Software Engineering Jobs in Birmingham

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 92 194 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.26% 7.11% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 8.60% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 56 163 143
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £47,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

All Process and 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 1,390 2,255 1,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 94.56% 82.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 768 1,828 1,410
10th Percentile £34,175 £32,000 £31,725
25th Percentile £42,892 £41,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,468 £55,000 £56,480
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -2.62% +2.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,974 £82,751
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.10% +6.50%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
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 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.09%) IIS
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Simulink
2 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) AWS
2 11 (11.96%) GCP
3 8 (8.70%) SaaS
4 6 (6.52%) Serverless
5 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.43%) GitHub
6 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.26%) Supabase
6 3 (3.26%) Vercel
7 2 (2.17%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.17%) Google Ads
7 2 (2.17%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) MySQL
2 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.26%) Big Data
7 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.17%) Power BI
7 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.17%) Tableau
8 1 (1.09%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.09%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Git
2 6 (6.52%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 20 (21.74%) Finance
2 14 (15.22%) Automotive
3 12 (13.04%) Aerospace
4 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.96%) Social Skills
5 9 (9.78%) Games
5 9 (9.78%) Marketing
6 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Advertising
8 4 (4.35%) Retail
9 2 (2.17%) Back Office
9 2 (2.17%) Banking
9 2 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (31.52%) Software Engineer
2 16 (17.39%) Developer
3 14 (15.22%) Senior
4 12 (13.04%) Lead
5 9 (9.78%) Principal Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Marketing Manager
7 6 (6.52%) Operations Manager
8 5 (5.43%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) PHP Software Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Lead PHP Developer
9 4 (4.35%) PHP Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.83%) React
2 17 (18.48%) .NET
3 9 (9.78%) CSS
3 9 (9.78%) HTML
4 7 (7.61%) .NET Core
5 6 (6.52%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET
6 5 (5.43%) Laravel
6 5 (5.43%) Node.js
6 5 (5.43%) RESTful
6 5 (5.43%) Vue
7 4 (4.35%) Blazor
7 4 (4.35%) Entity Framework
7 4 (4.35%) LAMP
7 4 (4.35%) Redux
8 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.26%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.26%) Kafka
8 3 (3.26%) Next.js
8 3 (3.26%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.43%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.26%) Lidar
4 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.17%) IoT
4 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.17%) Replication
4 2 (2.17%) Social Media
5 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.17%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) CentOS
3 1 (1.09%) Debian
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (47.83%) Agile
2 22 (23.91%) Software Testing
3 14 (15.22%) DevOps
3 14 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (13.04%) Systems Engineering
4 12 (13.04%) Validation
5 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (10.87%) Analytics
6 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 10 (10.87%) Mentoring
6 10 (10.87%) Microservices
6 10 (10.87%) Scrum
6 10 (10.87%) SDLC
6 10 (10.87%) Waterfall
7 9 (9.78%) Business Strategy
7 9 (9.78%) E-Commerce
8 8 (8.70%) Intelligent Automation
8 8 (8.70%) TDD
9 7 (7.61%) B2B
9 7 (7.61%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.09%) JavaScript
2 22 (23.91%) C#
3 15 (16.30%) SQL
4 12 (13.04%) MATLAB
5 10 (10.87%) PHP
5 10 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.78%) Python
7 7 (7.61%) Java
8 3 (3.26%) Go
8 3 (3.26%) Ruby
8 3 (3.26%) Swift
9 1 (1.09%) Dart
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 12 (13.04%) Degree
3 7 (7.61%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (6.52%) GDPR
1 6 (6.52%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (8.70%) Siemens
2 7 (7.61%) Google
3 6 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.17%) Databricks
4 2 (2.17%) Facebook
4 2 (2.17%) Hotjar
4 2 (2.17%) Instagram
4 2 (2.17%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.17%) Twitter
5 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.09%) VMware