Senior Software Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Software Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Software Developer salary in Yorkshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 166 186
Rank change year-on-year +17 +20 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 8 18 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.24% 0.36% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.38% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 16
10th Percentile £52,625 £56,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £55,000 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,840 4,683 3,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 94.74% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,583 2,598 2,617
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £38,000 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Yorkshire

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in Yorkshire

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
West Yorkshire +22 6 £65,000 +4.00%
South Yorkshire +12 2 £60,000 -7.69%
Senior Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Senior Software 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) .NET
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
4 4 (50.00%) MVC
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 3 (37.50%) Release Management
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) WCF
5 3 (37.50%) Legal
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (37.50%) SOA
6 2 (25.00%) HCL Notes
6 2 (25.00%) Python
6 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 2 (25.00%) IIS
6 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (25.00%) Oracle
6 2 (25.00%) C++
6 2 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (25.00%) Lotus

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (25.00%) HCL Notes
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 1 (12.50%) Azure WebJobs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (37.50%) Legal
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (37.50%) WCF
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (25.00%) Spring
5 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (25.00%) WPF
6 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (12.50%) Blazor
6 1 (12.50%) CSS
6 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
6 1 (12.50%) HTML
6 1 (12.50%) React
6 1 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (12.50%) SignalR
6 1 (12.50%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) MVC
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Release Management
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) Scala
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Lotus
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft