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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 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 617 545 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.23% 10.41% 14.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.80% 11.33% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 512 411 1,226
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 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,875 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -10.77%

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 9,077 4,812 9,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 91.90% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,618 2,682 7,292
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 12 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 12 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 -19 339 £50,000 -13.04% 133
East Midlands +4 276 £50,000 -0.99% 97
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 156 (25.28%) C#
2 151 (24.47%) .NET
3 147 (23.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 134 (21.72%) SQL
5 133 (21.56%) Azure
6 117 (18.96%) JavaScript
7 91 (14.75%) AWS
8 86 (13.94%) Power Platform
9 85 (13.78%) Agile
10 81 (13.13%) Microsoft
10 81 (13.13%) React
11 75 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
12 73 (11.83%) HTML
13 72 (11.67%) Python
14 70 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (11.18%) Power BI
16 68 (11.02%) SQL Server
17 66 (10.70%) PHP
18 64 (10.37%) CSS
19 49 (7.94%) .NET Core
19 49 (7.94%) DevOps
20 44 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
20 44 (7.13%) Software Engineering
21 43 (6.97%) CRM
21 43 (6.97%) Node.js
22 40 (6.48%) Mentoring
23 39 (6.32%) Git
24 38 (6.16%) REST
25 37 (6.00%) CI/CD
26 36 (5.83%) AI

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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.30%) CMS
2 8 (1.30%) Umbraco
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.81%) WordPress
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) Appian
5 2 (0.32%) IIS
5 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) CICS
6 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.13%) Maximo
2 7 (1.13%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (21.56%) Azure
2 91 (14.75%) AWS
3 86 (13.94%) Power Platform
4 44 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
5 31 (5.02%) Serverless
6 29 (4.70%) PowerApps
7 28 (4.54%) SaaS
8 26 (4.21%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.57%) GitHub
11 21 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (0.65%) Figma
15 4 (0.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.59%) Internet
2 4 (0.65%) Intranet
2 4 (0.65%) SSL
3 2 (0.32%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) 3G
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) GPRS
4 1 (0.16%) GSM
4 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.16%) Modbus
4 1 (0.16%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.16%) RS-232
4 1 (0.16%) RS-485
4 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.18%) Power BI
2 68 (11.02%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (2.43%) MySQL
5 15 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 12 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.46%) Power Query
9 8 (1.30%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.30%) Tableau
10 7 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.81%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.49%) Redis
13 3 (0.49%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.32%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 39 (6.32%) Git
2 11 (1.78%) JUnit
3 9 (1.46%) Maven
3 9 (1.46%) Mockito
4 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.49%) GitLab
6 3 (0.49%) JIRA
6 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.32%) git-flow
7 2 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.32%) webpack
7 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.16%) Babel
8 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.16%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (10.21%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.91%) Finance
3 40 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.38%) Public Sector
5 18 (2.92%) Law
6 15 (2.43%) Manufacturing
6 15 (2.43%) Multimedia
7 12 (1.94%) Marketing
8 9 (1.46%) Games
8 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.46%) Retail
9 6 (0.97%) Legal
10 5 (0.81%) Police
11 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.32%) Automotive
13 1 (0.16%) Advertising
13 1 (0.16%) Banking
13 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Electronics
13 1 (0.16%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (24.47%) .NET
2 81 (13.13%) React
3 73 (11.83%) HTML
4 64 (10.37%) CSS
5 49 (7.94%) .NET Core
6 43 (6.97%) Node.js
7 38 (6.16%) REST
8 28 (4.54%) AngularJS
9 26 (4.21%) Laravel
10 22 (3.57%) ASP.NET
11 21 (3.40%) .NET Framework
12 17 (2.76%) XML
13 14 (2.27%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (2.11%) RESTful
15 12 (1.94%) Blazor
15 12 (1.94%) WinForms
16 11 (1.78%) Spring
17 10 (1.62%) JSON
18 9 (1.46%) React Native
18 9 (1.46%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.02%) Mobile App
2 19 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.30%) PropTech
7 7 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.97%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.81%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (0.65%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.65%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.32%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.32%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.32%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.78%) Android
2 10 (1.62%) Linux
3 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.65%) Windows
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (23.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (13.78%) Agile
3 75 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
4 70 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (7.94%) DevOps
6 44 (7.13%) Software Engineering
7 43 (6.97%) CRM
8 40 (6.48%) Mentoring
9 37 (6.00%) CI/CD
10 36 (5.83%) AI
10 36 (5.83%) MVC
11 31 (5.02%) Analytics
11 31 (5.02%) API Development
11 31 (5.02%) Computer Science
11 31 (5.02%) SDLC
12 30 (4.86%) User Experience
13 27 (4.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (4.38%) Web Development
14 23 (3.73%) Decision-Making
15 22 (3.57%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 156 (25.28%) C#
2 134 (21.72%) SQL
3 117 (18.96%) JavaScript
4 72 (11.67%) Python
5 66 (10.70%) PHP
6 35 (5.67%) Java
6 35 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.27%) Delphi
8 13 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.78%) C
10 9 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.13%) Bash
12 7 (1.13%) C++
12 7 (1.13%) Rust
13 5 (0.81%) Go
13 5 (0.81%) R
13 5 (0.81%) VBA
14 4 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (5.19%) Degree
2 19 (3.08%) Azure Certification
2 19 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (2.76%) AWS Certification
3 17 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 17 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (1.62%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.30%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.49%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.16%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.11%) QA
2 9 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.81%) WCAG
5 2 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) MISRA
6 1 (0.16%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (2.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Firmware
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.49%) Nagios
2 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 81 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.86%) Oracle
3 12 (1.94%) IBM
4 8 (1.30%) SAP
4 8 (1.30%) Xamarin
5 7 (1.13%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.13%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.65%) Apple
7 3 (0.49%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.49%) Zend
7 3 (0.49%) Zoho
8 2 (0.32%) JDA
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe
9 1 (0.16%) Cognos
9 1 (0.16%) Databricks
9 1 (0.16%) Facebook
9 1 (0.16%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.16%) Infor
9 1 (0.16%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.16%) Workday