Senior Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

The median annual salary for a Senior Developer was £47,500 in advertised job vacancies in the West Midlands during the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Senior Developer England / West Midlands
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	37	53	85
Rank change year-on-year	+16	+32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer	278	274	186
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands	5.40%	4.39%	3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category	5.57%	4.56%	3.35%
Number of salaries quoted	263	208	168
Median salary	£47,500	£42,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+11.76%	-5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than	£37,500	£32,500	£39,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£52,500	£60,000	£50,000
UK excluding London median salary	£48,000	£47,500	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+1.05%	+5.55%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

IT Job Roles West Midlands
Permanent job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	4990	6014	5559
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands	96.93%	96.35%	96.90%
Number of salaries quoted	4222	4731	4633
Median salary	£40,000	£38,500	£40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+3.89%	-3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than	£25,000	£24,500	£24,400
10% offered a salary of more than	£55,000	£60,000	£60,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,000	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+3.65%	+2.50%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the West Midlands that featured Senior Developer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT 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

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Senior Developer in the West Midlands over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

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 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Birmingham	+33	129	£47,500	+18.75%	6
Staffordshire	+20	31	£40,000	-	3
Warwickshire	-28	31	£45,000	-10.00%	3
Coventry	-9	30	£42,500	-5.55%	2
Solihull	+13	20	£36,000	-5.88%	1
Worcestershire	-2	19	£47,500	+45.03%	3
Herefordshire	-7	11	£47,500	+46.15%
Sutton Coldfield	-	9	£45,000	-
Shropshire	+4	7	£40,000	-11.11%
West Bromwich	-	2	£42,500	-
Wolverhampton	+8	1	-	-
Halesowen	-	1	£43,500	-	1
Walsall	-	1	£40,000	-
Senior Developer England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, Senior Developer job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1	302 (61.13%)	JavaScript
2	299 (60.53%)	HTML
3	292 (59.11%)	CSS
4	272 (55.06%)	.NET
5	269 (54.45%)	C#
6	211 (42.71%)	Agile Software Development
7	190 (38.46%)	MVC
8	178 (36.03%)	SQL
9	168 (34.01%)	AngularJS
10	163 (33.00%)	SQL Server
11	138 (27.94%)	Microsoft
12	127 (25.71%)	ASP.NET
13	121 (24.49%)	TDD
13	121 (24.49%)	HTML5
14	108 (21.86%)	Web Development

15	107 (21.66%)	PHP
16	105 (21.26%)	MySQL
17	104 (21.05%)	jQuery
18	87 (17.61%)	ASP.NET MVC
19	83 (16.80%)	MongoDB
20	82 (16.60%)	Git (software)
21	79 (15.99%)	Finance
22	74 (14.98%)	NoSQL
23	72 (14.57%)	REST
24	70 (14.17%)	Java
25	68 (13.77%)	.NET Framework
26	66 (13.36%)	Visual Studio
26	66 (13.36%)	React
27	65 (13.16%)	ASP.NET Web API
28	64 (12.96%)	E-Commerce

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	44 (8.91%)	Elasticsearch
2	39 (7.89%)	nginx
3	36 (7.29%)	Apache
4	22 (4.45%)	CMS
5	11 (2.23%)	SharePoint
6	9 (1.82%)	Drupal
6	9 (1.82%)	JBoss
7	8 (1.62%)	WordPress
8	7 (1.42%)	IIS
9	6 (1.21%)	SharePoint Server
9	6 (1.21%)	Umbraco
10	4 (0.81%)	Apache Spark
10	4 (0.81%)	EPiServer
10	4 (0.81%)	Sitecore CMS
11	3 (0.61%)	GlassFish
11	3 (0.61%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	3 (0.61%)	WebLogic
11	3 (0.61%)	WildFly
12	2 (0.40%)	Adobe Experience Manager
12	2 (0.40%)	Mule

Applications
1	12 (2.43%)	Microsoft Office
2	9 (1.82%)	3ds Max
2	9 (1.82%)	Maya
3	4 (0.81%)	Photoshop
4	1 (0.20%)	Adobe Creative Suite
4	1 (0.20%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	7 (1.42%)	Dynamics CRM
2	4 (0.81%)	Magento
3	2 (0.40%)	Shopify
4	1 (0.20%)	Dynamics AX
4	1 (0.20%)	OpenCart
4	1 (0.20%)	Oracle Cash Management
4	1 (0.20%)	Oracle EBS
4	1 (0.20%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	1 (0.20%)	Oracle Payables
4	1 (0.20%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4	1 (0.20%)	osCommerce

