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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 801 249 945
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 9.33% 8.38% 12.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.13% 9.35% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 564 136 710
10th Percentile £49,125 £45,000 £39,268
25th Percentile £55,600 £51,672 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,575 £101,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -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 7,907 2,663 7,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 89.57% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,163 1,629 5,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +4.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 28 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 28 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 +7 370 £70,000 - 82
Warwickshire +6 118 £65,000 +30.65% 31
Worcestershire +5 76 £65,000 - 17
Coventry +2 58 £70,000 +66.10% 5
Staffordshire +19 54 £60,000 +14.63% 12
Shropshire +3 48 £50,000 -28.57% 10
Wolverhampton -12 16 £75,000 -9.09% 8
Herefordshire -15 11 £70,000 - 4
Solihull +7 9 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Dudley - 5 £65,000 -
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
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 28 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 91 (11.36%) Azure
2 89 (11.11%) Agile
3 88 (10.99%) Mentoring
4 72 (8.99%) Software Engineering
5 63 (7.87%) AWS
5 63 (7.87%) Security Cleared
6 56 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
7 54 (6.74%) Coaching
7 54 (6.74%) Microsoft
8 51 (6.37%) AI
8 51 (6.37%) SQL
9 47 (5.87%) Business Intelligence
9 47 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (5.87%) Degree
9 47 (5.87%) Python
10 46 (5.74%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (5.74%) SC Cleared
11 45 (5.62%) CI/CD
12 42 (5.24%) Analytics
13 38 (4.74%) DevOps
14 34 (4.24%) Power Platform
15 32 (4.00%) Business Development
15 32 (4.00%) C#
15 32 (4.00%) Project Delivery
16 30 (3.75%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (3.75%) SaaS
17 29 (3.62%) SQL Server
17 29 (3.62%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (3.50%) Migration
19 26 (3.25%) 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 8 (1.00%) Confluence
1 8 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.37%) CMS
4 3 (0.37%) WordPress
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.25%) 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 (0.37%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.50%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.37%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 91 (11.36%) Azure
2 63 (7.87%) AWS
3 34 (4.24%) Power Platform
4 30 (3.75%) SaaS
5 22 (2.75%) GCP
6 16 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.50%) Serverless
8 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (1.00%) Snowflake
10 7 (0.87%) Amazon S3
10 7 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (0.87%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.62%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.62%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.62%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.50%) GitHub
13 4 (0.50%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.37%) Firewall
2 15 (1.87%) VPN
2 15 (1.87%) WAN
3 13 (1.62%) LAN
4 12 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (1.37%) BGP
5 11 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (1.37%) EIGRP
5 11 (1.37%) OSPF
6 7 (0.87%) Wireless
7 6 (0.75%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.62%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.37%) DHCP
10 3 (0.37%) DNS
10 3 (0.37%) Modbus
11 2 (0.25%) Broadband
11 2 (0.25%) PBX
11 2 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.62%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.25%) Power BI
3 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.62%) Metadata
6 4 (0.50%) Tableau
7 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.37%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.25%) Looker
8 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.12%) DB2
9 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.12%) MySQL
9 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (1.62%) Git
1 13 (1.62%) JIRA
2 10 (1.25%) Snyk
3 8 (1.00%) JUnit
4 6 (0.75%) Maven
4 6 (0.75%) Mockito
5 5 (0.62%) Selenium
6 3 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.37%) GitLab
6 3 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.25%) Gatling
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
7 2 (0.25%) Toad
7 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.12%) JMeter
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 93 (11.61%) Finance
2 66 (8.24%) Social Skills
3 53 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (6.24%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.74%) Games
7 31 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.00%) Electronics
9 22 (2.75%) Law
10 21 (2.62%) Legal
11 14 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.37%) Retail
13 9 (1.12%) Marketing
14 8 (1.00%) Automotive
14 8 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.62%) Banking
16 5 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.50%) Local Government
18 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.75%) React
2 18 (2.25%) .NET
3 14 (1.75%) REST
3 14 (1.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 12 (1.50%) .NET Core
4 12 (1.50%) Blazor
5 10 (1.25%) Node.js
6 7 (0.87%) PySpark
6 7 (0.87%) RESTful
7 6 (0.75%) Playwright
8 5 (0.62%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.37%) Flask
9 3 (0.37%) Spring
10 2 (0.25%) OAuth
10 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
11 1 (0.12%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.12%) NumPy
11 1 (0.12%) SAP CAF
11 1 (0.12%) SQLAlchemy
11 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.25%) Virtual Reality
3 16 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.25%) Operational Technology
5 10 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.00%) FMCG
8 7 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 7 (0.87%) Low-Code
8 7 (0.87%) Mobile Games
8 7 (0.87%) Smartphone
9 6 (0.75%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.75%) Robotics
10 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.50%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.62%) Linux
2 10 (1.25%) Windows
3 9 (1.12%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.25%) 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%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (11.11%) Agile
2 88 (10.99%) Mentoring
3 72 (8.99%) Software Engineering
4 56 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (6.74%) Coaching
6 51 (6.37%) AI
7 47 (5.87%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (5.74%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (5.62%) CI/CD
10 42 (5.24%) Analytics
11 38 (4.74%) DevOps
12 32 (4.00%) Business Development
12 32 (4.00%) Project Delivery
13 30 (3.75%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (3.62%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (3.50%) Migration
16 26 (3.25%) Customer Service
16 26 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 26 (3.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 51 (6.37%) SQL
2 47 (5.87%) Python
3 32 (4.00%) C#
4 19 (2.37%) C
5 18 (2.25%) Java
6 14 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.25%) Scala
9 8 (1.00%) Bash
10 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.75%) R
11 5 (0.62%) PHP
11 5 (0.62%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.50%) C++
12 4 (0.50%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.50%) VBA
13 3 (0.37%) Go
14 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.25%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 47 (5.87%) Degree
3 46 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (1.75%) CCNP
7 12 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.12%) CISSP
8 9 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.00%) CISA
9 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.87%) SSCP
11 6 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.50%) PMP
12 4 (0.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.62%) QA
2 12 (1.50%) GRC
3 11 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (1.37%) NIST
4 10 (1.25%) GDPR
5 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.00%) PMO
7 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.87%) ITGC
8 5 (0.62%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.62%) MISRA
8 5 (0.62%) MISRA C
8 5 (0.62%) SLA
9 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) P3O
10 2 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (1.75%) Docker
2 12 (1.50%) Firmware
3 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.75%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.25%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.25%) Terraform
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.25%) Argo
5 2 (0.25%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Control-M
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 54 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.25%) Adobe
3 17 (2.12%) Databricks
4 16 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 15 (1.87%) Cisco
6 14 (1.75%) SAP
7 13 (1.62%) Apple
8 12 (1.50%) Oracle
9 11 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.25%) Tenable
11 9 (1.12%) HP
12 8 (1.00%) Google
13 7 (0.87%) Aruba
14 5 (0.62%) Meraki
14 5 (0.62%) Siemens
15 3 (0.37%) Salesforce
16 2 (0.25%) IBM
16 2 (0.25%) Kaseya
16 2 (0.25%) VMware