Software Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Software Developer
England > Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 158 127
Rank change year-on-year +27 -31 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 205 135 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.76% 1.78% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.97% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 188 115 193
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £44,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +22.50%
75th Percentile £54,250 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,880 £67,500 £62,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%

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 10,958 6,838 11,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 90.04% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,238 4,339 7,425
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,004 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the Midlands

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 Software Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +29 124 £45,000 -14.29% 31
East Midlands +3 80 £45,000 -25.00% 15
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 135 (65.85%) C#
2 113 (55.12%) .NET
3 78 (38.05%) SQL
4 52 (25.37%) SQL Server
5 48 (23.41%) JavaScript
5 48 (23.41%) Azure
6 46 (22.44%) Agile
7 39 (19.02%) HTML
7 39 (19.02%) MVC
8 37 (18.05%) Social Skills
8 37 (18.05%) Full Stack Development
9 36 (17.56%) ASP.NET
10 34 (16.59%) Degree
11 32 (15.61%) Software Engineering
11 32 (15.61%) AWS
12 29 (14.15%) DevOps
13 28 (13.66%) C++
13 28 (13.66%) Finance
14 27 (13.17%) React
15 25 (12.20%) .NET Core
16 24 (11.71%) TypeScript
17 23 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (10.73%) Microsoft
19 21 (10.24%) CSS
20 20 (9.76%) Computer Science
21 19 (9.27%) ASP.NET MVC
22 17 (8.29%) Visual Studio
22 17 (8.29%) Scrum
23 16 (7.80%) Mobile App
23 16 (7.80%) Microservices

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.49%) CMS
1 1 (0.49%) Mendix
1 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.49%) ThingWorx
1 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.98%) ProductWriter
1 2 (0.98%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 48 (23.41%) Azure
2 32 (15.61%) AWS
3 12 (5.85%) SaaS
4 10 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (4.39%) Serverless
6 5 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.44%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (2.44%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (2.44%) Stripe
7 3 (1.46%) GCP
8 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.98%) dbt
8 2 (0.98%) GitHub
8 2 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) 4G
1 1 (0.49%) 5G
1 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.37%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.93%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.95%) MySQL
5 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.98%) SQLite
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (8.29%) Visual Studio
2 12 (5.85%) Git
3 5 (2.44%) MSTest
4 3 (1.46%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.49%) CMake
6 1 (0.49%) GCC
General
1 37 (18.05%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.66%) Finance
3 12 (5.85%) Law
4 8 (3.90%) Marketing
5 6 (2.93%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.44%) Automotive
6 5 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.46%) Retail
8 2 (0.98%) Electronics
8 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Military
9 1 (0.49%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (55.12%) .NET
2 39 (19.02%) HTML
3 36 (17.56%) ASP.NET
4 27 (13.17%) React
5 25 (12.20%) .NET Core
6 21 (10.24%) CSS
7 19 (9.27%) ASP.NET MVC
8 13 (6.34%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.85%) Laravel
9 12 (5.85%) RESTful
9 12 (5.85%) Vue
10 10 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (4.39%) .NET Framework
11 9 (4.39%) Blazor
11 9 (4.39%) MFC
11 9 (4.39%) Node.js
12 8 (3.90%) JSON
12 8 (3.90%) WinForms
12 8 (3.90%) XML
13 5 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.80%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
3 4 (1.95%) Home Automation
3 4 (1.95%) Mobile Computing
4 3 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.98%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.98%) CUDA
5 2 (0.98%) IoT
5 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.49%) NHS
6 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.32%) Linux
1 15 (7.32%) Windows
2 5 (2.44%) Android
3 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.44%) Agile
2 39 (19.02%) MVC
3 37 (18.05%) Full Stack Development
4 32 (15.61%) Software Engineering
5 29 (14.15%) DevOps
6 23 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (9.76%) Computer Science
8 17 (8.29%) Scrum
9 16 (7.80%) Microservices
10 13 (6.34%) Customer Service
10 13 (6.34%) Web Development
11 12 (5.85%) Unit Testing
12 11 (5.37%) CI/CD
12 11 (5.37%) Front End Development
12 11 (5.37%) Visualisation
13 10 (4.88%) Asset Management
13 10 (4.88%) Mentoring
13 10 (4.88%) SDLC
14 9 (4.39%) Integration Testing
14 9 (4.39%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 135 (65.85%) C#
2 78 (38.05%) SQL
3 48 (23.41%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.66%) C++
5 24 (11.71%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.32%) PHP
7 14 (6.83%) VB
7 14 (6.83%) VB.NET
8 12 (5.85%) Python
9 11 (5.37%) Java
10 10 (4.88%) C
11 9 (4.39%) Assembly Language
12 4 (1.95%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.98%) XAML
14 1 (0.49%) Bash
14 1 (0.49%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.49%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 34 (16.59%) Degree
2 7 (3.41%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.46%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.46%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.98%) PhD
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.37%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.93%) Google
3 5 (2.44%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.98%) JDA
4 2 (0.98%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.49%) AVEVA
5 1 (0.49%) Denodo
5 1 (0.49%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.49%) Infor
5 1 (0.49%) Talend
5 1 (0.49%) Xamarin