Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Developer salary in the West Midlands is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 20 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,019 646 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.81% 10.13% 20.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.67% 11.22% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 907 467 1,035
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,431 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,875 £65,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,040
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.49% +10.98%

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 6,944 5,756 6,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 90.22% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,216 3,269 4,738
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £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 £63,563 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 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 10 May 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 10 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
Birmingham +2 439 £55,000 -2.65% 76
Staffordshire -1 123 £48,750 +2.63% 34
Warwickshire +37 93 £52,500 - 29
Worcestershire +13 68 £50,000 +17.65% 15
Shropshire +15 56 £44,500 -25.83% 5
Coventry +11 34 £53,500 +0.47% 21
Solihull -3 29 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Wolverhampton +28 15 £57,500 +15.00% 9
Herefordshire +1 14 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Walsall - 8 £42,500 - 2
Halesowen -7 7 £60,000 - 7
Wednesbury +2 6 £63,250 +40.56% 1
Dudley - 5 £40,000 - 3
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 -
Stourbridge - 2 £50,000 -
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 10 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 West Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 378 (37.10%) C#
2 343 (33.66%) .NET
3 310 (30.42%) JavaScript
4 267 (26.20%) Agile
5 260 (25.52%) SQL
6 257 (25.22%) Azure
7 234 (22.96%) Microsoft
8 233 (22.87%) Full Stack Development
9 217 (21.30%) HTML
10 180 (17.66%) SQL Server
11 176 (17.27%) Social Skills
12 165 (16.19%) CSS
13 163 (16.00%) React
14 146 (14.33%) TypeScript
15 138 (13.54%) MVC
16 135 (13.25%) ASP.NET
17 132 (12.95%) AngularJS
18 124 (12.17%) DevOps
19 123 (12.07%) AWS
20 115 (11.29%) .NET Core
21 113 (11.09%) Power Platform
22 110 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
23 109 (10.70%) Business Intelligence
24 108 (10.60%) User Experience
25 106 (10.40%) Git
26 102 (10.01%) Finance
27 101 (9.91%) PHP
28 99 (9.72%) Web Development
29 90 (8.83%) Microservices
29 90 (8.83%) Degree

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 38 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.34%) WordPress
3 20 (1.96%) OpenEdge
4 17 (1.67%) nginx
5 12 (1.18%) CMS
6 11 (1.08%) IIS
7 10 (0.98%) Appian
8 7 (0.69%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.20%) Apache
10 2 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.098%) Confluence
11 1 (0.098%) Drupal
11 1 (0.098%) Mendix
11 1 (0.098%) Moodle
11 1 (0.098%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (1.37%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.098%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.96%) Shopify
2 15 (1.47%) Magento
3 12 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.29%) ProductWriter
7 2 (0.20%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.098%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 257 (25.22%) Azure
2 123 (12.07%) AWS
3 113 (11.09%) Power Platform
4 58 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (5.69%) PowerApps
5 53 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
6 47 (4.61%) Power Automate
7 36 (3.53%) GitHub
8 34 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (3.24%) Serverless
10 32 (3.14%) SaaS
11 25 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.88%) Figma
15 9 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.79%) GCP
16 8 (0.79%) PaaS
17 7 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.28%) Firewall
2 7 (0.69%) Intranet
3 6 (0.59%) Internet
4 5 (0.49%) HTTP
4 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.39%) MQTT
6 3 (0.29%) DNS
6 3 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) 4G
7 2 (0.20%) 5G
7 2 (0.20%) AMQP
7 2 (0.20%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.20%) FTP
8 1 (0.098%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.098%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (17.66%) SQL Server
2 79 (7.75%) Power BI
3 63 (6.18%) MySQL
4 32 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (1.77%) DynamoDB
9 18 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
12 11 (1.08%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
