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 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 7 18 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,153 618 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.39% 10.61% 19.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.23% 11.80% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 469 1,007
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,512 £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 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 7,573 5,238 7,207
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 89.94% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,594 3,217 4,815
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +3 499 £55,000 -2.65% 84
Staffordshire 0 138 £47,500 - 34
Warwickshire +31 126 £49,990 -0.02% 25
Worcestershire +13 77 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Shropshire +16 55 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Coventry +13 33 £53,500 +0.47% 15
Solihull -3 29 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Wolverhampton +30 16 £56,250 +12.50% 9
Herefordshire -2 15 £50,000 - 5
Halesowen -2 13 £60,000 - 4
Wednesbury +6 9 £62,500 +38.89% 3
Dudley - 6 £40,000 - 3
Walsall - 6 £42,500 - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 - 1
Stourbridge - 1 £45,000 -
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 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 West Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 403 (34.95%) C#
2 383 (33.22%) .NET
3 327 (28.36%) JavaScript
4 285 (24.72%) SQL
5 284 (24.63%) Agile
6 273 (23.68%) Azure
7 249 (21.60%) Full Stack Development
8 246 (21.34%) Microsoft
9 230 (19.95%) HTML
10 192 (16.65%) SQL Server
11 189 (16.39%) Social Skills
12 179 (15.52%) CSS
13 167 (14.48%) React
14 148 (12.84%) TypeScript
15 144 (12.49%) MVC
15 144 (12.49%) ASP.NET
16 141 (12.23%) AngularJS
17 133 (11.54%) AWS
18 130 (11.27%) Power Platform
19 126 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
20 125 (10.84%) DevOps
21 121 (10.49%) .NET Core
22 118 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
23 115 (9.97%) User Experience
24 112 (9.71%) PHP
25 109 (9.45%) Git
26 106 (9.19%) Finance
27 104 (9.02%) Web Development
28 102 (8.85%) Degree
29 92 (7.98%) .NET Framework

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 36 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.95%) WordPress
3 23 (1.99%) OpenEdge
4 17 (1.47%) nginx
5 13 (1.13%) IIS
6 12 (1.04%) CMS
7 11 (0.95%) Appian
8 7 (0.61%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.26%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) Apache
12 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.087%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.087%) Confluence
13 1 (0.087%) Drupal
13 1 (0.087%) Mendix
13 1 (0.087%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.087%) Totara
Applications
1 14 (1.21%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.087%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.91%) Shopify
2 15 (1.30%) Magento
3 13 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.26%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.26%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.17%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.087%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 273 (23.68%) Azure
2 133 (11.54%) AWS
3 130 (11.27%) Power Platform
4 70 (6.07%) Dynamics 365
5 60 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (5.20%) PowerApps
6 50 (4.34%) Power Automate
7 36 (3.12%) GitHub
8 34 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (2.95%) SaaS
8 34 (2.95%) Serverless
9 28 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (0.87%) Amazon S3
13 10 (0.87%) Figma
14 8 (0.69%) PaaS
15 7 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (0.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.30%) Firewall
2 7 (0.61%) Internet
2 7 (0.61%) Intranet
3 5 (0.43%) HTTP
3 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.26%) DNS
4 3 (0.26%) MQTT
4 3 (0.26%) SSL
5 2 (0.17%) 4G
5 2 (0.17%) 5G
5 2 (0.17%) Network Security
6 1 (0.087%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.087%) FTP
6 1 (0.087%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (16.65%) SQL Server
2 88 (7.63%) Power BI
3 69 (5.98%) MySQL
4 34 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 27 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 26 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 19 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
12 14 (1.21%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 11 (0.95%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.61%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
16 6 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 109 (9.45%) Git
2 44 (3.82%) Visual Studio
