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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 839 281 996
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.61% 8.52% 12.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.25% 9.56% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 621 170 716
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,041
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £78,390
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,018 £62,879
% change year-on-year +1.42% +9.76% -10.17%

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 7,459 2,939 7,730
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.06% 94.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,484 1,982 5,436
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £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 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £52,837
% change year-on-year +2.68% +5.99% -11.94%

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 9 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 9 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 +4 400 £70,000 +3.70% 73
Warwickshire +11 113 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Worcestershire +16 81 £65,000 -5.45% 12
Staffordshire +42 62 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Shropshire +6 60 £50,000 -28.57% 8
Coventry -2 42 £60,715 +10.75% 4
Wolverhampton -11 15 £69,000 -1.43% 1
Herefordshire -13 14 £85,000 +183.33% 11
Solihull +14 8 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Dudley - 5 £65,000 -
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £80,000 - 1
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 9 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.

1 111 (13.23%) Azure
2 96 (11.44%) Mentoring
3 83 (9.89%) Software Engineering
4 81 (9.65%) Agile
5 69 (8.22%) AWS
6 64 (7.63%) Microsoft
7 61 (7.27%) Coaching
8 60 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
9 58 (6.91%) AI
9 58 (6.91%) Security Cleared
10 51 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (5.96%) DevOps
12 49 (5.84%) CI/CD
13 48 (5.72%) SQL
14 47 (5.60%) Analytics
14 47 (5.60%) Python
15 44 (5.24%) Degree
15 44 (5.24%) Problem-Solving
16 41 (4.89%) SC Cleared
17 40 (4.77%) C#
18 37 (4.41%) Project Delivery
18 37 (4.41%) SQL Server
19 35 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
20 34 (4.05%) Power Platform
21 33 (3.93%) Business Development
22 32 (3.81%) Stakeholder Management
23 31 (3.69%) Full-Stack Development
24 30 (3.58%) SaaS
25 29 (3.46%) Decision-Making
26 26 (3.10%) Power BI

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 9 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.83%) Confluence
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.36%) CMS
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.36%) WordPress
5 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.43%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.36%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 111 (13.23%) Azure
2 69 (8.22%) AWS
3 34 (4.05%) Power Platform
4 30 (3.58%) SaaS
5 24 (2.86%) GCP
6 16 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.43%) Serverless
9 10 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (0.95%) Snowflake
11 7 (0.83%) Amazon S3
11 7 (0.83%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.83%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.48%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Advertising
14 4 (0.48%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.38%) Firewall
2 16 (1.91%) VPN
3 13 (1.55%) WAN
3 13 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (1.43%) BGP
4 12 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.43%) EIGRP
4 12 (1.43%) LAN
4 12 (1.43%) OSPF
5 8 (0.95%) Wireless
6 7 (0.83%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.48%) DHCP
7 4 (0.48%) DNS
7 4 (0.48%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.48%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.36%) Modbus
9 2 (0.24%) Broadband
9 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.24%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.41%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.10%) Power BI
3 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.72%) Metadata
6 5 (0.60%) MySQL
7 3 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.36%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.24%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.24%) Looker
8 2 (0.24%) Redis
8 2 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (1.91%) Git
2 12 (1.43%) JIRA
3 10 (1.19%) Snyk
4 6 (0.72%) Selenium
5 5 (0.60%) JUnit
6 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.48%) GitLab
6 4 (0.48%) Postman
7 3 (0.36%) Maven
7 3 (0.36%) Mockito
7 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.24%) Gatling
8 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.24%) JMeter
8 2 (0.24%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.24%) TestRail
8 2 (0.24%) Toad
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 91 (10.85%) Finance
2 72 (8.58%) Social Skills
3 58 (6.91%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.53%) Manufacturing
7 37 (4.41%) Games
8 24 (2.86%) Electronics
9 22 (2.62%) Aerospace
9 22 (2.62%) Legal
10 21 (2.50%) Law
11 11 (1.31%) Marketing
12 10 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.19%) Retail
13 8 (0.95%) Automotive
13 8 (0.95%) Military
14 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.72%) Banking
16 5 (0.60%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.86%) .NET
2 21 (2.50%) React
3 15 (1.79%) .NET Core
3 15 (1.79%) Blazor
4 14 (1.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 13 (1.55%) REST
6 11 (1.31%) Node.js
7 9 (1.07%) RESTful
8 7 (0.83%) Playwright
9 5 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.60%) PySpark
10 3 (0.36%) EDI
10 3 (0.36%) Kafka
10 3 (0.36%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.36%) Spring
11 2 (0.24%) OAuth
11 2 (0.24%) Visualforce
12 1 (0.12%) jQuery
12 1 (0.12%) SAP CAF
12 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.10%) Virtual Reality
3 13 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 12 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 9 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (1.07%) Product Ownership
6 8 (0.95%) Smartphone
7 7 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 7 (0.83%) FMCG
7 7 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (0.83%) Low-Code
7 7 (0.83%) Mobile Games
8 6 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 6 (0.72%) Robotics
8 6 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.67%) Linux
2 11 (1.31%) Windows
3 9 (1.07%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (11.44%) Mentoring
2 83 (9.89%) Software Engineering
3 81 (9.65%) Agile
4 61 (7.27%) Coaching
5 60 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
6 58 (6.91%) AI
7 51 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (5.96%) DevOps
9 49 (5.84%) CI/CD
10 47 (5.60%) Analytics
11 44 (5.24%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (4.41%) Project Delivery
13 35 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (3.93%) Business Development
15 32 (3.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (3.69%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (3.46%) Decision-Making
18 24 (2.86%) Roadmaps
19 23 (2.74%) Customer Service
19 23 (2.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.72%) SQL
2 47 (5.60%) Python
3 40 (4.77%) C#
4 19 (2.26%) Java
5 17 (2.03%) C
6 15 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.31%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.95%) Scala
9 7 (0.83%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.72%) Go
11 5 (0.60%) Bash
11 5 (0.60%) PHP
12 4 (0.48%) C++
12 4 (0.48%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.48%) VBA
13 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.36%) R
14 2 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (6.91%) Security Cleared
2 44 (5.24%) Degree
3 41 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.55%) CCNP
6 13 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.31%) CISSP
9 8 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.83%) CISA
10 7 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.83%) SSCP
11 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.48%) CISM
12 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.48%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.62%) QA
2 12 (1.43%) GRC
2 12 (1.43%) NIST
3 11 (1.31%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.31%) GDPR
4 9 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.95%) PMO
6 7 (0.83%) ITGC
7 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 5 (0.60%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.60%) MISRA
8 5 (0.60%) MISRA C
8 5 (0.60%) SLA
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.24%) P3O
10 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (1.79%) Docker
2 14 (1.67%) Firmware
3 11 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.07%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.36%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.95%) Terraform
3 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.24%) Argo
5 2 (0.24%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.24%) 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 64 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.15%) Adobe
3 16 (1.91%) Google
4 15 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 14 (1.67%) Cisco
6 13 (1.55%) Apple
6 13 (1.55%) SAP
7 12 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.19%) HP
8 10 (1.19%) Oracle
8 10 (1.19%) Tenable
9 9 (1.07%) Databricks
10 8 (0.95%) Aruba
11 7 (0.83%) Pega
11 7 (0.83%) Siemens
12 4 (0.48%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.48%) Meraki
13 3 (0.36%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.24%) VMware