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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 58 25
Rank change year-on-year +16 -33 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 100 43 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.91% 3.39% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.73% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 92 31 118
10th Percentile £47,110 £51,750 £34,844
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +5.78% +8.72%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £92,250 £80,000 £97,500
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +4.35%

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 2,551 1,153 1,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 74.24% 90.86% 75.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 794 1,288
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% +1.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,281 £71,991
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £86,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -

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 10 August 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 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.00%) AWS
2 15 (15.00%) Azure
3 10 (10.00%) GCP
4 7 (7.00%) SaaS
5 5 (5.00%) Serverless
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.00%) Google Ads
6 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Advertising
7 3 (3.00%) AWS IoT
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.00%) Firebase
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.00%) MySQL
2 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.00%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Git
2 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.00%) NUnit
2 1 (1.00%) Postman
General
1 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.00%) Advertising
4 6 (6.00%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.00%) Automotive
6 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.00%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.00%) Billing
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (56.00%) Software Engineer
2 28 (28.00%) Senior
3 16 (16.00%) Developer
4 15 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (14.00%) Lead
6 9 (9.00%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Software Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Head of Engineering
9 5 (5.00%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) GCP Software Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) Node.js
2 11 (11.00%) React
3 7 (7.00%) .NET
4 4 (4.00%) RESTful
5 3 (3.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.00%) pgvector
6 2 (2.00%) Vue
7 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.00%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.00%) Google JAX
7 1 (1.00%) JAX
7 1 (1.00%) Jest
7 1 (1.00%) LangChain
7 1 (1.00%) NgRx
7 1 (1.00%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.00%) Pandas
7 1 (1.00%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.00%) Redux
7 1 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.00%) Robotics
4 6 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (3.00%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.00%) IoT
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.00%) CI/CD
1 17 (17.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (16.00%) Line Management
3 15 (15.00%) Agile
3 15 (15.00%) AI
4 14 (14.00%) Coaching
4 14 (14.00%) DevOps
5 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
7 11 (11.00%) LLM
8 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (10.00%) Microservices
9 9 (9.00%) Event-Driven
9 9 (9.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (7.00%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (7.00%) Front End Development
11 7 (7.00%) Observability
12 6 (6.00%) Data Engineering
12 6 (6.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.00%) C#
2 21 (21.00%) Python
3 15 (15.00%) Java
4 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.00%) SQL
6 9 (9.00%) C
7 6 (6.00%) Go
8 5 (5.00%) PHP
9 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.00%) COBOL
11 1 (1.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.00%) Degree
3 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) IEC 61131
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) GxP
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.00%) Google
3 5 (5.00%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (5.00%) Siemens
4 4 (4.00%) Databricks
4 4 (4.00%) Facebook
4 4 (4.00%) Instagram
4 4 (4.00%) TikTok
5 1 (1.00%) Virgin Media