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 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 493 458 630
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.45% 11.65% 11.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.37% 12.70% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 336 214 515
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,125 £76,150
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 5,259 3,605 5,026
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 91.73% 93.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,106 1,718 4,094
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,844 £49,870
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.97% -5.01%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +3 252 £65,000 +3.54% 71
Warwickshire +2 76 £60,000 -14.29% 23
Coventry +1 45 £85,000 +41.67% 11
Worcestershire 0 33 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Solihull +9 24 £53,750 +7.50% 5
Shropshire -20 11 £50,000 -18.37% 9
Staffordshire -29 11 £65,000 +27.45% 5
Herefordshire -3 10 £85,000 - 8
Wolverhampton - 10 £82,500 - 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £50,000 - 4
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 February 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 67 (13.59%) Agile
2 65 (13.18%) Azure
3 52 (10.55%) Mentoring
4 51 (10.34%) Degree
4 51 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 50 (10.14%) SQL
6 46 (9.33%) Security Cleared
7 44 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
8 40 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (8.11%) SC Cleared
9 39 (7.91%) SaaS
10 38 (7.71%) Analytics
11 32 (6.49%) Decision-Making
12 31 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 31 (6.29%) CI/CD
12 31 (6.29%) DevOps
12 31 (6.29%) Power Platform
13 30 (6.09%) Coaching
14 29 (5.88%) Project Delivery
15 28 (5.68%) Python
15 28 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (5.48%) Databricks
16 27 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 26 (5.27%) Migration
18 25 (5.07%) AWS
19 24 (4.87%) Cybersecurity
19 24 (4.87%) QA
19 24 (4.87%) SQL Server
20 23 (4.67%) 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 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.61%) Confluence
4 2 (0.41%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.41%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.20%) Maximo
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.20%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 65 (13.18%) Azure
2 39 (7.91%) SaaS
3 31 (6.29%) Power Platform
4 25 (5.07%) AWS
5 21 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.62%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (1.42%) GCP
9 6 (1.22%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.22%) Serverless
10 4 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.81%) GitHub
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (0.81%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.61%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.26%) Firewall
2 18 (3.65%) WAN
3 16 (3.25%) LAN
4 13 (2.64%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.83%) VPN
6 5 (1.01%) BGP
6 5 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.01%) EIGRP
6 5 (1.01%) OSPF
6 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.81%) MPLS
7 4 (0.81%) Wireless
8 3 (0.61%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.41%) DHCP
9 2 (0.41%) DNS
9 2 (0.41%) Modbus
9 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
9 2 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.67%) Power BI
3 10 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.42%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.01%) Metadata
5 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (1.01%) Tableau
6 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.81%) Delta Lake
6 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.41%) Looker
7 2 (0.41%) Redis
7 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (1.42%) JUnit
1 7 (1.42%) Maven
2 6 (1.22%) JIRA
2 6 (1.22%) Mockito
3 5 (1.01%) Git
4 4 (0.81%) Selenium
5 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.41%) GitLab
5 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.41%) Postman
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.20%) Gatling
6 1 (0.20%) MSTest
6 1 (0.20%) NUnit
6 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (13.39%) Finance
2 57 (11.56%) Social Skills
3 48 (9.74%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.48%) Legal
7 26 (5.27%) Law
8 19 (3.85%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.03%) Marketing
11 9 (1.83%) Retail
12 8 (1.62%) Automotive
13 7 (1.42%) Banking
14 5 (1.01%) Electronics
15 4 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.41%) Games
17 2 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.04%) .NET
2 10 (2.03%) REST
3 9 (1.83%) React
4 7 (1.42%) PySpark
5 5 (1.01%) Spring
6 4 (0.81%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.61%) Blazor
7 3 (0.61%) Django
7 3 (0.61%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.61%) Flask
7 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.41%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.41%) jQuery
8 2 (0.41%) Node.js
8 2 (0.41%) Playwright
8 2 (0.41%) SOAP
8 2 (0.41%) Web Services
8 2 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.04%) Driving Licence
2 12 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (1.83%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.22%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (0.81%) Operational Technology
6 4 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.61%) FMCG
7 3 (0.61%) Life Science
7 3 (0.61%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.41%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.41%) PMI
8 2 (0.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.04%) Linux
2 11 (2.23%) Windows
3 8 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (13.59%) Agile
2 52 (10.55%) Mentoring
3 44 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
4 40 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (7.71%) Analytics
6 32 (6.49%) Decision-Making
7 31 (6.29%) CI/CD
7 31 (6.29%) DevOps
8 30 (6.09%) Coaching
9 29 (5.88%) Project Delivery
10 28 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (5.27%) Migration
13 24 (4.87%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (4.67%) Systems Engineering
15 21 (4.26%) Business Development
15 21 (4.26%) Roadmaps
15 21 (4.26%) Software Engineering
15 21 (4.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.14%) SQL
2 28 (5.68%) Python
3 20 (4.06%) C#
4 12 (2.43%) Java
4 12 (2.43%) T-SQL
5 10 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.42%) Bash
6 7 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.01%) C
8 5 (1.01%) R
8 5 (1.01%) Scala
8 5 (1.01%) VBA
9 4 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.61%) Bicep
11 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.41%) PHP
12 1 (0.20%) Delphi
12 1 (0.20%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 51 (10.34%) Degree
2 46 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.84%) CCNP
5 14 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (1.62%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.22%) PMP
9 5 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.41%) ACCA
12 2 (0.41%) CIMA
12 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.20%) CISA
13 1 (0.20%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.87%) QA
2 13 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.83%) GDPR
5 8 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.81%) PMO
7 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.41%) ITGC
7 2 (0.41%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.41%) P3O
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (3.25%) Docker
2 7 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.81%) XenApp
4 2 (0.41%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.23%) Terraform
3 4 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.61%) Ansible
4 3 (0.61%) FlexNet
5 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.20%) Control-M
5 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 51 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.48%) Databricks
3 18 (3.65%) Cisco
4 8 (1.62%) Meraki
4 8 (1.62%) Oracle
5 6 (1.22%) Google
5 6 (1.22%) IBM
6 5 (1.01%) Citrix
7 4 (0.81%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.81%) SAP
7 4 (0.81%) SonicWALL
7 4 (0.81%) Veeam
7 4 (0.81%) VMware
8 2 (0.41%) Aruba
8 2 (0.41%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.41%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.41%) Pega
8 2 (0.41%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow