Senior Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior salary in the West Midlands is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 882 716 907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.97% 11.30% 12.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.70% 12.54% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 673 409 596
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,450
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 the West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,943 5,710 6,969
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 90.15% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,205 3,266 4,768
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
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 Senior within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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 +6 449 £60,000 -2.36% 101
Warwickshire +7 126 £54,500 -0.91% 46
Staffordshire -7 55 £50,000 +8.70% 43
Worcestershire +8 52 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Solihull +22 43 £62,500 +20.77% 7
Coventry +10 33 £65,000 +18.18% 27
Shropshire +15 25 £55,000 -31.25% 9
Halesowen - 15 £60,000 - 6
Wolverhampton +10 5 £63,500 +15.45% 8
Herefordshire -4 5 £61,500 +44.71% 3
West Bromwich +2 4 £78,500 +52.21% 2
Brierley Hill -8 1 £55,000 -
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 183 (20.75%) Azure
2 167 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 158 (17.91%) Microsoft
4 147 (16.67%) Agile
5 137 (15.53%) Finance
6 136 (15.42%) SQL
7 112 (12.70%) Degree
8 110 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (12.24%) Mentoring
10 107 (12.13%) Software Engineering
11 97 (11.00%) Analytics
12 95 (10.77%) C#
13 84 (9.52%) .NET
13 84 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
14 83 (9.41%) DevOps
15 82 (9.30%) AWS
16 69 (7.82%) Python
17 68 (7.71%) Windows
17 68 (7.71%) VMware
18 67 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
19 65 (7.37%) Coaching
20 64 (7.26%) Power Platform
21 61 (6.92%) Firewall
21 61 (6.92%) WAN
22 58 (6.58%) Project Management
22 58 (6.58%) Power BI
23 57 (6.46%) Cisco
24 56 (6.35%) JavaScript
24 56 (6.35%) Actionable Insight
25 55 (6.24%) Cybersecurity

Senior Skill Set
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 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.81%) IIS
3 8 (0.91%) Confluence
3 8 (0.91%) SAS
4 6 (0.68%) Tuxedo
5 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) WinCC
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.02%) Simulink
5 6 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.34%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.34%) Sketch
8 2 (0.23%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.36%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 183 (20.75%) Azure
2 82 (9.30%) AWS
3 64 (7.26%) Power Platform
4 48 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
7 30 (3.40%) SaaS
8 29 (3.29%) Entra ID
9 22 (2.49%) GCP
9 22 (2.49%) PowerApps
10 21 (2.38%) Power Automate
11 17 (1.93%) OneDrive
12 12 (1.36%) GitHub
12 12 (1.36%) Serverless
13 11 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.79%) Azure Event Grid
16 7 (0.79%) Azure Functions
16 7 (0.79%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.92%) Firewall
1 61 (6.92%) WAN
2 32 (3.63%) Wireless
3 31 (3.51%) SD-WAN
4 30 (3.40%) VLAN
5 27 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (2.72%) TCP/IP
7 23 (2.61%) LAN
8 20 (2.27%) DNS
9 19 (2.15%) DHCP
10 15 (1.70%) VPN
11 14 (1.59%) SAN
12 13 (1.47%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (1.47%) WLAN
13 12 (1.36%) OSPF
14 11 (1.25%) J1939
14 11 (1.25%) MPLS
15 10 (1.13%) VoIP
16 8 (0.91%) Wireshark
17 7 (0.79%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (6.58%) Power BI
2 53 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.95%) Tableau
4 22 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.15%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.93%) MySQL
8 16 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.25%) SQLite
10 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.79%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.68%) Looker
12 6 (0.68%) Metadata
13 5 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.57%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.57%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.45%) Big Data
14 4 (0.45%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (3.06%) Git
2 10 (1.13%) JIRA
2 10 (1.13%) Postman
3 6 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (0.57%) MSTest
4 5 (0.57%) SoapUI
5 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.34%) Axure RP
6 3 (0.34%) GitLab
6 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.34%) Maven
6 3 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.11%) NUnit
8 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 167 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 137 (15.53%) Finance
3 84 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
5 35 (3.97%) Manufacturing
6 34 (3.85%) Retail
7 32 (3.63%) Automotive
