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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 756 285 883
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 9.01% 8.58% 12.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.78% 9.63% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 528 160 678
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,885 £51,567 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 7,729 2,958 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 89.04% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,985 1,807 5,178
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,217
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% -11.18%

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 7 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 7 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 +8 362 £67,921 -2.97% 63
Warwickshire +8 113 £65,000 +8.33% 29
Coventry +1 55 £70,000 +37.06% 5
Worcestershire 0 55 £63,750 -1.92% 22
Staffordshire +4 46 £62,500 +19.40% 15
Shropshire +2 45 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Wolverhampton -7 16 £75,000 -21.05% 2
Herefordshire -14 11 £70,000 - 1
Solihull +7 10 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley - 4 £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 7 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 86 (11.38%) Agile
2 79 (10.45%) Azure
3 76 (10.05%) Mentoring
4 55 (7.28%) Software Engineering
5 53 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
6 52 (6.88%) Coaching
6 52 (6.88%) Security Cleared
7 49 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
7 49 (6.48%) Degree
7 49 (6.48%) Microsoft
7 49 (6.48%) SQL
8 48 (6.35%) AWS
9 47 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (5.69%) Analytics
11 41 (5.42%) Python
12 40 (5.29%) AI
13 39 (5.16%) SC Cleared
14 36 (4.76%) DevOps
15 35 (4.63%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (4.50%) CI/CD
16 34 (4.50%) Power Platform
17 33 (4.37%) Business Development
18 30 (3.97%) SaaS
19 29 (3.84%) SQL Server
20 27 (3.57%) Decision-Making
20 27 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 27 (3.57%) Power BI
20 27 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
21 26 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
21 26 (3.44%) Full-Stack Development

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 (1.06%) Confluence
1 8 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Appian
4 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.19%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.40%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.40%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 79 (10.45%) Azure
2 48 (6.35%) AWS
3 34 (4.50%) Power Platform
4 30 (3.97%) SaaS
5 18 (2.38%) GCP
6 16 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.06%) Serverless
11 6 (0.79%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.79%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.66%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.66%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.66%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.53%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.40%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.25%) WAN
2 15 (1.98%) Firewall
3 14 (1.85%) LAN
4 12 (1.59%) VPN
4 12 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.06%) BGP
5 8 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (1.06%) EIGRP
5 8 (1.06%) OSPF
6 7 (0.93%) Wireless
7 6 (0.79%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.66%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.53%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.40%) DHCP
10 3 (0.40%) DNS
10 3 (0.40%) Modbus
10 3 (0.40%) VLAN
11 2 (0.26%) Broadband
11 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.84%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.57%) Power BI
3 6 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (0.79%) Metadata
3 6 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (0.66%) Tableau
5 4 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.26%) Looker
7 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) Parquet
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (1.85%) JIRA
2 11 (1.46%) Git
3 8 (1.06%) Snyk
4 5 (0.66%) Maven
5 4 (0.53%) JUnit
5 4 (0.53%) Mockito
5 4 (0.53%) Selenium
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) GitLab
6 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.26%) Postman
6 2 (0.26%) TestRail
6 2 (0.26%) Toad
6 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.13%) Appium
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) Gatling
7 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (11.51%) Finance
2 51 (6.75%) Social Skills
3 47 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.37%) Games
7 31 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.17%) Electronics
9 21 (2.78%) Law
9 21 (2.78%) Legal
10 11 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.46%) Retail
11 10 (1.32%) Automotive
12 7 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.93%) Marketing
13 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Banking
15 3 (0.40%) iGaming
15 3 (0.40%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.98%) React
2 13 (1.72%) .NET
3 12 (1.59%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 10 (1.32%) Node.js
4 10 (1.32%) REST
5 9 (1.19%) .NET Core
5 9 (1.19%) Blazor
6 8 (1.06%) PySpark
7 6 (0.79%) RESTful
8 3 (0.40%) Flask
8 3 (0.40%) Playwright
9 2 (0.26%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.26%) OAuth
9 2 (0.26%) Visualforce
10 1 (0.13%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Entity Framework
10 1 (0.13%) NumPy
10 1 (0.13%) SAP CAF
10 1 (0.13%) SQLAlchemy
10 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (2.78%) Virtual Reality
3 15 (1.98%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.06%) Driving Licence
6 8 (1.06%) Operational Technology
7 7 (0.93%) FMCG
7 7 (0.93%) Low-Code
8 6 (0.79%) Mobile Games
8 6 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 6 (0.79%) Robotics
9 5 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.66%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (0.66%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.53%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.46%) Linux
2 10 (1.32%) Windows
3 9 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.26%) 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
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (11.38%) Agile
2 76 (10.05%) Mentoring
3 55 (7.28%) Software Engineering
4 53 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (6.88%) Coaching
6 49 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (5.69%) Analytics
9 40 (5.29%) AI
10 36 (4.76%) DevOps
11 35 (4.63%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (4.50%) CI/CD
13 33 (4.37%) Business Development
14 27 (3.57%) Decision-Making
14 27 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 27 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (3.44%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (3.44%) Migration
16 25 (3.31%) Customer Service
16 25 (3.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (6.48%) SQL
2 41 (5.42%) Python
3 24 (3.17%) C#
4 19 (2.51%) C
5 11 (1.46%) Java
6 10 (1.32%) Scala
7 9 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.79%) Bash
9 6 (0.79%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.79%) R
10 5 (0.66%) PHP
11 4 (0.53%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.53%) VBA
12 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.26%) Bicep
12 2 (0.26%) C++
12 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (6.88%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.48%) Degree
3 39 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (1.46%) CCNP
7 9 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.19%) CISSP
7 9 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.06%) CISA
8 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.93%) SSCP
10 6 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.66%) PMP
12 4 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.53%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.65%) QA
2 12 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.46%) GDPR
4 9 (1.19%) NIST
5 8 (1.06%) GRC
5 8 (1.06%) PMO
6 7 (0.93%) ITGC
7 6 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.66%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.66%) MISRA
8 5 (0.66%) MISRA C
8 5 (0.66%) SLA
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.26%) P3O
11 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 11 (1.46%) Firmware
2 10 (1.32%) Docker
3 8 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.26%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (1.32%) Terraform
2 8 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.40%) FlexNet
5 2 (0.26%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
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 49 (6.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.04%) Databricks
3 14 (1.85%) SAP
4 12 (1.59%) Cisco
5 11 (1.46%) Adobe
5 11 (1.46%) Oracle
5 11 (1.46%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.32%) Apple
7 9 (1.19%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (1.06%) Google
8 8 (1.06%) Tenable
9 7 (0.93%) HP
10 5 (0.66%) Aruba
10 5 (0.66%) Meraki
11 3 (0.40%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.40%) Siemens
12 2 (0.26%) IBM
12 2 (0.26%) Kaseya
12 2 (0.26%) Rockwell