Signal Processing Job Trends in the West Midlands

Signal Processing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Signal Processing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 - 232
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
Permanent jobs citing Signal Processing 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.015% - 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% - 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £55,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Signal Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,198 3,231 5,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 77.51% 92.26% 84.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,877 1,713 4,217
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Signal Processing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Signal Processing job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Signal Processing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Signal Processing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Signal Processing

Signal Processing
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 Signal Processing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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 - 1 £50,000 - 1
Signal Processing
England

Signal Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Prefect
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 1 (100.00%) JAX
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) SciPy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks