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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 700 309 863
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.77% 9.23% 12.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.55% 10.56% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 482 184 661
10th Percentile £48,045 £43,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,600 £51,567 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +12.14% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,625 £101,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -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 7,331 2,925 6,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 87.42% 93.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,636 1,812 5,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,411 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +6 348 £66,783 -4.60% 63
Warwickshire +2 102 £65,000 - 36
Coventry 0 53 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Worcestershire 0 49 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Staffordshire -2 35 £63,000 +20.36% 12
Shropshire -7 32 £50,000 -28.57% 16
Wolverhampton -6 16 £75,000 -21.05%
Solihull +12 15 £60,000 +20.00% 5
Herefordshire -16 12 £85,000 - 4
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley - 2 £65,000 - 2
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 21 April 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 87 (12.43%) Agile
2 77 (11.00%) Azure
3 76 (10.86%) Mentoring
4 54 (7.71%) Security Cleared
5 53 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (7.57%) Degree
5 53 (7.57%) Microsoft
6 50 (7.14%) Coaching
6 50 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 48 (6.86%) SQL
8 47 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
10 43 (6.14%) SC Cleared
11 42 (6.00%) Analytics
12 41 (5.86%) DevOps
12 41 (5.86%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (5.43%) AWS
14 37 (5.29%) SaaS
15 36 (5.14%) Python
16 35 (5.00%) Business Development
17 34 (4.86%) AI
18 33 (4.71%) CI/CD
19 29 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
19 29 (4.14%) Power Platform
19 29 (4.14%) Project Delivery
20 28 (4.00%) Migration
20 28 (4.00%) SQL Server
20 28 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
21 26 (3.71%) C#
21 26 (3.71%) Customer Service

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 (1.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.14%) Confluence
2 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Appian
4 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.57%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.43%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 77 (11.00%) Azure
2 38 (5.43%) AWS
3 37 (5.29%) SaaS
4 29 (4.14%) Power Platform
5 21 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.14%) GCP
7 14 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.14%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.00%) Serverless
13 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.71%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.71%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.57%) GitHub
15 3 (0.43%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.71%) WAN
2 17 (2.43%) Firewall
3 16 (2.29%) LAN
4 12 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (1.57%) VPN
6 8 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.00%) BGP
7 7 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (1.00%) EIGRP
7 7 (1.00%) OSPF
7 7 (1.00%) Wireless
8 5 (0.71%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.71%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.57%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.57%) Modbus
10 3 (0.43%) DHCP
10 3 (0.43%) DNS
10 3 (0.43%) VLAN
11 2 (0.29%) PBX
11 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (3.14%) Power BI
3 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.71%) Metadata
3 5 (0.71%) Tableau
4 4 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.43%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.29%) Looker
6 2 (0.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.14%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.14%) DB2
7 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (2.00%) JIRA
2 10 (1.43%) Git
3 7 (1.00%) Snyk
4 6 (0.86%) JUnit
4 6 (0.86%) Maven
4 6 (0.86%) Selenium
5 5 (0.71%) Mockito
6 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.29%) Postman
7 2 (0.29%) TestRail
7 2 (0.29%) Toad
7 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.14%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (12.57%) Finance
2 58 (8.29%) Social Skills
3 50 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (4.14%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.86%) Legal
8 24 (3.43%) Games
9 22 (3.14%) Electronics
10 20 (2.86%) Law
11 13 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.86%) Retail
12 9 (1.29%) Automotive
13 8 (1.14%) Marketing
14 6 (0.86%) Banking
14 6 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.43%) iGaming
17 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.29%) React
2 14 (2.00%) .NET
3 11 (1.57%) Node.js
4 10 (1.43%) REST
5 9 (1.29%) .NET Core
5 9 (1.29%) Blazor
6 7 (1.00%) PySpark
6 7 (1.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 4 (0.57%) RESTful
7 4 (0.57%) Spring
8 3 (0.43%) Flask
8 3 (0.43%) Playwright
8 3 (0.43%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.29%) OAuth
9 2 (0.29%) SOAP
9 2 (0.29%) Visualforce
10 1 (0.14%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.14%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (1.86%) Virtual Reality
3 12 (1.71%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (1.57%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.29%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.00%) FMCG
8 7 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 6 (0.86%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.71%) Robotics
10 5 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (0.57%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.57%) Mobile Games
11 4 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.00%) Windows
2 13 (1.86%) Linux
3 8 (1.14%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (12.43%) Agile
2 76 (10.86%) Mentoring
3 53 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
4 50 (7.14%) Coaching
4 50 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 47 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (6.00%) Analytics
8 41 (5.86%) DevOps
8 41 (5.86%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (5.00%) Business Development
10 34 (4.86%) AI
11 33 (4.71%) CI/CD
12 29 (4.14%) Project Delivery
13 28 (4.00%) Migration
13 28 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (3.71%) Customer Service
14 26 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (3.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (3.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (6.86%) SQL
2 36 (5.14%) Python
3 26 (3.71%) C#
4 16 (2.29%) C
5 14 (2.00%) Java
6 10 (1.43%) Scala
7 8 (1.14%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.00%) Bash
8 7 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.86%) R
9 6 (0.86%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.71%) PHP
10 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.71%) VBA
11 4 (0.57%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.29%) Bicep
12 2 (0.29%) C++
12 2 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 54 (7.71%) Security Cleared
2 53 (7.57%) Degree
3 43 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.43%) CCNP
6 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.29%) CISSP
8 8 (1.14%) CISA
8 8 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.00%) SSCP
10 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.86%) PMP
11 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.71%) QA
2 12 (1.71%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (1.57%) GDPR
3 11 (1.57%) NIST
4 7 (1.00%) GRC
4 7 (1.00%) ITGC
4 7 (1.00%) PMO
5 6 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.71%) IEC 61508
6 5 (0.71%) MISRA
6 5 (0.71%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.29%) P3O
9 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (1.57%) Docker
1 11 (1.57%) Firmware
2 9 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.29%) XenApp
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.14%) Terraform
4 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.43%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.29%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.29%) Grafana
6 2 (0.29%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Argo
7 1 (0.14%) Control-M
7 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 53 (7.57%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.43%) Databricks
3 14 (2.00%) SAP
4 13 (1.86%) Cisco
5 10 (1.43%) Oracle
6 8 (1.14%) Adobe
6 8 (1.14%) Google
6 8 (1.14%) Palo Alto
6 8 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (1.00%) Meraki
7 7 (1.00%) Tenable
8 6 (0.86%) Apple
8 6 (0.86%) HP
9 4 (0.57%) Aruba
9 4 (0.57%) IBM
10 3 (0.43%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.43%) VMware
11 2 (0.29%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.29%) SonicWALL