Senior Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Developer salary in the West Midlands is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 103 68
Rank change year-on-year +11 -35 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 203 170 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.37% 2.94% 4.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 3.27% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 163 100 213
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £44,186
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 8,050 5,197 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.93% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 3,200 4,854
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,000
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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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 -5 93 £62,500 +4.17% 19
Warwickshire +17 30 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Solihull +17 20 £62,500 -3.85%
Staffordshire -31 18 £60,000 +14.29% 10
Worcestershire -14 12 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Halesowen - 12 £60,000 - 2
Wolverhampton - 7 £130,446 - 3
Herefordshire +2 1 £50,000 -
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 83 (40.89%) .NET
2 80 (39.41%) C#
3 52 (25.62%) JavaScript
4 51 (25.12%) Azure
5 47 (23.15%) SQL
5 47 (23.15%) Microsoft
6 38 (18.72%) Agile
7 35 (17.24%) AngularJS
8 33 (16.26%) User Experience
8 33 (16.26%) Artificial Intelligence
8 33 (16.26%) HTML
9 32 (15.76%) .NET Framework
10 30 (14.78%) TypeScript
10 30 (14.78%) Social Skills
11 29 (14.29%) Power Platform
11 29 (14.29%) DevOps
11 29 (14.29%) Entity Framework
12 28 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (13.30%) Machine Learning
13 27 (13.30%) Analytics
13 27 (13.30%) CSS
14 26 (12.81%) Data Modelling
14 26 (12.81%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (12.32%) MVC
15 25 (12.32%) Power BI
15 25 (12.32%) .NET Core
15 25 (12.32%) Full Stack Development
16 24 (11.82%) ASP.NET
16 24 (11.82%) ERP
17 23 (11.33%) Data Analytics

Senior 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 5 (2.46%) SAS
2 1 (0.49%) CMS
2 1 (0.49%) Moodle
2 1 (0.49%) ThingWorx
2 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.12%) Azure
2 29 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 28 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
4 22 (10.84%) PowerApps
5 21 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.34%) Power Automate
6 17 (8.37%) AWS
7 13 (6.40%) SaaS
8 6 (2.96%) GitHub
9 5 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.49%) Firebase
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.49%) OCI
11 1 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) HTTP
1 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.32%) Power BI
2 11 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.43%) MySQL
4 8 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.46%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.97%) SQLite
7 3 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.99%) Power Query
9 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.49%) OLAP
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (7.88%) Git
2 3 (1.48%) Postman
3 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.49%) Maven
4 1 (0.49%) Vite
General
1 30 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.85%) Organisational Skills
3 16 (7.88%) Manufacturing
4 14 (6.90%) Finance
5 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.97%) Digital Healthcare
6 4 (1.97%) Law
7 3 (1.48%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Automotive
8 2 (0.99%) Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.99%) Marketing
8 2 (0.99%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Billing
9 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (40.89%) .NET
2 35 (17.24%) AngularJS
3 33 (16.26%) HTML
4 32 (15.76%) .NET Framework
5 29 (14.29%) Entity Framework
6 27 (13.30%) CSS
7 25 (12.32%) .NET Core
8 24 (11.82%) ASP.NET
9 19 (9.36%) Vue
10 17 (8.37%) React
11 13 (6.40%) REST
12 12 (5.91%) Web Services
13 11 (5.42%) RESTful
14 9 (4.43%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (4.43%) PyTorch
14 9 (4.43%) TensorFlow
15 8 (3.94%) jQuery
15 8 (3.94%) Laravel
15 8 (3.94%) Node.js
16 6 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.91%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.43%) CUDA
4 5 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.46%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (2.46%) Legacy Code
5 4 (1.97%) Home Automation
5 4 (1.97%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.99%) NHS
6 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.49%) IoT
7 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.90%) Linux
2 11 (5.42%) Windows
3 3 (1.48%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (18.72%) Agile
2 33 (16.26%) Artificial Intelligence
2 33 (16.26%) User Experience
3 29 (14.29%) DevOps
4 27 (13.30%) Analytics
4 27 (13.30%) Machine Learning
5 26 (12.81%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (12.81%) Data Modelling
6 25 (12.32%) Full Stack Development
6 25 (12.32%) MVC
7 24 (11.82%) ERP
8 23 (11.33%) Data Analytics
8 23 (11.33%) Digital Strategy
9 22 (10.84%) Visualisation
10 21 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (9.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 20 (9.85%) Performance Optimisation
11 20 (9.85%) Web Development
11 20 (9.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 80 (39.41%) C#
2 52 (25.62%) JavaScript
3 47 (23.15%) SQL
4 30 (14.78%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.34%) Python
6 11 (5.42%) PHP
7 9 (4.43%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.96%) R
9 5 (2.46%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.97%) C++
10 4 (1.97%) XAML
11 2 (0.99%) Java
11 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.49%) Go
12 1 (0.49%) Rust
12 1 (0.49%) VB
12 1 (0.49%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (7.39%) Degree
2 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.46%) PhD
5 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.49%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.99%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (9.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.96%) Rancher
3 5 (2.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.43%) NVIDIA
3 7 (3.45%) Xamarin
4 5 (2.46%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.48%) SEEBURGER
6 2 (0.99%) Google
6 2 (0.99%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.49%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle
7 1 (0.49%) Quadient