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 21 April 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 53 101
Rank change year-on-year -56 +48 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 103 279 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.35% 3.93% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 4.18% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 45 194 81
10th Percentile £31,400 £39,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £80,500 £68,750
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 3,883 6,673 6,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.55% 93.96% 90.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,815 5,102 3,374
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,294 £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 £63,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,528 £60,500
% change year-on-year +7.42% -11.52% +0.83%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -21 40 £30,000 -40.00% 15
Birmingham -18 35 £67,500 +17.39% 26
Coventry +2 9 - - 9
Staffordshire -11 7 £45,000 +1.12% 10
Shropshire +18 6 £60,000 +50.00% 12
Wolverhampton +15 3 £95,000 +137.50% 6
Solihull +3 1 £47,500 +11.76%
Worcestershire -6 1 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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 64 (62.14%) Agile
2 61 (59.22%) Software Engineering
3 50 (48.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (45.63%) Software Testing
5 45 (43.69%) Automotive
6 42 (40.78%) MATLAB
6 42 (40.78%) Simulink
6 42 (40.78%) Validation
6 42 (40.78%) Aerospace
6 42 (40.78%) Systems Engineering
7 28 (27.18%) C#
8 20 (19.42%) .NET
9 18 (17.48%) Azure
9 18 (17.48%) CI/CD
10 16 (15.53%) React
11 15 (14.56%) AWS
11 15 (14.56%) MySQL
12 14 (13.59%) Java
12 14 (13.59%) JavaScript
12 14 (13.59%) Git
12 14 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (12.62%) DevOps
14 12 (11.65%) SQL
15 11 (10.68%) Python
15 11 (10.68%) JIRA
15 11 (10.68%) Microservices
15 11 (10.68%) Kubernetes
15 11 (10.68%) Full-Stack Development
16 10 (9.71%) Social Skills
16 10 (9.71%) GCP

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 9 (8.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) ColdFusion
2 1 (0.97%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (0.97%) WinCC
Applications
1 42 (40.78%) Simulink
2 1 (0.97%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.48%) Azure
2 15 (14.56%) AWS
3 10 (9.71%) GCP
4 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.88%) GitHub
4 4 (3.88%) SaaS
5 3 (2.91%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.91%) Supabase
5 3 (2.91%) Vercel
6 2 (1.94%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.94%) Serverless
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.97%) Datadog
7 1 (0.97%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.97%) MQTT
1 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.56%) MySQL
2 9 (8.74%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.94%) Big Data
7 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (13.59%) Git
2 11 (10.68%) JIRA
3 9 (8.74%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 45 (43.69%) Automotive
2 42 (40.78%) Aerospace
3 10 (9.71%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.74%) Law
5 7 (6.80%) Finance
6 6 (5.83%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.85%) Banking
7 5 (4.85%) Retail
8 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.88%) Games
9 3 (2.91%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.94%) Electronics
11 1 (0.97%) Back Office
11 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.42%) .NET
2 16 (15.53%) React
3 7 (6.80%) .NET Core
3 7 (6.80%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.85%) ASP.NET
4 5 (4.85%) CSS
4 5 (4.85%) HTML
4 5 (4.85%) Kafka
4 5 (4.85%) Laravel
4 5 (4.85%) REST
5 4 (3.88%) LAMP
5 4 (3.88%) RESTful
5 4 (3.88%) Spring
5 4 (3.88%) WCF
5 4 (3.88%) WPF
6 3 (2.91%) Blazor
6 3 (2.91%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.91%) Next.js
6 3 (2.91%) Node.js
6 3 (2.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.85%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.91%) Lidar
4 3 (2.91%) SCADA
5 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.94%) IoT
5 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.94%) Replication
6 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
2 8 (7.77%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.97%) CentOS
4 1 (0.97%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.14%) Agile
2 61 (59.22%) Software Engineering
3 47 (45.63%) Software Testing
4 42 (40.78%) Systems Engineering
4 42 (40.78%) Validation
5 18 (17.48%) CI/CD
6 14 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (12.62%) DevOps
8 11 (10.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (10.68%) Microservices
9 9 (8.74%) Coaching
9 9 (8.74%) Containerisation
9 9 (8.74%) TDD
10 8 (7.77%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (7.77%) DevSecOps
10 8 (7.77%) Scrum
11 7 (6.80%) Code Quality
11 7 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (5.83%) MVC
12 6 (5.83%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.78%) MATLAB
2 28 (27.18%) C#
3 14 (13.59%) Java
3 14 (13.59%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.65%) SQL
5 11 (10.68%) Python
6 6 (5.83%) C
6 6 (5.83%) PHP
7 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.91%) Go
8 3 (2.91%) Swift
9 2 (1.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.97%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.97%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (48.54%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (4.85%) Degree
3 1 (0.97%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.97%) IEC 61131
1 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 9 (8.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.77%) Ansible
3 3 (2.91%) Terraform
4 1 (0.97%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.97%) Grafana
4 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (7.77%) Atlassian
2 5 (4.85%) Databricks
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.94%) Siemens
3 2 (1.94%) Twitter
4 1 (0.97%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.97%) Rockwell
4 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.97%) Telerik