Ladder Logic Job Trends in the West Midlands

Ladder Logic
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Ladder Logic skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 196 183
Rank change year-on-year +29 -13 -
Permanent jobs citing Ladder Logic 7 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.048% 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.01% 0.18% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 - -
75th Percentile £46,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 -
% change year-on-year -17.39% - -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

Ladder Logic falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 693 1,084 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.16% 26.22% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 560 549 1,029
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Ladder Logic
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ladder Logic relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Ladder Logic job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Ladder Logic
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Ladder Logic.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Ladder Logic

Ladder Logic
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 Ladder Logic within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 -2 7 £46,500 -
Ladder Logic
England

Ladder Logic
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) ArchestrA
1 2 (28.57%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (28.57%) WinCC
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Modbus
1 2 (28.57%) Profibus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Support
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Control Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
1 2 (28.57%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (28.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Presales
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) IEC 61131
1 2 (28.57%) IEC 61508
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Rockwell
1 2 (28.57%) Siemens
1 2 (28.57%) VMware