Developer Job Trends 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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 911 458 1,822
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.95% 8.23% 13.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.34% 9.05% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 726 373 1,546
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £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 12,411 5,059 12,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 90.91% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,640 3,170 8,788
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £32,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,043 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.46% +3.85% -11.67%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -1 505 £60,000 +5.73% 94
East Midlands +25 405 £50,000 -4.76% 72
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 272 (29.86%) C#
2 238 (26.13%) .NET
3 236 (25.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 208 (22.83%) Azure
5 199 (21.84%) SQL
6 159 (17.45%) Microsoft
7 138 (15.15%) Agile
8 107 (11.75%) JavaScript
8 107 (11.75%) Power Platform
9 105 (11.53%) .NET Core
10 94 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (9.77%) AWS
12 85 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
13 82 (9.00%) React
14 81 (8.89%) PHP
15 80 (8.78%) AI
16 78 (8.56%) ASP.NET
17 77 (8.45%) DevOps
18 74 (8.12%) HTML
18 74 (8.12%) Python
19 73 (8.01%) CI/CD
20 72 (7.90%) CSS
21 71 (7.79%) Power BI
22 69 (7.57%) ASP.NET Core
23 67 (7.35%) Node.js
24 66 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
25 60 (6.59%) SQL Server
26 54 (5.93%) Power Automate
27 53 (5.82%) Analytics
27 53 (5.82%) TypeScript

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 17 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.55%) Documentum
4 4 (0.44%) Apache
4 4 (0.44%) CMS
5 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.22%) WordPress
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 11 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle CRM
6 2 (0.22%) Magento
6 2 (0.22%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 208 (22.83%) Azure
2 107 (11.75%) Power Platform
3 89 (9.77%) AWS
4 54 (5.93%) Power Automate
5 50 (5.49%) PowerApps
6 44 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (2.63%) SaaS
9 23 (2.52%) Serverless
10 22 (2.41%) GitHub
10 22 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 12 (1.32%) Azure AI
16 10 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (1.10%) Copilot Studio
17 9 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.76%) Internet
2 4 (0.44%) SSL
3 3 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.33%) Network Security
4 2 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.11%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Intranet
5 1 (0.11%) RTP
5 1 (0.11%) RTSP
5 1 (0.11%) SCTP
5 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.11%) SS7
5 1 (0.11%) UWB
5 1 (0.11%) VoIP
5 1 (0.11%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.79%) Power BI
2 66 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 52 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 25 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (2.31%) MySQL
7 17 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.77%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.44%) Power Query
15 3 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.33%) Redis
15 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (3.07%) Git
2 8 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (0.66%) JUnit
3 6 (0.66%) Maven
3 6 (0.66%) Mockito
4 4 (0.44%) XCUITest
5 3 (0.33%) JIRA
5 3 (0.33%) Subversion
5 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) gulp
7 1 (0.11%) NUnit
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.11%) Vite
7 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 129 (14.16%) Finance
2 81 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 37 (4.06%) Manufacturing
4 27 (2.96%) Law
5 24 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.52%) Retail
7 17 (1.87%) Legal
8 16 (1.76%) Banking
9 13 (1.43%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.21%) Advertising
10 11 (1.21%) Marketing
11 10 (1.10%) Games
12 9 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.66%) iGaming
14 4 (0.44%) Automotive
14 4 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.33%) Multimedia
16 2 (0.22%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.22%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (26.13%) .NET
2 105 (11.53%) .NET Core
3 82 (9.00%) React
4 78 (8.56%) ASP.NET
5 74 (8.12%) HTML
6 72 (7.90%) CSS
7 69 (7.57%) ASP.NET Core
8 67 (7.35%) Node.js
9 48 (5.27%) REST
10 47 (5.16%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.16%) Blazor
11 34 (3.73%) Entity Framework
11 34 (3.73%) RESTful
12 33 (3.62%) ASP.NET Web API
13 31 (3.40%) Laravel
14 27 (2.96%) Vue
15 26 (2.85%) LINQ
16 19 (2.09%) .NET Framework
17 15 (1.65%) Hugging Face
18 14 (1.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (2.96%) Mobile App
4 25 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.21%) AS400
6 11 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (1.21%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 8 (0.88%) e-Learning
8 8 (0.88%) PropTech
9 7 (0.77%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.66%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.55%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.55%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.44%) iSeries
12 4 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.87%) Linux
2 8 (0.88%) Android
2 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
2 8 (0.88%) Windows
3 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.11%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (25.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 138 (15.15%) Agile
3 94 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
5 80 (8.78%) AI
6 77 (8.45%) DevOps
7 73 (8.01%) CI/CD
8 53 (5.82%) Analytics
9 52 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (5.71%) Software Engineering
10 49 (5.38%) Mentoring
11 42 (4.61%) Logistics
11 42 (4.61%) Microservices
12 41 (4.50%) Machine Learning
13 33 (3.62%) Computer Science
13 33 (3.62%) CRM
14 32 (3.51%) Roadmaps
14 32 (3.51%) SDLC
15 31 (3.40%) E-Commerce
16 30 (3.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 272 (29.86%) C#
2 199 (21.84%) SQL
3 107 (11.75%) JavaScript
4 81 (8.89%) PHP
5 74 (8.12%) Python
6 53 (5.82%) TypeScript
7 38 (4.17%) Java
8 22 (2.41%) C++
9 18 (1.98%) Go
10 14 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.21%) RPG
12 9 (0.99%) ABAP
12 9 (0.99%) Delphi
12 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.88%) Rust
14 7 (0.77%) Bash
14 7 (0.77%) Swift
15 6 (0.66%) RPG IV
16 5 (0.55%) RPG III
16 5 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (3.07%) Degree
2 27 (2.96%) Security Cleared
3 24 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 17 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.44%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 13 (1.43%) QA
3 6 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 33 (3.62%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.22%) Nagios
3 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.22%) Terraform
4 1 (0.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 159 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.51%) Oracle
3 25 (2.74%) IBM
4 18 (1.98%) SAP
5 13 (1.43%) Cognos
5 13 (1.43%) Epicor
6 12 (1.32%) Workday
7 11 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.10%) Facebook
9 8 (0.88%) Foundry
9 8 (0.88%) iManage
9 8 (0.88%) Xamarin
10 7 (0.77%) Apple
10 7 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.55%) Google
11 5 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.55%) OpenText
11 5 (0.55%) YouTube
12 4 (0.44%) Zoho
13 3 (0.33%) Databricks