Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Senior Software Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Birmingham is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 118 127
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 11 30 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.75% 1.10% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.17% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6 24 9
10th Percentile - £40,000 £55,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,991 £77,500
90th Percentile - - £96,500
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% +3.85%

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 1,388 2,572 1,864
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 94.28% 93.48%
Number of salaries quoted 799 2,098 1,427
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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Birmingham

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Automotive
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) React
4 5 (45.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (36.36%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Validation
5 4 (36.36%) Aerospace
5 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
5 4 (36.36%) MATLAB
5 4 (36.36%) Simulink
6 3 (27.27%) 3D Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (27.27%) .NET
6 3 (27.27%) C#
6 3 (27.27%) Python
6 3 (27.27%) GitHub
6 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
6 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
6 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
6 3 (27.27%) iOS Development
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (27.27%) Next.js
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Presales
6 3 (27.27%) Mobile Development
6 3 (27.27%) Swift
6 3 (27.27%) Vercel

Senior Software Engineer 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) GitHub
1 3 (27.27%) Supabase
1 3 (27.27%) Vercel
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Automotive
2 4 (36.36%) Aerospace
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) React
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) FastAPI
2 3 (27.27%) Next.js
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Vue
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Lidar
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Validation
5 3 (27.27%) 3D Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) iOS Development
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Mobile Development
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (27.27%) Presales
5 3 (27.27%) User Experience
6 2 (18.18%) API Development
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
7 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) MATLAB
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Swift
2 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
23 Senior Software Engineer jobs in the West Midlands