Software Development Manager Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Development Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Software Development Manager salary in the West Midlands is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 261 277
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Development Manager 20 16 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.26% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 9
10th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £55,650
25th Percentile £63,125 £57,813 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £74,500 £67,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +15.38%

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 6,800 6,065 6,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.05% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,148 3,375 4,753
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,313 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Software Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Development Manager in the West Midlands

Software Development Manager
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Development Manager in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Development Manager in the West Midlands

Software Development Manager
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Development Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Development Manager in the West Midlands

Software Development Manager
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 Software Development Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Warwickshire +54 9 £70,000 +7.69%
Staffordshire -11 5 £60,000 -2.04%
Birmingham - 3 £75,000 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £75,000 -
Software Development Manager
England

Software Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Software Development Manager 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 Software Development Manager in the job title.

1 13 (65.00%) .NET
2 11 (55.00%) People Management
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (25.00%) Law
4 5 (25.00%) OLAP
4 5 (25.00%) CRM
4 5 (25.00%) ERP
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (25.00%) Change Management
4 5 (25.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (25.00%) Umbraco
4 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (15.00%) Workflow
6 2 (10.00%) Node.js
6 2 (10.00%) React
7 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.00%) Agile Project Management
7 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree

Software Development Manager 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 5 (25.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) People Management
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) Change Management
3 5 (25.00%) CRM
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) ERP
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 3 (15.00%) Workflow
5 1 (5.00%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.00%) Kanban
5 1 (5.00%) Project Management
5 1 (5.00%) Project Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Scrum
5 1 (5.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) C#
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft