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 to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 105 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 -36 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 193 171 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.29% 2.96% 4.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 3.29% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 155 102 212
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £44,186
25th Percentile £53,125 £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 £69,375 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £79,750 £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

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 7,925 5,201 7,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.90% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,725 3,210 4,866
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,503
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £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 £63,750 £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%

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 9 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 9 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 -11 92 £62,500 +4.17% 18
Warwickshire +21 26 £65,000 +18.18% 14
Solihull +17 20 £62,500 -3.85%
Staffordshire -38 15 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Worcestershire -17 12 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Halesowen - 12 £60,000 - 2
Wolverhampton - 5 £130,446 - 3
Herefordshire +4 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 9 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 78 (40.41%) .NET
2 74 (38.34%) C#
3 50 (25.91%) JavaScript
4 49 (25.39%) Azure
5 46 (23.83%) Microsoft
6 45 (23.32%) SQL
7 37 (19.17%) Agile
8 33 (17.10%) Artificial Intelligence
8 33 (17.10%) HTML
8 33 (17.10%) User Experience
9 32 (16.58%) AngularJS
10 31 (16.06%) Social Skills
11 30 (15.54%) .NET Framework
12 29 (15.03%) TypeScript
12 29 (15.03%) Power Platform
13 28 (14.51%) Dynamics 365
13 28 (14.51%) DevOps
14 27 (13.99%) Entity Framework
14 27 (13.99%) CSS
14 27 (13.99%) Data Modelling
15 26 (13.47%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (13.47%) Machine Learning
15 26 (13.47%) Analytics
16 25 (12.95%) Power BI
16 25 (12.95%) .NET Core
17 24 (12.44%) ERP
18 23 (11.92%) MVC
18 23 (11.92%) Digital Strategy
18 23 (11.92%) Full Stack Development
19 22 (11.40%) PowerApps

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 3 (1.55%) SAS
2 1 (0.52%) CMS
2 1 (0.52%) Moodle
2 1 (0.52%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.52%) ThingWorx
2 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.39%) Azure
2 29 (15.03%) Power Platform
3 28 (14.51%) Dynamics 365
4 22 (11.40%) PowerApps
5 21 (10.88%) Power Automate
6 19 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.77%) AWS
8 12 (6.22%) SaaS
9 6 (3.11%) GitHub
10 5 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.52%) OCI
13 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) HTTP
1 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.95%) Power BI
2 12 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.66%) MySQL
4 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.59%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.07%) SQLite
7 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.04%) Power Query
9 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.52%) Event Store
9 1 (0.52%) OLAP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) RavenDB
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Git
2 3 (1.55%) Postman
3 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.52%) Maven
4 1 (0.52%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 31 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.36%) Organisational Skills
3 16 (8.29%) Manufacturing
4 12 (6.22%) Finance
5 5 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.07%) Digital Healthcare
6 4 (2.07%) Law
7 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Automotive
7 3 (1.55%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.04%) Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.04%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (40.41%) .NET
2 33 (17.10%) HTML
3 32 (16.58%) AngularJS
4 30 (15.54%) .NET Framework
5 27 (13.99%) CSS
5 27 (13.99%) Entity Framework
6 25 (12.95%) .NET Core
7 21 (10.88%) ASP.NET
8 17 (8.81%) Vue
9 16 (8.29%) React
10 13 (6.74%) REST
10 13 (6.74%) Web Services
11 10 (5.18%) RESTful
12 9 (4.66%) PyTorch
12 9 (4.66%) TensorFlow
13 8 (4.15%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (4.15%) Laravel
13 8 (4.15%) Node.js
14 7 (3.63%) jQuery
15 6 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.18%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.66%) CUDA
4 5 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.59%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (2.59%) Legacy Code
4 5 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.07%) Home Automation
6 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.04%) NHS
7 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.52%) IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.25%) Linux
2 10 (5.18%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (19.17%) Agile
2 33 (17.10%) Artificial Intelligence
2 33 (17.10%) User Experience
3 28 (14.51%) DevOps
4 27 (13.99%) Data Modelling
5 26 (13.47%) Analytics
5 26 (13.47%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (13.47%) Machine Learning
6 24 (12.44%) ERP
7 23 (11.92%) Digital Strategy
7 23 (11.92%) Full Stack Development
7 23 (11.92%) MVC
8 22 (11.40%) Data Analytics
8 22 (11.40%) Visualisation
9 21 (10.88%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (10.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 20 (10.36%) Performance Optimisation
10 20 (10.36%) Web Development
10 20 (10.36%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.34%) C#
2 50 (25.91%) JavaScript
3 45 (23.32%) SQL
4 29 (15.03%) TypeScript
5 19 (9.84%) Python
6 11 (5.70%) PHP
7 10 (5.18%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.59%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.07%) R
9 4 (2.07%) XAML
10 3 (1.55%) C++
11 2 (1.04%) Java
11 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.52%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
12 1 (0.52%) VB
12 1 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (7.77%) Degree
2 9 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.59%) PhD
5 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.04%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (10.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.11%) Rancher
3 5 (2.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.66%) NVIDIA
3 7 (3.63%) Xamarin
4 5 (2.59%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.55%) SEEBURGER
6 2 (1.04%) Google
6 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.52%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) Quadient