Senior Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior salary in the West Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 18 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 800 256 962
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 9.35% 8.40% 12.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.14% 9.38% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 564 142 719
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £39,268
25th Percentile £56,168 £51,672 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -10.31%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 7,886 2,729 7,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 89.59% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,150 1,680 5,519
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Senior job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Senior
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies 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 31 May 2026.

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 31 May 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 +7 367 £70,000 - 49
Warwickshire +4 119 £65,000 +21.50% 17
Worcestershire +8 76 £65,000 - 8
Coventry +2 59 £70,000 +66.10% 4
Staffordshire +22 54 £60,000 +14.63% 11
Shropshire +2 48 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Wolverhampton -11 17 £75,000 -9.09% 2
Herefordshire -14 11 £70,000 - 2
Solihull +10 9 £60,000 +9.09%
Dudley - 5 £65,000 -
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 - 1
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 May 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 93 (11.63%) Azure
2 88 (11.00%) Mentoring
3 87 (10.88%) Agile
4 75 (9.38%) Software Engineering
5 63 (7.88%) AWS
6 62 (7.75%) Security Cleared
7 57 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
8 55 (6.88%) Microsoft
9 54 (6.75%) Coaching
10 51 (6.38%) AI
11 50 (6.25%) SQL
12 48 (6.00%) Python
13 47 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (5.75%) Degree
14 46 (5.75%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (5.63%) CI/CD
15 45 (5.63%) SC Cleared
16 44 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (5.25%) Analytics
18 39 (4.88%) DevOps
19 32 (4.00%) Project Delivery
20 31 (3.88%) Business Development
20 31 (3.88%) C#
20 31 (3.88%) Power Platform
21 30 (3.75%) Full-Stack Development
21 30 (3.75%) SaaS
22 29 (3.63%) Stakeholder Management
23 28 (3.50%) SQL Server
24 27 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 27 (3.38%) Migration

Senior Skill Set
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 8 (1.00%) Confluence
1 8 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.38%) CMS
4 3 (0.38%) WordPress
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.13%) Appian
6 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.50%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.38%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 93 (11.63%) Azure
2 63 (7.88%) AWS
3 31 (3.88%) Power Platform
4 30 (3.75%) SaaS
5 22 (2.75%) GCP
6 17 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.50%) Serverless
8 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.00%) Snowflake
10 7 (0.88%) Amazon S3
10 7 (0.88%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.63%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.63%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.63%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.50%) GitHub
13 4 (0.50%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.50%) Firewall
2 16 (2.00%) VPN
3 15 (1.88%) WAN
4 13 (1.63%) LAN
5 12 (1.50%) BGP
5 12 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.50%) EIGRP
5 12 (1.50%) OSPF
5 12 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.88%) Wireless
7 6 (0.75%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.63%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.38%) DHCP
10 3 (0.38%) DNS
10 3 (0.38%) Modbus
11 2 (0.25%) Broadband
11 2 (0.25%) PBX
11 2 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.88%) Power BI
3 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.63%) Metadata
6 4 (0.50%) Tableau
7 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.38%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.25%) Looker
8 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.13%) DB2
9 1 (0.13%) MySQL
9 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (1.63%) Git
1 13 (1.63%) JIRA
2 10 (1.25%) Snyk
3 8 (1.00%) JUnit
4 6 (0.75%) Maven
4 6 (0.75%) Mockito
5 5 (0.63%) Selenium
6 3 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.38%) GitLab
6 3 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.25%) Gatling
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
7 2 (0.25%) Toad
7 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 91 (11.38%) Finance
2 66 (8.25%) Social Skills
3 52 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (6.13%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.75%) Games
7 31 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.00%) Electronics
9 22 (2.75%) Law
10 21 (2.63%) Legal
11 14 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.38%) Retail
13 9 (1.13%) Marketing
14 8 (1.00%) Automotive
14 8 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.50%) Banking
16 4 (0.50%) Local Government
16 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.38%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.75%) React
2 18 (2.25%) .NET
3 14 (1.75%) REST
3 14 (1.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 11 (1.38%) .NET Core
4 11 (1.38%) Blazor
5 10 (1.25%) Node.js
6 7 (0.88%) PySpark
6 7 (0.88%) RESTful
7 6 (0.75%) Playwright
8 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.38%) Flask
9 3 (0.38%) Spring
10 2 (0.25%) OAuth
10 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
11 1 (0.13%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.13%) NumPy
11 1 (0.13%) SAP CAF
11 1 (0.13%) SQLAlchemy
11 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.25%) Virtual Reality
3 16 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.25%) Operational Technology
5 10 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.00%) FMCG
8 7 (0.88%) Low-Code
8 7 (0.88%) Mobile Games
8 7 (0.88%) Smartphone
9 6 (0.75%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.75%) Driving Licence
9 6 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.75%) Robotics
10 5 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.63%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.50%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.63%) Linux
2 10 (1.25%) Windows
3 9 (1.13%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (11.00%) Mentoring
2 87 (10.88%) Agile
3 75 (9.38%) Software Engineering
4 57 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (6.75%) Coaching
6 51 (6.38%) AI
7 47 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (5.75%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (5.63%) CI/CD
10 44 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
11 42 (5.25%) Analytics
12 39 (4.88%) DevOps
13 32 (4.00%) Project Delivery
14 31 (3.88%) Business Development
15 30 (3.75%) Full-Stack Development
16 29 (3.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 27 (3.38%) Migration
18 26 (3.25%) Customer Service
18 26 (3.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.25%) SQL
2 48 (6.00%) Python
3 31 (3.88%) C#
4 19 (2.38%) C
5 18 (2.25%) Java
6 14 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.25%) Scala
9 8 (1.00%) Bash
10 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.75%) R
11 5 (0.63%) PHP
11 5 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.50%) C++
12 4 (0.50%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.50%) VBA
13 3 (0.38%) Go
14 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.25%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (7.75%) Security Cleared
2 46 (5.75%) Degree
3 45 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (1.88%) CCNP
7 12 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.25%) CISSP
9 9 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.00%) CISA
10 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.88%) SSCP
12 6 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.75%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.50%) PMP
13 4 (0.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.63%) QA
2 12 (1.50%) GRC
3 11 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.38%) GDPR
3 11 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (1.38%) NIST
4 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.00%) PMO
5 7 (0.88%) ITGC
6 5 (0.63%) IEC 61508
6 5 (0.63%) MISRA
6 5 (0.63%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.63%) SLA
7 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) P3O
8 2 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (1.75%) Docker
2 12 (1.50%) Firmware
3 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.75%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.25%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.25%) Terraform
3 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.25%) Argo
5 2 (0.25%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) Control-M
6 1 (0.13%) Grafana
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 55 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.25%) Adobe
3 16 (2.00%) Cisco
3 16 (2.00%) Databricks
3 16 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.75%) SAP
5 13 (1.63%) Apple
6 12 (1.50%) Oracle
7 11 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.25%) Tenable
9 9 (1.13%) HP
10 8 (1.00%) Google
11 7 (0.88%) Aruba
12 6 (0.75%) Siemens
13 5 (0.63%) Meraki
14 3 (0.38%) Salesforce
15 2 (0.25%) IBM
15 2 (0.25%) Kaseya
15 2 (0.25%) VMware