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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 852 303 838
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.35% 8.90% 11.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.98% 9.97% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 626 192 592
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £99,750 £79,473
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 7,763 3,038 6,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.27% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,734 2,076 4,469
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £27,500
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 £79,680
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 27 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 27 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 +4 406 £70,000 +6.87% 83
Warwickshire +11 108 £60,000 +9.09% 26
Worcestershire +19 86 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Shropshire +6 64 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Staffordshire +38 62 £60,000 +11.63% 7
Coventry -2 41 £60,358 -3.43% 17
Herefordshire -7 25 £75,000 +150.00% 5
Wolverhampton -14 12 £69,000 -1.43%
Solihull +12 8 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - - 1
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 2
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
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 27 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.

1 123 (14.44%) Azure
2 97 (11.38%) Mentoring
3 86 (10.09%) Software Engineering
4 80 (9.39%) Agile
5 79 (9.27%) AWS
6 74 (8.69%) Security Cleared
7 69 (8.10%) AI
8 61 (7.16%) Microsoft
9 60 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
10 55 (6.46%) CI/CD
10 55 (6.46%) Coaching
11 54 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (6.34%) SC Cleared
12 50 (5.87%) Python
13 49 (5.75%) DevOps
13 49 (5.75%) SQL
14 45 (5.28%) C#
14 45 (5.28%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (5.16%) Degree
16 42 (4.93%) Analytics
17 37 (4.34%) Business Development
18 34 (3.99%) Full-Stack Development
18 34 (3.99%) SaaS
18 34 (3.99%) SQL Server
19 31 (3.64%) Business Intelligence
19 31 (3.64%) Project Delivery
20 29 (3.40%) Power Platform
20 29 (3.40%) Stakeholder Management
21 28 (3.29%) SDLC
22 25 (2.93%) Decision-Making

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 12 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.94%) Confluence
3 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.47%) CMS
5 4 (0.47%) WordPress
6 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) nginx
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Appian
8 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.12%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.35%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 123 (14.44%) Azure
2 79 (9.27%) AWS
3 34 (3.99%) SaaS
4 29 (3.40%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.93%) GCP
6 18 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.41%) Serverless
8 10 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (1.17%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (0.94%) Snowflake
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Stack
12 6 (0.70%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.70%) Azure AI
12 6 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.82%) Firewall
2 17 (2.00%) VPN
3 15 (1.76%) WAN
3 15 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (1.64%) LAN
5 13 (1.53%) BGP
5 13 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (1.53%) EIGRP
5 13 (1.53%) OSPF
6 7 (0.82%) Bluetooth
6 7 (0.82%) Wireless
7 6 (0.70%) DNS
8 4 (0.47%) DHCP
8 4 (0.47%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.35%) Modbus
9 3 (0.35%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.99%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.93%) Power BI
3 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.59%) MySQL
7 4 (0.47%) Metadata
8 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.23%) Looker
9 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.23%) Redis
9 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (2.23%) Git
2 13 (1.53%) JIRA
3 10 (1.17%) JUnit
3 10 (1.17%) Selenium
3 10 (1.17%) Snyk
4 8 (0.94%) Cucumber
4 8 (0.94%) GitLab
4 8 (0.94%) Postman
5 5 (0.59%) Gatling
5 5 (0.59%) Maven
5 5 (0.59%) Mockito
6 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.35%) JMeter
7 3 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) TestRail
8 2 (0.23%) Toad
8 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
General
1 101 (11.85%) Finance
2 73 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 46 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (5.28%) Public Sector
5 40 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 37 (4.34%) Games
7 25 (2.93%) Aerospace
8 24 (2.82%) Electronics
9 23 (2.70%) Legal
10 20 (2.35%) Law
11 12 (1.41%) Marketing
12 11 (1.29%) Retail
13 10 (1.17%) Military
14 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.82%) Banking
15 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.59%) Automotive
17 5 (0.59%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.93%) React
2 24 (2.82%) .NET
3 17 (2.00%) REST
4 16 (1.88%) .NET Core
4 16 (1.88%) Blazor
5 14 (1.64%) Playwright
5 14 (1.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 11 (1.29%) Node.js
7 9 (1.06%) RESTful
8 6 (0.70%) Kafka
8 6 (0.70%) Spring
9 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.59%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.47%) PySpark
11 3 (0.35%) EDI
12 2 (0.23%) ADO
12 2 (0.23%) JSON
12 2 (0.23%) OAuth
12 2 (0.23%) SOAP
12 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.05%) Virtual Reality
3 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
3 12 (1.41%) Operational Technology
4 9 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (1.06%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (0.94%) Smartphone
6 7 (0.82%) Cloud Native
6 7 (0.82%) Mobile Games
6 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.70%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.70%) FMCG
7 6 (0.70%) Robotics
8 5 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.59%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.47%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.23%) Linux
2 13 (1.53%) Windows
3 9 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (0.59%) Unix
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (11.38%) Mentoring
2 86 (10.09%) Software Engineering
3 80 (9.39%) Agile
4 69 (8.10%) AI
5 60 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
6 55 (6.46%) CI/CD
6 55 (6.46%) Coaching
7 54 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (5.75%) DevOps
9 45 (5.28%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (4.93%) Analytics
11 37 (4.34%) Business Development
12 34 (3.99%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (3.64%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (3.64%) Project Delivery
14 29 (3.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (3.29%) SDLC
16 25 (2.93%) Decision-Making
16 25 (2.93%) ETL
17 24 (2.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (5.87%) Python
2 49 (5.75%) SQL
3 45 (5.28%) C#
4 23 (2.70%) Java
5 18 (2.11%) TypeScript
6 16 (1.88%) C
7 15 (1.76%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.94%) Go
10 7 (0.82%) Bash
10 7 (0.82%) Scala
11 5 (0.59%) PHP
11 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.23%) R
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (8.69%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.34%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.16%) Degree
4 19 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.64%) CCNP
8 13 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.29%) CISSP
11 9 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.82%) CISA
13 7 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.82%) SSCP
14 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.47%) CISM
16 4 (0.47%) RIBA
17 3 (0.35%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.82%) QA
2 15 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) GDPR
3 12 (1.41%) GRC
3 12 (1.41%) NIST
4 9 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.94%) PMO
6 7 (0.82%) ITGC
6 7 (0.82%) SLA
7 5 (0.59%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.59%) MISRA
7 5 (0.59%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.47%) WCAG
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (2.23%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) Firmware
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.17%) Terraform
3 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Argo
5 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.23%) 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 61 (7.16%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.11%) Adobe
3 16 (1.88%) ServiceNow
4 15 (1.76%) Cisco
4 15 (1.76%) Google
5 14 (1.64%) SAP
6 13 (1.53%) Apple
7 12 (1.41%) Oracle
8 11 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.17%) HP
9 10 (1.17%) Tenable
10 8 (0.94%) Aruba
10 8 (0.94%) Pega
11 7 (0.82%) Siemens
12 5 (0.59%) Foundry
13 4 (0.47%) Databricks
13 4 (0.47%) Hotjar
13 4 (0.47%) VMware
14 3 (0.35%) Meraki