Backend Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Backend Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Backend Developer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 236 267
Rank change year-on-year +57 +31 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 19 13 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 8
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £40,625 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £63,125
90th Percentile - £53,723 £68,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 4,008 6,832 5,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 94.09% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,803 5,166 3,355
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,409 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the West Midlands

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in the West Midlands

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the West Midlands

Backend Developer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +44 11 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Worcestershire - 6 £65,000 -
Shropshire - 1 £60,000 -
Staffordshire - 1 £60,000 - 3
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Backend 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 West Midlands region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 13 (68.42%) SQL
3 12 (63.16%) Docker
3 12 (63.16%) Containerisation
4 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
5 10 (52.63%) DevOps
5 10 (52.63%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (47.37%) Agile
6 9 (47.37%) Git
6 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (47.37%) React
7 8 (42.11%) Microservices
7 8 (42.11%) Unit Testing
7 8 (42.11%) RESTful
7 8 (42.11%) JUnit
8 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
8 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
8 7 (36.84%) Front End Development
9 6 (31.58%) Protractor
9 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
9 6 (31.58%) Algorithms
9 6 (31.58%) pytest
9 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
9 6 (31.58%) Flask
9 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
9 6 (31.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (31.58%) Grafana
9 6 (31.58%) GraphQL
9 6 (31.58%) Onboarding
9 6 (31.58%) Public Sector

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 6 (31.58%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) GitHub
3 6 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (31.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) NoSQL
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (31.58%) Redis
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 8 (42.11%) JUnit
3 6 (31.58%) Eclipse
3 6 (31.58%) IntelliJ
3 6 (31.58%) Jasmine
3 6 (31.58%) JIRA
3 6 (31.58%) Karma Test Runner
3 6 (31.58%) Mockito
3 6 (31.58%) Protractor
3 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) NUnit
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) React
2 8 (42.11%) RESTful
3 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
4 6 (31.58%) Django
4 6 (31.58%) FastAPI
4 6 (31.58%) Flask
4 6 (31.58%) GraphQL
4 6 (31.58%) Hibernate
4 6 (31.58%) JPA
4 6 (31.58%) Keycloak
4 6 (31.58%) OAuth
4 6 (31.58%) pytest
4 6 (31.58%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (31.58%) SQLAlchemy
4 6 (31.58%) WebSockets
5 5 (26.32%) .NET
5 5 (26.32%) Node.js
6 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
7 2 (10.53%) Entity Framework
7 2 (10.53%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Algorithms
1 6 (31.58%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Containerisation
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) DevOps
4 9 (47.37%) Agile
4 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (42.11%) Microservices
5 8 (42.11%) Unit Testing
6 7 (36.84%) Front End Development
7 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
7 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
7 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
8 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
8 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
8 2 (10.53%) OO
8 2 (10.53%) OOP
8 2 (10.53%) Software Delivery
8 2 (10.53%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Grafana
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
1 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle
4 2 (10.53%) Okta