Software Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Software Developer
England > Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the Midlands is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 185 82
Rank change year-on-year +70 -103 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 250 134 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.10% 1.45% 3.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.62% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 235 103 230
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,200 £67,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,205 8,288 10,335
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 89.64% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,337 4,647 7,040
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software Developer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands +89 168 £50,000 -4.76% 35
East Midlands +7 81 £45,000 -1.10% 19
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 157 (62.80%) C#
2 141 (56.40%) .NET
3 121 (48.40%) SQL
4 74 (29.60%) JavaScript
4 74 (29.60%) SQL Server
5 61 (24.40%) MVC
6 56 (22.40%) Social Skills
7 55 (22.00%) HTML
8 54 (21.60%) Agile
9 49 (19.60%) ASP.NET
9 49 (19.60%) React
10 47 (18.80%) Azure
11 44 (17.60%) Full Stack Development
12 43 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (16.40%) Degree
14 39 (15.60%) DevOps
15 37 (14.80%) Microsoft
16 34 (13.60%) Finance
17 32 (12.80%) Software Engineering
17 32 (12.80%) CSS
18 31 (12.40%) TypeScript
19 30 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
19 30 (12.00%) .NET Core
20 27 (10.80%) Mobile App
20 27 (10.80%) Visual Studio
21 25 (10.00%) Computer Science
21 25 (10.00%) AngularJS
21 25 (10.00%) AWS
22 23 (9.20%) Linux
23 22 (8.80%) Windows

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 3 (1.20%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) Mendix
2 1 (0.40%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Shopify
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.80%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.80%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 47 (18.80%) Azure
2 25 (10.00%) AWS
3 17 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.20%) SaaS
5 11 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (4.40%) Serverless
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (2.00%) Stripe
7 4 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.60%) Azure Storage
7 4 (1.60%) iPaaS
7 4 (1.60%) PaaS
8 2 (0.80%) Boomi
8 2 (0.80%) GitHub
8 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.40%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) 4G
1 2 (0.80%) 5G
2 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (29.60%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.80%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.40%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.40%) MySQL
4 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.60%) SQLite
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Event Store
7 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Power BI
7 1 (0.40%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 27 (10.80%) Visual Studio
2 17 (6.80%) Git
3 5 (2.00%) JIRA
3 5 (2.00%) MSTest
4 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.80%) GCC
5 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.40%) CMake
6 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.60%) Finance
3 13 (5.20%) Law
4 12 (4.80%) Automotive
5 10 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.20%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.20%) Marketing
7 6 (2.40%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.60%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (0.80%) Electronics
11 2 (0.80%) Games
11 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (56.40%) .NET
2 55 (22.00%) HTML
3 49 (19.60%) ASP.NET
3 49 (19.60%) React
4 32 (12.80%) CSS
5 30 (12.00%) .NET Core
5 30 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 25 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 20 (8.00%) .NET Framework
7 20 (8.00%) RESTful
8 15 (6.00%) Node.js
9 14 (5.60%) Entity Framework
10 13 (5.20%) Vue
10 13 (5.20%) XML
11 11 (4.40%) Laravel
12 10 (4.00%) WinForms
13 9 (3.60%) Blazor
13 9 (3.60%) PyTorch
13 9 (3.60%) TensorFlow
14 8 (3.20%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.80%) Mobile App
2 11 (4.40%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.60%) CUDA
3 9 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.00%) Mobile Computing
5 5 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.60%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.60%) Home Automation
6 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.80%) Mobile Games
7 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.40%) IoT
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.40%) NHS
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.20%) Linux
2 22 (8.80%) Windows
3 5 (2.00%) Android
4 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.40%) MVC
2 54 (21.60%) Agile
3 44 (17.60%) Full Stack Development
4 43 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (15.60%) DevOps
6 32 (12.80%) Software Engineering
7 25 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 19 (7.60%) Microservices
9 17 (6.80%) Mentoring
10 16 (6.40%) Unit Testing
11 14 (5.60%) Front End Development
11 14 (5.60%) Web Development
12 13 (5.20%) Scrum
13 12 (4.80%) Customer Service
13 12 (4.80%) Software Testing
13 12 (4.80%) TDD
14 11 (4.40%) Clean Code
14 11 (4.40%) Integration Testing
14 11 (4.40%) Test Automation
14 11 (4.40%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 157 (62.80%) C#
2 121 (48.40%) SQL
3 74 (29.60%) JavaScript
4 31 (12.40%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.60%) C++
6 17 (6.80%) VB
7 16 (6.40%) Python
8 15 (6.00%) VB.NET
9 14 (5.60%) C
9 14 (5.60%) PHP
10 13 (5.20%) Java
11 9 (3.60%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.80%) Assembly Language
13 4 (1.60%) XAML
14 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.40%) Bash
15 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.40%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 41 (16.40%) Degree
2 13 (5.20%) Master's Degree
3 11 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.00%) PhD
5 2 (0.80%) HND
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.20%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (1.60%) Terraform
2 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.60%) NVIDIA
3 7 (2.80%) JDA
3 7 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.00%) Google
4 5 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.60%) Xamarin
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Talend
7 2 (0.80%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.80%) Infor
7 2 (0.80%) Jitterbit
8 1 (0.40%) Cadence
8 1 (0.40%) Databricks
8 1 (0.40%) Denodo
8 1 (0.40%) Quadient
8 1 (0.40%) YouTube