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 9 August 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 853 311 791
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.06% 9.04% 12.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.70% 10.07% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 629 193 550
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 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £79,500
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 7,970 3,089 6,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.82% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 2,117 4,064
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,656 £35,700
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 £80,000
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 9 August 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 9 August 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 +2 418 £70,000 +7.69% 108
Warwickshire +8 100 £55,500 +0.91% 35
Worcestershire +21 90 £67,500 -6.90% 21
Staffordshire +40 63 £60,000 +14.29% 11
Shropshire +4 59 £50,000 -28.57% 15
Coventry -3 39 £60,000 -4.00% 23
Herefordshire -3 29 £75,000 +150.00% 3
Wolverhampton -14 12 £69,000 -1.43% 3
Solihull +10 6 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - - 1
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
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 9 August 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.

1 139 (16.30%) Azure
2 105 (12.31%) Mentoring
3 89 (10.43%) Agile
3 89 (10.43%) Software Engineering
4 84 (9.85%) AWS
5 80 (9.38%) AI
6 78 (9.14%) Security Cleared
7 61 (7.15%) CI/CD
7 61 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
8 59 (6.92%) Microsoft
9 57 (6.68%) Coaching
10 56 (6.57%) SC Cleared
11 54 (6.33%) DevOps
12 52 (6.10%) SQL
13 51 (5.98%) Python
14 49 (5.74%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (5.63%) C#
16 45 (5.28%) Degree
17 42 (4.92%) Analytics
18 39 (4.57%) Full-Stack Development
19 34 (3.99%) SaaS
20 33 (3.87%) Business Development
20 33 (3.87%) SDLC
21 31 (3.63%) Business Intelligence
22 29 (3.40%) Power Platform
22 29 (3.40%) React
22 29 (3.40%) Scrum
22 29 (3.40%) SQL Server
23 27 (3.17%) 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
2 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.47%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) WordPress
5 3 (0.35%) Apache
5 3 (0.35%) IIS
5 3 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
7 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%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 139 (16.30%) Azure
2 84 (9.85%) AWS
3 34 (3.99%) SaaS
4 29 (3.40%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.93%) GCP
6 19 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (1.41%) Serverless
9 10 (1.17%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.06%) Azure AI
11 8 (0.94%) Snowflake
12 7 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (0.82%) Azure Stack
12 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.70%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.47%) Google Ads
14 4 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.81%) Firewall
2 15 (1.76%) VPN
3 14 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.52%) WAN
5 12 (1.41%) BGP
5 12 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.41%) EIGRP
5 12 (1.41%) LAN
5 12 (1.41%) OSPF
6 7 (0.82%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.70%) DNS
7 6 (0.70%) Wireless
8 3 (0.35%) DHCP
8 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.35%) Modbus
8 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) RFID
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.12%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.17%) Power BI
3 10 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.59%) MySQL
9 4 (0.47%) Metadata
10 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.23%) Looker
11 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.23%) Redis
11 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (2.58%) Git
2 16 (1.88%) JIRA
3 13 (1.52%) JUnit
4 11 (1.29%) Selenium
5 10 (1.17%) Snyk
6 9 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.06%) GitLab
6 9 (1.06%) Postman
7 7 (0.82%) Maven
7 7 (0.82%) Mockito
8 6 (0.70%) Gatling
9 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.35%) JMeter
10 3 (0.35%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.23%) TestRail
11 2 (0.23%) Toad
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 111 (13.01%) Finance
2 81 (9.50%) Social Skills
3 44 (5.16%) Public Sector
4 41 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.34%) Games
5 37 (4.34%) Manufacturing
6 26 (3.05%) Aerospace
6 26 (3.05%) Electronics
7 18 (2.11%) Legal
8 15 (1.76%) Law
9 13 (1.52%) Retail
10 12 (1.41%) Marketing
11 10 (1.17%) Military
12 8 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.82%) Banking
14 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Automotive
15 5 (0.59%) Local Government
15 5 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.40%) React
2 23 (2.70%) .NET
3 21 (2.46%) REST
4 17 (1.99%) Playwright
5 15 (1.76%) .NET Core
5 15 (1.76%) Blazor
6 14 (1.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 11 (1.29%) Node.js
8 9 (1.06%) RESTful
9 8 (0.94%) Spring
10 7 (0.82%) Kafka
11 6 (0.70%) Keycloak
12 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.47%) PySpark
14 3 (0.35%) EDI
15 2 (0.23%) JSON
15 2 (0.23%) OAuth
15 2 (0.23%) SOAP
15 2 (0.23%) Visualforce
15 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.05%) Virtual Reality
3 13 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
4 12 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 12 (1.41%) Operational Technology
4 12 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.17%) Robotics
6 9 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (0.94%) Smartphone
8 7 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 7 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 7 (0.82%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.82%) Mobile Games
8 7 (0.82%) SCADA
9 6 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.59%) FMCG
11 4 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.70%) Linux
2 14 (1.64%) Windows
3 9 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (0.70%) Unix
5 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (12.31%) Mentoring
2 89 (10.43%) Agile
2 89 (10.43%) Software Engineering
3 80 (9.38%) AI
4 61 (7.15%) CI/CD
4 61 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (6.68%) Coaching
6 54 (6.33%) DevOps
7 49 (5.74%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (4.92%) Analytics
9 39 (4.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (3.87%) Business Development
10 33 (3.87%) SDLC
11 31 (3.63%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (3.40%) Scrum
13 27 (3.17%) Decision-Making
13 27 (3.17%) Project Delivery
13 27 (3.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (3.05%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.10%) SQL
2 51 (5.98%) Python
3 48 (5.63%) C#
4 26 (3.05%) Java
5 20 (2.34%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.88%) C
8 9 (1.06%) Bash
8 9 (1.06%) Go
8 9 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.82%) Scala
10 4 (0.47%) C++
10 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.47%) PHP
11 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.23%) R
12 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (9.14%) Security Cleared
2 56 (6.57%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.28%) Degree
4 21 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 16 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.41%) CCNP
9 11 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.29%) CISSP
10 7 (0.82%) CISA
10 7 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.82%) SSCP
11 6 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CIPD
13 4 (0.47%) CISM
13 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.05%) QA
2 18 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) GDPR
3 12 (1.41%) GRC
3 12 (1.41%) NIST
4 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.94%) SLA
6 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.82%) ITGC
7 6 (0.70%) PMO
8 5 (0.59%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.59%) MISRA
8 5 (0.59%) MISRA C
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 23 (2.70%) Docker
2 15 (1.76%) Firmware
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.82%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.41%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Argo
4 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 59 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.11%) Adobe
3 16 (1.88%) Google
3 16 (1.88%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.64%) Oracle
4 14 (1.64%) SAP
5 13 (1.52%) Apple
5 13 (1.52%) Cisco
6 11 (1.29%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.17%) HP
7 10 (1.17%) Tenable
8 8 (0.94%) Aruba
8 8 (0.94%) Pega
9 7 (0.82%) Foundry
9 7 (0.82%) Siemens
10 5 (0.59%) VMware
11 4 (0.47%) Citrix
11 4 (0.47%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.47%) NEC