Development Manager Jobs in the West Midlands

Development Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Development Manager salary in the West Midlands is £30,580 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 104 217
Rank change year-on-year +5 +113 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Manager 106 172 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.46% 2.30% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 2.43% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 82 146 32
10th Percentile - £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,822 £29,527 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,580 £40,060 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% -28.78% -13.46%
75th Percentile - £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,200 £79,375 -
England median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% -25.00% -25.00%

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 3,927 7,065 5,646
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 94.39% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,754 5,271 3,235
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,887 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in the West Midlands

Development Manager
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Development Manager in the West Midlands

Development Manager
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Manager in the West Midlands

Development Manager
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 Development Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Staffordshire +14 55 £28,822 +2.50% 24
Warwickshire -13 16 £30,580 -56.31% 17
Sutton Coldfield - 16 £30,580 -
Willenhall - 4 £48,000 -
Birmingham -7 3 £40,000 -23.81% 53
Walsall - 3 £105,000 - 3
Shropshire - 2 £55,000 - 8
Solihull -9 1 - - 2
Dudley - 1 - - 1
Development Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Development Manager 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 Development Manager in the job title.

1 88 (83.02%) Business Development
2 82 (77.36%) CRM
3 79 (74.53%) B2B
4 78 (73.58%) SLA
4 78 (73.58%) SAP
4 78 (73.58%) Salesforce
4 78 (73.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 78 (73.58%) Active Listening
4 78 (73.58%) Value Proposition
4 78 (73.58%) Deadline-Driven
5 24 (22.64%) Customer Value Proposition
6 9 (8.49%) Finance
7 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
7 8 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (7.55%) Social Skills
8 7 (6.60%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (5.66%) Agile
9 6 (5.66%) Node.js
9 6 (5.66%) JIRA
9 6 (5.66%) SDLC
9 6 (5.66%) DevOps
9 6 (5.66%) Mentoring
9 6 (5.66%) CI/CD
10 5 (4.72%) Roadmaps
10 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
10 5 (4.72%) OpenAI
10 5 (4.72%) Project Delivery
10 5 (4.72%) Product Roadmap

Development Manager 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 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 78 (73.58%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.94%) Azure
1 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
1 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.83%) NoSQL
1 3 (2.83%) RDBMS
1 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) JIRA
2 3 (2.83%) Git
3 1 (0.94%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (8.49%) Finance
2 8 (7.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.72%) Marketing
4 4 (3.77%) Legal
4 4 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.94%) Games
6 1 (0.94%) Local Government
6 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.94%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) Node.js
2 5 (4.72%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (4.72%) Laravel
3 3 (2.83%) Hibernate
3 3 (2.83%) Spring
4 1 (0.94%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.77%) Learning Management System
2 4 (3.77%) Social Media
3 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.94%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.72%) Android
1 5 (4.72%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.77%) Windows
2 4 (3.77%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (83.02%) Business Development
2 82 (77.36%) CRM
3 79 (74.53%) B2B
4 78 (73.58%) Active Listening
4 78 (73.58%) Deadline-Driven
4 78 (73.58%) Value Proposition
5 24 (22.64%) Customer Value Proposition
6 8 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (6.60%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (5.66%) Agile
8 6 (5.66%) CI/CD
8 6 (5.66%) DevOps
8 6 (5.66%) Mentoring
8 6 (5.66%) SDLC
9 5 (4.72%) OWASP
9 5 (4.72%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (4.72%) Project Management
9 5 (4.72%) Roadmaps
9 5 (4.72%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
1 5 (4.72%) PHP
2 3 (2.83%) Java
3 2 (1.89%) SQL
4 1 (0.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (3.77%) DBS Check
1 4 (3.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (73.58%) SLA
2 5 (4.72%) GDPR
2 5 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.94%) Ansible
1 1 (0.94%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 78 (73.58%) Salesforce
1 78 (73.58%) SAP
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.72%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.94%) BMC
4 1 (0.94%) Remedy