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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 59 23
Rank change year-on-year +19 -36 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 106 34 146
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.98% 2.82% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.15% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 97 25 98
10th Percentile £48,715 £48,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,298 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +8.15% +6.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £88,889 £86,000 £93,750
West Midlands median annual salary £69,305 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% +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 2,677 1,080 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 75.26% 89.63% 78.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,030 739 1,042
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,895 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,774 £72,373
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,750 £84,996
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 9 September 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 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.89%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.94%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.81%) AWS
2 17 (16.04%) Azure
3 10 (9.43%) GCP
4 9 (8.49%) SaaS
5 5 (4.72%) Serverless
6 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.77%) Google Ads
6 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Advertising
7 3 (2.83%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (2.83%) AWS IoT
7 3 (2.83%) Cloud Run
7 3 (2.83%) Firebase
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.83%) MySQL
2 3 (2.83%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.89%) Chroma
3 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.89%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Git
2 1 (0.94%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.94%) NUnit
2 1 (0.94%) Postman
General
1 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.49%) Advertising
4 8 (7.55%) Finance
5 6 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.72%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.72%) Automotive
7 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.77%) Marketing
8 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Billing
9 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (53.77%) Software Engineer
2 37 (34.91%) Senior
3 19 (17.92%) Senior Software Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Developer
4 14 (13.21%) Lead
5 11 (10.38%) Python Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Software Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Site Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Architect
10 4 (3.77%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Head of Engineering
10 4 (3.77%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) Node.js
2 8 (7.55%) .NET
3 7 (6.60%) React
4 4 (3.77%) RESTful
4 4 (3.77%) Terraform
5 3 (2.83%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.83%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.89%) pgvector
6 2 (1.89%) Vue
7 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (0.94%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.94%) JAX
7 1 (0.94%) Jest
7 1 (0.94%) LangChain
7 1 (0.94%) Next.js
7 1 (0.94%) NgRx
7 1 (0.94%) Pandas
7 1 (0.94%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.94%) Redux
7 1 (0.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.60%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.72%) Robotics
5 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.77%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.75%) Agile
1 22 (20.75%) Line Management
2 17 (16.04%) AI
2 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
3 16 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (13.21%) Coaching
5 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
6 11 (10.38%) LLM
7 10 (9.43%) DevOps
7 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (9.43%) Microservices
8 9 (8.49%) Event-Driven
8 9 (8.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (7.55%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (6.60%) Front End Development
10 7 (6.60%) Observability
11 6 (5.66%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.70%) Python
2 19 (17.92%) C#
3 18 (16.98%) Java
4 12 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.38%) SQL
6 9 (8.49%) C
7 6 (5.66%) Go
8 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.83%) PHP
10 2 (1.89%) COBOL
11 1 (0.94%) C++
11 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.83%) Degree
2 3 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) IEC 61131
2 4 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.77%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) GxP
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.66%) Google
3 5 (4.72%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (4.72%) Siemens
4 4 (3.77%) Databricks
4 4 (3.77%) Facebook
4 4 (3.77%) Instagram
4 4 (3.77%) TikTok
5 1 (0.94%) Virgin Media