Senior Software Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Software Developer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the Midlands is £72,500 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 241 290 299
Rank change year-on-year +49 +9 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 2 35 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.029% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2 35 19
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £81,250 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £66,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% -

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 Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the Midlands

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the Midlands

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in the Midlands

Senior 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 Senior 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 +28 2 £72,500 +31.82% 9
Senior Software Developer
England

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

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

1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Telerik
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Kendo UI
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) MQTT
2 1 (50.00%) Dart
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Flutter
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills

Senior 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Flutter
2 1 (50.00%) Kendo UI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Dart
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Telerik