Software Manager Jobs in Birmingham

Software Manager
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Software Manager salary in Birmingham is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 5 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.37% 0.69% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.73% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,250 £39,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -42.50% +56.86%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £79,000 -
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,290 2,336 1,533
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.08% 93.19%
Number of salaries quoted 857 1,762 1,216
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £41,536
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Software Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in Birmingham

Software Manager
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Software Manager in Birmingham

Software Manager
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Manager in Birmingham

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 August 2025, Software Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Business Case
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Epics
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) WFM
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap

Software Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Business Case
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Epics
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#