Software Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Software Developer
England > Midlands

The median Software Developer salary in the Midlands is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 180 79
Rank change year-on-year +65 -101 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 252 133 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.08% 1.47% 3.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 1.63% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 236 105 218
10th Percentile £33,125 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,625 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%

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 11,430 8,135 10,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 89.72% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,444 4,581 7,045
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,526
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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the Midlands

Software 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 Software Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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 +82 169 £50,000 -4.76% 53
East Midlands +11 82 £43,000 -7.53% 31
Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 Midlands region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 157 (62.30%) C#
2 141 (55.95%) .NET
3 121 (48.02%) SQL
4 75 (29.76%) JavaScript
5 72 (28.57%) SQL Server
6 60 (23.81%) MVC
7 57 (22.62%) Social Skills
8 54 (21.43%) HTML
9 53 (21.03%) Agile
10 49 (19.44%) ASP.NET
10 49 (19.44%) React
11 46 (18.25%) Full Stack Development
12 45 (17.86%) Azure
13 43 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (16.67%) Degree
15 37 (14.68%) Microsoft
15 37 (14.68%) DevOps
16 35 (13.89%) Finance
17 33 (13.10%) Software Engineering
18 32 (12.70%) CSS
19 31 (12.30%) TypeScript
20 29 (11.51%) ASP.NET MVC
20 29 (11.51%) .NET Core
21 26 (10.32%) AWS
21 26 (10.32%) Mobile App
21 26 (10.32%) Visual Studio
21 26 (10.32%) Computer Science
22 25 (9.92%) AngularJS
23 23 (9.13%) Linux
24 22 (8.73%) Windows

Software 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 3 (1.19%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) Mendix
2 1 (0.40%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Shopify
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.79%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.79%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.86%) Azure
2 26 (10.32%) AWS
3 14 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.56%) SaaS
4 11 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (4.37%) Serverless
5 5 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
5 5 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (1.98%) Azure Pipelines
5 5 (1.98%) Stripe
6 4 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.59%) Azure Storage
6 4 (1.59%) iPaaS
6 4 (1.59%) PaaS
7 2 (0.79%) Boomi
7 2 (0.79%) GitHub
7 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) 4G
1 2 (0.79%) 5G
2 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.38%) MySQL
4 4 (1.59%) SQLite
5 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Event Store
7 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Power BI
7 1 (0.40%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 26 (10.32%) Visual Studio
2 17 (6.75%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) JIRA
3 5 (1.98%) MSTest
4 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.79%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.79%) GCC
5 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.40%) CMake
6 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 57 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.89%) Finance
3 13 (5.16%) Law
4 12 (4.76%) Automotive
5 10 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.57%) Marketing
7 8 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.38%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.19%) Retail
12 2 (0.79%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (0.79%) Electronics
12 2 (0.79%) Games
12 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.40%) Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (55.95%) .NET
2 54 (21.43%) HTML
3 49 (19.44%) ASP.NET
3 49 (19.44%) React
4 32 (12.70%) CSS
5 29 (11.51%) .NET Core
5 29 (11.51%) ASP.NET MVC
6 25 (9.92%) AngularJS
7 20 (7.94%) .NET Framework
7 20 (7.94%) RESTful
8 15 (5.95%) Node.js
9 14 (5.56%) Entity Framework
9 14 (5.56%) Vue
9 14 (5.56%) XML
10 12 (4.76%) Laravel
11 10 (3.97%) WinForms
12 9 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (3.57%) Blazor
12 9 (3.57%) PyTorch
12 9 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.32%) Mobile App
2 11 (4.37%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.57%) CUDA
3 9 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.98%) Mobile Computing
5 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.59%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.59%) Home Automation
6 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.79%) Mobile Games
7 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.40%) IoT
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.40%) NHS
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.13%) Linux
2 22 (8.73%) Windows
3 5 (1.98%) Android
4 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (23.81%) MVC
2 53 (21.03%) Agile
3 46 (18.25%) Full Stack Development
4 43 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (14.68%) DevOps
6 33 (13.10%) Software Engineering
7 26 (10.32%) Computer Science
8 20 (7.94%) Microservices
9 16 (6.35%) Mentoring
10 15 (5.95%) Unit Testing
11 14 (5.56%) Front End Development
11 14 (5.56%) Web Development
12 13 (5.16%) Customer Service
12 13 (5.16%) Scrum
13 12 (4.76%) Software Testing
14 11 (4.37%) Clean Code
14 11 (4.37%) Integration Testing
14 11 (4.37%) Visualisation
15 10 (3.97%) TDD
15 10 (3.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (62.30%) C#
2 121 (48.02%) SQL
3 75 (29.76%) JavaScript
4 31 (12.30%) TypeScript
5 21 (8.33%) C++
6 17 (6.75%) VB
7 16 (6.35%) Python
7 16 (6.35%) VB.NET
8 15 (5.95%) PHP
9 14 (5.56%) C
9 14 (5.56%) Java
10 9 (3.57%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.78%) Assembly Language
12 4 (1.59%) XAML
13 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.40%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 42 (16.67%) Degree
2 13 (5.16%) Master's Degree
3 11 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.98%) PhD
5 2 (0.79%) HND
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.16%) QA
System Software
1 5 (1.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (1.59%) Terraform
2 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.57%) NVIDIA
3 7 (2.78%) JDA
3 7 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.38%) Google
5 5 (1.98%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.59%) Xamarin
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle
7 3 (1.19%) Talend
8 2 (0.79%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.79%) Infor
8 2 (0.79%) Jitterbit
9 1 (0.40%) Cadence
9 1 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) Denodo
9 1 (0.40%) Quadient
9 1 (0.40%) YouTube