3 23 (1.99%) JIRA
4 13 (1.13%) Cucumber
4 13 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.13%) Subversion
5 10 (0.87%) GNU Toolchain
6 8 (0.69%) Selenium
7 6 (0.52%) GitLab
7 6 (0.52%) Postman
8 5 (0.43%) ESLint
8 5 (0.43%) Jasmine
8 5 (0.43%) JUnit
8 5 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
8 5 (0.43%) MSTest
8 5 (0.43%) webpack
9 4 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.35%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.35%) Toad
10 3 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 189 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 106 (9.19%) Finance
3 55 (4.77%) Manufacturing
4 54 (4.68%) Marketing
5 50 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.47%) Law
7 36 (3.12%) Retail
8 25 (2.17%) Automotive
9 22 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.65%) Games
12 18 (1.56%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.04%) Advertising
14 8 (0.69%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.43%) Digital Healthcare
15 5 (0.43%) Legal
16 4 (0.35%) Banking
17 3 (0.26%) iGaming
17 3 (0.26%) Local Government
18 2 (0.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (33.22%) .NET
2 230 (19.95%) HTML
3 179 (15.52%) CSS
4 167 (14.48%) React
5 144 (12.49%) ASP.NET
6 141 (12.23%) AngularJS
7 121 (10.49%) .NET Core
8 92 (7.98%) .NET Framework
9 89 (7.72%) Vue
10 85 (7.37%) Node.js
11 84 (7.29%) Entity Framework
12 81 (7.03%) ASP.NET MVC
13 80 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web API
14 69 (5.98%) RESTful
15 64 (5.55%) Laravel
16 54 (4.68%) HTML5
17 49 (4.25%) JSON
18 47 (4.08%) REST
18 47 (4.08%) XML
19 45 (3.90%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 56 (4.86%) Mobile App
2 38 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 16 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
7 12 (1.04%) Low-Code
8 11 (0.95%) AS400
8 11 (0.95%) iSeries
8 11 (0.95%) Onboarding
9 10 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.78%) CUDA
10 9 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.69%) Digital Media
11 8 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.61%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.03%) Linux
2 39 (3.38%) Windows
3 21 (1.82%) Android
4 10 (0.87%) Unix
5 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.35%) VMS
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (24.63%) Agile
2 249 (21.60%) Full Stack Development
3 144 (12.49%) MVC
4 126 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (10.84%) DevOps
6 118 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
7 115 (9.97%) User Experience
8 104 (9.02%) Web Development
9 90 (7.81%) Microservices
10 89 (7.72%) Front End Development
11 83 (7.20%) Scrum
12 77 (6.68%) Software Engineering
13 73 (6.33%) Computer Science
14 70 (6.07%) Mentoring
15 65 (5.64%) Clean Code
16 59 (5.12%) ERP
16 59 (5.12%) TDD
17 56 (4.86%) Visualisation
18 55 (4.77%) CI/CD
19 52 (4.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 403 (34.95%) C#
2 327 (28.36%) JavaScript
3 285 (24.72%) SQL
4 148 (12.84%) TypeScript
5 112 (9.71%) PHP
6 69 (5.98%) Java
6 69 (5.98%) Python
7 51 (4.42%) VB.NET
8 45 (3.90%) C++
9 36 (3.12%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.99%) VB
11 16 (1.39%) Bash
11 16 (1.39%) C
11 16 (1.39%) Go
12 15 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.13%) R
14 11 (0.95%) RPG
14 11 (0.95%) RPG IV
14 11 (0.95%) RPG/400
15 10 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (8.85%) Degree
2 46 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (2.43%) SC Cleared
3 28 (2.43%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.43%) PhD
6 3 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.17%) HND
7 2 (0.17%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.087%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.087%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.16%) QA
2 17 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.087%) ITGC
4 1 (0.087%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (5.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.087%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.91%) Terraform
3 6 (0.52%) Rancher
4 4 (0.35%) SCOM
5 1 (0.087%) Grafana
5 1 (0.087%) Kibana
Vendors
1 246 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.52%) Oracle
3 20 (1.73%) ServiceNow
4 19 (1.65%) Google
4 19 (1.65%) Xamarin
5 15 (1.30%) Adobe
6 14 (1.21%) Facebook
7 12 (1.04%) IBM
8 11 (0.95%) DevExpress
8 11 (0.95%) Progress
9 10 (0.87%) YouTube
10 9 (0.78%) NVIDIA
10 9 (0.78%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.69%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.52%) Databricks
12 6 (0.52%) Informatica
12 6 (0.52%) SAP
13 5 (0.43%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.35%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.35%) SYSPRO