Development Manager Jobs in Birmingham

Development Manager
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Development Manager salary in Birmingham is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 102 125
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Manager 3 44 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.22% 1.58% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 1.67% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3 41 7
10th Percentile £36,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £45,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -37.93%
75th Percentile £68,125 £90,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £91,250 -
West Midlands median annual salary £30,580 £40,060 £57,500
% change year-on-year -23.66% -30.33% -11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,320 2,630 1,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 94.43% 93.19%
Number of salaries quoted 768 2,137 1,352
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £81,251
West Midlands median annual salary £51,887 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in Birmingham

Development Manager
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Manager in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Development Manager in Birmingham

Development Manager
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Manager in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Manager in Birmingham

Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Development Manager in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Business Development
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office

Development Manager Skill Set
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Development
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft