Software Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 187 92
Rank change year-on-year +83 -95 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 167 78 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.27% 1.22% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 1.35% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 158 56 155
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £42,875 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £58,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,750 £62,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,919 5,770 6,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 90.24% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,204 3,275 4,763
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +1 30 £55,000 - 6
Staffordshire -10 30 £40,000 -20.00% 9
Worcestershire +5 28 £47,500 +11.76% 2
Warwickshire +50 24 £45,000 +34.33% 8
Coventry +46 18 £53,500 -2.73% 2
Shropshire +4 11 £39,500 -8.14% 3
Wednesbury - 5 £64,000 -
Halesowen - 4 £60,000 - 1
Solihull - 3 £50,000 - 1
Wolverhampton +13 1 £24,000 -56.36% 1
Herefordshire - 1 £50,000 - 1
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 8 May 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.

1 110 (65.87%) C#
2 93 (55.69%) .NET
3 77 (46.11%) SQL
4 60 (35.93%) SQL Server
5 47 (28.14%) MVC
6 45 (26.95%) Agile
6 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
7 39 (23.35%) ASP.NET
8 35 (20.96%) JavaScript
9 30 (17.96%) HTML
9 30 (17.96%) Finance
9 30 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (17.37%) DevOps
11 28 (16.77%) Azure
11 28 (16.77%) ASP.NET MVC
12 26 (15.57%) Microsoft
13 22 (13.17%) Degree
14 21 (12.57%) Mobile App
15 20 (11.98%) Full Stack Development
16 19 (11.38%) React
16 19 (11.38%) Computer Science
17 18 (10.78%) Software Engineering
17 18 (10.78%) .NET Core
18 17 (10.18%) TypeScript
18 17 (10.18%) Visual Studio
19 16 (9.58%) Windows
19 16 (9.58%) Git
20 15 (8.98%) Python
21 14 (8.38%) Linux
21 14 (8.38%) VB.NET

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 (0.60%) Mendix
1 1 (0.60%) NServiceBus
1 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Shopify
2 2 (1.20%) Infor LN
2 2 (1.20%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.77%) Azure
2 14 (8.38%) AWS
2 14 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (6.59%) Serverless
4 5 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (2.99%) Amazon S3
4 5 (2.99%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (2.99%) Azure Pipelines
5 4 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.40%) Azure Storage
5 4 (2.40%) iPaaS
5 4 (2.40%) PaaS
5 4 (2.40%) SaaS
6 2 (1.20%) Boomi
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.60%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) 4G
1 2 (1.20%) 5G
2 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (35.93%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.59%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.99%) MySQL
3 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.40%) SQLite
5 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.60%) Event Store
6 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.60%) Power BI
6 1 (0.60%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 17 (10.18%) Visual Studio
2 16 (9.58%) Git
3 5 (2.99%) MSTest
4 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.40%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) GCC
6 1 (0.60%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.96%) Finance
3 12 (7.19%) Automotive
4 8 (4.79%) Marketing
5 7 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.40%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.40%) Law
8 2 (1.20%) Games
8 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Electronics
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (55.69%) .NET
2 39 (23.35%) ASP.NET
3 30 (17.96%) HTML
4 28 (16.77%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (11.38%) React
6 18 (10.78%) .NET Core
7 14 (8.38%) .NET Framework
8 12 (7.19%) Entity Framework
8 12 (7.19%) RESTful
9 11 (6.59%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.99%) Node.js
11 9 (5.39%) PyTorch
11 9 (5.39%) TensorFlow
12 8 (4.79%) CSS
12 8 (4.79%) WinForms
13 7 (4.19%) ASP.NET Web Forms
13 7 (4.19%) XML
14 6 (3.59%) Next.js
14 6 (3.59%) WPF
15 5 (2.99%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.57%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.59%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.39%) CUDA
4 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.40%) Home Automation
6 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.20%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.20%) Mobile Games
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.58%) Windows
2 14 (8.38%) Linux
3 2 (1.20%) Android
3 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.14%) MVC
2 45 (26.95%) Agile
3 30 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (17.37%) DevOps
5 20 (11.98%) Full Stack Development
6 19 (11.38%) Computer Science
7 18 (10.78%) Software Engineering
8 13 (7.78%) Unit Testing
9 11 (6.59%) Customer Service
9 11 (6.59%) Front End Development
9 11 (6.59%) Visualisation
10 10 (5.99%) Software Testing
10 10 (5.99%) TDD
11 9 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (5.39%) Deep Learning
11 9 (5.39%) Scrum
12 8 (4.79%) Lean Software Development
12 8 (4.79%) Mentoring
12 8 (4.79%) Microservices
12 8 (4.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (65.87%) C#
2 77 (46.11%) SQL
3 35 (20.96%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.18%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.98%) Python
6 14 (8.38%) VB.NET
7 10 (5.99%) VB
8 7 (4.19%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.59%) C
9 6 (3.59%) C++
10 5 (2.99%) PHP
11 4 (2.40%) Java
11 4 (2.40%) XAML
12 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (13.17%) Degree
2 13 (7.78%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.99%) PhD
5 2 (1.20%) HND
6 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.40%) Terraform
2 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.39%) NVIDIA
3 4 (2.40%) JDA
3 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle
4 3 (1.80%) Talend
4 3 (1.80%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.20%) Infor
5 2 (1.20%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.60%) Denodo
6 1 (0.60%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.60%) YouTube