Cloud Services
1	48 (9.72%)	Microsoft Azure
2	45 (9.11%)	Amazon AWS
3	33 (6.68%)	Amazon EC2
4	30 (6.07%)	Amazon S3
4	30 (6.07%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5	29 (5.87%)	SaaS
6	26 (5.26%)	GitHub
7	16 (3.24%)	PaaS
8	9 (1.82%)	Firebase
9	3 (0.61%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	3 (0.61%)	Slack
10	2 (0.40%)	Amazon CloudSearch
10	2 (0.40%)	Amazon ElastiCache
10	2 (0.40%)	Amazon SQS
10	2 (0.40%)	Bluemix
10	2 (0.40%)	IaaS
10	2 (0.40%)	IBM Cloud
10	2 (0.40%)	TestFlight
11	1 (0.20%)	Google Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	6 (1.21%)	HTTP
2	5 (1.01%)	Skype
3	4 (0.81%)	Internet
4	3 (0.61%)	Intranet
5	2 (0.40%)	WEP
6	1 (0.20%)	Bluetooth
6	1 (0.20%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	163 (33.00%)	SQL Server
2	105 (21.26%)	MySQL
3	83 (16.80%)	MongoDB
4	74 (14.98%)	NoSQL
5	30 (6.07%)	Amazon RDS
6	28 (5.67%)	Relational Database
7	25 (5.06%)	SQL Server 2008
8	24 (4.86%)	SQL Server Integration Services
9	21 (4.25%)	SQL Server 2012
10	19 (3.85%)	Data Mart
10	19 (3.85%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	17 (3.44%)	Oracle BI EE
11	17 (3.44%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
12	14 (2.83%)	Big Data
12	14 (2.83%)	DocumentDB
13	12 (2.43%)	PostgreSQL
13	12 (2.43%)	Power BI
14	11 (2.23%)	Data Warehouse
14	11 (2.23%)	Oracle Database
15	9 (1.82%)	Oracle Database 12c

Development Applications
1	82 (16.60%)	Git (software)
2	66 (13.36%)	Visual Studio
3	60 (12.15%)	Jenkins
4	44 (8.91%)	webpack
5	38 (7.69%)	gulp
5	38 (7.69%)	PhantomJS
6	29 (5.87%)	SpecFlow
7	25 (5.06%)	GitLab
8	23 (4.66%)	Team Foundation Server
9	21 (4.25%)	NUnit
10	16 (3.24%)	Selenium
11	15 (3.04%)	Subversion
12	10 (2.02%)	git-flow
12	10 (2.02%)	JUnit
12	10 (2.02%)	PHPUnit
12	10 (2.02%)	Vagrant
13	9 (1.82%)	Jasmine
13	9 (1.82%)	Karma Test Runner
14	8 (1.62%)	Grunt
15	6 (1.21%)	Maven

General
1	79 (15.99%)	Finance
2	28 (5.67%)	Marketing
3	22 (4.45%)	Electronics
4	21 (4.25%)	Retail
5	11 (2.23%)	Legal
6	10 (2.02%)	Music Industry
7	8 (1.62%)	Automotive
8	6 (1.21%)	Pharmaceutical
8	6 (1.21%)	Telecoms
9	5 (1.01%)	Manufacturing
10	4 (0.81%)	Games
11	3 (0.61%)	Advertising
11	3 (0.61%)	Financial Institution

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	299 (60.53%)	HTML
2	292 (59.11%)	CSS
3	272 (55.06%)	.NET
4	168 (34.01%)	AngularJS
5	127 (25.71%)	ASP.NET
6	121 (24.49%)	HTML5
7	104 (21.05%)	jQuery
8	87 (17.61%)	ASP.NET MVC
9	72 (14.57%)	REST
10	68 (13.77%)	.NET Framework
11	66 (13.36%)	React
12	65 (13.16%)	ASP.NET Web API
13	55 (11.13%)	CSS3
13	55 (11.13%)	Twitter Bootstrap
14	46 (9.31%)	Entity Framework
14	46 (9.31%)	RESTful
15	45 (9.11%)	LAMP
16	44 (8.91%)	Laravel
17	42 (8.50%)	KnockoutJS
18	40 (8.10%)	Web Services