8 30 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (3.29%) Legal
10 27 (3.06%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.38%) Electronics
12 20 (2.27%) Games
13 18 (2.04%) Law
14 17 (1.93%) Marketing
15 16 (1.81%) Banking
16 15 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (9.52%) .NET
2 39 (4.42%) HTML
3 36 (4.08%) .NET Framework
4 35 (3.97%) AngularJS
5 33 (3.74%) REST
6 32 (3.63%) .NET Core
6 32 (3.63%) Entity Framework
7 30 (3.40%) RESTful
8 27 (3.06%) ASP.NET
9 26 (2.95%) React
10 25 (2.83%) CSS
11 19 (2.15%) Blazor
12 18 (2.04%) Vue
13 16 (1.81%) ASP.NET MVC
13 16 (1.81%) WebRTC
14 14 (1.59%) Web Services
14 14 (1.59%) Yocto
15 12 (1.36%) WPF
16 11 (1.25%) Universal Windows Platform
16 11 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 24 (2.72%) Driving Licence
3 22 (2.49%) Data Centre
3 22 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.38%) IoT
5 18 (2.04%) Clustering
6 16 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 15 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.13%) PMI
11 9 (1.02%) CUDA
11 9 (1.02%) FMCG
11 9 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
13 7 (0.79%) NHS
13 7 (0.79%) PKI
14 6 (0.68%) iPad
14 6 (0.68%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.71%) Windows
2 46 (5.22%) Windows Server
3 37 (4.20%) Linux
4 14 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (1.02%) Android
5 9 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.57%) SUSE
9 5 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.45%) Unix
10 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.23%) VME
12 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.11%) HPUX
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (16.67%) Agile
2 110 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (12.24%) Mentoring
4 107 (12.13%) Software Engineering
5 97 (11.00%) Analytics
6 83 (9.41%) DevOps
7 67 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
8 65 (7.37%) Coaching
9 58 (6.58%) Project Management
10 56 (6.35%) Actionable Insight
11 55 (6.24%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (6.24%) Data Modelling
12 54 (6.12%) Machine Learning
13 51 (5.78%) Project Delivery
14 45 (5.10%) Migration
15 43 (4.88%) User Experience
15 43 (4.88%) Visualisation
16 42 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
17 41 (4.65%) Process Improvement
18 40 (4.54%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 136 (15.42%) SQL
2 95 (10.77%) C#
3 69 (7.82%) Python
4 56 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 35 (3.97%) C
6 34 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.06%) Java
8 23 (2.61%) C++
9 22 (2.49%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.25%) XAML
12 8 (0.91%) COBOL
12 8 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.91%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 8 (0.91%) PHP
13 6 (0.68%) Bicep
13 6 (0.68%) Go
13 6 (0.68%) R
14 4 (0.45%) Bash
14 4 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (12.70%) Degree
2 48 (5.44%) Security Cleared
3 42 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (3.85%) CCNP
6 26 (2.95%) CCNA
7 18 (2.04%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.13%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.91%) CCIE
12 8 (0.91%) CCSA
13 7 (0.79%) PhD
13 7 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.68%) CCDP
14 6 (0.68%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 6 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.04%) QA
2 13 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 13 (1.47%) Automotive SPICE
3 12 (1.36%) AUTOSAR
3 12 (1.36%) SLA
4 8 (0.91%) GDPR
4 8 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.79%) GMP
5 7 (0.79%) ISO 26262
6 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.45%) GRC
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.45%) MISRA
7 4 (0.45%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.45%) PMO
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 49 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (4.99%) Docker
3 41 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.15%) Firmware
6 10 (1.13%) vSphere
7 7 (0.79%) NFS
8 5 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.95%) Terraform
3 11 (1.25%) SCCM
4 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.79%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (0.68%) Ansible
6 6 (0.68%) Rancher
7 5 (0.57%) CASB
7 5 (0.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.45%) VxRail
9 3 (0.34%) Nagios
10 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.23%) MIIS
11 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 158 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.71%) VMware
3 57 (6.46%) Cisco
4 46 (5.22%) CheckPoint
5 30 (3.40%) Meraki
6 20 (2.27%) Adobe
7 19 (2.15%) Google
7 19 (2.15%) Palo Alto
8 18 (2.04%) Databricks
9 13 (1.47%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.36%) Apple
10 12 (1.36%) Oracle
10 12 (1.36%) Xamarin
11 11 (1.25%) Juniper
12 10 (1.13%) Dell
12 10 (1.13%) HP
12 10 (1.13%) IBM
12 10 (1.13%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.02%) Aruba
13 9 (1.02%) ServiceNow