Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 191 213
Rank change year-on-year +30 +22 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 41 61 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.92% 0.84% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.89% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9 42 24
10th Percentile £64,500 £40,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £47,500 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,991 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £79,750 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%

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 4,018 6,831 5,921
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.12% 90.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,804 5,166 3,354
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,974
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Warwickshire 0 22 - - 3
Birmingham +14 11 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Coventry - 5 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 2 £95,000 - 1
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (92.68%) Agile
2 32 (78.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 26 (63.41%) Automotive
4 24 (58.54%) Validation
4 24 (58.54%) Aerospace
4 24 (58.54%) Software Testing
4 24 (58.54%) MATLAB
4 24 (58.54%) Simulink
4 24 (58.54%) Systems Engineering
5 17 (41.46%) Software Engineering
6 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
7 13 (31.71%) C#
8 11 (26.83%) .NET
9 9 (21.95%) MySQL
9 9 (21.95%) Git
9 9 (21.95%) Bitbucket
10 8 (19.51%) Relational Database
10 8 (19.51%) Ansible
10 8 (19.51%) Coaching
10 8 (19.51%) JIRA
10 8 (19.51%) Atlassian
10 8 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (19.51%) Confluence
10 8 (19.51%) Windows
10 8 (19.51%) Linux
10 8 (19.51%) DevSecOps
10 8 (19.51%) Continuous Deployment
11 5 (12.20%) React
11 5 (12.20%) Python
11 5 (12.20%) Azure

Senior Software Engineer 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 8 (19.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (58.54%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) GitHub
2 3 (7.32%) Supabase
2 3 (7.32%) Vercel
3 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.44%) AWS
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) MySQL
2 8 (19.51%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Bitbucket
1 9 (21.95%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) JIRA
General
1 26 (63.41%) Automotive
2 24 (58.54%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.32%) Retail
3 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) .NET
2 5 (12.20%) React
3 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.32%) FastAPI
4 3 (7.32%) Next.js
5 2 (4.88%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.88%) Kafka
5 2 (4.88%) RESTful
5 2 (4.88%) Vue
6 1 (2.44%) Kendo UI
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Lidar
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.88%) IoT
3 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
1 8 (19.51%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (92.68%) Agile
2 24 (58.54%) Software Testing
2 24 (58.54%) Systems Engineering
2 24 (58.54%) Validation
3 17 (41.46%) Software Engineering
4 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
5 8 (19.51%) Coaching
5 8 (19.51%) Continuous Deployment
5 8 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (19.51%) DevSecOps
6 3 (7.32%) 3D Modelling
6 3 (7.32%) API Development
6 3 (7.32%) DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (7.32%) iOS Development
6 3 (7.32%) Microservices
6 3 (7.32%) Mobile Development
6 3 (7.32%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (7.32%) Presales
6 3 (7.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) MATLAB
2 13 (31.71%) C#
3 5 (12.20%) Python
4 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) Swift
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.88%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (78.05%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Ansible
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.88%) Databricks
3 1 (2.44%) Telerik