Graduate Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Graduate Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Graduate Developer salary in the West Midlands is £27,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 244 253
Rank change year-on-year +68 +9 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate Developer 18 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.039% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.042% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile - £25,700 -
25th Percentile £25,000 £28,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £35,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +29.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £28,500
90th Percentile - - £29,400
England median annual salary £25,000 £30,000 £30,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% -0.83% -2.42%

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 3,774 7,206 5,574
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 94.38% 90.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,625 5,363 3,222
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,750
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 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,500 £52,550 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.52% -13.57% +1.33%

Graduate Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Graduate Developer in the West Midlands

Graduate Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Graduate Developer in the West Midlands

Graduate 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 Graduate Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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 +58 16 £27,500 -21.43% 1
Staffordshire - 1 £25,000 -
Graduate Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2025, Graduate 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 Graduate Developer in the job title.

1 16 (88.89%) Degree
2 13 (72.22%) C#
3 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 12 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (55.56%) Java
5 8 (44.44%) SQL
6 7 (38.89%) .NET
6 7 (38.89%) Agile
6 7 (38.89%) Azure
7 6 (33.33%) Revit
7 6 (33.33%) jQuery
7 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (33.33%) PHP
7 6 (33.33%) MVC
7 6 (33.33%) WinForms
7 6 (33.33%) MySQL
7 6 (33.33%) C++
7 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
7 6 (33.33%) CSS
7 6 (33.33%) OO
7 6 (33.33%) Clean Code
8 4 (22.22%) Police
8 4 (22.22%) Rocky
8 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
8 4 (22.22%) Middleware
8 4 (22.22%) Linux
8 4 (22.22%) J2EE
8 4 (22.22%) Law
8 4 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis

Graduate 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:

Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MySQL
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 4 (22.22%) Law
1 4 (22.22%) Police
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 6 (33.33%) CSS
2 6 (33.33%) jQuery
2 6 (33.33%) WinForms
3 4 (22.22%) GWT
3 4 (22.22%) J2EE
3 4 (22.22%) JPA
3 4 (22.22%) Middleware
3 4 (22.22%) Vaadin
4 1 (5.56%) Express.js
4 1 (5.56%) Fastify
4 1 (5.56%) MERN Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Next.js
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 6 (33.33%) MVC
3 6 (33.33%) OO
4 4 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) OOP
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.56%) API Testing
6 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.56%) CRM
6 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) C#
2 10 (55.56%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) SQL
4 6 (33.33%) C++
4 6 (33.33%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Degree
2 12 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle