Senior Jobs in Staffordshire

Senior
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Senior salary in Staffordshire is £52,344 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

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

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 15 54 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 2.49% 5.35% 8.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.34% 5.57% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10 37 23
10th Percentile £44,000 £27,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +8.70% -3.16%
75th Percentile £54,504 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £66,959 £61,500 £62,251
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £58,232 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.62% -2.95% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 449 970 489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 74.46% 96.04% 92.61%
Number of salaries quoted 281 716 378
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £28,822 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,754 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £66,550 £62,500 £67,500
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 Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Staffordshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Staffordshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Staffordshire

Senior
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. 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
Stafford - 5 £52,344 - 4
Stoke-on-Trent -11 3 £50,000 - 15
Cannock +8 1 - - 3
Tamworth +4 1 - - 3
Lichfield - 1 - -
Senior
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 Staffordshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Project Management
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Police
2 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
4 4 (26.67%) Adaptive Web Design
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) COBIT
6 2 (13.33%) JIRA
6 2 (13.33%) CITP
6 2 (13.33%) Mechatronics
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
6 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
6 2 (13.33%) Automotive
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) C
6 2 (13.33%) Windows
6 2 (13.33%) JavaScript

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.67%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (13.33%) Simulink
3 1 (6.67%) Revit
3 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Figma
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Power Query
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
1 6 (40.00%) Police
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 2 (13.33%) Agriculture
3 2 (13.33%) Automotive
3 2 (13.33%) Avionics
3 2 (13.33%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.67%) Blazor
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
1 1 (6.67%) Svelte
1 1 (6.67%) Swagger
1 1 (6.67%) Vue
1 1 (6.67%) WebAssembly
1 1 (6.67%) XML
1 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Animation
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Adaptive Web Design
4 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) Mechatronics
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) C
2 2 (13.33%) Embedded C
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CITP
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Alteryx
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Tagetik