Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 21 4
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,036 632 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.87% 10.11% 20.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.70% 11.21% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 922 459 1,035
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,250 £78,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% +10.91%

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 7,048 5,636 7,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 90.15% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,268 3,225 4,768
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,762
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%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the West Midlands

Developer
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 Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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 +1 445 £55,000 -3.51% 104
Staffordshire -2 124 £48,750 +2.63% 33
Warwickshire +39 100 £50,000 -2.44% 28
Worcestershire +18 70 £50,000 +17.65% 14
Shropshire +15 56 £44,500 -25.83% 4
Coventry +13 33 £53,500 +0.47% 24
Solihull -1 29 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Wolverhampton +28 15 £57,500 +4.55% 10
Herefordshire -2 15 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Halesowen -6 9 £60,000 - 8
Walsall - 7 £42,500 - 2
Wednesbury +4 6 £63,250 +40.56% 3
Dudley - 5 £40,000 - 4
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 - 2
Stourbridge - 2 £50,000 -
Kingswinford - 1 £40,000 -
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 West Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 380 (36.68%) C#
2 348 (33.59%) .NET
3 315 (30.41%) JavaScript
4 270 (26.06%) Agile
5 264 (25.48%) SQL
6 260 (25.10%) Azure
7 239 (23.07%) Microsoft
8 237 (22.88%) Full Stack Development
9 218 (21.04%) HTML
10 183 (17.66%) SQL Server
11 176 (16.99%) Social Skills
12 167 (16.12%) CSS
13 164 (15.83%) React
14 145 (14.00%) TypeScript
15 138 (13.32%) MVC
16 135 (13.03%) ASP.NET
17 134 (12.93%) AngularJS
18 124 (11.97%) AWS
19 123 (11.87%) DevOps
20 116 (11.20%) .NET Core
21 114 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
21 114 (11.00%) Power Platform
22 111 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
23 109 (10.52%) User Experience
24 106 (10.23%) Git
25 104 (10.04%) PHP
26 102 (9.85%) Finance
27 99 (9.56%) Web Development
28 93 (8.98%) Degree
29 92 (8.88%) Microservices

