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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 22 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 -21
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 303 507 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.05% 6.88% 6.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.74% 8.30% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 109 398 226
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +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 3,916 6,106 6,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 82.86% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 4,548 3,220
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +5.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,108 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 14 May 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 14 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 +9 106 £52,500 -8.70% 30
Birmingham -10 89 £67,500 +12.50% 107
Staffordshire -2 30 £45,000 -18.18% 64
Coventry -2 28 £61,250 -5.77% 21
Solihull +17 16 £48,750 +8.33% 2
Shropshire +15 10 £60,000 +50.00% 26
Herefordshire +8 4 - - 8
Wolverhampton +12 3 £95,000 +137.50% 7
Worcestershire -12 2 £60,000 +20.00% 28
Wednesbury +6 1 £45,000 -45.95%
Dudley - 1 - - 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 (7.26%) Confluence
2 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.33%) CMS
3 1 (0.33%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.33%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.33%) IIS
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.33%) WinCC
Applications
1 70 (23.10%) Simulink
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (27.39%) Azure
2 62 (20.46%) AWS
3 39 (12.87%) GCP
4 15 (4.95%) SaaS
5 14 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.29%) GitHub
7 10 (3.30%) Serverless
8 8 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.64%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.31%) IaaS
9 7 (2.31%) PaaS
10 5 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.32%) Google App Engine
11 4 (1.32%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (1.32%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.99%) Supabase
12 3 (0.99%) Vercel
13 2 (0.66%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.66%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.66%) GSM
2 2 (0.66%) J1939
2 2 (0.66%) Wireless
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.89%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.95%) MySQL
3 14 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.97%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.65%) Big Data
7 4 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.32%) Cloud Spanner
8 3 (0.99%) Power BI
9 2 (0.66%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.66%) Tableau
10 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.33%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 38 (12.54%) JIRA
2 32 (10.56%) Bitbucket
3 31 (10.23%) SonarQube
4 25 (8.25%) GitLab
5 24 (7.92%) Cucumber
5 24 (7.92%) Git
5 24 (7.92%) Maven
5 24 (7.92%) Selenium
5 24 (7.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.33%) Appium
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) JMeter
6 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.33%) Subversion
6 1 (0.33%) TestRail
6 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 75 (24.75%) Automotive
2 70 (23.10%) Aerospace
3 61 (20.13%) Finance
4 33 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 32 (10.56%) Social Skills
6 30 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (9.57%) Banking
7 29 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (7.26%) Retail
9 13 (4.29%) Marketing
10 12 (3.96%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.63%) Corporate Banking
11 11 (3.63%) Law
12 9 (2.97%) Games
13 6 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.65%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.32%) Advertising
15 4 (1.32%) Electronics
16 3 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (28.05%) Software Engineer
2 49 (16.17%) Principal Engineer
3 29 (9.57%) Senior
4 25 (8.25%) Lead
5 21 (6.93%) Developer
6 16 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (4.95%) Architect
8 10 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.97%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (2.64%) Control Systems Engineer
10 8 (2.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (2.64%) Java Engineer
10 8 (2.64%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (2.64%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (2.31%) Engineering Manager
12 6 (1.98%) Data Scientist
12 6 (1.98%) Marketing Manager
12 6 (1.98%) Operations Manager
12 6 (1.98%) Software Engineering Manager
12 6 (1.98%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.16%) React
2 38 (12.54%) .NET
3 34 (11.22%) CSS
4 33 (10.89%) HTML
5 31 (10.23%) Spring
6 30 (9.90%) Kafka
7 28 (9.24%) Redux
8 25 (8.25%) Spring Boot
9 24 (7.92%) JPA
10 18 (5.94%) RESTful
11 17 (5.61%) AngularJS
12 16 (5.28%) .NET Core
13 15 (4.95%) REST
14 13 (4.29%) CSS3
14 13 (4.29%) Hibernate
14 13 (4.29%) HTML5
15 12 (3.96%) Sass
16 11 (3.63%) Entity Framework
16 11 (3.63%) Jest
16 11 (3.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 25 (8.25%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.31%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.31%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.31%) SCADA
5 6 (1.98%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.99%) Cyberattack
8 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.99%) IoT
8 3 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.99%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.96%) Linux
2 9 (2.97%) Windows
3 5 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.99%) Android
5 2 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.33%) CentOS
6 1 (0.33%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (64.03%) Agile
2 125 (41.25%) Software Testing
3 77 (25.41%) SDLC
4 71 (23.43%) Validation
5 70 (23.10%) Systems Engineering
6 59 (19.47%) DevOps
7 55 (18.15%) Waterfall
8 48 (15.84%) CI/CD
8 48 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (14.52%) Microservices
10 42 (13.86%) Containerisation
11 38 (12.54%) Mentoring
12 37 (12.21%) Test Automation
13 32 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (9.57%) Performance Optimisation
14 29 (9.57%) TDD
15 26 (8.58%) Front End Development
16 23 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (7.59%) Intelligent Automation
17 22 (7.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.10%) MATLAB
2 58 (19.14%) JavaScript
2 58 (19.14%) SQL
3 49 (16.17%) Java
4 47 (15.51%) C#
5 25 (8.25%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.27%) Python
7 10 (3.30%) C
7 10 (3.30%) PHP
8 5 (1.65%) Go
9 4 (1.32%) C++
9 4 (1.32%) Swift
10 3 (0.99%) Ladder Logic
10 3 (0.99%) Ruby
11 2 (0.66%) R
11 2 (0.66%) Rust
12 1 (0.33%) Delphi
12 1 (0.33%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 133 (43.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 64 (21.12%) Degree
3 18 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) HNC
8 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.88%) QA
2 11 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.31%) GDPR
3 7 (2.31%) NCSC
4 6 (1.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.32%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.66%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.66%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (15.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.99%) Firmware
2 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (16.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.28%) Ansible
3 12 (3.96%) Terraform
4 1 (0.33%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (17.49%) Siemens
2 24 (7.92%) Solace
3 16 (5.28%) Google
4 8 (2.64%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.64%) Databricks
5 7 (2.31%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.98%) Telerik
7 4 (1.32%) Rockwell
8 3 (0.99%) VMware
9 2 (0.66%) Facebook
9 2 (0.66%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.66%) Instagram
9 2 (0.66%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.66%) Twitter
10 1 (0.33%) Pega
10 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.33%) Salesforce