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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 44 123 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.80% 11.95% 14.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.91% 12.44% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 37 105 54
10th Percentile £36,700 £32,500 £33,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,750 £64,500 £55,175
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 494 989 484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.35% 96.11% 92.54%
Number of salaries quoted 267 731 372
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,000 £23,275
25th Percentile £28,822 £30,000 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,754 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -11.11% +1.69%
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £66,930 £62,500 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,365 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.73% -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 18 May 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 18 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
Stafford +6 14 £53,688 +34.22% 3
Stoke-on-Trent -10 13 £52,500 +5.00% 22
Burton-upon-Trent +1 2 £35,000 -41.67% 1
Lichfield -7 2 £77,500 +44.19% 1
Tamworth -4 1 £45,000 -5.26% 2
Cannock -4 1 £38,000 +1.33%
Developer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 24 (54.55%) C#
2 19 (43.18%) SQL
3 16 (36.36%) .NET
3 16 (36.36%) Agile
3 16 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 16 (36.36%) Police
4 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
4 13 (29.55%) QA
5 12 (27.27%) Java
5 12 (27.27%) Impact Assessments
6 11 (25.00%) User Experience
6 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 10 (22.73%) SQL Server
7 10 (22.73%) Release Management
7 10 (22.73%) Data Transformation
8 9 (20.45%) Azure
8 9 (20.45%) SharePoint
8 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
9 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
9 8 (18.18%) Power Automate
9 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
9 8 (18.18%) Law
9 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (15.91%) Power BI
11 6 (13.64%) Python
11 6 (13.64%) Web Services
11 6 (13.64%) T-SQL
11 6 (13.64%) HTML

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 (20.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.55%) CMS
3 1 (2.27%) Sitefinity
3 1 (2.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
3 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 5 (11.36%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.27%) Figma
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.91%) Power BI
3 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.55%) MySQL
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (6.82%) webpack
4 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.27%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.27%) GitLab
5 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.27%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.27%) JUnit
5 1 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (2.27%) Protractor
5 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.27%) Subversion
5 1 (2.27%) Vite
General
1 16 (36.36%) Police
2 8 (18.18%) Law
2 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Games
5 1 (2.27%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) .NET
2 6 (13.64%) HTML
2 6 (13.64%) Web Services
3 5 (11.36%) CSS
3 5 (11.36%) JSON
3 5 (11.36%) React
4 3 (6.82%) HTML5
4 3 (6.82%) REST
4 3 (6.82%) Vue
4 3 (6.82%) XML
5 2 (4.55%) Alpine.js
5 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.55%) Electron
5 2 (4.55%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.55%) Pixi.js
5 2 (4.55%) Swagger
6 1 (2.27%) Blazor
6 1 (2.27%) Svelte
6 1 (2.27%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Agile
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.27%) Impact Assessments
4 11 (25.00%) User Experience
5 10 (22.73%) Data Transformation
5 10 (22.73%) Release Management
6 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (11.36%) Analytics
9 5 (11.36%) Front End Development
9 5 (11.36%) Unit Testing
10 4 (9.09%) Customer Service
10 4 (9.09%) ETL
10 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (9.09%) Project Management
10 4 (9.09%) SDLC
11 3 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 3 (6.82%) MVC
11 3 (6.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) C#
2 19 (43.18%) SQL
3 12 (27.27%) Java
4 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.64%) Python
5 6 (13.64%) T-SQL
6 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.55%) C++
8 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.55%) PHP
8 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.55%) R
8 2 (4.55%) X++
9 1 (2.27%) Rust
9 1 (2.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (29.55%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) Blue Prism
3 1 (2.27%) IBM
3 1 (2.27%) WooCommerce