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Birmingham career opportunity guide

Use this page to compare graduate and broader career prospects in Birmingham, including broad salary ranges, stronger industries, example roles, and CV positioning advice.

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Location snapshot

Graduate score

39

Career score

49

West Midlands, United Kingdom

Graduate Map view

Birmingham graduate prospects

Salary range

£23k–£31k

Opportunity score

39/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE combined-authority earnings release

2024 earnings, published in the 4 November 2025 provisional release · Birmingham, West Midlands

Modern CV rounds checked-in ONS earnings percentiles into a broad public-facing band. Graduate Map bands use the published 30th percentile to median range as an early-career proxy.

Top industries: Healthcare, Manufacturing, Education, Business Services

Example roles: Graduate Engineer, Finance Assistant, Policy Officer, Supply Chain Coordinator

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

CV tip

Show placements, technical projects, and adaptable commercial skills rather than relying on course titles alone.

Career Map view

Birmingham wider career market

Salary range

£31k–£45k

Opportunity score

49/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE combined-authority earnings release

2024 earnings, published in the 4 November 2025 provisional release · Birmingham, West Midlands

Modern CV rounds checked-in ONS earnings percentiles into a broad public-facing band. Career Map bands use the published median to 75th percentile range for broader career positioning.

Top industries: Business Services, Healthcare, Retail, Professional Services

Example roles: Mechanical Engineer, Supply Chain Analyst, Finance Officer, Project Manager

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

CV tip

Use strong role titles, operational outcomes, and evidence of cross-functional delivery in larger regional employers.

Data sources and methodology

Career opportunity scores and salary ranges are editorial estimates derived from public labour market datasets and curated role research. They are not live job counts and should be treated as indicative.

This location dataset was refreshed against current official source pages reviewed on 2026-04-26. For expanded UK coverage, salary bands and most score inputs are derived from checked-in ONS ASHE earnings files, while UK industry themes are derived from the official ONS BRES region-by-broad-industry workbook and then lightly grouped by Modern CV into reader-friendly labels.

What comes from where

  • Official source-backed: the salary reference, most UK score inputs, and UK broad-industry inputs come from checked-in ONS releases.
  • Derived by Modern CV: the final score, salary band, and UK display industry labels are calculated or grouped from those source files and rounded for readability.
  • Editorial by Modern CV: example roles, CV tips, and Europe-side industry summaries are guidance content rather than official statistics.

ONS BRES region by broad industry group, 2024 provisional

Top UK industry themes for West Midlands are derived from the official ONS BRES 2024 provisional region-by-broad-industry table for West Midlands, then lightly grouped by Modern CV into reader-friendly labels.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

ONS ASHE combined authorities, 2025 provisional

Used for checked-in median, mean, jobs volume, and percentile context by combined authority or wider geography where available. Release date 4 November 2025.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

Office for Students student outcomes data dashboard

Retained in the project as the official graduate outcomes source for future provider-level expansion. Current UK graduate-map scores rely primarily on checked-in ONS earnings and jobs-volume proxies where city-level graduate outcomes are not published in a matching geography.

Office for Students official statistics, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.

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