Developer 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 37 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.28%) WordPress
3 20 (1.93%) OpenEdge
4 17 (1.64%) nginx
5 12 (1.16%) CMS
6 11 (1.06%) IIS
7 10 (0.97%) Appian
8 7 (0.68%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) Apache
10 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.097%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.097%) Confluence
11 1 (0.097%) Drupal
11 1 (0.097%) Mendix
11 1 (0.097%) Moodle
11 1 (0.097%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (1.25%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.097%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (2.03%) Shopify
2 15 (1.45%) Magento
3 12 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.29%) ProductWriter
7 2 (0.19%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.097%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 260 (25.10%) Azure
2 124 (11.97%) AWS
3 114 (11.00%) Power Platform
4 59 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (5.50%) PowerApps
6 53 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
7 48 (4.63%) Power Automate
8 37 (3.57%) GitHub
9 34 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (3.19%) Serverless
11 32 (3.09%) SaaS
12 25 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (0.97%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.87%) Figma
16 8 (0.77%) PaaS
17 7 (0.68%) GCP
18 6 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.25%) Firewall
2 7 (0.68%) Intranet
3 6 (0.58%) Internet
4 5 (0.48%) HTTP
4 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.39%) MQTT
6 3 (0.29%) DNS
6 3 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.19%) 4G
7 2 (0.19%) 5G
7 2 (0.19%) AMQP
7 2 (0.19%) FTP
8 1 (0.097%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.097%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (17.66%) SQL Server
2 81 (7.82%) Power BI
3 66 (6.37%) MySQL
4 33 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 26 (2.51%) MongoDB
8 25 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.74%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.45%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
13 13 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.06%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 8 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (10.23%) Git
2 45 (4.34%) Visual Studio
3 24 (2.32%) JIRA
4 14 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 13 (1.25%) Subversion
6 10 (0.97%) GNU Toolchain
7 8 (0.77%) Selenium
8 6 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.58%) GitLab
8 6 (0.58%) Postman
9 5 (0.48%) ESLint
9 5 (0.48%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.48%) JUnit
9 5 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
9 5 (0.48%) MSTest
9 5 (0.48%) webpack
10 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.39%) Toad
11 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 176 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 102 (9.85%) Finance
3 55 (5.31%) Manufacturing
4 51 (4.92%) Marketing
5 46 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (3.57%) Law
7 32 (3.09%) Retail
8 24 (2.32%) Automotive
9 23 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.74%) Games
12 17 (1.64%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.16%) Advertising
14 8 (0.77%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.58%) Banking
16 5 (0.48%) Digital Healthcare
16 5 (0.48%) Legal
17 2 (0.19%) Digital Health
17 2 (0.19%) Police
17 2 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (33.59%) .NET
2 218 (21.04%) HTML
3 167 (16.12%) CSS
4 164 (15.83%) React
5 135 (13.03%) ASP.NET
6 134 (12.93%) AngularJS
7 116 (11.20%) .NET Core
8 89 (8.59%) Node.js
9 85 (8.20%) .NET Framework
10 83 (8.01%) Vue
11 80 (7.72%) ASP.NET MVC
11 80 (7.72%) Entity Framework
12 75 (7.24%) ASP.NET Web API
13 66 (6.37%) RESTful
14 60 (5.79%) Laravel
15 51 (4.92%) HTML5
16 47 (4.54%) JSON
17 46 (4.44%) REST
18 45 (4.34%) XML
19 41 (3.96%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.60%) Mobile App
2 38 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
7 14 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.06%) AS400
9 11 (1.06%) iSeries
9 11 (1.06%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 10 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.87%) CUDA
12 8 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.77%) Digital Media
12 8 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.68%) Cloud Native
13 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.21%) Linux
2 33 (3.19%) Windows
3 17 (1.64%) Android
4 10 (0.97%) Unix
5 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.29%) VMS
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (26.06%) Agile
2 237 (22.88%) Full Stack Development
3 138 (13.32%) MVC
4 123 (11.87%) DevOps
5 114 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
6 111 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (10.52%) User Experience
8 99 (9.56%) Web Development
9 92 (8.88%) Microservices
10 82 (7.92%) Front End Development
11 79 (7.63%) Software Engineering
12 75 (7.24%) Scrum
13 65 (6.27%) Computer Science
13 65 (6.27%) Mentoring
14 63 (6.08%) Clean Code
15 60 (5.79%) ERP
16 57 (5.50%) CI/CD
17 55 (5.31%) TDD
18 52 (5.02%) Visualisation
19 51 (4.92%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 380 (36.68%) C#
2 315 (30.41%) JavaScript
3 264 (25.48%) SQL
4 145 (14.00%) TypeScript
5 104 (10.04%) PHP
6 64 (6.18%) Java
7 61 (5.89%) Python
8 45 (4.34%) VB.NET
9 39 (3.76%) C++
10 35 (3.38%) T-SQL
11 24 (2.32%) VB
12 16 (1.54%) Bash
12 16 (1.54%) C
12 16 (1.54%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.25%) Go
14 11 (1.06%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.06%) RPG
14 11 (1.06%) RPG IV
14 11 (1.06%) RPG/400
15 10 (0.97%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (8.98%) Degree
2 41 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (2.41%) SC Cleared
3 25 (2.41%) Security Cleared
4 15 (1.45%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.48%) PhD
6 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.19%) HND
8 1 (0.097%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.097%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.63%) QA
2 16 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.097%) ITGC
4 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (6.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.93%) Terraform
3 6 (0.58%) Rancher
4 2 (0.19%) SCOM
5 1 (0.097%) Grafana
5 1 (0.097%) Kibana
Vendors
1 239 (23.07%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.70%) Oracle
3 19 (1.83%) Google
4 17 (1.64%) ServiceNow
4 17 (1.64%) Xamarin
5 14 (1.35%) Adobe
5 14 (1.35%) Facebook
6 13 (1.25%) Progress
7 12 (1.16%) IBM
8 11 (1.06%) DevExpress
9 10 (0.97%) YouTube
10 9 (0.87%) NVIDIA
10 9 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.77%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.58%) Databricks
12 6 (0.58%) Informatica
12 6 (0.58%) SAP
13 5 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.48%) SYSPRO
14 4 (0.39%) WooCommerce