Software Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the West Midlands is £47,500 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 103 166 92
Rank change year-on-year +63 -74 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 182 83 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.27% 1.43% 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 1.58% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 172 65 143
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £64,950 £60,750 £62,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the West Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the West Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the West Midlands

Software 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 Software 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 38 £50,000 -10.31% 15
Staffordshire -15 33 £40,000 -20.00% 13
Warwickshire +34 28 £45,000 +66.67% 4
Worcestershire +1 28 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Coventry +39 17 £53,500 -2.73% 5
Shropshire +2 10 £39,000 -9.30% 2
Wednesbury - 5 £64,000 -
Halesowen - 4 £60,000 - 1
Solihull - 3 £50,000 - 1
Wolverhampton +20 2 £29,500 -46.36% 2
Herefordshire +2 1 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Walsall - 1 £50,000 -
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 121 (66.48%) C#
2 101 (55.49%) .NET
3 83 (45.60%) SQL
4 64 (35.16%) SQL Server
5 50 (27.47%) Social Skills
6 47 (25.82%) MVC
7 46 (25.27%) Agile
8 38 (20.88%) ASP.NET
9 36 (19.78%) JavaScript
10 35 (19.23%) Finance
11 31 (17.03%) HTML
12 30 (16.48%) Microsoft
12 30 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (15.38%) DevOps
13 28 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
14 27 (14.84%) Azure
15 26 (14.29%) Degree
16 23 (12.64%) Computer Science
17 22 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
18 20 (10.99%) Mobile App
19 19 (10.44%) React
19 19 (10.44%) .NET Core
20 18 (9.89%) VB.NET
21 17 (9.34%) Windows
21 17 (9.34%) Software Engineering
21 17 (9.34%) AWS
21 17 (9.34%) TypeScript
22 16 (8.79%) Git
22 16 (8.79%) Python
23 15 (8.24%) Visual Studio

Software 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 1 (0.55%) Mendix
1 1 (0.55%) NServiceBus
1 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Shopify
2 2 (1.10%) Infor LN
2 2 (1.10%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.84%) Azure
2 17 (9.34%) AWS
3 12 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (6.04%) Serverless
5 5 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (2.75%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.75%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (2.75%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.20%) Azure Storage
6 4 (2.20%) iPaaS
6 4 (2.20%) PaaS
6 4 (2.20%) SaaS
7 2 (1.10%) Boomi
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.55%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) 4G
1 2 (1.10%) 5G
2 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (35.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.30%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.75%) MySQL
3 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.20%) SQLite
5 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.55%) Event Store
6 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.55%) Power BI
6 1 (0.55%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) Git
2 15 (8.24%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.75%) MSTest
4 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.65%) JIRA
5 2 (1.10%) GCC
6 1 (0.55%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.23%) Finance
3 11 (6.04%) Automotive
4 9 (4.95%) Marketing
5 7 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.20%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.20%) Law
8 2 (1.10%) Games
8 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.10%) Retail
8 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (55.49%) .NET
2 38 (20.88%) ASP.NET
3 31 (17.03%) HTML
4 28 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (10.44%) .NET Core
5 19 (10.44%) React
6 14 (7.69%) .NET Framework
7 12 (6.59%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.04%) Entity Framework
8 11 (6.04%) RESTful
9 10 (5.49%) CSS
9 10 (5.49%) Node.js
10 9 (4.95%) PyTorch
10 9 (4.95%) TensorFlow
10 9 (4.95%) WinForms
11 8 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 8 (4.40%) XML
12 6 (3.30%) jQuery
12 6 (3.30%) Next.js
12 6 (3.30%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.99%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.04%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.95%) CUDA
4 5 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.20%) Home Automation
5 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.10%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.34%) Windows
2 14 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Android
3 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.82%) MVC
2 46 (25.27%) Agile
3 30 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (15.38%) DevOps
5 23 (12.64%) Computer Science
6 22 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
7 17 (9.34%) Software Engineering
8 14 (7.69%) Customer Service
8 14 (7.69%) Unit Testing
9 13 (7.14%) Scrum
10 12 (6.59%) Software Testing
11 11 (6.04%) Front End Development
11 11 (6.04%) Visualisation
12 9 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (4.95%) Asset Management
12 9 (4.95%) Deep Learning
12 9 (4.95%) Mentoring
13 8 (4.40%) Microservices
13 8 (4.40%) TDD
13 8 (4.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 121 (66.48%) C#
2 83 (45.60%) SQL
3 36 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 18 (9.89%) VB.NET
5 17 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.79%) Python
7 11 (6.04%) C++
8 9 (4.95%) VB
9 8 (4.40%) Java
9 8 (4.40%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.30%) C
11 5 (2.75%) PHP
12 4 (2.20%) XAML
13 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.29%) Degree
2 13 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.75%) PhD
5 2 (1.10%) HND
6 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.20%) Terraform
2 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.95%) NVIDIA
3 4 (2.20%) JDA
3 4 (2.20%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.65%) Oracle
4 3 (1.65%) Talend
4 3 (1.65%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.10%) Infor
5 2 (1.10%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.55%) Denodo
6 1 (0.55%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.55%) YouTube