Junior Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Junior Developer
England > Midlands

The median Junior Developer salary in the Midlands is £30,438 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 274 270
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 14 60 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10 55 29
10th Percentile £25,100 £22,750 £22,350
25th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,438 £27,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.68% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £35,063 £33,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £40,250 £43,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

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 6,215 13,141 7,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 94.28% 89.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,003 9,187 4,512
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,256 £34,500 £37,875
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 £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the Midlands

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in the Midlands

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in the Midlands

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
East Midlands +31 10 £27,938 +1.59% 12
West Midlands +34 4 £32,750 +0.77% 6
Junior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Law
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) REST
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Power BI
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Git
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 2 (14.29%) Linux
5 2 (14.29%) FileMaker
5 2 (14.29%) ERP
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) HTML5
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science

Junior 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 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Sage Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) FileMaker
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) NUnit
General
1 4 (28.57%) Law
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) iGaming
3 1 (7.14%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (7.14%) Django
5 1 (7.14%) Flask
5 1 (7.14%) GWT
5 1 (7.14%) JPA
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) Material Design
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) Pixi.js
5 1 (7.14%) React
5 1 (7.14%) Vaadin
5 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Content Management
4 1 (7.14%) OWASP
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
4 1 (7.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat