Junior Software Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Junior Software Developer
England > Midlands

The median Junior Software Developer salary in the Midlands is £136,688 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 320 311
Rank change year-on-year +81 -9 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Software Developer 4 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.058% 0.043% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.045% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £48,856 £24,900 £30,500
25th Percentile £81,547 £26,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £136,688 £27,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +397.05% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £191,172 £33,750 £43,125
90th Percentile £223,469 £36,000 £46,500
England median annual salary £31,188 £32,500 £34,324
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.31% +5.61%

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 6,335 11,010 8,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 94.31% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,843 8,239 4,748
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Junior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Software Developer in the Midlands

Junior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Junior Software Developer in the Midlands

Junior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Junior Software Developer in the Midlands

Junior Software 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 Software Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 +49 3 £245,000 +790.91% 1
East Midlands +50 1 £28,375 -18.93% 4
Junior Software Developer
England

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

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

1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Material Design
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS

Junior Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Material Design
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft