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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 23 28
Rank change year-on-year -32 +5 -13
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 41 145 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.11% 6.62% 7.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 7.98% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 34 79 67
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £39,700
25th Percentile £53,125 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,399 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,875 £95,000 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -4.17%

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 1,139 1,818 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.35% 82.98% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 791 888 938
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £31,536
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £90,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -

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 7 November 2025.

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 (4.88%) IIS
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) NServiceBus
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 16 (39.02%) AWS
3 13 (31.71%) SaaS
4 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) GitHub
4 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.20%) Serverless
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.32%) Firebase
6 3 (7.32%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Data Hub
4 2 (4.88%) SQL CLR
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.44%) HBase
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.44%) QlikView
5 1 (2.44%) SQLite
5 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Back Office
5 1 (2.44%) Games
5 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Software Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Developer
3 9 (21.95%) Lead
4 8 (19.51%) Senior
5 7 (17.07%) Lead Developer
6 6 (14.63%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) C# Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Control Software Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Lead C# Developer
8 4 (9.76%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) CRM Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Junior
9 3 (7.32%) Junior Software Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Engineering Manager
10 2 (4.88%) Head of Development
11 1 (2.44%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) React
2 13 (31.71%) .NET
3 6 (14.63%) .NET Framework
4 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.20%) Node.js
4 5 (12.20%) Vue
5 4 (9.76%) CSS
5 4 (9.76%) HTML
6 3 (7.32%) Entity Framework
6 3 (7.32%) Laravel
6 3 (7.32%) Next.js
6 3 (7.32%) React Native
7 2 (4.88%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.88%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (4.88%) gRPC
7 2 (4.88%) RESTful
7 2 (4.88%) Spring
7 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.44%) Kafka
8 1 (2.44%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
1 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Full-Stack Development
2 15 (36.59%) Agile
3 11 (26.83%) Mentoring
4 10 (24.39%) DevOps
5 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (19.51%) Coaching
6 8 (19.51%) Microservices
6 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (14.63%) AI
8 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
8 5 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (9.76%) Clean Code
9 4 (9.76%) Conflict Resolution
9 4 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (9.76%) Design Patterns
9 4 (9.76%) Power Management
9 4 (9.76%) SDLC
9 4 (9.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) C#
2 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.20%) Java
4 5 (12.20%) PHP
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 3 (7.32%) Python
6 2 (4.88%) Go
7 1 (2.44%) Bash
7 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.44%) PROC SQL
7 1 (2.44%) R
7 1 (2.44%) Ruby
7 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Kibana
3 1 (2.44%) logstash
3 1 (2.44%) Oozie
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) Databricks
3 1 (2.44%) Informatica
3 1 (2.44%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (2.44%) SAP
3 1 (2.44%) Siemens
3 1 (2.44%) Xamarin