Developer Job Trends in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 359 1,178 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.42% 13.30% 13.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.91% 14.14% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 311 772 603
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 5,192 8,331 4,889
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.07% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,307 4,262 3,815
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Developer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the Midlands

Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -16 238 £55,000 +10.00% 150
East Midlands -34 121 £49,500 +4.21% 110
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 134 (37.33%) C#
2 128 (35.65%) SQL
3 122 (33.98%) Agile
4 109 (30.36%) .NET
5 108 (30.08%) Azure
6 101 (28.13%) JavaScript
7 77 (21.45%) DevOps
7 77 (21.45%) Power Platform
8 75 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (18.38%) HTML
10 62 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (17.27%) SQL Server
11 59 (16.43%) CRM
12 58 (16.16%) Microsoft
12 58 (16.16%) REST
13 57 (15.88%) CSS
13 57 (15.88%) Dynamics 365
14 53 (14.76%) React
15 51 (14.21%) CI/CD
16 50 (13.93%) Business Intelligence
17 49 (13.65%) Power BI
18 48 (13.37%) AWS
19 46 (12.81%) Dynamics CRM
19 46 (12.81%) Git
20 45 (12.53%) Full-Stack Development
20 45 (12.53%) Python
21 43 (11.98%) Java
22 40 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
22 40 (11.14%) Migration
23 39 (10.86%) TypeScript

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (3.06%) CMS
2 7 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.67%) Appian
4 5 (1.39%) IIS
5 4 (1.11%) Confluence
6 3 (0.84%) Apache
6 3 (0.84%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.84%) WordPress
7 2 (0.56%) JBoss
7 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (12.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.84%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 3 (0.84%) Magento
4 3 (0.84%) Maximo
4 3 (0.84%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.84%) Shopify
5 2 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (30.08%) Azure
2 77 (21.45%) Power Platform
3 57 (15.88%) Dynamics 365
4 48 (13.37%) AWS
5 40 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (9.75%) PowerApps
7 30 (8.36%) Power Automate
8 29 (8.08%) SaaS
9 14 (3.90%) GCP
10 12 (3.34%) GitHub
10 12 (3.34%) Serverless
11 11 (3.06%) Snowflake
12 10 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.23%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.67%) AWS KMS
16 6 (1.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.39%) Internet
2 4 (1.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.84%) Intranet
4 1 (0.28%) 3G
4 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.28%) GPRS
4 1 (0.28%) GSM
4 1 (0.28%) Modbus
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) RS-232
4 1 (0.28%) RS-485
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
4 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.27%) SQL Server
2 49 (13.65%) Power BI
3 24 (6.69%) MySQL
4 21 (5.85%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (4.46%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (3.90%) Tableau
9 12 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (2.51%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (2.23%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.23%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.67%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
15 4 (1.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 46 (12.81%) Git
2 16 (4.46%) JUnit
3 14 (3.90%) Maven
3 14 (3.90%) Mockito
4 13 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.62%) JIRA
5 7 (1.95%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (1.67%) DbUnit
6 6 (1.67%) jMock
6 6 (1.67%) webpack
7 3 (0.84%) Babel
7 3 (0.84%) git-flow
7 3 (0.84%) GitLab
8 2 (0.56%) Gradle
8 2 (0.56%) JMeter
8 2 (0.56%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.56%) NUnit
8 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 91 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.04%) Finance
3 39 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.03%) Law
5 32 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 31 (8.64%) Retail
7 21 (5.85%) Marketing
8 11 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.95%) Electronics
11 5 (1.39%) Automotive
11 5 (1.39%) Multimedia
11 5 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Police
13 3 (0.84%) Legal
14 2 (0.56%) Back Office
14 2 (0.56%) Games
15 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.28%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (30.36%) .NET
2 66 (18.38%) HTML
3 58 (16.16%) REST
4 57 (15.88%) CSS
5 53 (14.76%) React
6 34 (9.47%) AngularJS
7 31 (8.64%) RESTful
8 29 (8.08%) Spring
9 26 (7.24%) .NET Framework
9 26 (7.24%) SOAP
10 24 (6.69%) Spring Boot
11 22 (6.13%) ASP.NET
12 18 (5.01%) JSON
13 17 (4.74%) Middleware
14 16 (4.46%) OAuth
14 16 (4.46%) Web Services
15 14 (3.90%) IBM Integration Bus
15 14 (3.90%) JMS
15 14 (3.90%) jQuery
15 14 (3.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.79%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.79%) Operational Technology
3 10 (2.79%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.95%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.11%) IoT
7 4 (1.11%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.84%) Animation
8 3 (0.84%) EPoS
8 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.84%) W3C
9 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.85%) Linux
2 4 (1.11%) Android
2 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.84%) Unix
3 3 (0.84%) Windows
3 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (33.98%) Agile
2 77 (21.45%) DevOps
3 75 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (16.43%) CRM
6 51 (14.21%) CI/CD
7 50 (13.93%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (12.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 40 (11.14%) Migration
10 37 (10.31%) Mentoring
10 37 (10.31%) Microservices
11 36 (10.03%) TDD
12 31 (8.64%) MVC
13 30 (8.36%) Clean Code
13 30 (8.36%) Front End Development
14 27 (7.52%) AI
14 27 (7.52%) Customer Experience
14 27 (7.52%) User Experience
15 25 (6.96%) Software Engineering
16 24 (6.69%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 134 (37.33%) C#
2 128 (35.65%) SQL
3 101 (28.13%) JavaScript
4 45 (12.53%) Python
5 43 (11.98%) Java
6 39 (10.86%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.52%) PHP
8 21 (5.85%) T-SQL
9 19 (5.29%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.95%) Apex Code
10 7 (1.95%) C++
10 7 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.67%) ABAP
11 6 (1.67%) Bicep
12 5 (1.39%) C
12 5 (1.39%) Delphi
12 5 (1.39%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.39%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.11%) Perl
13 4 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (9.75%) Degree
2 27 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.13%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.23%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.23%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.23%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.56%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) PhD
9 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.74%) QA
2 10 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) COBIT
5 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) MISRA
5 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (7.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.84%) Firmware
3 2 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.95%) Terraform
3 4 (1.11%) Grafana
3 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 58 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.57%) SAP
3 17 (4.74%) IBM
3 17 (4.74%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.62%) Databricks
5 10 (2.79%) Oracle
6 6 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.67%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.11%) UiPath
8 3 (0.84%) Infor
8 3 (0.84%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.84%) Splunk
9 2 (0.56%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.56%) Cognos
9 2 (0.56%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.56%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.56%) Pardot
9 2 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud