Developer Job Trends in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer salary in the Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -15 -6 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 659 497 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.26% 10.27% 14.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 11.34% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 549 413 1,285
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 9,661 4,382 9,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.56% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,009 2,709 7,656
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,522 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 26 March 2026.

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 26 March 2026. 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 -17 359 £50,000 -13.04% 114
East Midlands +3 298 £52,500 +5.00% 100
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 2026, 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.

1 165 (25.04%) C#
2 157 (23.82%) .NET
3 150 (22.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 145 (22.00%) Azure
5 135 (20.49%) SQL
6 120 (18.21%) JavaScript
7 93 (14.11%) AWS
8 88 (13.35%) Power Platform
9 85 (12.90%) Agile
9 85 (12.90%) Microsoft
10 83 (12.59%) React
11 76 (11.53%) HTML
12 75 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
12 75 (11.38%) PHP
13 74 (11.23%) Python
14 70 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (10.47%) Power BI
16 68 (10.32%) CSS
16 68 (10.32%) SQL Server
17 52 (7.89%) DevOps
18 51 (7.74%) .NET Core
19 45 (6.83%) Node.js
20 44 (6.68%) Dynamics 365
21 43 (6.53%) Software Engineering
22 42 (6.37%) Mentoring
23 41 (6.22%) CI/CD
23 41 (6.22%) CRM
23 41 (6.22%) Git
24 37 (5.61%) AI
24 37 (5.61%) MVC

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 19 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.21%) Umbraco
3 6 (0.91%) CMS
3 6 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.61%) WordPress
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) Appian
5 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.15%) CICS
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.91%) Maximo
4 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (22.00%) Azure
2 93 (14.11%) AWS
3 88 (13.35%) Power Platform
4 44 (6.68%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (4.86%) PowerApps
5 32 (4.86%) Serverless
6 29 (4.40%) Power Automate
6 29 (4.40%) SaaS
7 24 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 24 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (3.34%) GitHub
9 10 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.76%) GCP
12 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.61%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.28%) Internet
2 4 (0.61%) Intranet
2 4 (0.61%) SSL
3 2 (0.30%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) 3G
4 1 (0.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.15%) GPRS
4 1 (0.15%) GSM
4 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.15%) Modbus
4 1 (0.15%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.15%) RS-232
4 1 (0.15%) RS-485
4 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (10.47%) Power BI
2 68 (10.32%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 22 (3.34%) MySQL
5 18 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (2.43%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.37%) Power Query
10 8 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.91%) Tableau
12 5 (0.76%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.61%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.46%) Redis
14 3 (0.46%) TimescaleDB
15 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 41 (6.22%) Git
2 11 (1.67%) JUnit
3 9 (1.37%) Maven
3 9 (1.37%) Mockito
4 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.61%) XCUITest
7 3 (0.46%) GitLab
7 3 (0.46%) JIRA
8 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.30%) webpack
9 1 (0.15%) Babel
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) git-flow
9 1 (0.15%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (9.56%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.80%) Finance
3 41 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (4.25%) Public Sector
5 19 (2.88%) Law
6 14 (2.12%) Multimedia
7 13 (1.97%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.82%) Marketing
9 11 (1.67%) Games
10 10 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.21%) Retail
12 6 (0.91%) Legal
13 5 (0.76%) Police
14 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.30%) Automotive
15 2 (0.30%) Electronics
16 1 (0.15%) Advertising
16 1 (0.15%) Banking
16 1 (0.15%) Billing
16 1 (0.15%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (23.82%) .NET
2 83 (12.59%) React
3 76 (11.53%) HTML
4 68 (10.32%) CSS
5 51 (7.74%) .NET Core
6 45 (6.83%) Node.js
7 34 (5.16%) REST
8 30 (4.55%) Laravel
9 27 (4.10%) AngularJS
10 22 (3.34%) ASP.NET
11 20 (3.03%) .NET Framework
12 18 (2.73%) XML
13 17 (2.58%) RESTful
14 14 (2.12%) WinForms
15 13 (1.97%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (1.67%) Blazor
16 11 (1.67%) jQuery
16 11 (1.67%) Spring
17 9 (1.37%) React Native
17 9 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.61%) Mobile App
2 24 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.52%) PropTech
8 8 (1.21%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.91%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 5 (0.76%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.46%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.30%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.30%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.30%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.67%) Android
1 11 (1.67%) Linux
2 8 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.76%) Windows
4 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (22.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (12.90%) Agile
3 75 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
4 70 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (7.89%) DevOps
6 43 (6.53%) Software Engineering
7 42 (6.37%) Mentoring
8 41 (6.22%) CI/CD
8 41 (6.22%) CRM
9 37 (5.61%) AI
9 37 (5.61%) MVC
10 33 (5.01%) SDLC
10 33 (5.01%) User Experience
11 31 (4.70%) Analytics
11 31 (4.70%) API Development
11 31 (4.70%) Computer Science
11 31 (4.70%) Web Development
12 25 (3.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (3.49%) Data Modelling
13 23 (3.49%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 165 (25.04%) C#
2 135 (20.49%) SQL
3 120 (18.21%) JavaScript
4 75 (11.38%) PHP
5 74 (11.23%) Python
6 34 (5.16%) Java
6 34 (5.16%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.12%) Delphi
7 14 (2.12%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.82%) C
9 10 (1.52%) C++
10 8 (1.21%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.21%) Rust
11 7 (1.06%) Bash
11 7 (1.06%) Swift
12 6 (0.91%) Go
12 6 (0.91%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.76%) R
13 5 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (4.86%) Degree
2 20 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (2.88%) Azure Certification
4 17 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (2.43%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 10 (1.52%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.21%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.30%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.82%) QA
2 9 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.76%) WCAG
5 1 (0.15%) GDPR
5 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.15%) MISRA
5 1 (0.15%) NCSC
5 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (2.88%) Docker
2 4 (0.61%) Firmware
3 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.46%) Nagios
2 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 85 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.86%) Oracle
3 11 (1.67%) IBM
4 10 (1.52%) Xamarin
5 7 (1.06%) Apple
5 7 (1.06%) SAP
5 7 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 5 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.46%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.46%) Zend
7 3 (0.46%) Zoho
8 2 (0.30%) Cognos
8 2 (0.30%) Databricks
8 2 (0.30%) JDA
8 2 (0.30%) Workday
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe
9 1 (0.15%) Facebook
9 1 (0.15%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.15%) Talend