Software Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 47 27
Rank change year-on-year +26 -20 +11
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 508 395 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.80% 6.32% 8.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 6.53% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 397 217 349
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £84,978 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,647 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.97% +3.78% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,157 6,052 7,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.42% 96.80% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,566 3,147 4,742
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,713 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the West Midlands

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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 -3 198 £60,000 - 51
Warwickshire +31 64 £57,500 -9.80% 9
Staffordshire +12 62 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Worcestershire +5 47 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Coventry +40 24 £65,000 +18.18% 15
Solihull +3 13 £45,000 +100.00% 2
Halesowen - 11 £52,500 -
Shropshire -9 10 £40,000 -27.27% 2
Wolverhampton +20 5 £40,000 - 1
Herefordshire +3 4 £50,000 -24.53% 4
West Bromwich - 3 £50,000 -
Wednesbury -1 2 £83,250 +137.86%
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
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 12 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.38%) Confluence
3 6 (1.18%) Appian
3 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.98%) WinCC
5 4 (0.79%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.39%) IIS
6 2 (0.39%) Liferay
6 2 (0.39%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 13 (2.56%) Simulink
2 7 (1.38%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.79%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.20%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 12 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (22.64%) Azure
2 74 (14.57%) AWS
3 50 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (7.28%) SaaS
5 32 (6.30%) GCP
6 22 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (4.33%) GitHub
7 19 (3.74%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.95%) Serverless
9 14 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (2.76%) PaaS
10 9 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.77%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.57%) IaaS
12 7 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.38%) Azure API Management
12 7 (1.38%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (1.38%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.38%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.97%) Bluetooth
1 10 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (1.57%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.57%) Wireless
3 5 (0.98%) RS-232
3 5 (0.98%) RS-485
3 5 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.98%) ZigBee
4 4 (0.79%) HTTP
5 3 (0.59%) GSM
5 3 (0.59%) J1939
6 2 (0.39%) 4G
6 2 (0.39%) 5G
6 2 (0.39%) Modbus
6 2 (0.39%) MQTT
6 2 (0.39%) Profibus
7 1 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.20%) FlexRay
7 1 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.72%) MySQL
2 19 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.97%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.77%) Power BI
8 7 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.38%) SQLite
9 6 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.18%) Redis
10 5 (0.98%) OLAP
10 5 (0.98%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.59%) InterSystems Cache
13 2 (0.39%) DTS
13 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (9.06%) Git
2 31 (6.10%) JIRA
3 18 (3.54%) Visual Studio
4 16 (3.15%) GitLab
5 9 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (1.57%) Postman
6 8 (1.57%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.98%) CANoe
7 5 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.79%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.79%) SoapUI
8 4 (0.79%) Xcode
9 3 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.39%) Bower
10 2 (0.39%) GCC
10 2 (0.39%) gulp
10 2 (0.39%) Moq
11 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
General
1 43 (8.46%) Automotive
2 42 (8.27%) Finance
2 42 (8.27%) Manufacturing
3 36 (7.09%) Social Skills
4 32 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.12%) Electronics
6 13 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.56%) Retail
7 11 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.18%) Law
8 6 (1.18%) Social Housing
9 5 (0.98%) Banking
9 5 (0.98%) Legal
10 4 (0.79%) Marketing
10 4 (0.79%) Multimedia
10 4 (0.79%) Publishing
