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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 208 241
Rank change year-on-year +26 +33 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 66 55 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 0.88% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.98% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 45 23 32
10th Percentile £43,000 £55,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £56,813
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 £80,500 - £77,250
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 7,036 5,639 6,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.14% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 3,228 4,778
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 17 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 17 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 +5 32 £58,750 -21.67% 8
Halesowen - 11 £52,500 -
Warwickshire +32 10 £77,000 +14.07% 6
Shropshire - 4 £62,500 -
Staffordshire -20 2 £50,000 -
Worcestershire -18 1 £50,000 -28.57% 3
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 17 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 66 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 30 (45.45%) Azure
3 25 (37.88%) C#
4 24 (36.36%) .NET
5 21 (31.82%) Agile
5 21 (31.82%) DevOps
6 17 (25.76%) SQL
7 15 (22.73%) RESTful
7 15 (22.73%) Blazor
8 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (19.70%) Microservices
10 12 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
10 12 (18.18%) ASP.NET
11 11 (16.67%) HTML
11 11 (16.67%) Git
11 11 (16.67%) AWS
12 10 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
12 10 (15.15%) MVC
12 10 (15.15%) .NET Framework
12 10 (15.15%) WPF
13 9 (13.64%) Python
13 9 (13.64%) Java
13 9 (13.64%) MySQL
13 9 (13.64%) Entity Framework
13 9 (13.64%) AngularJS
13 9 (13.64%) Xamarin
13 9 (13.64%) Mobile App

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.52%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Simulink
1 1 (1.52%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 30 (45.45%) Azure
2 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.67%) AWS
4 7 (10.61%) Azure API Management
4 7 (10.61%) Azure Event Grid
4 7 (10.61%) Azure Functions
4 7 (10.61%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (10.61%) Serverless
5 5 (7.58%) GCP
5 5 (7.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.64%) MySQL
3 7 (10.61%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.61%) SQLite
4 6 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (12.12%) Manufacturing
2 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.58%) Social Housing
4 4 (6.06%) Electronics
4 4 (6.06%) Finance
5 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Games
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) .NET
2 15 (22.73%) Blazor
2 15 (22.73%) RESTful
3 12 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 11 (16.67%) HTML
5 10 (15.15%) .NET Framework
5 10 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (15.15%) WPF
6 9 (13.64%) .NET Core
6 9 (13.64%) AngularJS
6 9 (13.64%) Entity Framework
6 9 (13.64%) React
7 7 (10.61%) SignalR
7 7 (10.61%) Universal Windows Platform
7 7 (10.61%) WinForms
7 7 (10.61%) YAML
8 3 (4.55%) CSS
8 3 (4.55%) Ionic Framework
8 3 (4.55%) Web Services
9 2 (3.03%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.58%) Housing Association
2 5 (7.58%) IoT
3 1 (1.52%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.52%) Genomics
3 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Android
1 6 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.52%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (31.82%) Agile
2 21 (31.82%) DevOps
3 13 (19.70%) Microservices
4 12 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 10 (15.15%) MVC
6 7 (10.61%) Containerisation
6 7 (10.61%) Inventory Management
6 7 (10.61%) Scrum
6 7 (10.61%) TDD
7 6 (9.09%) BDD
7 6 (9.09%) Coaching
7 6 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (9.09%) Software Delivery
8 5 (7.58%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (7.58%) Event-Driven
8 5 (7.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (6.06%) SDLC
10 3 (4.55%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) C#
2 17 (25.76%) SQL
3 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.64%) Java
4 9 (13.64%) Python
5 8 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.61%) T-SQL
6 7 (10.61%) XAML
7 4 (6.06%) C
8 3 (4.55%) Go
8 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.03%) C++
10 1 (1.52%) PHP
10 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.03%) Chartered Engineer
1 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.52%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Firmware
3 1 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) MIIS
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Xamarin
2 7 (10.61%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.52%) SAP