Developer Job Trends in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer salary in the Midlands is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 421 964 652
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.91% 12.22% 13.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.52% 13.11% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 362 632 547
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £65,188 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 6,461 7,353 4,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 93.19% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,019 3,645 3,672
10th Percentile £27,900 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,375 £37,500 £35,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% -1.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -23 261 £55,000 +6.54% 286
East Midlands -16 159 £49,500 -1.00% 231
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 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.

1 131 (31.12%) C#
2 121 (28.74%) Azure
2 121 (28.74%) SQL
3 109 (25.89%) .NET
4 102 (24.23%) Agile
5 96 (22.80%) JavaScript
6 79 (18.76%) Power Platform
7 72 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (17.10%) SQL Server
8 71 (16.86%) Microsoft
9 66 (15.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 63 (14.96%) DevOps
11 62 (14.73%) AWS
11 62 (14.73%) HTML
12 60 (14.25%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (13.54%) Python
14 56 (13.30%) Dynamics 365
15 55 (13.06%) CSS
16 54 (12.83%) Power BI
17 53 (12.59%) React
17 53 (12.59%) REST
18 52 (12.35%) CRM
19 50 (11.88%) CI/CD
20 48 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
21 42 (9.98%) Mentoring
22 39 (9.26%) Java
23 38 (9.03%) Git
23 38 (9.03%) MVC
23 38 (9.03%) TypeScript
24 37 (8.79%) PHP

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 13 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.61%) CMS
3 5 (1.19%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.95%) IIS
4 4 (0.95%) WordPress
5 3 (0.71%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Appian
6 2 (0.48%) JBoss
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 35 (8.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.43%) Maximo
4 3 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.71%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (28.74%) Azure
2 79 (18.76%) Power Platform
3 62 (14.73%) AWS
4 56 (13.30%) Dynamics 365
5 33 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (7.36%) PowerApps
7 29 (6.89%) Power Automate
8 24 (5.70%) SaaS
9 18 (4.28%) GitHub
10 16 (3.80%) Serverless
11 12 (2.85%) GCP
12 7 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (1.66%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.43%) Azure Functions
13 6 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.43%) Figma
13 6 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.19%) Azure AI
14 5 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.14%) Internet
2 5 (1.19%) Intranet
3 4 (0.95%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) 3G
4 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.24%) GPRS
4 1 (0.24%) GSM
4 1 (0.24%) Modbus
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.24%) RS-232
4 1 (0.24%) RS-485
4 1 (0.24%) SSL
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (17.10%) SQL Server
2 54 (12.83%) Power BI
3 22 (5.23%) MySQL
4 21 (4.99%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (2.61%) Tableau
8 10 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.19%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.95%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.95%) Power Query
13 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (9.03%) Git
2 12 (2.85%) JUnit
3 8 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.90%) JIRA
3 8 (1.90%) Mockito
4 7 (1.66%) Maven
5 5 (1.19%) GitLab
6 4 (0.95%) webpack
7 3 (0.71%) Babel
7 3 (0.71%) git-flow
7 3 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.48%) Gradle
8 2 (0.48%) JMeter
8 2 (0.48%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.48%) NUnit
8 2 (0.48%) Selenium
8 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 80 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (8.55%) Finance
3 35 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.89%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.94%) Law
6 21 (4.99%) Retail
7 17 (4.04%) Marketing
8 10 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.14%) Multimedia
10 8 (1.90%) Games
11 7 (1.66%) Automotive
12 5 (1.19%) Electronics
12 5 (1.19%) Police
13 4 (0.95%) Legal
14 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.48%) Back Office
15 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.24%) Banking
16 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (25.89%) .NET
2 62 (14.73%) HTML
3 55 (13.06%) CSS
4 53 (12.59%) React
4 53 (12.59%) REST
5 29 (6.89%) AngularJS
6 25 (5.94%) ASP.NET
7 24 (5.70%) .NET Core
8 22 (5.23%) Spring
9 21 (4.99%) .NET Framework
10 19 (4.51%) ASP.NET MVC
10 19 (4.51%) Laravel
10 19 (4.51%) RESTful
11 18 (4.28%) JSON
12 17 (4.04%) Spring Boot
13 16 (3.80%) XML
14 15 (3.56%) SOAP
15 14 (3.33%) Node.js
16 13 (3.09%) Razor View Engine
16 13 (3.09%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (3.56%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 8 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.66%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.43%) 3D Graphics
9 5 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.71%) IoT
10 3 (0.71%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.71%) W3C
11 2 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.33%) Linux
2 5 (1.19%) Windows
3 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.48%) Android
4 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (24.23%) Agile
2 72 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (15.68%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (14.96%) DevOps
5 60 (14.25%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (12.35%) CRM
7 50 (11.88%) CI/CD
8 48 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (9.98%) Mentoring
10 38 (9.03%) MVC
11 34 (8.08%) Migration
11 34 (8.08%) Software Engineering
12 29 (6.89%) Web Development
13 28 (6.65%) Microservices
13 28 (6.65%) TDD
14 27 (6.41%) Customer Experience
15 26 (6.18%) AI
16 24 (5.70%) Clean Code
17 22 (5.23%) User Experience
18 20 (4.75%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 131 (31.12%) C#
2 121 (28.74%) SQL
3 96 (22.80%) JavaScript
4 57 (13.54%) Python
5 39 (9.26%) Java
6 38 (9.03%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.79%) PHP
8 20 (4.75%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.75%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.90%) C
10 8 (1.90%) Delphi
11 7 (1.66%) ABAP
11 7 (1.66%) C++
12 4 (0.95%) Bicep
12 4 (0.95%) Perl
12 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.95%) R
12 4 (0.95%) Rust
12 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (5.46%) Degree
2 17 (4.04%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.85%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.71%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.14%) QA
3 5 (1.19%) GDPR
4 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.95%) WCAG
5 1 (0.24%) COBIT
5 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) MISRA
System Software
1 16 (3.80%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Firmware
3 2 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.95%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Grafana
3 2 (0.48%) Kibana
4 1 (0.24%) Nagios
4 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.28%) IBM
3 17 (4.04%) Oracle
3 17 (4.04%) SAP
4 9 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.90%) Databricks
6 4 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.95%) UiPath
7 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.71%) Zend
7 3 (0.71%) Zoho
8 2 (0.48%) Adobe
8 2 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.48%) Cognos
8 2 (0.48%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.48%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.48%) JDA
8 2 (0.48%) Pardot
8 2 (0.48%) Splunk
9 1 (0.24%) Dell