16 5 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (10.40%) Git
2 44 (4.32%) Visual Studio
3 23 (2.26%) JIRA
4 14 (1.37%) Cucumber
4 14 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.28%) Subversion
6 10 (0.98%) GNU Toolchain
7 8 (0.79%) Selenium
8 6 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.59%) GitLab
8 6 (0.59%) Postman
9 5 (0.49%) ESLint
9 5 (0.49%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.49%) JUnit
9 5 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
9 5 (0.49%) MSTest
9 5 (0.49%) webpack
10 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.39%) Toad
11 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 176 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 102 (10.01%) Finance
3 56 (5.50%) Manufacturing
4 50 (4.91%) Marketing
5 44 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (3.73%) Law
7 31 (3.04%) Retail
8 24 (2.36%) Automotive
8 24 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.77%) Games
11 16 (1.57%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.18%) Advertising
13 8 (0.79%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.59%) Banking
15 5 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
15 5 (0.49%) Legal
16 2 (0.20%) Digital Health
16 2 (0.20%) Police
16 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (33.66%) .NET
2 217 (21.30%) HTML
3 165 (16.19%) CSS
4 163 (16.00%) React
5 135 (13.25%) ASP.NET
6 132 (12.95%) AngularJS
7 115 (11.29%) .NET Core
8 89 (8.73%) Node.js
9 84 (8.24%) .NET Framework
10 82 (8.05%) Vue
11 80 (7.85%) ASP.NET MVC
12 79 (7.75%) Entity Framework
13 73 (7.16%) ASP.NET Web API
14 66 (6.48%) RESTful
15 58 (5.69%) Laravel
16 49 (4.81%) HTML5
17 46 (4.51%) REST
18 45 (4.42%) JSON
19 42 (4.12%) XML
20 39 (3.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (5.79%) Mobile App
2 39 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
7 14 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.08%) AS400
9 11 (1.08%) iSeries
9 11 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 10 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.88%) CUDA
12 8 (0.79%) Digital Media
12 8 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.69%) Cloud Native
13 7 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.10%) Linux
2 32 (3.14%) Windows
3 15 (1.47%) Android
4 10 (0.98%) Unix
5 7 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.29%) VMS
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (26.20%) Agile
2 233 (22.87%) Full Stack Development
3 138 (13.54%) MVC
4 124 (12.17%) DevOps
5 110 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
6 109 (10.70%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (10.60%) User Experience
8 99 (9.72%) Web Development
9 90 (8.83%) Microservices
10 82 (8.05%) Front End Development
11 80 (7.85%) Software Engineering
12 73 (7.16%) Scrum
13 66 (6.48%) Mentoring
14 63 (6.18%) Clean Code
14 63 (6.18%) Computer Science
15 61 (5.99%) ERP
16 59 (5.79%) CI/CD
17 55 (5.40%) TDD
18 50 (4.91%) Visualisation
19 49 (4.81%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 378 (37.10%) C#
2 310 (30.42%) JavaScript
3 260 (25.52%) SQL
4 146 (14.33%) TypeScript
5 101 (9.91%) PHP
6 63 (6.18%) Java
7 62 (6.08%) Python
8 44 (4.32%) VB.NET
9 38 (3.73%) C++
10 35 (3.43%) T-SQL
11 24 (2.36%) VB
12 16 (1.57%) Bash
12 16 (1.57%) C
12 16 (1.57%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.28%) Go
14 12 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.08%) RPG
15 11 (1.08%) RPG IV
15 11 (1.08%) RPG/400
16 10 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (8.83%) Degree
2 40 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (2.45%) SC Cleared
3 25 (2.45%) Security Cleared
4 15 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.49%) PhD
6 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.20%) HND
8 1 (0.098%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.098%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.71%) QA
2 16 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.098%) ITGC
4 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (6.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.86%) Terraform
3 6 (0.59%) Rancher
4 1 (0.098%) Grafana
4 1 (0.098%) Kibana
4 1 (0.098%) SCOM
Vendors
1 234 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.75%) Oracle
3 21 (2.06%) Google
4 17 (1.67%) Xamarin
5 16 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.47%) Adobe
7 14 (1.37%) Progress
8 13 (1.28%) Facebook
9 12 (1.18%) IBM
10 11 (1.08%) DevExpress
11 9 (0.88%) NVIDIA
11 9 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.88%) YouTube
12 8 (0.79%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.59%) Databricks
13 6 (0.59%) Informatica
14 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.49%) SAP
14 5 (0.49%) SYSPRO
15 4 (0.39%) Jaspersoft