Senior Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer salary in the West Midlands is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 108 105
Rank change year-on-year -35 -3 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 50 167 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.22% 2.15% 2.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 2.28% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 30 141 105
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £52,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £66,938 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,375 £72,500 £80,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +3.45%

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 3,723 7,339 5,520
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 94.44% 90.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 5,465 3,256
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -15 19 £62,500 - 50
Coventry - 9 - - 37
Warwickshire -10 7 £54,250 -16.54% 23
Worcestershire +20 4 £65,000 +18.18% 38
Shropshire - 3 £57,500 - 70
Staffordshire +13 2 - - 53
Solihull -4 2 £65,000 +4.00%
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 28 May 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 31 (62.00%) C#
2 30 (60.00%) .NET
3 28 (56.00%) SQL
4 21 (42.00%) HTML
4 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
5 20 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (40.00%) Azure
6 17 (34.00%) SQL Server
7 16 (32.00%) ASP.NET
8 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
8 15 (30.00%) MVC
9 14 (28.00%) Agile
9 14 (28.00%) Blazor
9 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (26.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 13 (26.00%) Software Architecture
11 12 (24.00%) Git
12 10 (20.00%) Scrum
12 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
12 10 (20.00%) React
13 9 (18.00%) DevOps
14 8 (16.00%) CSS
14 8 (16.00%) RESTful
14 8 (16.00%) JIRA
14 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
15 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (12.00%) .NET Core
16 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
16 6 (12.00%) Web Development
16 6 (12.00%) AWS

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 4 (8.00%) CMS
2 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 2 (4.00%) Headless CMS
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.00%) Sitefinity
4 1 (2.00%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (6.00%) NetSuite
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) GitHub
4 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.00%) SaaS
6 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.00%) Figma
7 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.00%) Algolia
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.00%) Contentful
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.00%) npm
8 1 (2.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) Data Hub
4 2 (4.00%) Metadata
4 2 (4.00%) MySQL
4 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) SQL CLR
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.00%) Big Data
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 8 (16.00%) JIRA
3 4 (8.00%) JUnit
4 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.00%) Mockito
5 2 (4.00%) NUnit
6 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.00%) Vite
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Finance
2 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.00%) Back Office
3 2 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Automotive
4 1 (2.00%) iGaming
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing
4 1 (2.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (60.00%) .NET
2 21 (42.00%) HTML
3 16 (32.00%) ASP.NET
4 14 (28.00%) Blazor
5 13 (26.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 10 (20.00%) React
7 8 (16.00%) CSS
7 8 (16.00%) RESTful
8 6 (12.00%) .NET Core
9 5 (10.00%) Node.js
9 5 (10.00%) REST
10 4 (8.00%) .NET Framework
10 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
10 4 (8.00%) GraphQL
10 4 (8.00%) Laravel
11 3 (6.00%) Django
11 3 (6.00%) FastAPI
11 3 (6.00%) Keycloak
11 3 (6.00%) SQLAlchemy
11 3 (6.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 15 (30.00%) MVC
3 14 (28.00%) Agile
3 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (26.00%) Software Architecture
5 10 (20.00%) Scrum
6 9 (18.00%) DevOps
7 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.00%) OO
8 6 (12.00%) Web Development
9 5 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 5 (10.00%) Front End Development
10 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (8.00%) Data Protection
10 4 (8.00%) SDLC
10 4 (8.00%) Software Engineering
10 4 (8.00%) TDD
11 3 (6.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 31 (62.00%) C#
2 28 (56.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.00%) PHP
4 4 (8.00%) Python
5 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.00%) Bash
6 2 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Ruby
6 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Grafana
2 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) Okta
3 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) Xamarin