Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 212 244
Rank change year-on-year +21 +32 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 61 61 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.84% 0.93% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.03% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 42 24 30
10th Percentile £40,750 £55,000 £53,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £59,063 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £71,991 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,750 - £77,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

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 6,830 5,921 6,909
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.12% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,165 3,354 4,789
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,974 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Birmingham +7 30 £55,000 -26.67% 12
Halesowen - 11 £52,500 -
Warwickshire +35 8 £77,000 +14.07% 2
Shropshire - 4 £62,500 -
Staffordshire -24 2 £50,000 -
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 30 (49.18%) Azure
3 25 (40.98%) C#
4 24 (39.34%) .NET
5 20 (32.79%) Agile
6 18 (29.51%) DevOps
7 17 (27.87%) SQL
8 15 (24.59%) RESTful
8 15 (24.59%) Blazor
9 14 (22.95%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (21.31%) Microservices
11 12 (19.67%) ASP.NET
11 12 (19.67%) SQL Server
12 11 (18.03%) HTML
12 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
12 11 (18.03%) AWS
12 11 (18.03%) Mentoring
13 10 (16.39%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (16.39%) MVC
13 10 (16.39%) WPF
13 10 (16.39%) .NET Framework
13 10 (16.39%) Git
14 9 (14.75%) Java
14 9 (14.75%) Xamarin
14 9 (14.75%) Mobile App
14 9 (14.75%) Entity Framework
14 9 (14.75%) AngularJS
14 9 (14.75%) .NET Core
14 9 (14.75%) React
15 8 (13.11%) Docker

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Simulink
1 1 (1.64%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 30 (49.18%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.03%) AWS
4 7 (11.48%) Azure API Management
4 7 (11.48%) Azure Event Grid
4 7 (11.48%) Azure Functions
4 7 (11.48%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (11.48%) Serverless
5 5 (8.20%) GCP
5 5 (8.20%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.11%) MySQL
3 7 (11.48%) SQLite
4 6 (9.84%) MongoDB
4 6 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (13.11%) Manufacturing
2 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.20%) Social Housing
4 4 (6.56%) Electronics
4 4 (6.56%) Finance
5 3 (4.92%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Games
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (39.34%) .NET
2 15 (24.59%) Blazor
2 15 (24.59%) RESTful
3 12 (19.67%) ASP.NET
4 11 (18.03%) HTML
5 10 (16.39%) .NET Framework
5 10 (16.39%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (16.39%) WPF
6 9 (14.75%) .NET Core
6 9 (14.75%) AngularJS
6 9 (14.75%) Entity Framework
6 9 (14.75%) React
7 7 (11.48%) SignalR
7 7 (11.48%) Universal Windows Platform
7 7 (11.48%) WinForms
7 7 (11.48%) YAML
8 3 (4.92%) CSS
8 3 (4.92%) Ionic Framework
9 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (3.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.20%) Housing Association
2 5 (8.20%) IoT
3 1 (1.64%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Android
1 6 (9.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (32.79%) Agile
3 18 (29.51%) DevOps
4 13 (21.31%) Microservices
5 11 (18.03%) Mentoring
5 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
6 10 (16.39%) MVC
7 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
7 7 (11.48%) Inventory Management
7 7 (11.48%) Scrum
8 6 (9.84%) BDD
8 6 (9.84%) Coaching
8 6 (9.84%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (9.84%) Software Delivery
8 6 (9.84%) TDD
9 5 (8.20%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (8.20%) Event-Driven
9 5 (8.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (6.56%) SDLC
11 3 (4.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.98%) C#
2 17 (27.87%) SQL
3 9 (14.75%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.48%) Python
5 7 (11.48%) T-SQL
5 7 (11.48%) XAML
6 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.56%) C
8 3 (4.92%) Go
8 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.28%) C++
10 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.28%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (1.64%) Degree
2 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Firmware
3 1 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) MIIS
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Xamarin
2 7 (11.48%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.64%) SAP
427 Senior Software Engineer jobs in England