Software Developers salary in Birmingham, Alabama

About 3,800 Software Developers work in the Birmingham metro, which puts it among the smaller tech labor pools in the South. The median annual wage here was $106,890 in 2024, roughly 5% below the Alabama median of $113,020 and about 23% below the US median of $138,520.

The average wage of $114,740 runs a bit above the median, which usually means a smaller group of senior engineers pulls the overall figure up. That dynamic shows clearly in the spread: the bottom tenth of earners made around $66,150, while the top tenth reached $164,640. Top earners here make about 2.5 times what those starting out make, a range wide enough that job title and years of experience matter a lot when reading any single number.

Birmingham sitting below the Alabama median is worth noting. Several Alabama metros skew toward government, healthcare, or manufacturing, and those industries tend to pay Software Developers differently than financial services or defense contractors. The kinds of jobs that hire here shape what the local figures look like, and Birmingham's mix leans toward healthcare IT and regional financial firms rather than the higher-paying defense and aerospace work concentrated around Huntsville.

For context, Huntsville consistently posts Software Developer wages well above both the state and national medians. Someone weighing Birmingham against other Alabama options should treat that comparison as part of the picture.