Backend Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Backend Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Backend Developer salary in the West Midlands is £46,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 274 253
Rank change year-on-year +47 -21 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 13 9 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.13% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.14% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 19
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £41,850
25th Percentile £40,625 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -18.18% -10.20%
75th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £53,723 £68,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,823 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.19% +5.88% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,625 6,222 6,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 90.10% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,115 3,402 4,852
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,974 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 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
Warwickshire - 6 £40,000 -
Birmingham +4 3 £45,000 -28.00% 2
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, 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 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 6 (46.15%) React
3 5 (38.46%) HTML
3 5 (38.46%) CSS
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) Web Services
4 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) JWT
5 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
5 3 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Postman
5 3 (23.08%) Blazor
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
5 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (23.08%) API Testing
5 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (23.08%) SOLID
5 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
5 3 (23.08%) Agile

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 2 (15.38%) WordPress
2 1 (7.69%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) Moq
3 1 (7.69%) NUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Snyk
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) Sourcetree
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 5 (38.46%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
4 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (23.08%) Blazor
4 3 (23.08%) Entity Framework
4 3 (23.08%) JWT
4 3 (23.08%) Kafka
4 3 (23.08%) OAuth
4 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (23.08%) REST
5 2 (15.38%) Jest
6 1 (7.69%) FHIR
6 1 (7.69%) Next.js
6 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) IoT
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) API Testing
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
2 3 (23.08%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (23.08%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) SOLID
3 2 (15.38%) A/B Testing
3 2 (15.38%) API Development
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.69%) API Design
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
4 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft