Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer salary in the Midlands is £53,688 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 466 1,572 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.59% 13.20% 11.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.15% 13.98% 12.51%
Number of salaries quoted 387 1,395 719
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +5.69%

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 6,520 11,242 8,195
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.38% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,801 8,341 4,592
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -17 319 £55,000 +8.91% 217
East Midlands -50 144 £50,750 +1.50% 131
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 195 (41.85%) C#
2 164 (35.19%) SQL
3 159 (34.12%) .NET
3 159 (34.12%) Azure
4 145 (31.12%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (26.82%) JavaScript
6 116 (24.89%) Social Skills
7 113 (24.25%) Agile
8 101 (21.67%) HTML
9 100 (21.46%) SQL Server
10 95 (20.39%) Power Platform
11 88 (18.88%) Microsoft
12 86 (18.45%) CSS
13 81 (17.38%) React
14 79 (16.95%) Java
15 75 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
16 73 (15.67%) Business Intelligence
17 67 (14.38%) Power BI
18 63 (13.52%) Law
18 63 (13.52%) Git
19 62 (13.30%) AWS
20 61 (13.09%) Degree
21 60 (12.88%) Front End Development
22 57 (12.23%) DevOps
23 52 (11.16%) MVC
24 48 (10.30%) Dynamics 365
24 48 (10.30%) CI/CD
25 47 (10.09%) PowerApps
25 47 (10.09%) AngularJS
25 47 (10.09%) Finance

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 22 (4.72%) CMS
1 22 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.51%) OpenEdge
3 15 (3.22%) WordPress
4 7 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.07%) Confluence
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.64%) Strapi
7 2 (0.43%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.21%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.50%) Revit
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Moqups
4 1 (0.21%) Sketch
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (4.29%) Shopify
2 18 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.29%) Infor CloudSuite
3 6 (1.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 6 (1.29%) Magento
3 6 (1.29%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 159 (34.12%) Azure
2 95 (20.39%) Power Platform
3 62 (13.30%) AWS
4 48 (10.30%) Dynamics 365
5 47 (10.09%) PowerApps
6 44 (9.44%) Power Automate
7 38 (8.15%) SaaS
8 30 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (4.51%) GitHub
9 21 (4.51%) Serverless
10 18 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (2.58%) Azure Functions
13 11 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.36%) Slack
13 11 (2.36%) Zapier
14 10 (2.15%) PaaS
15 9 (1.93%) IaaS
16 8 (1.72%) Amazon S3
17 7 (1.50%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.86%) 3GPP
1 4 (0.86%) 5G
1 4 (0.86%) HTTP
1 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.64%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
3 1 (0.21%) Intranet
3 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (21.46%) SQL Server
2 67 (14.38%) Power BI
3 43 (9.23%) MySQL
4 25 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 22 (4.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.36%) Power Query
11 10 (2.15%) Star Schema
12 8 (1.72%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.50%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.29%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.29%) Oracle Database
15 5 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.07%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.07%) MS Access
15 5 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.86%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 63 (13.52%) Git
2 25 (5.36%) JUnit
3 22 (4.72%) Visual Studio
4 21 (4.51%) Mockito
5 18 (3.86%) JIRA
6 16 (3.43%) Eclipse
6 16 (3.43%) IntelliJ
6 16 (3.43%) Jasmine
6 16 (3.43%) Karma Test Runner
6 16 (3.43%) Protractor
7 10 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (1.50%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.29%) GitLab
9 6 (1.29%) NUnit
10 5 (1.07%) Jenkins
11 4 (0.86%) Maven
11 4 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.64%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.64%) Subversion
12 3 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 116 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.52%) Law
3 47 (10.09%) Finance
4 30 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.51%) Police
6 19 (4.08%) Retail
7 14 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.79%) Games
9 10 (2.15%) Automotive
9 10 (2.15%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.86%) Back Office
13 4 (0.86%) Marketing
14 3 (0.64%) Advertising
14 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Publishing
15 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (34.12%) .NET
2 101 (21.67%) HTML
3 86 (18.45%) CSS
4 81 (17.38%) React
5 47 (10.09%) AngularJS
6 46 (9.87%) ASP.NET
7 34 (7.30%) .NET Core
8 32 (6.87%) RESTful
9 28 (6.01%) REST
10 27 (5.79%) .NET Framework
10 27 (5.79%) Node.js
10 27 (5.79%) Web Services
11 26 (5.58%) JPA
12 25 (5.36%) jQuery
13 23 (4.94%) ASP.NET MVC
13 23 (4.94%) Blazor
14 22 (4.72%) Laravel
15 21 (4.51%) Hibernate
15 21 (4.51%) JSON
16 19 (4.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.36%) Mobile App
2 18 (3.86%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.93%) EPoS
5 9 (1.93%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.50%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.07%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.86%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.64%) CMDB
10 3 (0.64%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.64%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.30%) Linux
2 18 (3.86%) Android
3 12 (2.58%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.07%) Rocky
4 5 (1.07%) Windows
5 2 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (31.12%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (24.25%) Agile
3 75 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 73 (15.67%) Business Intelligence
5 60 (12.88%) Front End Development
6 57 (12.23%) DevOps
7 52 (11.16%) MVC
8 48 (10.30%) CI/CD
9 42 (9.01%) Unit Testing
10 41 (8.80%) Software Engineering
11 40 (8.58%) Computer Science
11 40 (8.58%) SDLC
12 39 (8.37%) User Experience
13 38 (8.15%) Microservices
14 37 (7.94%) OO
15 35 (7.51%) Analytics
16 34 (7.30%) Web Development
17 33 (7.08%) E-Commerce
18 32 (6.87%) Containerisation
18 32 (6.87%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 195 (41.85%) C#
2 164 (35.19%) SQL
3 125 (26.82%) JavaScript
4 79 (16.95%) Java
5 47 (10.09%) PHP
6 46 (9.87%) Python
7 38 (8.15%) TypeScript
8 25 (5.36%) T-SQL
9 17 (3.65%) C++
10 14 (3.00%) Delphi
11 13 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.58%) X++
13 11 (2.36%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.93%) VB.NET
15 6 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.29%) XAML
16 5 (1.07%) Go
17 4 (0.86%) VB
18 3 (0.64%) Rust
19 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 61 (13.09%) Degree
2 35 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.51%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.36%) DBS Check
5 9 (1.93%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.43%) HND
9 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.43%) PhD
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.51%) QA
2 14 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.86%) NCSC
5 3 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (9.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) LXC
3 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.29%) Grafana
2 6 (1.29%) Prometheus
2 6 (1.29%) Terraform
3 3 (0.64%) Ansible
4 2 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 88 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.36%) Oracle
3 21 (4.51%) Progress
4 20 (4.29%) IBM
5 12 (2.58%) WooCommerce
6 11 (2.36%) SAP
7 9 (1.93%) Google
7 9 (1.93%) Xamarin
8 8 (1.72%) Databricks
9 6 (1.29%) Infor
10 5 (1.07%) Adobe
10 5 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.86%) Okta
12 3 (0.64%) Borland
12 3 (0.64%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.64%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.43%) Blue Prism
13 2 (0.43%) Kofax
13 2 (0.43%) PayPal
13 2 (0.43%) Zoho