10 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.59%) Games
11 3 (0.59%) Local Government
11 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 286 (56.30%) Software Engineer
2 108 (21.26%) Senior
3 86 (16.93%) Embedded Engineer
4 79 (15.55%) Developer
5 66 (12.99%) Senior Software Engineer
6 65 (12.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 39 (7.68%) Lead
8 31 (6.10%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 23 (4.53%) PLC Engineer
9 23 (4.53%) PLC Software Engineer
10 20 (3.94%) SCADA Engineer
10 20 (3.94%) SCADA Software Engineer
11 18 (3.54%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (3.54%) Software Developer
12 17 (3.35%) C# Software Engineer
12 17 (3.35%) Engineering Manager
12 17 (3.35%) Full Stack Developer
12 17 (3.35%) Java Engineer
12 17 (3.35%) Software Manager
13 16 (3.15%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (19.49%) .NET
2 57 (11.22%) React
3 49 (9.65%) AngularJS
4 45 (8.86%) RESTful
5 41 (8.07%) HTML
6 33 (6.50%) .NET Core
7 30 (5.91%) CSS
8 27 (5.31%) ASP.NET
9 24 (4.72%) Node.js
10 21 (4.13%) Blazor
11 18 (3.54%) .NET Framework
11 18 (3.54%) WPF
12 15 (2.95%) Web Services
13 14 (2.76%) ARM Templates
13 14 (2.76%) Yocto
14 13 (2.56%) SOAP
15 12 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (2.36%) jQuery
15 12 (2.36%) WinForms
16 11 (2.17%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.31%) IoT
2 23 (4.53%) SCADA
3 22 (4.33%) Virtual Team
4 21 (4.13%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.94%) Operational Technology
6 18 (3.54%) Mobile App
7 17 (3.35%) Product Ownership
8 16 (3.15%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.97%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.38%) FMCG
10 7 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.38%) Infotainment
10 7 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.18%) Housing Association
11 6 (1.18%) Smart Home
12 5 (0.98%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.98%) Robotics
12 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.87%) Linux
2 17 (3.35%) Windows
3 13 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (2.36%) Android
5 10 (1.97%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.98%) Unix
7 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (34.65%) Agile
2 100 (19.69%) DevOps
3 74 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (10.83%) Computer Science
5 53 (10.43%) Scrum
6 48 (9.45%) CI/CD
7 45 (8.86%) Mentoring
8 43 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
9 41 (8.07%) Project Management
10 40 (7.87%) Containerisation
11 37 (7.28%) Continuous Integration
11 37 (7.28%) Test Automation
12 34 (6.69%) Microservices
12 34 (6.69%) User Experience
13 33 (6.50%) SDLC
14 30 (5.91%) Roadmaps
15 27 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (5.12%) Continuous Delivery
17 25 (4.92%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 118 (23.23%) C#
2 80 (15.75%) JavaScript
3 75 (14.76%) Java
4 70 (13.78%) SQL
5 69 (13.58%) C
6 68 (13.39%) TypeScript
7 58 (11.42%) C++
8 53 (10.43%) Python
9 24 (4.72%) Embedded C
10 18 (3.54%) Go
11 15 (2.95%) PHP
12 14 (2.76%) Embedded C++
12 14 (2.76%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.36%) MATLAB
14 9 (1.77%) XAML
15 6 (1.18%) VB
16 5 (0.98%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.79%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (15.94%) Degree
2 50 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.18%) MCSE
6 6 (1.18%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.18%) PMP
7 5 (0.98%) CAPM
7 5 (0.98%) ISEB
7 5 (0.98%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.79%) APMP
8 4 (0.79%) HNC
9 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.39%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.31%) QA
2 14 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.17%) AUTOSAR
4 10 (1.97%) ISO 26262
4 10 (1.97%) MISRA
5 8 (1.57%) NCSC
6 4 (0.79%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.39%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (10.04%) Docker
2 24 (4.72%) Firmware
3 12 (2.36%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.53%) Terraform
3 9 (1.77%) Ansible
4 5 (0.98%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.59%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.39%) MIIS
7 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 50 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.33%) Siemens
3 21 (4.13%) Google
4 16 (3.15%) Xamarin
5 12 (2.36%) DevExpress
6 10 (1.97%) Rockwell
7 7 (1.38%) Adobe
8 5 (0.98%) HP
9 4 (0.79%) Micro Focus
9 4 (0.79%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.79%) QNX
9 4 (0.79%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.59%) IBM
10 3 (0.59%) InterSystems
10 3 (0.59%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.59%) Oracle
10 3 (0.59%) SAP
10 3 (0.59%) UiPath
10 3 (0.59%) Zend
11 2 (0.39%) MathWorks