 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (6.47%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (6.47%) DynamoDB
13 9 (6.47%) Mentoring
14 8 (5.76%) Docker
14 8 (5.76%) User Experience

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (1.44%) CMS
1 2 (1.44%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.46%) AWS
2 10 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (7.19%) Serverless
3 9 (6.47%) Amazon S3
3 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (6.47%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (3.60%) Azure
5 4 (2.88%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (2.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (2.88%) Apigee
5 4 (2.88%) Datadog
5 4 (2.88%) GitHub
5 4 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.44%) SaaS
7 1 (0.72%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.63%) MySQL
2 10 (7.19%) MariaDB
3 9 (6.47%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.72%) Git
2 1 (0.72%) GitLab
2 1 (0.72%) Maven
General
1 13 (9.35%) Public Sector
2 9 (6.47%) Retail
3 6 (4.32%) Finance
4 4 (2.88%) Banking
4 4 (2.88%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.44%) Publishing
6 1 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.72%) Back Office
6 1 (0.72%) Law
6 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.86%) Laravel
2 18 (12.95%) AngularJS
3 15 (10.79%) Spring
3 15 (10.79%) Spring Boot
4 11 (7.91%) Node.js
5 7 (5.04%) CSS
5 7 (5.04%) HTML
6 5 (3.60%) .NET
6 5 (3.60%) React
7 4 (2.88%) React Native
8 3 (2.16%) CSS3
8 3 (2.16%) HTML5
8 3 (2.16%) RESTful
9 2 (1.44%) Jest
9 2 (1.44%) REST
9 2 (1.44%) Semantic HTML
9 2 (1.44%) Terraform
10 1 (0.72%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.72%) Nunjucks
10 1 (0.72%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.44%) Legacy Code
3 1 (0.72%) CMDB
3 1 (0.72%) Hackathon
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (18.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (12.23%) Agile
3 11 (7.91%) CI/CD
3 11 (7.91%) Clean Code
3 11 (7.91%) Front End Development
4 10 (7.19%) Data Protection
4 10 (7.19%) Secure Coding
5 9 (6.47%) Mentoring
6 8 (5.76%) User Experience
7 7 (5.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (5.04%) DevOps
7 7 (5.04%) UX Design
8 6 (4.32%) Microservices
8 6 (4.32%) TDD
8 6 (4.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (3.60%) Decision-Making
9 5 (3.60%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (2.88%) Coaching
10 4 (2.88%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (2.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (30.22%) PHP
2 24 (17.27%) Java
3 20 (14.39%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.23%) Kotlin
4 17 (12.23%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.32%) SQL
6 4 (2.88%) C#
7 1 (0.72%) Bash
7 1 (0.72%) Groovy
7 1 (0.72%) Perl
7 1 (0.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.60%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
2 1 (0.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.32%) WCAG
3 1 (0.72%) GRC
3 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (5.04%) Salesforce
2 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft