Developer Jobs in Staffordshire

Developer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Developer salary in Staffordshire is £53,688 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -21 0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 40 138 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.41% 12.35% 15.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.46% 12.81% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 32 118 62
10th Percentile £40,125 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,824 £35,000 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £55,625 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £71,500 £65,000 £57,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 473 1,077 491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.80% 96.42% 92.47%
Number of salaries quoted 240 793 381
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,000 £23,725
25th Percentile £28,822 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Staffordshire.

Salary trend for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Staffordshire

Developer
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Stafford +9 13 £53,688 +34.22% 5
Stoke-on-Trent -9 12 £57,500 +15.00% 31
Lichfield -7 2 £77,500 +44.19% 2
Cannock -2 1 £38,000 +1.33%
Tamworth -5 1 £45,000 -5.26%
Developer
West Midlands

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 3 June 2025, 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 Staffordshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 21 (52.50%) C#
2 17 (42.50%) SQL
3 16 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 16 (40.00%) Police
4 15 (37.50%) .NET
5 13 (32.50%) Agile
5 13 (32.50%) QA
5 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
6 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 12 (30.00%) Java
7 10 (25.00%) Release Management
7 10 (25.00%) Data Transformation
7 10 (25.00%) User Experience
8 9 (22.50%) PowerApps
8 9 (22.50%) Azure
8 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
8 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
8 9 (22.50%) SharePoint
9 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 8 (20.00%) Power Automate
10 7 (17.50%) Power BI
10 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (17.50%) Law
11 6 (15.00%) Python
11 6 (15.00%) Web Services
11 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
11 6 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (15.00%) React

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 9 (22.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) PowerApps
3 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 5 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.50%) Figma
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) Power BI
3 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) webpack
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.50%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.50%) JUnit
5 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (2.50%) Mockito
5 1 (2.50%) Protractor
5 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.50%) Subversion
5 1 (2.50%) Vite
General
1 16 (40.00%) Police
2 7 (17.50%) Law
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (37.50%) .NET
2 6 (15.00%) React
2 6 (15.00%) Web Services
3 5 (12.50%) CSS
4 4 (10.00%) HTML
5 3 (7.50%) Electron
5 3 (7.50%) JSON
5 3 (7.50%) REST
5 3 (7.50%) Vue
5 3 (7.50%) XML
6 2 (5.00%) Alpine.js
6 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.00%) Swagger
7 1 (2.50%) CSS3
7 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.50%) HTML5
7 1 (2.50%) Node.js
7 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Agile
1 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
3 10 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 10 (25.00%) Release Management
3 10 (25.00%) User Experience
4 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
7 5 (12.50%) Analytics
8 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 4 (10.00%) ETL
8 4 (10.00%) Project Management
8 4 (10.00%) SDLC
9 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
9 3 (7.50%) Critical Thinking
9 3 (7.50%) Database Optimisation
9 3 (7.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) C#
2 17 (42.50%) SQL
3 12 (30.00%) Java
4 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.00%) Python
5 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
6 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.50%) C++
7 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.00%) R
8 2 (5.00%) Rust
9 1 (2.50%) PHP
9 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) DBS Check
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Blue Prism
3 1 (2.50%) IBM
3 1 (2.50%) PayPal