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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 130 75
Rank change year-on-year +25 -55 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 119 45 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.33% 1.38% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.49% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85 30 111
10th Percentile £55,669 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £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 8,268 3,012 5,412
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.08% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,993 1,940 2,945
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,697 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%

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 8 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 8 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 +13 73 £75,000 +15.38% 21
Coventry -9 11 £70,000 - 2
Warwickshire -19 11 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Staffordshire - 11 £67,500 - 9
Herefordshire - 7 £75,000 -
Worcestershire -21 4 £52,500 -35.38% 2
Shropshire -16 2 - - 1
Solihull +7 1 £65,000 - 6
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 32 (26.89%) Azure
1 32 (26.89%) C#
2 31 (26.05%) Agile
3 30 (25.21%) Mentoring
4 26 (21.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (21.85%) Security Cleared
5 23 (19.33%) React
6 22 (18.49%) JavaScript
6 22 (18.49%) TypeScript
7 21 (17.65%) AI
7 21 (17.65%) AWS
7 21 (17.65%) Java
8 20 (16.81%) REST
8 20 (16.81%) SC Cleared
9 19 (15.97%) CI/CD
10 18 (15.13%) SQL
11 17 (14.29%) Scrum
11 17 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.29%) SQL Server
12 16 (13.45%) SDLC
13 15 (12.61%) Accessibility
13 15 (12.61%) LLM
13 15 (12.61%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (12.61%) Technical Architecture
13 15 (12.61%) Time Management
14 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (10.08%) .NET
15 12 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (10.08%) Docker

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 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.89%) Azure
2 21 (17.65%) AWS
3 12 (10.08%) SaaS
4 7 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.36%) Azure Functions
6 4 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.36%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.36%) Serverless
7 3 (2.52%) GitHub
8 2 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.84%) UWB
1 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.52%) Power BI
3 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.84%) Metadata
4 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Redis
4 1 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) JUnit
1 7 (5.88%) Maven
1 7 (5.88%) Mockito
2 6 (5.04%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.68%) GitLab
4 1 (0.84%) JIRA
4 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (21.85%) Finance
2 7 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.36%) Law
5 3 (2.52%) Games
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.33%) React
2 20 (16.81%) REST
3 12 (10.08%) .NET
4 11 (9.24%) .NET Core
5 10 (8.40%) Blazor
5 10 (8.40%) Playwright
5 10 (8.40%) Spring
6 7 (5.88%) Node.js
7 6 (5.04%) Kafka
8 5 (4.20%) RESTful
9 4 (3.36%) JSON
9 4 (3.36%) XML
9 4 (3.36%) XSLT
10 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.52%) CSS
10 3 (2.52%) HTML
10 3 (2.52%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.68%) Jest
11 2 (1.68%) Redux
11 2 (1.68%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.20%) Online Gambling
3 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.36%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.84%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (0.84%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.84%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.05%) Agile
2 30 (25.21%) Mentoring
3 26 (21.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (17.65%) AI
5 19 (15.97%) CI/CD
6 17 (14.29%) Scrum
6 17 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 16 (13.45%) SDLC
8 15 (12.61%) LLM
8 15 (12.61%) Sprint Planning
8 15 (12.61%) Technical Architecture
8 15 (12.61%) Time Management
9 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.08%) Front End Development
11 8 (6.72%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (6.72%) Microservices
11 8 (6.72%) Progressive Enhancement
11 8 (6.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.89%) C#
2 22 (18.49%) JavaScript
2 22 (18.49%) TypeScript
3 21 (17.65%) Java
4 18 (15.13%) SQL
5 7 (5.88%) Bash
5 7 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.36%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.52%) Go
8 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.84%) C
9 1 (0.84%) Python
9 1 (0.84%) Rust
9 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.20%) Degree
6 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.61%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.72%) QA
3 7 (5.88%) WCAG
4 4 (3.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.84%) JTAG
System Software
1 12 (10.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft
1 8 (6.72%) Oracle
2 2 (1.68%) Pega
3 1 (0.84%) Cognos
3 1 (0.84%) OutSystems
3 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.84%) Yahoo!