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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 24 28
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 70 203 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.28% 6.60% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 8.48% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 34 171 105
10th Percentile £52,350 £32,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,564 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +4.17% -8.40%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £97,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -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 1,239 2,395 1,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 93.37% 77.84% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 730 1,853 1,316
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,001
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,150
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 5 July 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 3 (4.29%) IIS
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) ColdFusion
3 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Simulink
2 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.43%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.29%) Azure
2 9 (12.86%) AWS
3 8 (11.43%) GitHub
4 6 (8.57%) SaaS
5 5 (7.14%) GCP
6 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.29%) Supabase
6 3 (4.29%) Vercel
7 2 (2.86%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.86%) Google Ads
7 2 (2.86%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (2.86%) Serverless
8 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.43%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.43%) Slack
8 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
1 1 (1.43%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.57%) MySQL
3 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.29%) Big Data
4 3 (4.29%) Data Hub
4 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.29%) Power BI
4 3 (4.29%) SQL CLR
4 3 (4.29%) Tableau
5 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.43%) HBase
6 1 (1.43%) Impala
6 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 13 (18.57%) Finance
2 11 (15.71%) Automotive
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Aerospace
5 8 (11.43%) Marketing
6 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.71%) Back Office
7 4 (5.71%) Games
8 2 (2.86%) Advertising
8 2 (2.86%) Banking
8 2 (2.86%) Law
8 2 (2.86%) Retail
9 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Software Engineer
2 9 (12.86%) Senior
3 8 (11.43%) Lead
3 8 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Developer
5 6 (8.57%) Marketing Manager
5 6 (8.57%) Operations Manager
6 5 (7.14%) Instrumentation Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Head of Development
9 2 (2.86%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Head of Software Engineering
9 2 (2.86%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Software Engineering Manager
9 2 (2.86%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) React
2 14 (20.00%) .NET
3 6 (8.57%) .NET Core
3 6 (8.57%) Entity Framework
4 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.14%) Blazor
4 5 (7.14%) Vue
5 4 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.71%) Kafka
5 4 (5.71%) RESTful
6 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.29%) CSS
6 3 (4.29%) Dapper ORM
6 3 (4.29%) FastAPI
6 3 (4.29%) HTML
6 3 (4.29%) Next.js
6 3 (4.29%) Node.js
7 2 (2.86%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.86%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Lidar
3 3 (4.29%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) IoT
4 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.86%) Replication
4 2 (2.86%) Social Media
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Windows
2 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.86%) Linux
4 1 (1.43%) CentOS
4 1 (1.43%) Debian
4 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (58.57%) Agile
2 23 (32.86%) Software Testing
3 15 (21.43%) SDLC
4 13 (18.57%) Waterfall
5 12 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (14.29%) DevOps
6 10 (14.29%) Validation
7 9 (12.86%) Collaborative Culture
7 9 (12.86%) Data Privacy
7 9 (12.86%) Microservices
7 9 (12.86%) Systems Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Workflow
8 8 (11.43%) Analytics
8 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (11.43%) Intelligent Automation
9 7 (10.00%) B2B
9 7 (10.00%) Business Strategy
9 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) C#
2 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
2 13 (18.57%) SQL
3 10 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 9 (12.86%) MATLAB
4 9 (12.86%) Python
5 8 (11.43%) Java
6 4 (5.71%) PHP
7 3 (4.29%) Go
7 3 (4.29%) Swift
8 1 (1.43%) Bash
8 1 (1.43%) PROC SQL
8 1 (1.43%) R
8 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (31.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (18.57%) Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (8.57%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Kibana
3 1 (1.43%) logstash
3 1 (1.43%) Oozie
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Siemens
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Databricks
3 3 (4.29%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) VMware
4 2 (2.86%) Facebook
4 2 (2.86%) Hotjar
4 2 (2.86%) Instagram
4 2 (2.86%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.43%) Informatica
5 1 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) SAP