Miscellaneous
1	42 (8.50%)	Greenfield Project
2	29 (5.87%)	Mobile App
3	28 (5.67%)	User Experience
4	23 (4.66%)	Analytical Skills
5	17 (3.44%)	Linux Command Line
6	13 (2.63%)	Fintech
7	12 (2.43%)	Client/Server
8	11 (2.23%)	Computer Science
9	8 (1.62%)	NHS
10	6 (1.21%)	Enterprise Software
11	3 (0.61%)	Derivative
11	3 (0.61%)	Equity Derivative
12	2 (0.40%)	Animation
12	2 (0.40%)	Data Structures
12	2 (0.40%)	Replication
13	1 (0.20%)	Algorithms
13	1 (0.20%)	Blog
13	1 (0.20%)	Internet of Things
13	1 (0.20%)	Online Games
13	1 (0.20%)	Xbox

Operating Systems
1	63 (12.75%)	Linux
2	46 (9.31%)	Apple iOS
3	38 (7.69%)	Android
4	29 (5.87%)	Windows
5	18 (3.64%)	Unix
6	5 (1.01%)	Windows Server
7	3 (0.61%)	Windows Server 2012
8	2 (0.40%)	Windows Phone
8	2 (0.40%)	Windows Phone 8
9	1 (0.20%)	Mac OS X
9	1 (0.20%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	211 (42.71%)	Agile Software Development
2	190 (38.46%)	MVC
3	121 (24.49%)	TDD
4	108 (21.86%)	Web Development
5	64 (12.96%)	E-Commerce
6	62 (12.55%)	BDD
6	62 (12.55%)	OO
7	59 (11.94%)	Scrum
8	52 (10.53%)	SOLID
9	51 (10.32%)	Continuous Integration
10	50 (10.12%)	OOP
11	49 (9.92%)	Mentoring
12	44 (8.91%)	Business Intelligence
13	43 (8.70%)	Continuous Delivery
14	42 (8.50%)	Unit Testing
15	40 (8.10%)	iOS Development
16	39 (7.89%)	Test Automation
17	38 (7.69%)	Microservices
18	34 (6.88%)	Domain-Driven Design
18	34 (6.88%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	302 (61.13%)	JavaScript
2	269 (54.45%)	C#
3	178 (36.03%)	SQL
4	107 (21.66%)	PHP
5	70 (14.17%)	Java
6	33 (6.68%)	TypeScript
7	31 (6.28%)	XPath
8	30 (6.07%)	T-SQL
9	27 (5.47%)	PHP 7
10	24 (4.86%)	VB.NET
11	22 (4.45%)	PL/SQL
12	20 (4.05%)	C
13	15 (3.04%)	C++
14	14 (2.83%)	Objective-C
15	9 (1.82%)	Lua
16	5 (1.01%)	Scala
17	4 (0.81%)	Python
17	4 (0.81%)	VC++
17	4 (0.81%)	XAML
18	3 (0.61%)	Go

Qualifications
1	34 (6.88%)	Degree
2	13 (2.63%)	Microsoft Certification
3	10 (2.02%)	Computer Science Degree
4	5 (1.01%)	MCSD
5	2 (0.40%)	SC Cleared
5	2 (0.40%)	Security Cleared
6	1 (0.20%)	Postgraduate
6	1 (0.20%)	Sun Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (4.25%)	QA
2	1 (0.20%)	Data Quality
2	1 (0.20%)	MISRA
2	1 (0.20%)	MISRA C

System Software
1	39 (7.89%)	Docker
2	2 (0.40%)	Microsoft App-V
3	1 (0.20%)	Active Directory
3	1 (0.20%)	Apache ZooKeeper
3	1 (0.20%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	1 (0.20%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	30 (6.07%)	Opscode Chef
2	10 (2.02%)	Ansible
3	3 (0.61%)	Kubernetes
4	2 (0.40%)	HockeyApp
5	1 (0.20%)	Hadoop YARN

Vendors
1	138 (27.94%)	Microsoft
2	28 (5.67%)	Oracle
3	24 (4.86%)	Xamarin
4	12 (2.43%)	IBM
5	9 (1.82%)	Zend
6	6 (1.21%)	Google
7	4 (0.81%)	Sitecore
7	4 (0.81%)	Sybase
8	3 (0.61%)	Adobe
9	2 (0.40%)	Apple
9	2 (0.40%)	Telerik
10	1 (0.20%)	Casewise
10	1 (0.20%)	Facebook
10	1 (0.20%)	NEC
10	1 (0.20%)	Sun
10	1 (0.20%)	Tableau
10	1 (0.20%)	VMware
10	1 (0.20%)	WSO2