Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 21 4
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,002 677 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.86% 10.07% 20.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.74% 11.18% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 891 489 1,071
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 6,797 6,058 6,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 90.07% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 3,388 4,754
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
Birmingham +3 432 £55,000 -2.65% 76
Staffordshire +1 117 £47,500 - 34
Warwickshire +40 92 £49,990 -0.02% 22
Worcestershire +13 67 £50,000 +17.65% 13
Shropshire +17 56 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Coventry +12 34 £53,500 +0.47% 13
Solihull -2 28 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Wolverhampton +23 14 £60,500 +21.00% 4
Herefordshire +4 11 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Walsall - 8 £42,500 - 2
Halesowen -7 7 £60,000 - 1
Wednesbury 0 6 £63,250 +40.56%
Dudley - 5 £40,000 - 3
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 - 1
Stourbridge - 3 £45,000 -
Kingswinford - 1 £40,000 -
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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.

1 373 (37.23%) C#
2 340 (33.93%) .NET
3 307 (30.64%) JavaScript
4 266 (26.55%) SQL
5 262 (26.15%) Agile
6 252 (25.15%) Azure
7 229 (22.85%) Full Stack Development
8 222 (22.16%) Microsoft
9 216 (21.56%) HTML
10 177 (17.66%) SQL Server
11 173 (17.27%) Social Skills
12 164 (16.37%) CSS
13 162 (16.17%) React
14 151 (15.07%) TypeScript
15 142 (14.17%) MVC
16 135 (13.47%) ASP.NET
17 132 (13.17%) AngularJS
18 121 (12.08%) DevOps
18 121 (12.08%) AWS
19 117 (11.68%) .NET Core
20 109 (10.88%) Git
21 108 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
22 107 (10.68%) User Experience
23 106 (10.58%) Power Platform
24 103 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
25 102 (10.18%) Finance
26 101 (10.08%) PHP
27 99 (9.88%) Web Development
28 93 (9.28%) Node.js
29 88 (8.78%) Microservices

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 38 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.49%) WordPress
3 19 (1.90%) OpenEdge
4 17 (1.70%) nginx
5 13 (1.30%) CMS
6 11 (1.10%) IIS
7 10 (1.00%) Appian
8 7 (0.70%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.60%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.20%) Apache
11 2 (0.20%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.100%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.100%) Confluence
12 1 (0.100%) Drupal
12 1 (0.100%) Mendix
12 1 (0.100%) Moodle
12 1 (0.100%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (1.50%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.100%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (2.10%) Shopify
2 15 (1.50%) Magento
3 12 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.30%) ProductWriter
7 2 (0.20%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.100%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 252 (25.15%) Azure
2 121 (12.08%) AWS
3 106 (10.58%) Power Platform
4 53 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (5.29%) Dynamics 365
5 50 (4.99%) PowerApps
6 40 (3.99%) Power Automate
7 36 (3.59%) GitHub
8 34 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (3.29%) Serverless
10 32 (3.19%) SaaS
11 25 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (1.30%) GCP
13 12 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.00%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.90%) Figma
15 9 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.30%) Firewall
2 7 (0.70%) Intranet
3 5 (0.50%) HTTP
3 5 (0.50%) Internet
3 5 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.40%) MQTT
5 3 (0.30%) DNS
5 3 (0.30%) FTP
5 3 (0.30%) SSL
6 2 (0.20%) 4G
6 2 (0.20%) 5G
6 2 (0.20%) AMQP
6 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.100%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.100%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (17.66%) SQL Server
2 72 (7.19%) Power BI
3 55 (5.49%) MySQL
4 35 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (2.69%) MongoDB
8 25 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (1.80%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.40%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.10%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.50%) Tableau
18 4 (0.40%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 109 (10.88%) Git
2 39 (3.89%) Visual Studio
3 25 (2.50%) JIRA
