Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Developer
England > Midlands

The median Developer salary in the Midlands is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,570 1,041 2,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 11.24% 20.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.03% 12.53% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,393 734 1,510
10th Percentile £33,300 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,406 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,193 8,307 10,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.68% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,338 4,661 7,022
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the Midlands

Developer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands +13 1,021 £51,000 -7.27% 209
East Midlands +4 542 £50,000 -9.09% 124
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 634 (40.38%) C#
2 599 (38.15%) .NET
3 537 (34.20%) JavaScript
4 427 (27.20%) Azure
5 423 (26.94%) SQL
6 402 (25.61%) Agile
7 390 (24.84%) Full Stack Development
8 380 (24.20%) HTML
9 317 (20.19%) Microsoft
10 304 (19.36%) SQL Server
11 285 (18.15%) CSS
12 271 (17.26%) ASP.NET
13 266 (16.94%) React
14 255 (16.24%) MVC
15 230 (14.65%) AngularJS
16 229 (14.59%) TypeScript
17 222 (14.14%) Social Skills
18 216 (13.76%) .NET Core
19 213 (13.57%) AWS
20 168 (10.70%) DevOps
21 165 (10.51%) PHP
22 163 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
23 162 (10.32%) Web Development
24 154 (9.81%) Power Platform
25 145 (9.24%) Vue
26 140 (8.92%) Degree
27 139 (8.85%) ASP.NET MVC
27 139 (8.85%) User Experience
28 138 (8.79%) Microservices
29 137 (8.73%) Git

