Senior Developer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer salary in the West Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 126 72
Rank change year-on-year +31 -54 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 125 43 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.39% 1.35% 3.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.46% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 88 28 112
10th Percentile £55,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 8,317 2,953 5,335
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.37% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,036 1,913 2,837
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,196
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.34% +2.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Birmingham +12 77 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Staffordshire - 12 £67,500 - 5
Coventry -12 11 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -21 11 £65,000 +18.18%
Herefordshire - 7 £75,000 -
Shropshire -21 3 - - 2
Worcestershire -24 3 - - 1
Solihull +5 1 £65,000 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 October 2026, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 36 (28.80%) Azure
2 35 (28.00%) C#
3 33 (26.40%) Mentoring
4 31 (24.80%) Agile
5 29 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 24 (19.20%) React
8 23 (18.40%) AI
8 23 (18.40%) Java
8 23 (18.40%) TypeScript
9 22 (17.60%) AWS
9 22 (17.60%) JavaScript
10 21 (16.80%) REST
10 21 (16.80%) SQL
11 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
12 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
12 19 (15.20%) Software Engineering
13 18 (14.40%) SQL Server
14 17 (13.60%) Scrum
14 17 (13.60%) SDLC
15 16 (12.80%) LLM
15 16 (12.80%) Technical Architecture
16 15 (12.00%) .NET
16 15 (12.00%) Accessibility
16 15 (12.00%) Sprint Planning
16 15 (12.00%) Time Management
17 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
18 13 (10.40%) Docker
18 13 (10.40%) Kubernetes
18 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving

Senior Developer Skill Set
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 7 (5.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.80%) Azure
2 22 (17.60%) AWS
3 12 (9.60%) SaaS
4 8 (6.40%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 5 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.00%) Serverless
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.20%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.40%) GitHub
9 1 (0.80%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.80%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.80%) PaaS
9 1 (0.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.80%) UWB
1 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.40%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.20%) Power BI
3 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Redis
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.80%) Metadata
5 1 (0.80%) Power Query
5 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Git
1 7 (5.60%) JUnit
1 7 (5.60%) Maven
1 7 (5.60%) Mockito
2 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (22.40%) Finance
2 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
2 6 (4.80%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (3.20%) Law
4 3 (2.40%) Games
5 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.80%) Marketing
6 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.80%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.20%) React
2 21 (16.80%) REST
3 15 (12.00%) .NET
4 10 (8.00%) .NET Core
4 10 (8.00%) Playwright
4 10 (8.00%) Spring
5 9 (7.20%) Blazor
6 8 (6.40%) Node.js
7 6 (4.80%) Kafka
8 5 (4.00%) JSON
8 5 (4.00%) RESTful
9 4 (3.20%) CSS
9 4 (3.20%) HTML
9 4 (3.20%) XML
9 4 (3.20%) XSLT
10 3 (2.40%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.40%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.60%) Jest
11 2 (1.60%) Redux
11 2 (1.60%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.00%) Online Gambling
3 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.20%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.80%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (0.80%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.80%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.80%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.40%) Mentoring
2 31 (24.80%) Agile
3 29 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (18.40%) AI
5 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 19 (15.20%) Software Engineering
7 17 (13.60%) Scrum
7 17 (13.60%) SDLC
8 16 (12.80%) LLM
8 16 (12.80%) Technical Architecture
9 15 (12.00%) Sprint Planning
9 15 (12.00%) Time Management
10 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.60%) Front End Development
13 9 (7.20%) Code Quality
13 9 (7.20%) Microservices
14 8 (6.40%) DevOps
14 8 (6.40%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.00%) C#
2 23 (18.40%) Java
2 23 (18.40%) TypeScript
3 22 (17.60%) JavaScript
4 21 (16.80%) SQL
5 7 (5.60%) Bash
5 7 (5.60%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.20%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.40%) Go
7 3 (2.40%) Python
8 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.80%) Bicep
9 1 (0.80%) C
9 1 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.00%) Degree
6 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.40%) QA
3 7 (5.60%) WCAG
4 4 (3.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.80%) JTAG
System Software
1 13 (10.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (10.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) Oracle
3 2 (1.60%) Pega
4 1 (0.80%) Cognos
4 1 (0.80%) OutSystems
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.80%) Yahoo!