Software Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Software Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 55 97
Rank change year-on-year -18 +42 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 149 285 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.32% 3.92% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.68% 4.16% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 46 199 84
10th Percentile £32,000 £39,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,625 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,875 £80,500 £75,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 4,049 6,847 5,918
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.14% 90.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,810 5,178 3,357
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
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 £63,217 £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%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in the West Midlands

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 Software Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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 +2 61 £30,000 -40.00% 14
Birmingham -7 40 £66,250 +15.22% 32
Staffordshire 0 21 £45,000 -14.29% 29
Coventry +9 13 - - 7
Shropshire +17 7 £60,000 +50.00% 12
Wolverhampton +15 3 £95,000 +137.50% 6
Herefordshire - 2 - - 5
Solihull +8 1 £47,500 +11.76% 1
Worcestershire -5 1 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 107 (71.81%) Agile
2 83 (55.70%) Software Engineering
3 74 (49.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 70 (46.98%) Software Testing
5 69 (46.31%) Automotive
6 66 (44.30%) MATLAB
6 66 (44.30%) Simulink
6 66 (44.30%) Validation
6 66 (44.30%) Aerospace
6 66 (44.30%) Systems Engineering
7 39 (26.17%) CI/CD
7 39 (26.17%) Azure
8 37 (24.83%) AWS
8 37 (24.83%) React
9 35 (23.49%) Java
10 34 (22.82%) JavaScript
10 34 (22.82%) DevOps
10 34 (22.82%) Microservices
11 33 (22.15%) Kubernetes
12 32 (21.48%) SQL
12 32 (21.48%) JIRA
13 31 (20.81%) Docker
13 31 (20.81%) Containerisation
13 31 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (19.46%) Bitbucket
15 28 (18.79%) SQL Server
16 27 (18.12%) C#
16 27 (18.12%) Finance
17 26 (17.45%) Banking
17 26 (17.45%) Spring

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 22 (14.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) ColdFusion
2 1 (0.67%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (0.67%) WinCC
Applications
1 66 (44.30%) Simulink
2 1 (0.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.17%) Azure
2 37 (24.83%) AWS
3 24 (16.11%) GCP
4 4 (2.68%) GitHub
4 4 (2.68%) SaaS
5 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.01%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.01%) Supabase
5 3 (2.01%) Vercel
6 2 (1.34%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.34%) Serverless
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.67%) Datadog
7 1 (0.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.79%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.07%) MySQL
3 9 (6.04%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.34%) Big Data
6 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (21.48%) JIRA
2 29 (19.46%) Bitbucket
3 21 (14.09%) Cucumber
3 21 (14.09%) GitLab
3 21 (14.09%) Maven
3 21 (14.09%) Selenium
3 21 (14.09%) SonarQube
3 21 (14.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (8.72%) Git
5 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 69 (46.31%) Automotive
2 66 (44.30%) Aerospace
3 27 (18.12%) Finance
4 26 (17.45%) Banking
5 22 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (8.72%) Retail
7 11 (7.38%) Social Skills
8 9 (6.04%) Investment Banking
9 8 (5.37%) Corporate Banking
9 8 (5.37%) Law
10 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.68%) Games
12 3 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (2.01%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.67%) Back Office
14 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (24.83%) React
2 26 (17.45%) CSS
2 26 (17.45%) HTML
2 26 (17.45%) Kafka
2 26 (17.45%) Spring
3 22 (14.77%) Redux
4 21 (14.09%) JPA
4 21 (14.09%) Spring Boot
5 18 (12.08%) .NET
6 13 (8.72%) Hibernate
7 12 (8.05%) RESTful
8 11 (7.38%) REST
9 9 (6.04%) Sass
10 8 (5.37%) CSS3
10 8 (5.37%) HTML5
10 8 (5.37%) Jest
11 6 (4.03%) .NET Core
11 6 (4.03%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.36%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.36%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.44%) Product Ownership
2 21 (14.09%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.36%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.68%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.68%) SCADA
6 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.01%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.01%) Lidar
7 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.34%) IoT
7 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.34%) Replication
8 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.67%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Linux
2 8 (5.37%) Windows
3 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) CentOS
4 1 (0.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (71.81%) Agile
2 83 (55.70%) Software Engineering
3 70 (46.98%) Software Testing
4 66 (44.30%) Systems Engineering
4 66 (44.30%) Validation
5 39 (26.17%) CI/CD
6 34 (22.82%) DevOps
6 34 (22.82%) Microservices
7 31 (20.81%) Containerisation
7 31 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (16.11%) Test Automation
9 22 (14.77%) SDLC
9 22 (14.77%) TDD
10 21 (14.09%) Front End Development
10 21 (14.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 17 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (10.74%) Clean Code
13 14 (9.40%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (8.05%) User Experience
15 10 (6.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.30%) MATLAB
2 35 (23.49%) Java
3 34 (22.82%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.48%) SQL
5 27 (18.12%) C#
6 12 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.38%) Python
8 6 (4.03%) C
8 6 (4.03%) PHP
9 4 (2.68%) Go
10 3 (2.01%) Swift
11 2 (1.34%) Ruby
12 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 74 (49.66%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (3.36%) Degree
3 1 (0.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.77%) QA
2 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 31 (20.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (22.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.37%) Ansible
3 3 (2.01%) Terraform
4 1 (0.67%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (14.09%) Solace
2 8 (5.37%) Atlassian
3 5 (3.36%) Databricks
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.34%) Siemens
4 2 (1.34%) Twitter
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.67%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.67%) Salesforce