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 59 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.69%) WordPress
3 33 (2.10%) CMS
4 25 (1.59%) IIS
5 21 (1.34%) OpenEdge
6 18 (1.15%) nginx
7 11 (0.70%) Umbraco
8 10 (0.64%) Appian
8 10 (0.64%) Headless CMS
9 9 (0.57%) Drupal
10 5 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.19%) Apache
12 2 (0.13%) Confluence
12 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
13 1 (0.064%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.064%) Mendix
13 1 (0.064%) Moodle
13 1 (0.064%) PrestaShop
13 1 (0.064%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (0.89%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.064%) Blender
4 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (1.91%) Shopify
2 24 (1.53%) Magento
3 20 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.19%) ProductWriter
9 2 (0.13%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.064%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 427 (27.20%) Azure
2 213 (13.57%) AWS
3 154 (9.81%) Power Platform
4 78 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 71 (4.52%) PowerApps
7 65 (4.14%) SaaS
8 55 (3.50%) Power Automate
9 43 (2.74%) GitHub
10 40 (2.55%) Serverless
11 34 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (0.89%) Figma
14 13 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (0.70%) PaaS
16 10 (0.64%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.64%) GCP
17 9 (0.57%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.21%) Firewall
2 14 (0.89%) Internet
3 12 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.57%) DNS
4 9 (0.57%) SSL
5 8 (0.51%) Intranet
6 5 (0.32%) HTTP
6 5 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
7 4 (0.25%) MQTT
8 2 (0.13%) 4G
8 2 (0.13%) 5G
8 2 (0.13%) AMQP
8 2 (0.13%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.13%) FTP
9 1 (0.064%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (19.36%) SQL Server
2 103 (6.56%) Power BI
3 91 (5.80%) MySQL
4 49 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (2.55%) MongoDB
6 39 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (2.10%) Relational Database
8 32 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (1.78%) Oracle Database
11 25 (1.59%) NoSQL
12 21 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.27%) DynamoDB
14 19 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.70%) SQLite
17 10 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
18 9 (0.57%) Crystal Reports
19 8 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 137 (8.73%) Git
2 70 (4.46%) Visual Studio
3 27 (1.72%) JIRA
4 22 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 15 (0.96%) Cucumber
6 14 (0.89%) Selenium
7 13 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.83%) Subversion
8 11 (0.70%) Jasmine
8 11 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
9 10 (0.64%) GNU Toolchain
10 8 (0.51%) GitLab
10 8 (0.51%) gulp
10 8 (0.51%) Postman
10 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.38%) JMeter
11 6 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 222 (14.14%) Social Skills
2 128 (8.15%) Finance
3 82 (5.22%) Law
4 81 (5.16%) Marketing
5 72 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 57 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (3.12%) Retail
8 27 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (1.66%) Automotive
9 26 (1.66%) Games
10 23 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.21%) Advertising
11 19 (1.21%) Public Sector
12 17 (1.08%) Banking
12 17 (1.08%) Legal
13 11 (0.70%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.51%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.32%) Digital Healthcare
15 5 (0.32%) iGaming
16 3 (0.19%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (38.15%) .NET
2 380 (24.20%) HTML
3 285 (18.15%) CSS
4 271 (17.26%) ASP.NET
5 266 (16.94%) React
6 230 (14.65%) AngularJS
7 216 (13.76%) .NET Core
8 145 (9.24%) Vue
9 139 (8.85%) ASP.NET MVC
10 130 (8.28%) Node.js
11 125 (7.96%) ASP.NET Web API
12 123 (7.83%) .NET Framework
13 112 (7.13%) RESTful
14 102 (6.50%) Entity Framework
15 96 (6.11%) HTML5
16 89 (5.67%) REST
17 84 (5.35%) Laravel
18 70 (4.46%) Web Services
19 69 (4.39%) jQuery
20 60 (3.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.29%) Mobile App
2 71 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
3 51 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.21%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
8 14 (0.89%) Low-Code
9 13 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 13 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 11 (0.70%) AS400
10 11 (0.70%) Digital Media
10 11 (0.70%) iSeries
10 11 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (0.64%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.57%) CUDA
12 9 (0.57%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.57%) Online Banking
13 8 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.20%) Linux
2 45 (2.87%) Windows
3 23 (1.46%) Android
4 12 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.64%) Unix
5 10 (0.64%) VMS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (25.61%) Agile
2 390 (24.84%) Full Stack Development
3 255 (16.24%) MVC
4 168 (10.70%) DevOps
5 163 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (10.32%) Web Development
7 139 (8.85%) User Experience
8 138 (8.79%) Microservices
9 126 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
10 123 (7.83%) Front End Development
11 119 (7.58%) Software Engineering
12 99 (6.31%) Clean Code
12 99 (6.31%) Scrum
13 89 (5.67%) Mentoring
14 83 (5.29%) ERP
15 81 (5.16%) CI/CD
16 79 (5.03%) E-Commerce
17 78 (4.97%) TDD
18 76 (4.84%) Computer Science
19 71 (4.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 634 (40.38%) C#
2 537 (34.20%) JavaScript
3 423 (26.94%) SQL
4 229 (14.59%) TypeScript
5 165 (10.51%) PHP
6 81 (5.16%) Java
7 76 (4.84%) Python
8 67 (4.27%) VB.NET
9 57 (3.63%) T-SQL
10 51 (3.25%) C++
11 44 (2.80%) VB
12 29 (1.85%) C
13 19 (1.21%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.15%) Bash
14 18 (1.15%) PowerShell
15 14 (0.89%) VB6
16 13 (0.83%) Go
16 13 (0.83%) XAML
17 11 (0.70%) RPG
17 11 (0.70%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 140 (8.92%) Degree
2 49 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (2.23%) Security Cleared
4 34 (2.17%) SC Cleared
5 14 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.32%) PhD
8 4 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.13%) HND
11 1 (0.064%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.064%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.78%) QA
2 21 (1.34%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.32%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.064%) GDPR
4 1 (0.064%) ITGC
4 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (5.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.064%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.27%) Terraform
3 6 (0.38%) Progress Chef
3 6 (0.38%) Rancher
4 1 (0.064%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.064%) Grafana
4 1 (0.064%) Kibana
4 1 (0.064%) SCOM
4 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 317 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 46 (2.93%) Oracle
3 41 (2.61%) Google
4 21 (1.34%) Xamarin
5 20 (1.27%) Facebook
6 19 (1.21%) Adobe
6 19 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.02%) YouTube
8 15 (0.96%) Progress
9 14 (0.89%) DevExpress
10 13 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 12 (0.76%) IBM
12 10 (0.64%) WooCommerce
13 9 (0.57%) NVIDIA
13 9 (0.57%) Sitecore
14 7 (0.45%) Databricks
14 7 (0.45%) JDA
14 7 (0.45%) SAP
15 6 (0.38%) Apple
15 6 (0.38%) Informatica