Graduate Developer Jobs in Birmingham

Graduate Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Graduate Developer salary in Birmingham is £27,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 145 134
Rank change year-on-year +53 -11 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate Developer 16 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.14% 0.072% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.076% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £35,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 -
90th Percentile £32,625 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £27,000 £35,000 £27,000
% change year-on-year -22.86% +29.63% -1.82%

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 1,329 2,618 1,772
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 94.38% 93.17%
Number of salaries quoted 777 2,127 1,354
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,125 £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 £81,425
West Midlands median annual salary £52,443 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.89% -4.76% +5.00%

Graduate Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Graduate Developer in Birmingham

Graduate Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Graduate Developer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Graduate Developer in Birmingham

Graduate Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Graduate 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 Birmingham region featuring Graduate Developer in the job title.

1 15 (93.75%) Degree
2 11 (68.75%) Computer Science
2 11 (68.75%) C#
2 11 (68.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (56.25%) Java
4 7 (43.75%) SQL
5 6 (37.50%) Agile
5 6 (37.50%) WinForms
5 6 (37.50%) Revit
5 6 (37.50%) Azure
5 6 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (37.50%) Clean Code
6 5 (31.25%) jQuery
6 5 (31.25%) MVC
6 5 (31.25%) PHP
6 5 (31.25%) OO
6 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
6 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET
6 5 (31.25%) CSS
6 5 (31.25%) .NET
6 5 (31.25%) MySQL
6 5 (31.25%) C++
7 4 (25.00%) J2EE
7 4 (25.00%) Linux
7 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 4 (25.00%) Middleware
7 4 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) Law
7 4 (25.00%) GWT
7 4 (25.00%) Vaadin

Graduate Developer 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:

Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 4 (25.00%) Law
1 4 (25.00%) Police
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) WinForms
2 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET
2 5 (31.25%) CSS
2 5 (31.25%) jQuery
3 4 (25.00%) GWT
3 4 (25.00%) J2EE
3 4 (25.00%) JPA
3 4 (25.00%) Middleware
3 4 (25.00%) Vaadin
4 1 (6.25%) Express.js
4 1 (6.25%) Fastify
4 1 (6.25%) MERN Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Next.js
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Computer Science
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Clean Code
3 5 (31.25%) MVC
3 5 (31.25%) OO
4 4 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) OOP
6 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.25%) API Testing
7 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
7 1 (6.25%) DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
2 9 (56.25%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) C++
4 5 (31.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Degree
2 11 (68.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 Graduate Developer jobs in the West Midlands