Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 20 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,105 632 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.14% 10.41% 20.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.97% 11.56% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 983 467 1,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,631 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 the West Midlands with a recognized job title 7,380 5,467 7,179
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 90.01% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,485 3,231 4,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Birmingham +3 475 £55,000 -2.65% 85
Staffordshire -2 135 £47,500 - 40
Warwickshire +32 119 £50,000 -2.44% 32
Worcestershire +14 72 £50,000 +17.65% 23
Shropshire +17 54 £43,750 -27.08% 7
Coventry +12 30 £53,500 +0.47% 19
Solihull -3 29 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Wolverhampton +27 17 £57,500 +4.55% 7
Herefordshire -2 14 £52,500 +5.00% 7
Halesowen -3 12 £60,000 - 8
Wednesbury +6 9 £62,500 +38.89% 3
Walsall - 7 £42,500 - 1
Dudley - 6 £40,000 - 3
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 - 1
Kingswinford - 1 £40,000 -
Stourbridge - 1 £45,000 -
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 395 (35.75%) C#
2 368 (33.30%) .NET
3 322 (29.14%) JavaScript
4 279 (25.25%) Agile
5 277 (25.07%) SQL
6 274 (24.80%) Azure
7 244 (22.08%) Full Stack Development
8 242 (21.90%) Microsoft
9 225 (20.36%) HTML
10 187 (16.92%) SQL Server
11 181 (16.38%) Social Skills
12 175 (15.84%) CSS
13 166 (15.02%) React
14 147 (13.30%) TypeScript
15 141 (12.76%) MVC
16 139 (12.58%) ASP.NET
17 138 (12.49%) AngularJS
18 130 (11.76%) AWS
19 127 (11.49%) DevOps
20 125 (11.31%) Power Platform
21 121 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
22 120 (10.86%) .NET Core
23 116 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
24 112 (10.14%) User Experience
25 108 (9.77%) PHP
25 108 (9.77%) Git
26 104 (9.41%) Web Development
27 103 (9.32%) Finance
28 100 (9.05%) Degree
29 91 (8.24%) .NET Framework

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 36 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.08%) WordPress
3 22 (1.99%) OpenEdge
4 17 (1.54%) nginx
5 12 (1.09%) CMS
5 12 (1.09%) IIS
6 10 (0.90%) Appian
7 7 (0.63%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Apache
10 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.18%) SAS
11 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.090%) Confluence
11 1 (0.090%) Drupal
11 1 (0.090%) Mendix
11 1 (0.090%) Moodle
11 1 (0.090%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (1.27%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.90%) Shopify
2 15 (1.36%) Magento
3 12 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.27%) ProductWriter
6 2 (0.18%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.090%) Scribe Insight
7 1 (0.090%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 274 (24.80%) Azure
2 130 (11.76%) AWS
3 125 (11.31%) Power Platform
4 64 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
5 61 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (5.34%) PowerApps
7 49 (4.43%) Power Automate
8 37 (3.35%) GitHub
9 34 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (3.08%) Serverless
10 33 (2.99%) SaaS
11 28 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (0.90%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.90%) Figma
15 8 (0.72%) PaaS
16 7 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (0.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.18%) Firewall
2 7 (0.63%) Internet
2 7 (0.63%) Intranet
3 5 (0.45%) HTTP
3 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.27%) DNS
4 3 (0.27%) MQTT
4 3 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.18%) 4G
5 2 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.090%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.090%) FTP
6 1 (0.090%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (16.92%) SQL Server
2 86 (7.78%) Power BI
3 68 (6.15%) MySQL
4 34 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 27 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 26 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 19 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
11 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 11 (1.00%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (9.77%) Git
2 45 (4.07%) Visual Studio
3 23 (2.08%) JIRA
4 13 (1.18%) Cucumber
4 13 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.18%) Subversion
5 10 (0.90%) GNU Toolchain
