Developer Jobs in Birmingham

Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Developer salary in Birmingham is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 8 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 499 272 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.64% 15.06% 28.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.59% 16.21% 29.99%
Number of salaries quoted 450 240 673
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,837 1,678 3,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 92.91% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,290 1,324 2,269
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,600 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £84,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Birmingham

Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Developer in Birmingham

Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Birmingham

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Developer 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 Birmingham region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 144 (28.86%) JavaScript
2 139 (27.86%) C#
3 126 (25.25%) .NET
4 123 (24.65%) Agile
4 123 (24.65%) Azure
5 116 (23.25%) SQL
6 106 (21.24%) Microsoft
7 99 (19.84%) HTML
8 96 (19.24%) Full Stack Development
9 78 (15.63%) Social Skills
10 76 (15.23%) CSS
11 59 (11.82%) AngularJS
12 58 (11.62%) User Experience
13 56 (11.22%) TypeScript
14 55 (11.02%) Power Platform
15 53 (10.62%) React
15 53 (10.62%) DevOps
16 50 (10.02%) Software Engineering
17 47 (9.42%) Java
17 47 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
18 45 (9.02%) Git
19 44 (8.82%) Mentoring
20 43 (8.62%) Front End Development
21 42 (8.42%) Finance
22 41 (8.22%) SQL Server
22 41 (8.22%) Vue
22 41 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
23 40 (8.02%) Scrum
24 39 (7.82%) PHP
24 39 (7.82%) .NET Core

Developer Skill Set
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 21 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.01%) OpenEdge
3 10 (2.00%) IIS
4 9 (1.80%) Appian
5 8 (1.60%) WordPress
6 7 (1.40%) nginx
7 5 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.60%) CMS
9 2 (0.40%) Apache
9 2 (0.40%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Mendix
10 1 (0.20%) Moodle
10 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.20%) Totara
Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (3.41%) Shopify
2 12 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) Magento
3 3 (0.60%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.20%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 123 (24.65%) Azure
2 55 (11.02%) Power Platform
3 35 (7.01%) AWS
4 33 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
5 25 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.81%) SaaS
7 16 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.61%) PowerApps
9 12 (2.40%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.00%) Serverless
12 5 (1.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.00%) GCP
12 5 (1.00%) GitHub
12 5 (1.00%) npm
13 4 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.60%) DNS
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) SSL
3 2 (0.40%) 4G
3 2 (0.40%) 5G
3 2 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.81%) Power BI
3 15 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.01%) MySQL
4 13 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.20%) Tableau
7 5 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.60%) Power Query
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.40%) GIS
11 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 45 (9.02%) Git
2 19 (3.81%) Visual Studio
3 14 (2.81%) JIRA
4 11 (2.20%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.60%) Selenium
6 7 (1.40%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.20%) GitLab
8 5 (1.00%) Jasmine
8 5 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
8 5 (1.00%) webpack
9 4 (0.80%) JUnit
10 3 (0.60%) gulp
10 3 (0.60%) JMeter
11 2 (0.40%) GCC
11 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.20%) Moq
12 1 (0.20%) NUnit
12 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.20%) Toad
General
1 78 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 42 (8.42%) Finance
3 19 (3.81%) Retail
4 17 (3.41%) Automotive
5 14 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.81%) Games
5 14 (2.81%) Law
6 13 (2.61%) Manufacturing
6 13 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.80%) Marketing
9 8 (1.60%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.00%) Advertising
10 5 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (1.00%) Legal
11 3 (0.60%) Banking
12 2 (0.40%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.40%) iGaming
12 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (25.25%) .NET
2 99 (19.84%) HTML
3 76 (15.23%) CSS
4 59 (11.82%) AngularJS
5 53 (10.62%) React
6 41 (8.22%) Vue
7 39 (7.82%) .NET Core
8 35 (7.01%) jQuery
9 32 (6.41%) ASP.NET
9 32 (6.41%) RESTful
10 30 (6.01%) .NET Framework
11 26 (5.21%) Web Services
12 25 (5.01%) Laravel
12 25 (5.01%) Node.js
13 23 (4.61%) REST
14 22 (4.41%) Sass
15 19 (3.81%) Entity Framework
16 17 (3.41%) JSON
17 16 (3.21%) XML
18 15 (3.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.01%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.61%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.20%) AS400
3 11 (2.20%) iSeries
3 11 (2.20%) Low-Code
4 9 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.60%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.60%) NHS
10 3 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.40%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.21%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Windows
3 5 (1.00%) Android
4 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (24.65%) Agile
2 96 (19.24%) Full Stack Development
3 58 (11.62%) User Experience
4 53 (10.62%) DevOps
5 50 (10.02%) Software Engineering
6 47 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (8.82%) Mentoring
8 43 (8.62%) Front End Development
9 41 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (8.02%) Scrum
11 32 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (6.21%) SDLC
12 31 (6.21%) Web Development
13 30 (6.01%) CI/CD
13 30 (6.01%) Customer Service
14 28 (5.61%) UX Design
15 26 (5.21%) Clean Code
16 25 (5.01%) Continuous Integration
16 25 (5.01%) MVC
17 24 (4.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 144 (28.86%) JavaScript
2 139 (27.86%) C#
3 116 (23.25%) SQL
4 56 (11.22%) TypeScript
5 47 (9.42%) Java
6 39 (7.82%) PHP
7 21 (4.21%) Python
8 18 (3.61%) C++
9 17 (3.41%) T-SQL
10 13 (2.61%) Go
11 11 (2.20%) RPG
11 11 (2.20%) RPG IV
11 11 (2.20%) RPG/400
12 7 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.20%) FoxPro (VFP)
13 6 (1.20%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.00%) VB
14 5 (1.00%) VB6
15 3 (0.60%) Dart
15 3 (0.60%) XAML
Qualifications
1 36 (7.21%) Degree
2 19 (3.81%) SC Cleared
2 19 (3.81%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.81%) QA
2 13 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (3.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.80%) SCOM
3 3 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 106 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.40%) Google
3 11 (2.20%) IBM
4 10 (2.00%) YouTube
5 8 (1.60%) Adobe
5 8 (1.60%) DevExpress
5 8 (1.60%) Progress
6 7 (1.40%) Facebook
6 7 (1.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.40%) Xamarin
7 6 (1.20%) Databricks
8 5 (1.00%) Oracle
8 5 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.80%) InterSystems
9 4 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.80%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.60%) Informatica
10 3 (0.60%) Zend
11 2 (0.40%) Infor