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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 -18
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 295 519 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.18% 6.68% 6.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 8.20% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 94 398 224
10th Percentile £44,850 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,600 £85,000
England median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £74,500
% change year-on-year +8.80% -16.11% +6.43%

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 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
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 £78,750 £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 28 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 28 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 +19 108 £52,500 -8.70% 42
Birmingham -12 79 £67,629 +12.71% 81
Staffordshire -6 29 £50,000 -9.09% 71
Coventry +2 28 £62,500 -3.85% 15
Solihull +16 15 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Shropshire +18 12 £60,000 +50.00% 20
Herefordshire +8 4 - - 4
Wolverhampton +18 3 £95,000 +137.50% 5
Worcestershire -14 3 £51,250 +2.50% 23
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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) IIS
2 2 (0.68%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.34%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.34%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.34%) WinCC
Applications
1 70 (23.73%) Simulink
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 80 (27.12%) Azure
2 59 (20.00%) AWS
3 40 (13.56%) GCP
4 13 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.41%) GitHub
4 13 (4.41%) SaaS
5 10 (3.39%) Serverless
6 8 (2.71%) Snowflake
7 7 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.03%) IaaS
8 6 (2.03%) PaaS
9 5 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.36%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.36%) Google App Engine
10 4 (1.36%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.02%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.02%) Supabase
11 3 (1.02%) Vercel
12 2 (0.68%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.34%) Broadband
1 1 (0.34%) DNS
1 1 (0.34%) GSM
1 1 (0.34%) J1939
1 1 (0.34%) VPN
1 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.75%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.41%) MySQL
4 9 (3.05%) BigQuery
4 9 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.69%) Big Data
7 4 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.36%) Cloud Spanner
8 3 (1.02%) Power BI
9 2 (0.68%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.68%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.68%) SQL CLR
9 2 (0.68%) Tableau
10 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (12.88%) JIRA
2 32 (10.85%) Bitbucket
3 30 (10.17%) SonarQube
4 24 (8.14%) Cucumber
4 24 (8.14%) GitLab
4 24 (8.14%) Maven
4 24 (8.14%) Selenium
4 24 (8.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (6.44%) Git
6 1 (0.34%) Appium
6 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.34%) Subversion
6 1 (0.34%) TestRail
6 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 74 (25.08%) Automotive
2 70 (23.73%) Aerospace
3 57 (19.32%) Finance
4 33 (11.19%) Social Skills
5 32 (10.85%) Public Sector
6 29 (9.83%) Banking
6 29 (9.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (7.12%) Retail
9 12 (4.07%) Investment Banking
9 12 (4.07%) Marketing
10 11 (3.73%) Corporate Banking
11 10 (3.39%) Law
12 6 (2.03%) Games
12 6 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.36%) Electronics
15 3 (1.02%) Back Office
15 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (27.12%) Software Engineer
2 48 (16.27%) Principal Engineer
3 26 (8.81%) Senior
4 23 (7.80%) Lead
5 16 (5.42%) Senior Software Engineer
6 15 (5.08%) Architect
6 15 (5.08%) Developer
7 11 (3.73%) Java Engineer
7 11 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (3.05%) Control Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.05%) Lead Software Engineer
8 9 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (2.37%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (2.03%) Data Scientist
10 6 (2.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (2.03%) Instrumentation Engineer
10 6 (2.03%) Marketing Manager
10 6 (2.03%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.27%) React
2 36 (12.20%) .NET
3 34 (11.53%) Spring
4 30 (10.17%) Kafka
5 29 (9.83%) CSS
6 28 (9.49%) HTML
7 25 (8.47%) Redux
7 25 (8.47%) Spring Boot
8 24 (8.14%) JPA
9 15 (5.08%) .NET Core
9 15 (5.08%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.08%) RESTful
10 14 (4.75%) REST
11 13 (4.41%) Hibernate
12 11 (3.73%) CSS3
12 11 (3.73%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.73%) HTML5
12 11 (3.73%) Jest
12 11 (3.73%) Sass
13 10 (3.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.37%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.37%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.37%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.37%) SCADA
4 6 (2.03%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.03%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.02%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.02%) Lidar
8 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.73%) Linux
2 10 (3.39%) Windows
3 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.68%) Android
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
5 1 (0.34%) Debian
5 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (65.42%) Agile
2 130 (44.07%) Software Testing
3 83 (28.14%) SDLC
4 72 (24.41%) Validation
5 70 (23.73%) Systems Engineering
6 59 (20.00%) DevOps
6 59 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 50 (16.95%) CI/CD
8 46 (15.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 46 (15.59%) Microservices
9 44 (14.92%) Containerisation
10 35 (11.86%) Test Automation
11 34 (11.53%) Mentoring
12 31 (10.51%) TDD
13 29 (9.83%) Performance Optimisation
14 28 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (8.47%) Front End Development
16 23 (7.80%) Intelligent Automation
17 22 (7.46%) Analytics
18 21 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.73%) MATLAB
2 55 (18.64%) SQL
3 52 (17.63%) Java
4 49 (16.61%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.92%) C#
6 23 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.76%) Python
8 7 (2.37%) C
9 6 (2.03%) PHP
10 5 (1.69%) Go
11 3 (1.02%) C++
11 3 (1.02%) Ladder Logic
11 3 (1.02%) Ruby
11 3 (1.02%) Swift
12 2 (0.68%) R
12 2 (0.68%) Rust
13 1 (0.34%) Delphi
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (46.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 67 (22.71%) Degree
3 16 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.03%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.85%) QA
2 11 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.37%) GDPR
4 6 (2.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (2.03%) NCSC
5 4 (1.36%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.34%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.34%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (16.27%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.08%) Ansible
3 11 (3.73%) Terraform
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (19.66%) Siemens
2 24 (8.14%) Solace
3 16 (5.42%) Google
4 8 (2.71%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.71%) Databricks
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.03%) Telerik
6 4 (1.36%) Rockwell
6 4 (1.36%) VMware
7 2 (0.68%) Facebook
7 2 (0.68%) Hotjar
7 2 (0.68%) Instagram
7 2 (0.68%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Twitter