6 8 (0.72%) Selenium
7 6 (0.54%) GitLab
7 6 (0.54%) Postman
8 5 (0.45%) ESLint
8 5 (0.45%) Jasmine
8 5 (0.45%) JUnit
8 5 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
8 5 (0.45%) MSTest
8 5 (0.45%) webpack
9 4 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.36%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.36%) Toad
10 3 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 181 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 103 (9.32%) Finance
3 55 (4.98%) Manufacturing
4 53 (4.80%) Marketing
5 47 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.53%) Law
7 34 (3.08%) Retail
8 25 (2.26%) Automotive
9 22 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.72%) Games
12 17 (1.54%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.09%) Advertising
14 8 (0.72%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.45%) Digital Healthcare
15 5 (0.45%) Legal
16 4 (0.36%) Banking
17 3 (0.27%) iGaming
18 2 (0.18%) Local Government
18 2 (0.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (33.30%) .NET
2 225 (20.36%) HTML
3 175 (15.84%) CSS
4 166 (15.02%) React
5 139 (12.58%) ASP.NET
6 138 (12.49%) AngularJS
7 120 (10.86%) .NET Core
8 91 (8.24%) .NET Framework
9 87 (7.87%) Node.js
9 87 (7.87%) Vue
10 83 (7.51%) Entity Framework
11 80 (7.24%) ASP.NET MVC
12 79 (7.15%) ASP.NET Web API
13 68 (6.15%) RESTful
14 62 (5.61%) Laravel
15 53 (4.80%) HTML5
16 49 (4.43%) JSON
17 47 (4.25%) REST
17 47 (4.25%) XML
18 44 (3.98%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.07%) Mobile App
2 38 (3.44%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 15 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (1.00%) AS400
7 11 (1.00%) iSeries
7 11 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 11 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 9 (0.81%) CUDA
9 9 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 8 (0.72%) Digital Media
10 8 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.63%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.07%) Linux
2 38 (3.44%) Windows
3 20 (1.81%) Android
4 10 (0.90%) Unix
5 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.36%) VMS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (25.25%) Agile
2 244 (22.08%) Full Stack Development
3 141 (12.76%) MVC
4 127 (11.49%) DevOps
5 121 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
7 112 (10.14%) User Experience
8 104 (9.41%) Web Development
9 90 (8.14%) Microservices
10 88 (7.96%) Front End Development
11 80 (7.24%) Scrum
12 77 (6.97%) Software Engineering
13 71 (6.43%) Computer Science
14 67 (6.06%) Mentoring
15 66 (5.97%) Clean Code
16 59 (5.34%) ERP
16 59 (5.34%) TDD
17 56 (5.07%) CI/CD
18 53 (4.80%) Visualisation
19 51 (4.62%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 395 (35.75%) C#
2 322 (29.14%) JavaScript
3 277 (25.07%) SQL
4 147 (13.30%) TypeScript
5 108 (9.77%) PHP
6 67 (6.06%) Python
7 65 (5.88%) Java
8 49 (4.43%) VB.NET
9 40 (3.62%) C++
10 35 (3.17%) T-SQL
11 23 (2.08%) VB
12 16 (1.45%) Bash
12 16 (1.45%) C
13 15 (1.36%) PowerShell
14 13 (1.18%) Go
15 12 (1.09%) R
16 11 (1.00%) RPG
16 11 (1.00%) RPG IV
16 11 (1.00%) RPG/400
17 10 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (9.05%) Degree
2 45 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (2.35%) SC Cleared
3 26 (2.35%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.54%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.45%) PhD
6 3 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.18%) HND
7 2 (0.18%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.090%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.090%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.25%) QA
2 17 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.090%) ITGC
4 1 (0.090%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (5.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.090%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.90%) Terraform
3 6 (0.54%) Rancher
4 3 (0.27%) SCOM
5 1 (0.090%) Grafana
5 1 (0.090%) Kibana
Vendors
1 242 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.53%) Oracle
3 19 (1.72%) Google
3 19 (1.72%) Xamarin
4 18 (1.63%) ServiceNow
5 15 (1.36%) Adobe
6 14 (1.27%) Facebook
7 12 (1.09%) IBM
7 12 (1.09%) Progress
8 11 (1.00%) DevExpress
9 10 (0.90%) YouTube
10 9 (0.81%) NVIDIA
10 9 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.72%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.54%) Databricks
12 6 (0.54%) Informatica
12 6 (0.54%) SAP
13 5 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.36%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.36%) SYSPRO