Senior Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer salary in the West Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 95 86
Rank change year-on-year -39 -9 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 58 207 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.40% 2.57% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 2.72% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 39 159 108
10th Percentile £52,250 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +1.05%

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 3,730 7,601 4,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.84% 94.25% 90.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,040 5,308 3,242
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 -23 21 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Warwickshire -13 11 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Coventry - 11 - - 8
Worcestershire +15 4 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Shropshire - 4 £58,750 - 7
Staffordshire +4 1 - - 7
Solihull -6 1 £70,000 +12.00%
Walsall - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, 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 32 (55.17%) C#
2 31 (53.45%) .NET
3 30 (51.72%) SQL
4 22 (37.93%) Azure
5 20 (34.48%) HTML
5 20 (34.48%) SQL Server
5 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
6 19 (32.76%) Agile
7 18 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
9 14 (24.14%) ASP.NET
9 14 (24.14%) MVC
9 14 (24.14%) DevOps
9 14 (24.14%) Blazor
9 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
11 12 (20.69%) ASP.NET MVC
11 12 (20.69%) Software Architecture
11 12 (20.69%) React
12 10 (17.24%) Git
13 9 (15.52%) RESTful
13 9 (15.52%) CSS
13 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (13.79%) .NET Core
14 8 (13.79%) Front End Development
14 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
14 8 (13.79%) Scrum
14 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
15 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (12.07%) 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 3 (5.17%) CMS
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.72%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Sitefinity
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.17%) NetSuite
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (12.07%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (10.34%) AWS
4 6 (10.34%) SaaS
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.45%) Figma
7 1 (1.72%) Algolia
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.72%) npm
7 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.72%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.72%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (34.48%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Data Hub
4 2 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) SQL CLR
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.72%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) Power Query
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) JUnit
3 2 (3.45%) Mockito
3 2 (3.45%) NUnit
3 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.72%) Vite
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 5 (8.62%) Law
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Automotive
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Games
6 1 (1.72%) iGaming
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (53.45%) .NET
2 20 (34.48%) HTML
3 14 (24.14%) ASP.NET
3 14 (24.14%) Blazor
4 12 (20.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 12 (20.69%) React
5 9 (15.52%) CSS
5 9 (15.52%) RESTful
6 8 (13.79%) .NET Core
7 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.90%) Laravel
7 4 (6.90%) REST
8 3 (5.17%) GraphQL
8 3 (5.17%) Node.js
8 3 (5.17%) Spring
8 3 (5.17%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (5.17%) Vue
9 2 (3.45%) Keycloak
9 2 (3.45%) Next.js
9 2 (3.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) IoT
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Android
2 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Agile
2 18 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (24.14%) DevOps
3 14 (24.14%) MVC
3 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.69%) Software Architecture
5 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
5 8 (13.79%) Front End Development
5 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
5 8 (13.79%) Scrum
6 7 (12.07%) SDLC
7 6 (10.34%) CRM
7 6 (10.34%) Web Development
8 5 (8.62%) Customer Service
8 5 (8.62%) OO
8 5 (8.62%) Unit Testing
8 5 (8.62%) User Experience
9 4 (6.90%) Design Patterns
9 4 (6.90%) Microservices
9 4 (6.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (55.17%) C#
2 30 (51.72%) SQL
3 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.90%) PHP
5 3 (5.17%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) Python
5 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) Bash
6 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.72%) Rust
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (3.45%) Grafana
2 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.45%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.45%) Okta
4 2 (3.45%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) SAP