Onboarding Jobs in the West Midlands

Onboarding
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 71 182
Rank change year-on-year -53 +111 +59
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 73 255 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.76% 3.24% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.55% 9.91% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 59 92 28
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,000 £36,775
25th Percentile £35,252 £28,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,225 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -7.55% +2.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,400 £70,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,250 £64,515
% change year-on-year +6.60% -23.66% +7.52%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,315 2,573 2,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.72% 32.67% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 660 1,692 968
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the West Midlands

Onboarding
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Onboarding in the West Midlands

Onboarding
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in the West Midlands

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham +21 31 £50,000 +5.37% 118
Staffordshire +8 13 £38,754 +61.48% 97
Warwickshire -54 8 £40,750 -25.23% 4
Worcestershire +28 5 £65,000 +116.67% 96
Shropshire - 5 £23,000 - 192
Coventry -22 2 £51,250 +32.26% 102
Solihull +2 1 £55,000 - 4
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
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 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (38.36%) Azure
2 18 (24.66%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (15.07%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (12.33%) GitHub
4 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (12.33%) SaaS
5 8 (10.96%) AWS
6 6 (8.22%) IaaS
6 6 (8.22%) OCI
6 6 (8.22%) PaaS
7 4 (5.48%) Boomi
7 4 (5.48%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.92%) Firewall
1 16 (21.92%) LAN
1 16 (21.92%) WAN
2 1 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.11%) Redis
2 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) SonarQube
2 8 (10.96%) JIRA
3 4 (5.48%) Git
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 25 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Legal
4 2 (2.74%) Police
5 1 (1.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) Support Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 14 (19.18%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) 3rd Line Support
2 14 (19.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (8.22%) Cloud Specialist
3 6 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (8.22%) Oracle Specialist
3 6 (8.22%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (8.22%) Technical Support
3 6 (8.22%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Consultant
4 5 (6.85%) Developer
4 5 (6.85%) Development Manager
4 5 (6.85%) IT Development Manager
4 5 (6.85%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.48%) Integration Project Manager
5 4 (5.48%) Managed Services Consultant
5 4 (5.48%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) ARM Templates
1 6 (8.22%) Azure Blueprints
1 6 (8.22%) Node.js
2 5 (6.85%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (6.85%) Laravel
3 3 (4.11%) Django
3 3 (4.11%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.11%) Flask
3 3 (4.11%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.11%) Keycloak
3 3 (4.11%) OAuth
3 3 (4.11%) pytest
3 3 (4.11%) RESTful
3 3 (4.11%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (4.11%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.37%) Blazor
4 1 (1.37%) Fastify
4 1 (1.37%) MERN Stack
4 1 (1.37%) Next.js
4 1 (1.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.11%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.03%) Windows
2 17 (23.29%) Windows Server
2 17 (23.29%) Windows Server 2016
2 17 (23.29%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (6.85%) Android
3 5 (6.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Mentoring
2 20 (27.40%) Project Management
3 16 (21.92%) Data Security
3 16 (21.92%) DevOps
3 16 (21.92%) Infrastructure Management
3 16 (21.92%) Network Design
4 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.07%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (13.70%) Agile
6 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.33%) Containerisation
7 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.96%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.96%) Front End Development
9 7 (9.59%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (9.59%) Data Privacy
9 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
10 6 (8.22%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (8.22%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.85%) PHP
4 4 (5.48%) SQL
5 3 (4.11%) Python
6 1 (1.37%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) CIPD
4 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) GDPR
1 6 (8.22%) NCSC
2 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.11%) QA
System Software
1 18 (24.66%) Active Directory
2 16 (21.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (21.92%) XenApp
3 9 (12.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.59%) Terraform
4 6 (8.22%) Ansible
5 3 (4.11%) Grafana
5 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) CheckPoint
1 16 (21.92%) Cisco
1 16 (21.92%) Citrix
1 16 (21.92%) Meraki
1 16 (21.92%) SonicWALL
1 16 (21.92%) VMware
2 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.59%) Oracle
3 7 (9.59%) SAP
4 5 (6.85%) OpenAI
5 4 (5.48%) Dell
6 2 (2.74%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.37%) Okta
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.37%) Splunk