SLSA Job Trends in Birmingham

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SLSA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SLSA 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.056% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median annual salary - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 224 351 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.44% 19.47% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 202 181 289
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,497 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,860 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,875 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £58,194 £53,500
% change year-on-year -5.49% +8.77% -5.28%

SLSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype