Junior Jobs in Birmingham

Junior
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Junior salary in Birmingham is £28,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 June 2025.

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

 6 months to
7 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 87 108
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 14 70 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.04% 2.29% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 2.42% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4 65 25
10th Percentile - - £27,500
25th Percentile £23,500 £24,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,250 £25,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -37.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £35,313 £33,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £38,125 £37,500 -
West Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £27,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +20.37% -32.50% +14.29%

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 1,272 2,893 1,669
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 94.70% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 725 2,319 1,310
10th Percentile £31,660 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in Birmingham

Junior
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Junior in Birmingham

Junior
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2025, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Project Management
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Network Design
3 5 (35.71%) SAP
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) User Journey Map
3 5 (35.71%) Journey Map
3 5 (35.71%) Impact Assessments
3 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
3 5 (35.71%) Data Privacy
3 5 (35.71%) Line Management
3 5 (35.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 4 (28.57%) CSS
4 4 (28.57%) HTML
4 4 (28.57%) Mobile App
5 3 (21.43%) UX Design
5 3 (21.43%) Usability Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Degree
5 3 (21.43%) Animation
5 3 (21.43%) Video Editing
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) Adobe
5 3 (21.43%) Linux
5 3 (21.43%) Automotive
5 3 (21.43%) Wireframes
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience

Junior 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 3 (21.43%) Adobe XD
1 3 (21.43%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Figma
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (14.29%) VLAN
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
1 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Police
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) CSS
1 4 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) GWT
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) J2EE
2 1 (7.14%) JPA
2 1 (7.14%) Material Design
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 3 (21.43%) Animation
2 3 (21.43%) Video Editing
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
1 6 (42.86%) Project Management
2 5 (35.71%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (35.71%) Data Privacy
2 5 (35.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (35.71%) Impact Assessments
2 5 (35.71%) Journey Map
2 5 (35.71%) Line Management
2 5 (35.71%) Network Design
2 5 (35.71%) User Journey Map
3 3 (21.43%) Design Thinking
3 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
3 3 (21.43%) Usability Testing
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
3 3 (21.43%) User Research
3 3 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (21.43%) UX Design
3 3 (21.43%) Wireframes
4 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (14.29%) JNCIA
3 2 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 3 (21.43%) Adobe
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
47 Junior jobs in the West Midlands