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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -40 +3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 36 154 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.00% 6.67% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 8.40% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28 99 78
10th Percentile £49,250 £31,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £40,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,399 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% +6.12% -6.49%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 1,074 1,833 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.50% 79.35% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 744 1,041 1,080
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,895 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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

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 18 September 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 (8.33%) IIS
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) ColdFusion
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) SaaS
3 6 (16.67%) GitHub
4 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.78%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.78%) Slack
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.33%) Data Hub
3 3 (8.33%) SQL CLR
4 2 (5.56%) MySQL
4 2 (5.56%) Power BI
4 2 (5.56%) Tableau
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.78%) HBase
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.78%) QlikView
5 1 (2.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Back Office
4 4 (11.11%) Marketing
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Advertising
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Lead Developer
4 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Head of Development
5 3 (8.33%) Lead C# Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Marketing Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Operations Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) CRM Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.56%) Head of Software Engineering
6 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (38.89%) .NET
2 10 (27.78%) React
3 6 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 6 (16.67%) Entity Framework
4 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.33%) Blazor
4 3 (8.33%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (5.56%) Bootstrap
5 2 (5.56%) CSS
5 2 (5.56%) HTML
5 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.78%) Laravel
6 1 (2.78%) Node.js
6 1 (2.78%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.78%) SOAP
6 1 (2.78%) Spring
6 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
1 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.78%) CentOS
2 1 (2.78%) Debian
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 11 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (27.78%) Mentoring
5 7 (19.44%) Collaborative Culture
5 7 (19.44%) Microservices
6 6 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 6 (16.67%) Coaching
6 6 (16.67%) CRM
6 6 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 6 (16.67%) SDLC
6 6 (16.67%) Workflow
7 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (11.11%) Business Strategy
8 4 (11.11%) Intelligent Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) C#
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) Java
4 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (5.56%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) PHP
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) PROC SQL
7 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Kibana
2 1 (2.78%) logstash
2 1 (2.78%) Oozie
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (2.78%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Facebook
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Hotjar
3 1 (2.78%) Informatica
3 1 (2.78%) Instagram
3 1 (2.78%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (2.78%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) Siemens