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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 856 299 857
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.49% 8.86% 11.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.12% 9.93% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 629 189 608
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £79,030
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 7,696 3,012 6,787
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 89.27% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,680 2,054 4,639
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,680 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,280
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +3 406 £70,000 +6.87% 72
Warwickshire +11 112 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Worcestershire +20 84 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Shropshire +6 65 £50,000 -28.57% 12
Staffordshire +37 62 £60,000 +11.63% 7
Coventry -3 41 £60,358 -3.43% 18
Herefordshire -6 25 £75,000 +150.00% 8
Wolverhampton -14 12 £69,000 -1.43%
Solihull +10 8 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - - 1
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 2
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 -
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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.

1 119 (13.90%) Azure
2 95 (11.10%) Mentoring
3 88 (10.28%) Software Engineering
4 78 (9.11%) Agile
5 76 (8.88%) AWS
6 71 (8.29%) Security Cleared
7 66 (7.71%) AI
8 61 (7.13%) Microsoft
9 60 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
10 56 (6.54%) Coaching
11 54 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (6.07%) CI/CD
13 51 (5.96%) SC Cleared
14 50 (5.84%) Python
15 49 (5.72%) DevOps
16 46 (5.37%) SQL
17 44 (5.14%) C#
17 44 (5.14%) Degree
17 44 (5.14%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (5.02%) Analytics
19 37 (4.32%) Business Development
20 34 (3.97%) SQL Server
21 32 (3.74%) Business Intelligence
21 32 (3.74%) SaaS
22 31 (3.62%) Full-Stack Development
22 31 (3.62%) Project Delivery
23 29 (3.39%) Stakeholder Management
24 28 (3.27%) Power Platform
25 25 (2.92%) Decision-Making
25 25 (2.92%) GCP

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 12 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.93%) Confluence
3 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.47%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) WordPress
5 3 (0.35%) IIS
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.12%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.35%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 119 (13.90%) Azure
2 76 (8.88%) AWS
3 32 (3.74%) SaaS
4 28 (3.27%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.92%) GCP
6 19 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.40%) Serverless
8 10 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (1.17%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (0.93%) Snowflake
10 7 (0.82%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.70%) Azure AI
11 6 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.47%) Google Ads
13 4 (0.47%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.69%) Firewall
2 16 (1.87%) VPN
3 14 (1.64%) WAN
3 14 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.52%) LAN
5 12 (1.40%) BGP
5 12 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.40%) EIGRP
5 12 (1.40%) OSPF
6 7 (0.82%) Bluetooth
6 7 (0.82%) Wireless
7 6 (0.70%) DNS
8 4 (0.47%) DHCP
8 4 (0.47%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.35%) Modbus
9 3 (0.35%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 24 (2.80%) Power BI
3 9 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.58%) MySQL
7 4 (0.47%) Metadata
8 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.23%) Looker
9 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.23%) Redis
9 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (2.22%) Git
2 13 (1.52%) JIRA
3 10 (1.17%) Selenium
3 10 (1.17%) Snyk
4 8 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 8 (0.93%) GitLab
4 8 (0.93%) JUnit
4 8 (0.93%) Postman
5 5 (0.58%) Gatling
6 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.35%) JMeter
7 3 (0.35%) Maven
7 3 (0.35%) Mockito
7 3 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) TestRail
8 2 (0.23%) Toad
8 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (11.45%) Finance
2 73 (8.53%) Social Skills
3 48 (5.61%) Public Sector
4 47 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.67%) Manufacturing
6 37 (4.32%) Games
7 25 (2.92%) Aerospace
8 24 (2.80%) Electronics
9 23 (2.69%) Legal
10 20 (2.34%) Law
11 12 (1.40%) Marketing
12 11 (1.29%) Retail
13 10 (1.17%) Military
14 9 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.82%) Banking
15 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.58%) Automotive
16 5 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.80%) .NET
2 22 (2.57%) React
3 16 (1.87%) .NET Core
3 16 (1.87%) Blazor
4 14 (1.64%) REST
4 14 (1.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 13 (1.52%) Playwright
6 11 (1.29%) Node.js
7 9 (1.05%) RESTful
8 6 (0.70%) Kafka
9 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.58%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.47%) PySpark
10 4 (0.47%) Spring
11 3 (0.35%) EDI
12 2 (0.23%) JSON
12 2 (0.23%) OAuth
12 2 (0.23%) SOAP
12 2 (0.23%) Visualforce
12 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.04%) Virtual Reality
3 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
3 12 (1.40%) Operational Technology
4 10 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (0.93%) Smartphone
7 7 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 7 (0.82%) FMCG
7 7 (0.82%) Mobile Games
7 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 7 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.70%) Driving Licence
8 6 (0.70%) Robotics
9 5 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.58%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.47%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.99%) Linux
2 13 (1.52%) Windows
3 9 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (0.58%) Unix
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (11.10%) Mentoring
2 88 (10.28%) Software Engineering
3 78 (9.11%) Agile
4 66 (7.71%) AI
5 60 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (6.54%) Coaching
7 54 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (6.07%) CI/CD
9 49 (5.72%) DevOps
10 44 (5.14%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (5.02%) Analytics
12 37 (4.32%) Business Development
13 32 (3.74%) Business Intelligence
14 31 (3.62%) Full-Stack Development
14 31 (3.62%) Project Delivery
15 29 (3.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (2.92%) Decision-Making
16 25 (2.92%) SDLC
17 24 (2.80%) ETL
17 24 (2.80%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (5.84%) Python
2 46 (5.37%) SQL
3 44 (5.14%) C#
4 21 (2.45%) Java
5 17 (1.99%) TypeScript
6 16 (1.87%) C
7 12 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.93%) Go
10 7 (0.82%) Scala
11 5 (0.58%) Bash
11 5 (0.58%) PHP
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.23%) R
15 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 71 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 51 (5.96%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.14%) Degree
4 19 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.52%) CCNP
8 12 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.29%) CISSP
10 9 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.82%) CISA
12 7 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.82%) SSCP
13 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.47%) CISM
15 4 (0.47%) RIBA
16 3 (0.35%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.69%) QA
2 14 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.40%) GDPR
3 12 (1.40%) GRC
3 12 (1.40%) NIST
4 9 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.93%) PMO
6 7 (0.82%) ITGC
6 7 (0.82%) SLA
7 5 (0.58%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.58%) MISRA
7 5 (0.58%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.47%) WCAG
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (1.99%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) Firmware
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.17%) Terraform
3 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Argo
5 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 61 (7.13%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.10%) Adobe
3 16 (1.87%) ServiceNow
4 15 (1.75%) Google
5 14 (1.64%) Cisco
5 14 (1.64%) SAP
6 13 (1.52%) Apple
7 11 (1.29%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.17%) HP
8 10 (1.17%) Oracle
8 10 (1.17%) Tenable
9 8 (0.93%) Aruba
9 8 (0.93%) Pega
10 7 (0.82%) Siemens
11 5 (0.58%) Foundry
12 4 (0.47%) Databricks
12 4 (0.47%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.47%) VMware
13 3 (0.35%) Salesforce