Software Engineering Jobs in Birmingham

Software Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 198 165 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.11% 8.72% 8.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 9.07% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 166 129 216
10th Percentile £36,875 £47,250 £43,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £92,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,276 1,820 3,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.72% 96.14% 97.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 1,341 2,265
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,500 £34,350
25th Percentile £40,988 £43,036 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Birmingham

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 10 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.54%) Confluence
3 4 (2.02%) Appian
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.02%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.02%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 10 (5.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.75%) Azure
2 43 (21.72%) AWS
3 24 (12.12%) GCP
4 20 (10.10%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.58%) SaaS
7 14 (7.07%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.54%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.54%) Serverless
9 6 (3.03%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.02%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.02%) GitHub
11 4 (2.02%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.01%) Matillion
13 1 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.02%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.01%) 4G
2 2 (1.01%) 5G
3 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.58%) MySQL
3 9 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.53%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.02%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.02%) Power BI
7 3 (1.52%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.01%) Looker
8 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.51%) Event Store
9 1 (0.51%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 25 (12.63%) Git
2 15 (7.58%) GitLab
3 12 (6.06%) Visual Studio
4 9 (4.55%) JIRA
5 7 (3.54%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (2.53%) Jenkins
8 4 (2.02%) CANoe
8 4 (2.02%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.02%) Postman
8 4 (2.02%) Xcode
9 3 (1.52%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (1.01%) GCC
11 1 (0.51%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (11.62%) Finance
2 17 (8.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 10 (5.05%) Retail
5 8 (4.04%) Automotive
6 7 (3.54%) Electronics
6 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.02%) Banking
8 4 (2.02%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.52%) Local Government
9 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.01%) Aviation
10 2 (1.01%) Games
10 2 (1.01%) Legal
10 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (46.97%) Software Engineer
2 49 (24.75%) Developer
2 49 (24.75%) Senior
3 32 (16.16%) Senior Software Engineer
4 26 (13.13%) Lead
5 21 (10.61%) Embedded Engineer
6 18 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 14 (7.07%) Java Engineer
8 13 (6.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (6.57%) Full Stack Developer
9 10 (5.05%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (5.05%) Senior Java Engineer
10 9 (4.55%) C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.54%) UI Developer
12 7 (3.54%) UI/UX Developer
12 7 (3.54%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.17%) .NET
2 32 (16.16%) React
3 29 (14.65%) AngularJS
4 21 (10.61%) RESTful
5 19 (9.60%) HTML
6 18 (9.09%) CSS
7 13 (6.57%) Node.js
8 10 (5.05%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.05%) jQuery
9 9 (4.55%) .NET Core
10 8 (4.04%) Vue
11 7 (3.54%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (3.54%) Material Design
11 7 (3.54%) NgRx
11 7 (3.54%) Spring
12 6 (3.03%) ARM Templates
12 6 (3.03%) Next.js
13 5 (2.53%) Spring Boot
13 5 (2.53%) Swagger
13 5 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.07%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.57%) Virtual Team
3 10 (5.05%) Private Cloud
3 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.04%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.54%) FMCG
6 6 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.02%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.02%) Infotainment
8 4 (2.02%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.02%) Smartphone
9 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.51%) Chip and PIN
11 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.05%) Android
1 10 (5.05%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.53%) Linux
2 5 (2.53%) Windows
3 4 (2.02%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (2.02%) Unix
4 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.41%) Agile
2 50 (25.25%) DevOps
3 36 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 31 (15.66%) Full Stack Development
4 31 (15.66%) Scrum
5 25 (12.63%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (11.62%) Mentoring
6 23 (11.62%) User Experience
7 20 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (9.60%) Kanban
8 19 (9.60%) UX Design
9 17 (8.59%) Computer Science
9 17 (8.59%) Containerisation
9 17 (8.59%) Roadmaps
10 16 (8.08%) Front End Development
11 15 (7.58%) Continuous Deployment
11 15 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.58%) TDD
12 14 (7.07%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.74%) TypeScript
2 46 (23.23%) C#
3 45 (22.73%) Java
4 40 (20.20%) JavaScript
5 28 (14.14%) SQL
6 24 (12.12%) Python
7 18 (9.09%) C
8 17 (8.59%) C++
9 11 (5.56%) Go
10 8 (4.04%) PHP
11 5 (2.53%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.02%) COBOL
12 4 (2.02%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (13.64%) Degree
2 26 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.02%) MCSE
5 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) CISA
7 1 (0.51%) CISM
7 1 (0.51%) CISSP
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.07%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.04%) QA
3 4 (2.02%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.51%) IFRS
4 1 (0.51%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (10.61%) Docker
2 4 (2.02%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (2.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.57%) Terraform
3 2 (1.01%) MIIS
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.60%) Google
3 13 (6.57%) Xamarin
4 7 (3.54%) Adobe
5 5 (2.53%) DevExpress
6 4 (2.02%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.52%) IBM
7 3 (1.52%) InterSystems
7 3 (1.52%) Zend
8 2 (1.01%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) Databricks
9 1 (0.51%) Juniper
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle
9 1 (0.51%) SAP
9 1 (0.51%) VeriFone