4 16 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.50%) Cucumber
6 13 (1.30%) Subversion
7 10 (1.00%) GNU Toolchain
8 8 (0.80%) Postman
8 8 (0.80%) Selenium
9 6 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.60%) GitLab
9 6 (0.60%) Maven
10 5 (0.50%) ESLint
10 5 (0.50%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.50%) JUnit
10 5 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (0.50%) MSTest
10 5 (0.50%) webpack
11 4 (0.40%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 173 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 102 (10.18%) Finance
3 56 (5.59%) Manufacturing
4 51 (5.09%) Marketing
5 45 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (3.69%) Law
7 31 (3.09%) Retail
8 25 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.30%) Automotive
9 23 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (1.70%) Games
11 15 (1.50%) Public Sector
12 13 (1.30%) Advertising
13 8 (0.80%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.70%) Banking
15 6 (0.60%) Legal
16 5 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
17 2 (0.20%) Digital Health
17 2 (0.20%) iGaming
17 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (33.93%) .NET
2 216 (21.56%) HTML
3 164 (16.37%) CSS
4 162 (16.17%) React
5 135 (13.47%) ASP.NET
6 132 (13.17%) AngularJS
7 117 (11.68%) .NET Core
8 93 (9.28%) Node.js
9 81 (8.08%) ASP.NET MVC
10 80 (7.98%) .NET Framework
10 80 (7.98%) Vue
11 76 (7.58%) Entity Framework
12 73 (7.29%) ASP.NET Web API
13 65 (6.49%) RESTful
14 58 (5.79%) Laravel
15 50 (4.99%) HTML5
16 49 (4.89%) REST
17 46 (4.59%) JSON
18 42 (4.19%) jQuery
19 37 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.09%) Mobile App
2 40 (3.99%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
7 13 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.10%) AS400
8 11 (1.10%) iSeries
8 11 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.90%) CUDA
11 8 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.80%) Digital Media
11 8 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.09%) Linux
2 31 (3.09%) Windows
3 14 (1.40%) Android
4 10 (1.00%) Unix
5 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.30%) VMS
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.100%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (26.15%) Agile
2 229 (22.85%) Full Stack Development
3 142 (14.17%) MVC
4 121 (12.08%) DevOps
5 108 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (10.68%) User Experience
7 103 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
8 99 (9.88%) Web Development
9 88 (8.78%) Microservices
10 80 (7.98%) Front End Development
10 80 (7.98%) Software Engineering
11 75 (7.49%) Scrum
12 66 (6.59%) Clean Code
12 66 (6.59%) Mentoring
13 65 (6.49%) CI/CD
14 59 (5.89%) ERP
15 58 (5.79%) Computer Science
16 57 (5.69%) TDD
17 49 (4.89%) Test Automation
18 48 (4.79%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 373 (37.23%) C#
2 307 (30.64%) JavaScript
3 266 (26.55%) SQL
4 151 (15.07%) TypeScript
5 101 (10.08%) PHP
6 64 (6.39%) Java
7 63 (6.29%) Python
8 42 (4.19%) VB.NET
9 36 (3.59%) T-SQL
10 31 (3.09%) C++
11 20 (2.00%) VB
12 17 (1.70%) Bash
12 17 (1.70%) PowerShell
13 16 (1.60%) C
14 13 (1.30%) Go
15 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.10%) RPG
16 11 (1.10%) RPG IV
16 11 (1.10%) RPG/400
17 10 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (8.18%) Degree
2 37 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (2.10%) SC Cleared
3 21 (2.10%) Security Cleared
4 13 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.50%) PhD
6 3 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.20%) HND
8 1 (0.100%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.100%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.79%) QA
2 16 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.100%) ITGC
4 1 (0.100%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (6.99%) Docker
2 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.90%) Terraform
3 6 (0.60%) Rancher
4 1 (0.100%) Kibana
Vendors
1 222 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.30%) Google
3 22 (2.20%) Oracle
4 17 (1.70%) Xamarin
5 16 (1.60%) Adobe
5 16 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.50%) Progress
7 12 (1.20%) Facebook
7 12 (1.20%) IBM
8 11 (1.10%) DevExpress
9 9 (0.90%) NVIDIA
9 9 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.80%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.80%) YouTube
11 6 (0.60%) Databricks
11 6 (0.60%) Informatica
12 5 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.50%) SAP
12 5 (0.50%) SYSPRO
13 4 (0.40%) Jaspersoft