Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the Midlands is £67,500 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 184 186 210
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 59 142 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 1.22% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.29% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 11 97 55
10th Percentile £58,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,125 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £76,450 £90,000
England median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.90% +3.57%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +30 41 £72,500 +20.83% 30
East Midlands -12 18 £58,000 -3.33% 28
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

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

1 56 (94.92%) Agile
2 47 (79.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 39 (66.10%) Software Testing
4 38 (64.41%) Automotive
5 36 (61.02%) Validation
5 36 (61.02%) Aerospace
5 36 (61.02%) MATLAB
5 36 (61.02%) Simulink
5 36 (61.02%) Systems Engineering
6 23 (38.98%) Software Engineering
7 20 (33.90%) CI/CD
8 16 (27.12%) C#
9 14 (23.73%) .NET
9 14 (23.73%) DevSecOps
10 12 (20.34%) MySQL
10 12 (20.34%) Bitbucket
10 12 (20.34%) Git
11 11 (18.64%) Confluence
11 11 (18.64%) JIRA
11 11 (18.64%) Atlassian
11 11 (18.64%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (18.64%) Relational Database
11 11 (18.64%) Ansible
11 11 (18.64%) Windows
11 11 (18.64%) Linux
11 11 (18.64%) Continuous Deployment
11 11 (18.64%) Coaching
12 8 (13.56%) Python
13 5 (8.47%) Java
13 5 (8.47%) Azure

Senior Software Engineer 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 11 (18.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 36 (61.02%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.47%) Azure
2 3 (5.08%) GitHub
2 3 (5.08%) Supabase
2 3 (5.08%) Vercel
3 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.69%) AWS
4 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.69%) GCP
4 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) MySQL
2 11 (18.64%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Bitbucket
1 12 (20.34%) Git
2 11 (18.64%) JIRA
General
1 38 (64.41%) Automotive
2 36 (61.02%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.08%) Retail
3 3 (5.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.73%) .NET
2 5 (8.47%) React
3 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.08%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.08%) Next.js
5 2 (3.39%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.39%) Kafka
5 2 (3.39%) RESTful
5 2 (3.39%) Vue
6 1 (1.69%) Kendo UI
6 1 (1.69%) Node.js
6 1 (1.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Lidar
2 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.39%) IoT
3 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
1 11 (18.64%) Windows
2 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (94.92%) Agile
2 39 (66.10%) Software Testing
3 36 (61.02%) Systems Engineering
3 36 (61.02%) Validation
4 23 (38.98%) Software Engineering
5 20 (33.90%) CI/CD
6 14 (23.73%) DevSecOps
7 11 (18.64%) Coaching
7 11 (18.64%) Continuous Deployment
7 11 (18.64%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (6.78%) Test Automation
9 3 (5.08%) 3D Modelling
9 3 (5.08%) API Development
9 3 (5.08%) DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) iOS Development
9 3 (5.08%) Microservices
9 3 (5.08%) Mobile Development
9 3 (5.08%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (5.08%) Presales
9 3 (5.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (61.02%) MATLAB
2 16 (27.12%) C#
3 8 (13.56%) Python
4 5 (8.47%) Java
5 3 (5.08%) Rust
5 3 (5.08%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) Swift
5 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (79.66%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.08%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.39%) Databricks
3 1 (1.69%) Telerik