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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 857 308 796
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.07% 9.01% 12.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.73% 10.03% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 630 192 548
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £79,500
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 7,988 3,072 6,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.82% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,915 2,109 4,067
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,656 £35,700
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 £80,000
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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +2 421 £70,000 +7.69% 228
Warwickshire +8 95 £55,500 +0.91% 33
Worcestershire +22 94 £75,000 +3.45% 25
Staffordshire +42 63 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Shropshire +3 60 £50,000 -28.57% 18
Coventry -2 42 £60,000 -4.00% 30
Herefordshire -3 30 £75,000 +150.00% 4
Wolverhampton -8 12 £69,000 -1.43% 4
Solihull +12 6 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - - 1
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 3 £50,000 -
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 12 August 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.

1 144 (16.80%) Azure
2 103 (12.02%) Mentoring
3 92 (10.74%) Agile
4 91 (10.62%) Software Engineering
5 83 (9.68%) AWS
6 82 (9.57%) AI
6 82 (9.57%) Security Cleared
7 65 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (7.35%) CI/CD
9 62 (7.23%) Microsoft
10 59 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
10 59 (6.88%) SC Cleared
11 58 (6.77%) DevOps
12 55 (6.42%) Coaching
13 53 (6.18%) SQL
14 51 (5.95%) Python
15 50 (5.83%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (5.60%) C#
17 46 (5.37%) Degree
18 41 (4.78%) Analytics
19 39 (4.55%) Full-Stack Development
20 35 (4.08%) SDLC
21 33 (3.85%) Business Development
22 32 (3.73%) SaaS
23 30 (3.50%) Scrum
24 29 (3.38%) React
24 29 (3.38%) Stakeholder Management
25 28 (3.27%) Business Intelligence
25 28 (3.27%) Project Delivery
25 28 (3.27%) SQL Server

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 14 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.05%) Confluence
2 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.47%) Apache
4 4 (0.47%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) IIS
4 4 (0.47%) nginx
4 4 (0.47%) WordPress
5 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
6 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%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
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%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 144 (16.80%) Azure
2 83 (9.68%) AWS
3 32 (3.73%) SaaS
4 27 (3.15%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.92%) GCP
6 22 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (1.40%) Serverless
9 11 (1.28%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.17%) Azure AI
11 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (0.93%) Snowflake
12 7 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (0.82%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.70%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Advertising
14 4 (0.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.92%) Firewall
2 15 (1.75%) VPN
3 13 (1.52%) WAN
3 13 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (1.40%) BGP
4 12 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.40%) EIGRP
4 12 (1.40%) LAN
4 12 (1.40%) OSPF
5 7 (0.82%) DNS
6 6 (0.70%) Bluetooth
7 5 (0.58%) Wireless
8 3 (0.35%) DHCP
8 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.35%) Modbus
8 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.12%) Profibus
10 1 (0.12%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.92%) Power BI
3 10 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.58%) MySQL
9 4 (0.47%) Metadata
10 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.23%) Redis
11 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.68%) Git
2 18 (2.10%) JIRA
3 13 (1.52%) JUnit
4 11 (1.28%) Selenium
5 10 (1.17%) Snyk
6 9 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.05%) GitLab
6 9 (1.05%) Postman
7 7 (0.82%) Maven
7 7 (0.82%) Mockito
8 6 (0.70%) Gatling
9 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.35%) JMeter
10 3 (0.35%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.23%) TestRail
11 2 (0.23%) Toad
12 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 114 (13.30%) Finance
2 85 (9.92%) Social Skills
3 45 (5.25%) Public Sector
4 43 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.32%) Games
6 36 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 25 (2.92%) Electronics
9 18 (2.10%) Legal
10 15 (1.75%) Law
11 12 (1.40%) Marketing
11 12 (1.40%) Retail
12 10 (1.17%) Military
13 8 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.82%) Banking
15 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.58%) Automotive
16 5 (0.58%) Local Government
16 5 (0.58%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.38%) React
2 22 (2.57%) .NET
3 21 (2.45%) REST
4 17 (1.98%) Playwright
5 14 (1.63%) .NET Core
5 14 (1.63%) Blazor
5 14 (1.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 11 (1.28%) Node.js
7 9 (1.05%) RESTful
8 8 (0.93%) Spring
9 7 (0.82%) Kafka
10 6 (0.70%) Keycloak
11 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.47%) PySpark
13 3 (0.35%) EDI
14 2 (0.23%) JSON
14 2 (0.23%) OAuth
14 2 (0.23%) SOAP
14 2 (0.23%) Visualforce
14 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.03%) Virtual Reality
3 14 (1.63%) Onboarding
3 14 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.40%) Operational Technology
5 12 (1.40%) Robotics
6 9 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.05%) SCADA
7 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (0.93%) Smartphone
8 7 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 7 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 7 (0.82%) Mobile Games
9 6 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.58%) FMCG
10 5 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.68%) Linux
2 16 (1.87%) Windows
3 9 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.70%) Unix
6 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (12.02%) Mentoring
2 92 (10.74%) Agile
3 91 (10.62%) Software Engineering
4 82 (9.57%) AI
5 65 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (7.35%) CI/CD
7 59 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (6.77%) DevOps
9 55 (6.42%) Coaching
10 50 (5.83%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (4.78%) Analytics
12 39 (4.55%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (4.08%) SDLC
14 33 (3.85%) Business Development
15 30 (3.50%) Scrum
16 29 (3.38%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (3.27%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (3.27%) Project Delivery
18 27 (3.15%) Decision-Making
19 26 (3.03%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.18%) SQL
2 51 (5.95%) Python
3 48 (5.60%) C#
4 27 (3.15%) Java
5 20 (2.33%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.87%) C
8 10 (1.17%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.05%) Bash
9 9 (1.05%) Go
10 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.70%) Scala
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.35%) PHP
14 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.23%) R
15 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 82 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 59 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.37%) Degree
4 22 (2.57%) DV Cleared
5 16 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.40%) CCNP
9 11 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.28%) CISSP
10 7 (0.82%) CISA
10 7 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.82%) SSCP
11 6 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
12 5 (0.58%) City & Guilds
12 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.03%) QA
2 18 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.40%) GDPR
3 12 (1.40%) GRC
3 12 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.40%) NIST
4 9 (1.05%) SLA
5 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.82%) ITGC
6 6 (0.70%) PMO
7 5 (0.58%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.58%) MISRA
7 5 (0.58%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.58%) WCAG
8 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 23 (2.68%) Docker
2 15 (1.75%) Firmware
3 11 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.93%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.23%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.40%) Terraform
3 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Argo
4 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 62 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.10%) Adobe
3 16 (1.87%) Google
3 16 (1.87%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.63%) Oracle
4 14 (1.63%) SAP
5 13 (1.52%) Apple
5 13 (1.52%) Cisco
6 11 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.17%) HP
7 10 (1.17%) Tenable
8 8 (0.93%) Aruba
8 8 (0.93%) Foundry
8 8 (0.93%) Pega
9 7 (0.82%) Siemens
10 6 (0.70%) VMware
11 5 (0.58%) Citrix
11 5 (0.58%) NEC
12 4 (0.47%) SonicWALL