Developer Jobs 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 24 June 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 444 2,018 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.65% 14.18% 11.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.24% 15.05% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 363 1,720 728
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 6,135 13,411 7,554
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 94.26% 89.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,855 9,468 4,495
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 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 24 June 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 -17 303 £55,000 +10.00% 458
East Midlands -46 138 £52,500 +5.00% 344
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Developer 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 Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 180 (40.54%) C#
2 159 (35.81%) SQL
3 151 (34.01%) .NET
4 138 (31.08%) Azure
5 137 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
6 125 (28.15%) Agile
7 124 (27.93%) JavaScript
8 112 (25.23%) Social Skills
9 95 (21.40%) SQL Server
10 90 (20.27%) Power Platform
11 89 (20.05%) HTML
12 79 (17.79%) Java
13 78 (17.57%) React
14 77 (17.34%) Microsoft
15 74 (16.67%) CSS
16 70 (15.77%) Business Intelligence
17 68 (15.32%) Power BI
18 66 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
19 65 (14.64%) Finance
20 63 (14.19%) Front End Development
21 62 (13.96%) DevOps
21 62 (13.96%) Git
22 60 (13.51%) AWS
23 59 (13.29%) Degree
24 58 (13.06%) Law
25 51 (11.49%) CRM
25 51 (11.49%) CI/CD
26 47 (10.59%) PowerApps
27 46 (10.36%) Docker
28 44 (9.91%) AngularJS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 20 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.83%) OpenEdge
3 16 (3.60%) CMS
4 9 (2.03%) WordPress
5 7 (1.58%) Confluence
6 5 (1.13%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.90%) Appian
8 3 (0.68%) IIS
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.45%) Strapi
9 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.23%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.35%) Revit
3 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Moqups
5 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (7.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (3.83%) Shopify
3 9 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.80%) Magento
4 8 (1.80%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.58%) Infor CloudSuite
5 7 (1.58%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 6 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (31.08%) Azure
2 90 (20.27%) Power Platform
3 60 (13.51%) AWS
4 47 (10.59%) PowerApps
5 44 (9.91%) Power Automate
6 43 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
7 37 (8.33%) SaaS
8 29 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.15%) GitHub
10 13 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.93%) Serverless
11 12 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.25%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (2.25%) GCP
13 10 (2.25%) IaaS
13 10 (2.25%) PaaS
14 8 (1.80%) BigCommerce
15 7 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.80%) HTTP
2 2 (0.45%) 3GPP
2 2 (0.45%) 5G
3 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (21.40%) SQL Server
2 68 (15.32%) Power BI
3 35 (7.88%) MySQL
4 26 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 23 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (5.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.48%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.25%) Star Schema
10 9 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.80%) Power Query
12 7 (1.58%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.58%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.35%) FileMaker
14 5 (1.13%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (13.96%) Git
2 25 (5.63%) JUnit
3 21 (4.73%) Mockito
4 16 (3.60%) JIRA
5 12 (2.70%) Visual Studio
6 11 (2.48%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 10 (2.25%) Eclipse
7 10 (2.25%) IntelliJ
7 10 (2.25%) Jasmine
7 10 (2.25%) Karma Test Runner
7 10 (2.25%) Protractor
7 10 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.03%) Maven
9 6 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (1.35%) DbUnit
9 6 (1.35%) jMock
9 6 (1.35%) NUnit
10 5 (1.13%) GitLab
11 4 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 112 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.64%) Finance
3 58 (13.06%) Law
4 35 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.63%) Retail
6 20 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.50%) Police
7 17 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.70%) Marketing
9 11 (2.48%) Automotive
10 9 (2.03%) Games
11 8 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.13%) Electronics
13 3 (0.68%) Publishing
13 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.45%) Back Office
14 2 (0.45%) Banking
14 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (34.01%) .NET
2 89 (20.05%) HTML
3 78 (17.57%) React
4 74 (16.67%) CSS
5 44 (9.91%) AngularJS
6 41 (9.23%) ASP.NET
7 36 (8.11%) REST
8 34 (7.66%) RESTful
9 30 (6.76%) Web Services
10 28 (6.31%) .NET Core
11 26 (5.86%) Spring
12 25 (5.63%) .NET Framework
13 24 (5.41%) JPA
13 24 (5.41%) Node.js
14 23 (5.18%) Blazor
15 22 (4.95%) jQuery
15 22 (4.95%) Spring Boot
16 21 (4.73%) Hibernate
17 20 (4.50%) ASP.NET MVC
18 18 (4.05%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.05%) Mobile App
2 17 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 11 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.03%) EPoS
6 9 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 6 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.68%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.68%) IoT
12 3 (0.68%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.11%) Linux
2 13 (2.93%) Android
3 8 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.13%) Rocky
5 3 (0.68%) Unix
6 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
2 125 (28.15%) Agile
3 70 (15.77%) Business Intelligence
4 66 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (14.19%) Front End Development
6 62 (13.96%) DevOps
7 51 (11.49%) CI/CD
7 51 (11.49%) CRM
8 42 (9.46%) Microservices
8 42 (9.46%) MVC
8 42 (9.46%) SDLC
9 41 (9.23%) User Experience
10 39 (8.78%) Computer Science
11 37 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (8.33%) OO
12 34 (7.66%) Analytics
13 33 (7.43%) Clean Code
14 32 (7.21%) Containerisation
15 31 (6.98%) Software Engineering
15 31 (6.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 180 (40.54%) C#
2 159 (35.81%) SQL
3 124 (27.93%) JavaScript
4 79 (17.79%) Java
5 41 (9.23%) Python
6 37 (8.33%) PHP
7 35 (7.88%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.53%) T-SQL
9 17 (3.83%) C++
10 14 (3.15%) Delphi
11 10 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (2.25%) VB.NET
12 9 (2.03%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.58%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.35%) Go
14 6 (1.35%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.13%) Rust
16 4 (0.90%) XAML
17 3 (0.68%) Bicep
17 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (13.29%) Degree
2 37 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (6.53%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.60%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.48%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.68%) PhD
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.56%) QA
2 17 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (10.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) LXC
3 2 (0.45%) Postfix
3 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.25%) Terraform
3 7 (1.58%) Grafana
3 7 (1.58%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.68%) Ansible
5 2 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 77 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.73%) Oracle
3 17 (3.83%) IBM
3 17 (3.83%) Progress
4 12 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.48%) Databricks
5 11 (2.48%) SAP
6 10 (2.25%) Google
7 7 (1.58%) Infor
8 6 (1.35%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.35%) WooCommerce
9 5 (1.13%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.90%) Adobe
10 4 (0.90%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.90%) Okta
11 3 (0.68%) PayPal
11 3 (0.68%) Splunk
11 3 (0.68%) Xamarin
12 2 (0.45%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.45%) Kofax