Software Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 -26
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 268 494 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.45% 6.13% 5.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 7.62% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 81 372 201
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £51,750 £45,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -11.72% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,634 6,483 5,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.52% 80.38% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 4,337 3,166
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,900 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,951
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,225 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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 +35 99 £52,500 -4.55% 30
Birmingham -20 62 £67,500 +3.85% 52
Staffordshire -2 27 £50,000 -9.09% 46
Coventry +10 22 £52,500 -19.23% 17
Shropshire +22 21 £62,500 +56.25% 14
Solihull +12 15 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Herefordshire - 4 - - 5
Worcestershire -20 3 £51,250 +2.50% 14
Wolverhampton +15 2 £95,000 +137.50% 4
Walsall - 1 £33,000 -
Dudley - 1 - -
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 (8.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) IIS
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
4 1 (0.37%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.37%) WinCC
Applications
1 36 (13.43%) Simulink
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.63%) Azure
2 59 (22.01%) AWS
3 35 (13.06%) GCP
4 14 (5.22%) GitHub
5 12 (4.48%) SaaS
6 10 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.99%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.24%) Serverless
9 5 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.49%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.49%) Google App Engine
10 4 (1.49%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (1.49%) IaaS
10 4 (1.49%) PaaS
11 3 (1.12%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.12%) Supabase
11 3 (1.12%) Vercel
12 2 (0.75%) Azure API Management
12 2 (0.75%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Broadband
1 1 (0.37%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.57%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.60%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.85%) MySQL
4 10 (3.73%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.87%) Big Data
8 4 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.49%) Cloud Spanner
9 3 (1.12%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.12%) Power BI
9 3 (1.12%) SQL CLR
9 3 (1.12%) Tableau
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.37%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (13.81%) JIRA
2 32 (11.94%) Bitbucket
3 28 (10.45%) SonarQube
4 24 (8.96%) Cucumber
4 24 (8.96%) GitLab
4 24 (8.96%) Maven
4 24 (8.96%) Selenium
4 24 (8.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 16 (5.97%) Git
6 2 (0.75%) webpack
7 1 (0.37%) Appium
7 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.37%) Subversion
7 1 (0.37%) TestRail
General
1 55 (20.52%) Finance
2 39 (14.55%) Automotive
3 36 (13.43%) Aerospace
4 33 (12.31%) Social Skills
5 29 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 28 (10.45%) Banking
7 20 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (7.09%) Retail
9 12 (4.48%) Marketing
10 11 (4.10%) Corporate Banking
10 11 (4.10%) Investment Banking
11 9 (3.36%) Law
12 6 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.87%) Electronics
13 5 (1.87%) Games
14 4 (1.49%) Back Office
14 4 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.75%) Advertising
15 2 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 85 (31.72%) Software Engineer
2 45 (16.79%) Instrumentation Engineer
3 30 (11.19%) Principal Engineer
3 30 (11.19%) Senior
4 22 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (5.97%) Lead
6 13 (4.85%) Developer
7 11 (4.10%) Java Engineer
7 11 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (3.73%) Architect
9 8 (2.99%) Control Systems Engineer
9 8 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (2.61%) Engineering Manager
10 7 (2.61%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (2.24%) Graduate
11 6 (2.24%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 6 (2.24%) Marketing Manager
11 6 (2.24%) Operations Manager
12 5 (1.87%) Lead Architect
12 5 (1.87%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.54%) React
2 33 (12.31%) Spring
3 32 (11.94%) .NET
4 30 (11.19%) CSS
5 29 (10.82%) HTML
5 29 (10.82%) Kafka
6 25 (9.33%) Redux
7 24 (8.96%) JPA
7 24 (8.96%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.60%) RESTful
9 13 (4.85%) Hibernate
9 13 (4.85%) HTML5
10 12 (4.48%) REST
11 11 (4.10%) AngularJS
11 11 (4.10%) CSS3
11 11 (4.10%) Jest
11 11 (4.10%) Sass
12 10 (3.73%) Entity Framework
13 9 (3.36%) .NET Core
13 9 (3.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.96%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.61%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.24%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.24%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (2.24%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.24%) SCADA
5 5 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.12%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.12%) Lidar
7 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.48%) Linux
2 11 (4.10%) Windows
3 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Debian
6 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (64.93%) Agile
2 116 (43.28%) Software Testing
3 106 (39.55%) SDLC
4 78 (29.10%) Waterfall
5 57 (21.27%) DevOps
6 51 (19.03%) CI/CD
7 45 (16.79%) Microservices
8 43 (16.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (15.67%) Containerisation
10 39 (14.55%) Validation
11 36 (13.43%) Systems Engineering
12 35 (13.06%) Test Automation
13 32 (11.94%) TDD
14 29 (10.82%) Mentoring
14 29 (10.82%) Performance Optimisation
15 27 (10.07%) Front End Development
16 24 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (8.58%) Intelligent Automation
18 22 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
19 20 (7.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.40%) SQL
2 51 (19.03%) Java
3 50 (18.66%) JavaScript
4 39 (14.55%) C#
5 36 (13.43%) MATLAB
6 25 (9.33%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.60%) Python
8 6 (2.24%) C
9 5 (1.87%) Go
10 4 (1.49%) C++
10 4 (1.49%) PHP
11 3 (1.12%) Rust
11 3 (1.12%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) Bash
12 1 (0.37%) Delphi
12 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.37%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (45.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 90 (33.58%) Degree
3 12 (4.48%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.37%) HND
6 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.37%) PMP
6 1 (0.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.69%) QA
2 11 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.61%) GDPR
4 6 (2.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.49%) NCSC
6 2 (0.75%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (16.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (17.16%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.85%) Ansible
3 8 (2.99%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) Kibana
4 1 (0.37%) logstash
4 1 (0.37%) Oozie
Vendors
1 78 (29.10%) Siemens
2 24 (8.96%) Solace
3 11 (4.10%) Google
4 8 (2.99%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.99%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.87%) Databricks
6 3 (1.12%) Rockwell
6 3 (1.12%) Telerik
6 3 (1.12%) VMware
7 2 (0.75%) Facebook
7 2 (0.75%) Hotjar
7 2 (0.75%) Instagram
7 2 (0.75%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.37%) Informatica
8 1 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) SAP
8 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow