Senior Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer salary in the West Midlands is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 87 63
Rank change year-on-year +5 -24 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 188 160 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.69% 3.15% 4.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.85% 3.50% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 140 98 208
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £44,030
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +12.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% - +11.54%

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 6,598 4,571 8,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 90.05% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,468 3,109 5,288
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,600 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +17 95 £60,000 -7.69% 9
Warwickshire +17 37 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Staffordshire -24 18 £70,000 +33.33%
Halesowen - 10 £60,000 -
Solihull +9 9 £62,500 -3.85%
Wolverhampton - 8 £130,446 -
Worcestershire -23 4 £55,000 -8.33%
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 83 (44.15%) .NET
2 78 (41.49%) C#
3 57 (30.32%) Azure
4 53 (28.19%) JavaScript
5 44 (23.40%) SQL
6 35 (18.62%) HTML
7 33 (17.55%) Microsoft
7 33 (17.55%) Agile
8 31 (16.49%) AngularJS
9 30 (15.96%) TypeScript
9 30 (15.96%) CSS
10 29 (15.43%) DevOps
11 28 (14.89%) .NET Framework
12 27 (14.36%) Full Stack Development
13 26 (13.83%) Social Skills
14 24 (12.77%) Entity Framework
15 22 (11.70%) MVC
16 21 (11.17%) User Experience
16 21 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (11.17%) .NET Core
17 20 (10.64%) Vue
17 20 (10.64%) ASP.NET
17 20 (10.64%) Web Development
18 19 (10.11%) Machine Learning
19 18 (9.57%) React
19 18 (9.57%) Docker
19 18 (9.57%) Analytics
19 18 (9.57%) AWS
19 18 (9.57%) Python
20 17 (9.04%) SDLC

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.72%) SAS
2 2 (1.06%) ThingWorx
2 2 (1.06%) WordPress
3 1 (0.53%) Appian
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Maya
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.53%) NUKE
1 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.32%) Azure
2 21 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (9.57%) AWS
4 17 (9.04%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (8.51%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.85%) PowerApps
6 11 (5.85%) SaaS
7 10 (5.32%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.72%) GitHub
9 6 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.53%) Firebase
11 1 (0.53%) OCI
11 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.91%) MySQL
1 13 (6.91%) Power BI
2 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.66%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.06%) Power Query
6 2 (1.06%) SQLite
7 1 (0.53%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) OLAP
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (7.98%) Git
2 3 (1.60%) Postman
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 26 (13.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.32%) Finance
3 9 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (2.66%) Automotive
5 4 (2.13%) Digital Healthcare
5 4 (2.13%) Law
5 4 (2.13%) Retail
6 2 (1.06%) Banking
6 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.53%) Billing
7 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Legal
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (44.15%) .NET
2 35 (18.62%) HTML
3 31 (16.49%) AngularJS
4 30 (15.96%) CSS
5 28 (14.89%) .NET Framework
6 24 (12.77%) Entity Framework
7 21 (11.17%) .NET Core
8 20 (10.64%) ASP.NET
8 20 (10.64%) Vue
9 18 (9.57%) React
10 13 (6.91%) REST
11 11 (5.85%) Laravel
12 10 (5.32%) Web Services
13 9 (4.79%) jQuery
14 8 (4.26%) RESTful
15 7 (3.72%) ASP.NET MVC
16 6 (3.19%) ASP.NET Web API
16 6 (3.19%) HTML5
16 6 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
16 6 (3.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.19%) Legacy Code
3 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.13%) Home Automation
5 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.06%) CUDA
6 2 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.26%) Linux
2 7 (3.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (17.55%) Agile
2 29 (15.43%) DevOps
3 27 (14.36%) Full Stack Development
4 22 (11.70%) MVC
5 21 (11.17%) User Experience
6 20 (10.64%) Web Development
7 19 (10.11%) Machine Learning
8 18 (9.57%) Analytics
9 17 (9.04%) SDLC
10 15 (7.98%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (7.98%) Data Analytics
10 15 (7.98%) Scrum
11 14 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.45%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.91%) ERP
13 12 (6.38%) Data Modelling
13 12 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (5.85%) CI/CD
14 11 (5.85%) Digital Strategy
14 11 (5.85%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 78 (41.49%) C#
2 53 (28.19%) JavaScript
3 44 (23.40%) SQL
4 30 (15.96%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.57%) Python
6 15 (7.98%) PHP
7 8 (4.26%) C++
7 8 (4.26%) R
7 8 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.60%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.06%) Java
9 2 (1.06%) XAML
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (5.32%) Degree
2 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.13%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.06%) PhD
3 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (9.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.19%) Terraform
3 5 (2.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.32%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.66%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.13%) SEEBURGER
4 4 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.06%) AVEVA
5 2 (1.06%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle
6 1 (0.53%) Perforce
6 1 (0.53%) Quadient
6 1 (0.53%) Sitecore