Software Engineering Job Trends in Birmingham

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 52 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 74 53 209
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.46% 4.55% 6.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 4.78% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 72 39 174
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,750 £34,481
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,243 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,629 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +12.71% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £83,723
90th Percentile £88,133 £90,750 £96,750
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% +0.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,192 1,109 2,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 72.80% 95.27% 78.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 690 1,940
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,968 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +3.58% -3.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,875 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.70%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.81%) AWS
2 5 (6.76%) Azure
2 5 (6.76%) Serverless
3 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.05%) AWS IoT
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.70%) Firebase
6 1 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.35%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) Prefect
6 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
1 3 (4.05%) MySQL
1 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
1 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.35%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Git
General
1 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.11%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.76%) Advertising
3 5 (6.76%) Automotive
3 5 (6.76%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (70.27%) Software Engineer
2 26 (35.14%) Senior
3 18 (24.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (21.62%) Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Software Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Lead
8 4 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Head of Engineering
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Head of Software Engineering
10 2 (2.70%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Python Software Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Software Development Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.27%) Node.js
2 9 (12.16%) React
3 3 (4.05%) .NET
3 3 (4.05%) RESTful
4 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.35%) Google JAX
4 1 (1.35%) JAX
4 1 (1.35%) LangChain
4 1 (1.35%) NumPy
4 1 (1.35%) OpenCV
4 1 (1.35%) Pandas
4 1 (1.35%) pgvector
4 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.35%) SciPy
4 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Robotics
2 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.05%) IoT
5 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (13.51%) AI
2 10 (13.51%) Line Management
3 9 (12.16%) LLM
4 8 (10.81%) DevOps
4 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
5 7 (9.46%) Agile
5 7 (9.46%) CI/CD
5 7 (9.46%) Coaching
6 6 (8.11%) Analytics
7 5 (6.76%) Machine Learning
7 5 (6.76%) Microservices
7 5 (6.76%) MLOps
7 5 (6.76%) Motion Control
7 5 (6.76%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.76%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (6.76%) Statistical Analysis
8 4 (5.41%) API Development
8 4 (5.41%) Event-Driven
8 4 (5.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) C#
2 12 (16.22%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.86%) Python
4 8 (10.81%) Java
5 5 (6.76%) C
5 5 (6.76%) SQL
6 2 (2.70%) COBOL
6 2 (2.70%) Go
6 2 (2.70%) PHP
6 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
1 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) IEC 61131
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) Allen-Bradley
1 5 (6.76%) Siemens
2 2 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (1.35%) Google
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft