Software Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the West Midlands is £45,000 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 113 142 152
Rank change year-on-year +29 +10 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 124 85 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.77% 1.67% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.86% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 116 67 105
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,500 £61,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%

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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the West Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the West Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the West Midlands

Software 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 Software 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 0 34 £40,000 -29.20% 9
Warwickshire +16 20 £45,000 +66.67% 5
Staffordshire -36 17 £40,000 -20.00% 4
Coventry - 13 £53,500 - 2
Worcestershire -12 12 £37,500 -9.09% 4
Wolverhampton - 5 £35,000 -
Shropshire 0 3 £42,500 +2.41% 3
Wednesbury - 3 £62,500 -
Halesowen - 2 £60,000 -
Solihull - 1 £60,000 -
Walsall - 1 £50,000 -
Software Developer
England

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

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

1 87 (70.16%) C#
2 70 (56.45%) .NET
3 48 (38.71%) SQL
4 42 (33.87%) SQL Server
5 39 (31.45%) Agile
6 33 (26.61%) Social Skills
7 31 (25.00%) MVC
8 27 (21.77%) Finance
8 27 (21.77%) Azure
9 24 (19.35%) JavaScript
10 22 (17.74%) HTML
10 22 (17.74%) ASP.NET
11 19 (15.32%) Microsoft
12 18 (14.52%) AWS
12 18 (14.52%) ASP.NET MVC
13 17 (13.71%) Degree
14 16 (12.90%) DevOps
14 16 (12.90%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (12.90%) Computer Science
15 15 (12.10%) Scrum
16 14 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (11.29%) React
16 14 (11.29%) .NET Core
17 13 (10.48%) TypeScript
17 13 (10.48%) Customer Service
17 13 (10.48%) VB.NET
18 12 (9.68%) C++
18 12 (9.68%) Mobile App
19 11 (8.87%) Visualisation
20 10 (8.06%) Asset Management

Software 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 1 (0.81%) Mendix
1 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.81%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) ProductWriter
1 2 (1.61%) Shopify
2 1 (0.81%) Infor LN
2 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.77%) Azure
2 18 (14.52%) AWS
3 9 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (7.26%) Serverless
4 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.03%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (4.03%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.61%) dbt
6 2 (1.61%) SaaS
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) 4G
1 1 (0.81%) 5G
1 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (33.87%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.84%) DynamoDB
2 6 (4.84%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.42%) MySQL
4 2 (1.61%) SQLite
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.81%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Git
2 5 (4.03%) MSTest
2 5 (4.03%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.61%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) GCC
General
1 33 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.77%) Finance
3 8 (6.45%) Marketing
4 5 (4.03%) Automotive
4 5 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.42%) Law
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (0.81%) Electronics
7 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (56.45%) .NET
2 22 (17.74%) ASP.NET
2 22 (17.74%) HTML
3 18 (14.52%) ASP.NET MVC
4 14 (11.29%) .NET Core
4 14 (11.29%) React
5 8 (6.45%) Node.js
6 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.65%) JSON
6 7 (5.65%) XML
7 6 (4.84%) Blazor
7 6 (4.84%) WinForms
8 5 (4.03%) CSS
8 5 (4.03%) RESTful
9 4 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 4 (3.23%) Next.js
10 3 (2.42%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.42%) Django
10 3 (2.42%) jQuery
10 3 (2.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.03%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.23%) Home Automation
4 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.61%) CUDA
5 2 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.26%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.45%) Agile
2 31 (25.00%) MVC
3 16 (12.90%) Computer Science
3 16 (12.90%) DevOps
3 16 (12.90%) Full Stack Development
4 15 (12.10%) Scrum
5 14 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (10.48%) Customer Service
7 11 (8.87%) Visualisation
8 10 (8.06%) Asset Management
8 10 (8.06%) Unit Testing
9 8 (6.45%) Defect Management
9 8 (6.45%) Front End Development
9 8 (6.45%) Software Engineering
10 7 (5.65%) Code Quality
10 7 (5.65%) Product Management
10 7 (5.65%) Software Testing
11 6 (4.84%) Architectural Design
11 6 (4.84%) Mentoring
11 6 (4.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 87 (70.16%) C#
2 48 (38.71%) SQL
3 24 (19.35%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.48%) TypeScript
4 13 (10.48%) VB.NET
5 12 (9.68%) C++
6 10 (8.06%) Python
7 8 (6.45%) Java
8 5 (4.03%) VB
9 4 (3.23%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.42%) PHP
11 2 (1.61%) XAML
Qualifications
1 17 (13.71%) Degree
2 7 (5.65%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.42%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.61%) Terraform
2 1 (0.81%) Grafana
2 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.61%) NVIDIA
3 1 (0.81%) AVEVA
3 1 (0.81%) Denodo
3 1 (0.81%) Infor
3 1 (0.81%) JDA
3 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.81%) Talend