Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 307 1,147 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.39% 14.22% 11.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.23% 15.09% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 243 973 473
10th Percentile £35,250 £33,300 £36,600
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,750 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.65% -11.54% +8.33%

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 3,730 7,601 4,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.84% 94.25% 90.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,040 5,308 3,242
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

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 Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 -4 175 £60,000 +9.09% 67
Staffordshire -26 36 £53,688 +7.38% 49
Warwickshire -41 19 £55,000 +10.00% 37
Coventry -10 15 £47,500 -5.00% 30
Worcestershire -12 15 £47,500 -5.00% 24
Shropshire -10 12 £60,000 +41.18% 29
Solihull -6 8 £72,500 +16.00% 4
Wolverhampton +7 7 £38,750 -29.55% 11
Walsall +2 3 £59,000 +38.82% 6
West Bromwich - 2 £30,000 -
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 West Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 126 (41.04%) C#
2 115 (37.46%) SQL
3 106 (34.53%) .NET
4 99 (32.25%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (30.94%) Azure
6 85 (27.69%) Agile
7 81 (26.38%) Social Skills
8 79 (25.73%) JavaScript
9 74 (24.10%) SQL Server
10 63 (20.52%) Microsoft
11 54 (17.59%) Java
12 50 (16.29%) HTML
13 48 (15.64%) Git
13 48 (15.64%) DevOps
13 48 (15.64%) Power Platform
14 45 (14.66%) React
15 44 (14.33%) CRM
16 42 (13.68%) CSS
17 40 (13.03%) AWS
17 40 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
18 38 (12.38%) CI/CD
19 37 (12.05%) Finance
20 35 (11.40%) Degree
21 34 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
21 34 (11.07%) Docker
22 32 (10.42%) Power BI
23 31 (10.10%) Microservices
23 31 (10.10%) REST
23 31 (10.10%) AngularJS
24 29 (9.45%) User Experience

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 19 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.54%) OpenEdge
3 7 (2.28%) CMS
4 6 (1.95%) Confluence
5 3 (0.98%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.98%) WordPress
6 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.65%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Revit
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.98%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (8.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.28%) Infor CloudSuite
3 7 (2.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 7 (2.28%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.98%) Shopify
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (30.94%) Azure
2 48 (15.64%) Power Platform
3 40 (13.03%) AWS
4 29 (9.45%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (9.45%) PowerApps
5 27 (8.79%) Power Automate
6 24 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (7.49%) SaaS
8 12 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.26%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.26%) IaaS
10 10 (3.26%) PaaS
11 8 (2.61%) Serverless
12 7 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.95%) AWS KMS
13 6 (1.95%) GitHub
13 6 (1.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (24.10%) SQL Server
2 32 (10.42%) Power BI
3 21 (6.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 19 (6.19%) MySQL
5 17 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (4.56%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.26%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.26%) Star Schema
9 9 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.61%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.63%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.30%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (1.30%) MS Access
12 4 (1.30%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.30%) Power Query
12 4 (1.30%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 48 (15.64%) Git
2 18 (5.86%) JUnit
3 14 (4.56%) Mockito
4 10 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (2.93%) JIRA
5 9 (2.93%) Maven
5 9 (2.93%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (1.95%) DbUnit
6 6 (1.95%) jMock
7 5 (1.63%) GitLab
7 5 (1.63%) NUnit
7 5 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.30%) webpack
9 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.98%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.98%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.98%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (0.98%) Protractor
General
1 81 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.05%) Finance
3 28 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.14%) Law
5 19 (6.19%) Police
6 18 (5.86%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.61%) Automotive
8 8 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.28%) Games
9 7 (2.28%) Retail
10 5 (1.63%) Marketing
11 4 (1.30%) Electronics
12 3 (0.98%) Back Office
13 2 (0.65%) Banking
13 2 (0.65%) Billing
13 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.65%) iGaming
14 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (34.53%) .NET
2 50 (16.29%) HTML
3 45 (14.66%) React
4 42 (13.68%) CSS
5 31 (10.10%) AngularJS
5 31 (10.10%) REST
6 27 (8.79%) RESTful
7 26 (8.47%) ASP.NET
8 23 (7.49%) Blazor
9 21 (6.84%) Spring
9 21 (6.84%) Web Services
10 19 (6.19%) .NET Core
10 19 (6.19%) SOAP
11 18 (5.86%) .NET Framework
12 17 (5.54%) JPA
12 17 (5.54%) Node.js
12 17 (5.54%) Spring Boot
13 16 (5.21%) Middleware
14 15 (4.89%) Entity Framework
15 14 (4.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (4.89%) Mobile App
3 12 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.98%) Animation
12 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.65%) CUDA
12 2 (0.65%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.65%) IoT
12 2 (0.65%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.47%) Linux
2 11 (3.58%) Android
3 8 (2.61%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.63%) Rocky
5 3 (0.98%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.25%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (27.69%) Agile
3 48 (15.64%) DevOps
4 44 (14.33%) CRM
5 40 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (12.38%) CI/CD
7 34 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (10.10%) Microservices
9 29 (9.45%) Front End Development
9 29 (9.45%) MVC
9 29 (9.45%) User Experience
10 27 (8.79%) Clean Code
10 27 (8.79%) Computer Science
11 26 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (8.47%) TDD
12 25 (8.14%) Analytics
13 24 (7.82%) Migration
14 23 (7.49%) Customer Service
14 23 (7.49%) Scrum
15 22 (7.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 126 (41.04%) C#
2 115 (37.46%) SQL
3 79 (25.73%) JavaScript
4 54 (17.59%) Java
5 22 (7.17%) TypeScript
6 21 (6.84%) Python
7 19 (6.19%) PHP
8 15 (4.89%) T-SQL
9 13 (4.23%) C++
10 9 (2.93%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.28%) VB.NET
12 6 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.95%) Delphi
13 5 (1.63%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.30%) Bicep
14 4 (1.30%) Rust
14 4 (1.30%) VB
14 4 (1.30%) XAML
15 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.98%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (11.40%) Degree
2 25 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.28%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.98%) PhD
7 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.49%) QA
2 12 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.98%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) COBIT
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (11.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.98%) LXC
3 2 (0.65%) Postfix
3 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.61%) Terraform
3 5 (1.63%) Grafana
3 5 (1.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.65%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 63 (20.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.51%) Oracle
3 17 (5.54%) Progress
4 12 (3.91%) IBM
5 10 (3.26%) SAP
6 7 (2.28%) Google
6 7 (2.28%) Infor
7 6 (1.95%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.63%) Databricks
8 5 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.30%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.30%) Okta
10 3 (0.98%) PayPal
10 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.98%) Splunk
10 3 (0.98%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.65%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.65%) Kofax
11 2 (0.65%) VMware