Senior Developer Jobs in Birmingham

Senior Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Developer salary in Birmingham is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 72 66
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 28 78 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.92% 2.86% 4.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 3.03% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23 70 63
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -

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 1,378 2,571 1,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.31% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 795 2,098 1,426
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,991 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Birmingham

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Birmingham

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 13 (46.43%) C#
1 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
1 13 (46.43%) .NET
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) HTML
2 9 (32.14%) CSS
2 9 (32.14%) React
3 8 (28.57%) Node.js
4 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Scrum
4 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
5 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
7 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (10.71%) Fintech
7 3 (10.71%) SaaS
7 3 (10.71%) Git
7 3 (10.71%) Oracle
7 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
7 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (10.71%) Web Design

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) CMS
1 2 (7.14%) Headless CMS
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) NetSuite
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) SaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Algolia
4 1 (3.57%) Contentful
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) Figma
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) npm
4 1 (3.57%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) Data Hub
2 2 (7.14%) Metadata
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) SQL CLR
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) JUnit
2 2 (7.14%) NUnit
3 1 (3.57%) Vite
General
1 3 (10.71%) Finance
1 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (7.14%) Back Office
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) .NET
2 9 (32.14%) CSS
2 9 (32.14%) HTML
2 9 (32.14%) React
3 8 (28.57%) Node.js
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
6 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (7.14%) Jest
6 2 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (7.14%) REST
6 2 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.57%) Flutter
7 1 (3.57%) JSON
7 1 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (3.57%) Sass
7 1 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (21.43%) Scrum
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps
2 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
3 4 (14.29%) Agile
3 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.71%) Clean Code
4 3 (10.71%) Fintech
4 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (10.71%) Web Design
4 3 (10.71%) Web Development
5 2 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Data Privacy
5 2 (7.14%) Design Patterns
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) C#
1 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.14%) Ruby
4 2 (7.14%) Scala
4 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Dart
5 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Okta
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Xamarin