Head of Development Jobs in the West Midlands

Head of Development
England > West Midlands

The median Head of Development salary in the West Midlands is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 269 283
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Development 11 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 8
10th Percentile £83,000 - £68,780
25th Percentile £90,000 £65,006 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £82,189 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -3.31% +36.00%
75th Percentile - £102,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 - £92,875
England median annual salary £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +12.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,800 6,065 6,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.05% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,148 3,375 4,753
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,313 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Head of Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Head of Development in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Head of Development in the West Midlands

Head of Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Development in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Head of Development in the West Midlands

Head of Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Development in the West Midlands

Head of Development
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 Head of Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Staffordshire - 8 £100,000 -
Birmingham -5 1 £65,000 -6.31%
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Head of Development
England

Head of Development Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Head of Development 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 Head of Development in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) Git
3 6 (54.55%) QA
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) SDLC
3 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 6 (54.55%) Manual Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
3 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
3 6 (54.55%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Health
5 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (9.09%) Kanban
5 1 (9.09%) WordPress
5 1 (9.09%) Magento
5 1 (9.09%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Confluence
5 1 (9.09%) jQuery

Head of Development 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Digital Health
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Laravel
1 1 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Code Quality
2 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Manual Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
2 6 (54.55%) SDLC
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Kanban
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft