Senior Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Developer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Developer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 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 160 114 91
Rank change year-on-year -46 -23 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 85 251 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.22% 2.15% 3.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 2.28% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 61 216 183
10th Percentile £49,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +3.45%

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%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the Midlands

Senior 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 Senior 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 -16 71 £65,000 +4.00% 44
East Midlands -35 14 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Senior Developer
England

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

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

1 51 (60.00%) C#
1 51 (60.00%) .NET
2 43 (50.59%) Azure
3 41 (48.24%) SQL
4 33 (38.82%) HTML
4 33 (38.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (35.29%) JavaScript
6 29 (34.12%) Social Skills
7 27 (31.76%) DevOps
8 24 (28.24%) SQL Server
8 24 (28.24%) CI/CD
8 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (25.88%) ASP.NET
9 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (23.53%) Agile
11 19 (22.35%) MVC
11 19 (22.35%) Blazor
12 18 (21.18%) Git
13 17 (20.00%) CSS
13 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 17 (20.00%) React
14 16 (18.82%) ASP.NET MVC
15 15 (17.65%) Software Architecture
16 13 (15.29%) Unit Testing
17 12 (14.12%) JIRA
17 12 (14.12%) Python
17 12 (14.12%) RESTful
18 11 (12.94%) Node.js
18 11 (12.94%) Mobile App
18 11 (12.94%) Scrum

Senior 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 6 (7.06%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) CMS
3 3 (3.53%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.18%) Sitefinity
5 1 (1.18%) Strapi
5 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (50.59%) Azure
2 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (11.76%) AWS
4 8 (9.41%) GitHub
4 8 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.71%) SaaS
6 4 (4.71%) Serverless
7 2 (2.35%) Contentful
7 2 (2.35%) Figma
8 1 (1.18%) Algolia
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.18%) npm
8 1 (1.18%) Vercel
8 1 (1.18%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.06%) Redis
4 3 (3.53%) MySQL
4 3 (3.53%) Power BI
4 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) Data Hub
5 2 (2.35%) KDB
5 2 (2.35%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.35%) Metadata
5 2 (2.35%) SQL CLR
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.18%) Big Data
6 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Git
2 12 (14.12%) JIRA
3 6 (7.06%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.71%) JUnit
5 3 (3.53%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.35%) Mockito
6 2 (2.35%) NUnit
7 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.18%) Subversion
7 1 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.18%) Vite
General
1 29 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.71%) Finance
4 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.53%) Law
5 2 (2.35%) Back Office
5 2 (2.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Automotive
6 1 (1.18%) iGaming
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (60.00%) .NET
2 33 (38.82%) HTML
3 22 (25.88%) ASP.NET
4 19 (22.35%) Blazor
5 17 (20.00%) CSS
5 17 (20.00%) React
6 16 (18.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 12 (14.12%) RESTful
8 11 (12.94%) Node.js
9 10 (11.76%) .NET Framework
10 9 (10.59%) GraphQL
10 9 (10.59%) MvvmCross
11 8 (9.41%) .NET Core
12 7 (8.24%) AngularJS
12 7 (8.24%) REST
13 6 (7.06%) Django
13 6 (7.06%) Flask
13 6 (7.06%) OAuth
13 6 (7.06%) SQLAlchemy
13 6 (7.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Android
1 10 (11.76%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 27 (31.76%) DevOps
3 24 (28.24%) CI/CD
3 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (23.53%) Agile
5 19 (22.35%) MVC
6 15 (17.65%) Software Architecture
7 13 (15.29%) Unit Testing
8 11 (12.94%) Scrum
9 10 (11.76%) Mobile Application Development
10 9 (10.59%) Front End Development
10 9 (10.59%) SDLC
10 9 (10.59%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.41%) Containerisation
11 8 (9.41%) Mentoring
12 6 (7.06%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (7.06%) OO
12 6 (7.06%) Web Development
13 5 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
13 5 (5.88%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 51 (60.00%) C#
2 41 (48.24%) SQL
3 30 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.12%) Python
5 8 (9.41%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.06%) PHP
6 6 (7.06%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.53%) VB
8 2 (2.35%) Bash
8 2 (2.35%) C
8 2 (2.35%) C++
8 2 (2.35%) Java
8 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.35%) Ruby
8 2 (2.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.18%) Dart
9 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.18%) GDPR
1 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.06%) Grafana
2 6 (7.06%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.35%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Xamarin
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (2.35%) Okta
4 2 (2.35%) VMware
5 1 (1.18%) Telerik