Software Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Software Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 53 91
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 150 327 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.63% 3.90% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.03% 4.14% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 44 211 100
10th Percentile £34,175 £38,000 £32,950
25th Percentile £56,563 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,125 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,500 £70,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +4.81%

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 3,722 7,893 4,949
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.26% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,926 5,560 3,253
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,700 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,563 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +40 61 £30,000 -40.00% 28
Birmingham -13 33 £67,500 +12.50% 46
Staffordshire +3 20 - - 31
Shropshire +20 16 £60,000 +50.00% 17
Coventry +10 13 - - 11
Herefordshire - 3 - - 2
Wolverhampton +17 2 £95,000 +137.50% 4
Solihull +5 1 £47,500 +11.76%
Worcestershire -23 1 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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.

1 106 (70.67%) Agile
2 84 (56.00%) Software Engineering
3 74 (49.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 69 (46.00%) Automotive
5 68 (45.33%) Software Testing
6 66 (44.00%) Validation
6 66 (44.00%) MATLAB
6 66 (44.00%) Simulink
6 66 (44.00%) Aerospace
6 66 (44.00%) Systems Engineering
7 47 (31.33%) CI/CD
8 44 (29.33%) Azure
9 41 (27.33%) Java
9 41 (27.33%) AWS
9 41 (27.33%) Microservices
10 40 (26.67%) DevOps
11 39 (26.00%) Kubernetes
12 37 (24.67%) Docker
12 37 (24.67%) Containerisation
13 36 (24.00%) React
14 34 (22.67%) JIRA
15 33 (22.00%) SQL
15 33 (22.00%) Spring
16 32 (21.33%) Bitbucket
16 32 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (20.67%) JavaScript
18 28 (18.67%) Banking
18 28 (18.67%) Kafka
18 28 (18.67%) Test Automation
19 27 (18.00%) TDD

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 (14.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) ColdFusion
2 1 (0.67%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (0.67%) WinCC
Applications
1 66 (44.00%) Simulink
2 1 (0.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.33%) Azure
2 41 (27.33%) AWS
3 25 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (2.67%) GitHub
5 3 (2.00%) Supabase
5 3 (2.00%) Vercel
6 2 (1.33%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.33%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.67%) SaaS
7 1 (0.67%) Serverless
7 1 (0.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.00%) MySQL
3 9 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.33%) Big Data
6 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (22.67%) JIRA
2 32 (21.33%) Bitbucket
3 24 (16.00%) Cucumber
3 24 (16.00%) GitLab
3 24 (16.00%) Maven
3 24 (16.00%) Selenium
3 24 (16.00%) SonarQube
3 24 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (6.67%) Git
5 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 69 (46.00%) Automotive
2 66 (44.00%) Aerospace
3 28 (18.67%) Banking
4 25 (16.67%) Finance
4 25 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (10.00%) Retail
6 12 (8.00%) Social Skills
7 11 (7.33%) Corporate Banking
7 11 (7.33%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.33%) Law
9 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.33%) Electronics
10 2 (1.33%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Games
11 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.00%) React
2 33 (22.00%) Spring
3 28 (18.67%) Kafka
4 27 (18.00%) CSS
4 27 (18.00%) HTML
5 24 (16.00%) JPA
5 24 (16.00%) Redux
5 24 (16.00%) Spring Boot
6 15 (10.00%) RESTful
7 14 (9.33%) .NET
8 13 (8.67%) Hibernate
9 12 (8.00%) HTML5
10 11 (7.33%) CSS3
10 11 (7.33%) Jest
10 11 (7.33%) REST
10 11 (7.33%) Sass
11 5 (3.33%) Blazor
12 4 (2.67%) AngularJS
13 3 (2.00%) Next.js
13 3 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 24 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.67%) SCADA
5 3 (2.00%) Lidar
6 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.33%) IoT
6 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.33%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.67%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.00%) Linux
2 8 (5.33%) Windows
3 3 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) CentOS
4 1 (0.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (70.67%) Agile
2 84 (56.00%) Software Engineering
3 68 (45.33%) Software Testing
4 66 (44.00%) Systems Engineering
4 66 (44.00%) Validation
5 47 (31.33%) CI/CD
6 41 (27.33%) Microservices
7 40 (26.67%) DevOps
8 37 (24.67%) Containerisation
9 32 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (18.67%) Test Automation
11 27 (18.00%) SDLC
11 27 (18.00%) TDD
12 24 (16.00%) Front End Development
12 24 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (10.67%) Clean Code
16 15 (10.00%) User Experience
17 13 (8.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.00%) MATLAB
2 41 (27.33%) Java
3 33 (22.00%) SQL
4 31 (20.67%) JavaScript
5 22 (14.67%) C#
6 15 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.67%) Python
8 5 (3.33%) C
9 3 (2.00%) Go
9 3 (2.00%) PHP
9 3 (2.00%) Swift
10 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (49.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (4.67%) Degree
3 4 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) CREST Certified
4 1 (0.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.67%) QA
2 11 (7.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 37 (24.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.33%) Ansible
3 2 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (16.00%) Solace
2 8 (5.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.67%) Databricks
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.33%) Rockwell
4 2 (1.33%) Siemens
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.67%) Salesforce