Software Engineering Jobs in Birmingham

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +12
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 195 181 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.20% 8.97% 8.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.72% 9.37% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 163 149 215
10th Percentile £35,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,237 1,932 3,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.58% 95.79% 97.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,808 1,423 2,308
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.49%
75th Percentile £69,829 £71,250 £70,875
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,700 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 12 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.59%) Confluence
3 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.05%) Appian
4 4 (2.05%) NServiceBus
5 2 (1.03%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.05%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 10 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (27.18%) Azure
2 49 (25.13%) AWS
3 25 (12.82%) GCP
4 22 (11.28%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.21%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.21%) SaaS
7 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.59%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.59%) Serverless
9 6 (3.08%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.05%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.05%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.05%) GitHub
11 4 (2.05%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.03%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.03%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.03%) 4G
2 2 (1.03%) 5G
2 2 (1.03%) DHCP
2 2 (1.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.03%) HTTP
2 2 (1.03%) IPv6
3 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.72%) MySQL
3 9 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.05%) Power BI
6 4 (2.05%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.54%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.54%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.03%) Looker
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.51%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 26 (13.33%) Git
2 14 (7.18%) GitLab
3 13 (6.67%) Visual Studio
4 9 (4.62%) Cucumber
4 9 (4.62%) JIRA
5 6 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.56%) Postman
7 4 (2.05%) CANoe
7 4 (2.05%) Jasmine
7 4 (2.05%) Xcode
8 3 (1.54%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.03%) GCC
9 2 (1.03%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.51%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (12.82%) Finance
2 16 (8.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.64%) Manufacturing
4 10 (5.13%) Retail
5 9 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.10%) Automotive
7 7 (3.59%) Electronics
7 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.56%) Banking
10 4 (2.05%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.54%) Local Government
11 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.03%) Aviation
12 2 (1.03%) Games
12 2 (1.03%) Legal
12 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Marketing
13 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (45.64%) Software Engineer
2 51 (26.15%) Developer
3 46 (23.59%) Senior
4 30 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 23 (11.79%) Lead
6 21 (10.77%) Embedded Engineer
7 18 (9.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 15 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (7.18%) Java Engineer
10 13 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (4.62%) Angular Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Technical Leader
14 7 (3.59%) Junior
14 7 (3.59%) UI Developer
14 7 (3.59%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.97%) .NET
2 33 (16.92%) AngularJS
2 33 (16.92%) React
3 23 (11.79%) HTML
3 23 (11.79%) RESTful
4 21 (10.77%) CSS
5 14 (7.18%) Node.js
6 13 (6.67%) ASP.NET
7 10 (5.13%) .NET Core
7 10 (5.13%) jQuery
8 9 (4.62%) Material Design
8 9 (4.62%) NgRx
9 8 (4.10%) Spring
9 8 (4.10%) Vue
10 7 (3.59%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (3.08%) ARM Templates
11 6 (3.08%) Next.js
11 6 (3.08%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.08%) Web Services
12 5 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.18%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 12 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.13%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.59%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.59%) FMCG
6 6 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.05%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.05%) Infotainment
8 4 (2.05%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.05%) Smartphone
9 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.13%) Android
1 10 (5.13%) Apple iOS
2 7 (3.59%) Linux
3 4 (2.05%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.05%) Windows
4 3 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.54%) Unix
4 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.08%) Agile
2 47 (24.10%) DevOps
3 37 (18.97%) CI/CD
4 35 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
5 33 (16.92%) Scrum
6 27 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (12.82%) User Experience
8 22 (11.28%) Mentoring
9 21 (10.77%) Kanban
9 21 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (10.77%) UX Design
10 20 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (9.23%) Containerisation
11 18 (9.23%) Front End Development
12 17 (8.72%) Computer Science
12 17 (8.72%) Roadmaps
13 15 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
13 15 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (7.69%) TDD
14 14 (7.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 49 (25.13%) C#
2 48 (24.62%) TypeScript
3 47 (24.10%) Java
4 40 (20.51%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.87%) SQL
6 23 (11.79%) Python
7 18 (9.23%) C
8 14 (7.18%) C++
9 11 (5.64%) Go
10 9 (4.62%) PHP
11 5 (2.56%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.05%) COBOL
12 4 (2.05%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (14.87%) Degree
2 20 (10.26%) SC Cleared
2 20 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.08%) MCSE
4 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.51%) CISA
5 1 (0.51%) CISM
5 1 (0.51%) CISSP
5 1 (0.51%) HNC
5 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.18%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.62%) QA
3 4 (2.05%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.51%) IFRS
4 1 (0.51%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (11.79%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.15%) Terraform
3 2 (1.03%) MIIS
Vendors
1 28 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.77%) Google
3 13 (6.67%) Xamarin
4 9 (4.62%) Adobe
5 5 (2.56%) DevExpress
6 4 (2.05%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.54%) IBM
7 3 (1.54%) InterSystems
7 3 (1.54%) Zend
8 2 (1.03%) Remedy
8 2 (1.03%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) Databricks
9 1 (0.51%) Juniper
9 1 (0.51%) SAP