Senior Jobs in Birmingham

Senior
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior salary in Birmingham is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 174 512 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.12% 16.31% 14.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.92% 17.24% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 72 371 226
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £71,858 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,250 2,970 1,669
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 94.62% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 721 2,355 1,299
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Senior in Birmingham

Senior
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Birmingham

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 13 June 2025, Senior 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 Birmingham region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 58 (33.33%) Agile
2 46 (26.44%) Telecoms
3 41 (23.56%) Finance
3 41 (23.56%) Degree
3 41 (23.56%) Mentoring
4 36 (20.69%) Azure
5 35 (20.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (18.97%) Manufacturing
7 30 (17.24%) Systems Engineering
8 28 (16.09%) Social Skills
9 27 (15.52%) Analytics
9 27 (15.52%) Oracle
9 27 (15.52%) SAP
9 27 (15.52%) Retail
10 26 (14.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 25 (14.37%) Coaching
12 24 (13.79%) Robotic Process Automation
12 24 (13.79%) Data Analytics
12 24 (13.79%) ITGC
12 24 (13.79%) Blockchain
12 24 (13.79%) Robotics
12 24 (13.79%) ERP
13 23 (13.22%) Microsoft
13 23 (13.22%) Games
13 23 (13.22%) Information Security
13 23 (13.22%) Change Management
14 22 (12.64%) Management Information System
14 22 (12.64%) CISA
14 22 (12.64%) Dynamics AX
14 22 (12.64%) IT Audit

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (1.15%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.57%) Apache
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.57%) CMS
2 1 (0.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Simulink
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 22 (12.64%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.72%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.15%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.15%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (20.69%) Azure
2 11 (6.32%) Dynamics 365
2 11 (6.32%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.02%) AWS
4 7 (4.02%) SaaS
5 6 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.30%) GCP
6 4 (2.30%) GitHub
7 3 (1.72%) Serverless
7 3 (1.72%) Supabase
7 3 (1.72%) Vercel
8 2 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.57%) Algolia
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.57%) npm
9 1 (0.57%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.17%) 3GPP
1 9 (5.17%) 5G
2 6 (3.45%) Firewall
3 5 (2.87%) SD-WAN
3 5 (2.87%) WAN
3 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.30%) Network Security
5 2 (1.15%) HTTP
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.57%) Internet
6 1 (0.57%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.57%) MPLS
6 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.60%) Power BI
2 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.15%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.15%) Metadata
5 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.15%) MySQL
5 2 (1.15%) SQL CLR
5 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.57%) DB2
6 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.57%) GIS
6 1 (0.57%) Redis
6 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (5.75%) JIRA
2 4 (2.30%) Git
3 3 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.15%) JUnit
4 2 (1.15%) NUnit
4 2 (1.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.57%) Vite
General
1 46 (26.44%) Telecoms
2 41 (23.56%) Finance
3 33 (18.97%) Manufacturing
4 28 (16.09%) Social Skills
5 27 (15.52%) Retail
6 23 (13.22%) Games
7 16 (9.20%) Legal
8 15 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (8.05%) Automotive
9 14 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.45%) Marketing
11 5 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.87%) Tech for Good
12 4 (2.30%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.30%) Law
13 2 (1.15%) Back Office
13 2 (1.15%) Local Government
13 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.57%) Banking
14 1 (0.57%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.32%) .NET
1 11 (6.32%) React
2 6 (3.45%) .NET Core
2 6 (3.45%) REST
3 5 (2.87%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.30%) Node.js
4 4 (2.30%) RESTful
5 3 (1.72%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.72%) Next.js
6 2 (1.15%) CSS
6 2 (1.15%) HTML
6 2 (1.15%) Jest
6 2 (1.15%) Playwright
6 2 (1.15%) Vue
7 1 (0.57%) BAPI
7 1 (0.57%) EJB
7 1 (0.57%) JDBC
7 1 (0.57%) JSON
7 1 (0.57%) Middleware
7 1 (0.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.79%) Blockchain
1 24 (13.79%) Robotics
2 22 (12.64%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.17%) NHS
4 6 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.30%) Hackathon
5 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.72%) IoT
6 3 (1.72%) Lidar
6 3 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.15%) Life Science
7 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.72%) Apple iOS
1 3 (1.72%) Linux
1 3 (1.72%) Windows
2 2 (1.15%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.33%) Agile
2 41 (23.56%) Mentoring
3 30 (17.24%) Systems Engineering
4 27 (15.52%) Analytics
5 26 (14.94%) Artificial Intelligence
6 25 (14.37%) Coaching
7 24 (13.79%) Data Analytics
7 24 (13.79%) ERP
7 24 (13.79%) Robotic Process Automation
8 23 (13.22%) Change Management
8 23 (13.22%) Information Security
9 22 (12.64%) Creative Thinking
9 22 (12.64%) IT Audit
10 20 (11.49%) Mathematics
11 19 (10.92%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (8.05%) CI/CD
15 12 (6.90%) DevOps
15 12 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.47%) C#
2 12 (6.90%) SQL
3 9 (5.17%) Python
4 7 (4.02%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.87%) MATLAB
5 5 (2.87%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.72%) Swift
7 2 (1.15%) ABAP
7 2 (1.15%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.57%) Bash
8 1 (0.57%) C
8 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (23.56%) Degree
2 35 (20.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (12.64%) CISA
3 22 (12.64%) ISACA
4 10 (5.75%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (2.87%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.30%) HNC
6 4 (2.30%) HND
6 4 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.72%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.79%) ITGC
2 10 (5.75%) NCSC
3 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.72%) PMO
4 2 (1.15%) NIST
4 2 (1.15%) QA
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.15%) Ansible
2 2 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (1.15%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.57%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 27 (15.52%) Oracle
1 27 (15.52%) SAP
2 23 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.72%) Databricks
3 3 (1.72%) VMware
4 2 (1.15%) Google
4 2 (1.15%) Okta
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.57%) Avaya
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco
5 1 (0.57%) ConnectWise
5 1 (0.57%) ESRI
5 1 (0.57%) IBM
5 1 (0.57%) Juniper
5 1 (0.57%) MathWorks
5 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.57%) Xamarin