Senior Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior salary in the West Midlands is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 884 306 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.27% 8.94% 12.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.96% 9.98% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 663 185 509
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,845
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 8,068 3,065 6,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 89.59% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,952 2,056 3,775
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,656 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,375 £79,500
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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +6 439 £70,000 +7.69% 206
Worcestershire +22 106 £75,000 +3.45% 25
Warwickshire +6 89 £55,250 +0.45% 34
Staffordshire +51 72 £60,000 +14.29% 17
Shropshire +3 63 £50,000 -28.57% 11
Coventry 0 46 £60,000 -7.69% 15
Herefordshire 0 31 £75,000 +150.00% 8
Wolverhampton -7 10 £69,000 -16.36% 5
Solihull 0 5 £60,000 -12.73% 13
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 5
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 £50,000 - 1
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 2 September 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.

1 159 (17.99%) Azure
2 105 (11.88%) Mentoring
3 99 (11.20%) Software Engineering
4 93 (10.52%) AI
5 89 (10.07%) AWS
6 88 (9.95%) Agile
7 83 (9.39%) Security Cleared
8 81 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (8.71%) Microsoft
10 67 (7.58%) CI/CD
11 65 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
11 65 (7.35%) DevOps
12 61 (6.90%) SC Cleared
13 57 (6.45%) Degree
14 56 (6.33%) Python
15 53 (6.00%) SQL
16 51 (5.77%) Coaching
17 50 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (4.98%) C#
19 40 (4.52%) Decision-Making
19 40 (4.52%) Full-Stack Development
20 37 (4.19%) Analytics
21 36 (4.07%) Project Delivery
21 36 (4.07%) SDLC
22 35 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
22 35 (3.96%) Stakeholder Management
23 34 (3.85%) Firewall
23 34 (3.85%) Line Management
23 34 (3.85%) SaaS
23 34 (3.85%) Scrum

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 19 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.02%) Confluence
4 7 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.57%) Apache
5 5 (0.57%) IIS
5 5 (0.57%) nginx
6 4 (0.45%) CMS
6 4 (0.45%) WordPress
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.36%) Cloudability
2 10 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.34%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 159 (17.99%) Azure
2 89 (10.07%) AWS
3 35 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (3.85%) SaaS
5 28 (3.17%) Power Platform
6 27 (3.05%) GCP
7 24 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.81%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (1.47%) Serverless
11 10 (1.13%) Azure AI
11 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (0.90%) Snowflake
13 7 (0.79%) Azure Stack
13 7 (0.79%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (0.57%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.57%) OCI
16 4 (0.45%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.85%) Firewall
2 20 (2.26%) VPN
3 14 (1.58%) BGP
3 14 (1.58%) EIGRP
3 14 (1.58%) OSPF
4 12 (1.36%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.36%) WAN
5 11 (1.24%) DNS
6 10 (1.13%) LAN
7 8 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.68%) DHCP
9 5 (0.57%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.45%) VLAN
11 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.34%) Modbus
11 3 (0.34%) Wireless
12 2 (0.23%) Internet
12 2 (0.23%) Network Security
12 2 (0.23%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.83%) Power BI
3 13 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.68%) Metadata
7 5 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (0.57%) MySQL
8 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.23%) Redis
9 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (2.94%) Git
2 19 (2.15%) JIRA
3 13 (1.47%) JUnit
4 12 (1.36%) Selenium
5 11 (1.24%) GitLab
6 10 (1.13%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.13%) Postman
6 10 (1.13%) Snyk
7 7 (0.79%) Gatling
7 7 (0.79%) Maven
7 7 (0.79%) Mockito
8 4 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.45%) JMeter
8 4 (0.45%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.34%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 103 (11.65%) Finance
2 97 (10.97%) Social Skills
3 52 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 44 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (4.64%) Games
6 34 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.17%) Aerospace
7 28 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (2.60%) Electronics
9 22 (2.49%) Legal
10 16 (1.81%) Marketing
11 14 (1.58%) Law
11 14 (1.58%) Retail
12 11 (1.24%) Banking
12 11 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.13%) Military
14 8 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.90%) Social Housing
15 7 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.28%) React
2 22 (2.49%) REST
3 19 (2.15%) .NET
3 19 (2.15%) Playwright
4 14 (1.58%) Kafka
4 14 (1.58%) Node.js
4 14 (1.58%) Terraform
4 14 (1.58%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 11 (1.24%) .NET Core
5 11 (1.24%) Blazor
6 10 (1.13%) RESTful
7 9 (1.02%) Keycloak
7 9 (1.02%) Spring
8 5 (0.57%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.45%) PySpark
9 4 (0.45%) XML
10 3 (0.34%) CSS
10 3 (0.34%) EDI
10 3 (0.34%) HTML
10 3 (0.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (2.94%) Virtual Reality
3 20 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.15%) Operational Technology
5 18 (2.04%) Robotics
6 16 (1.81%) SCADA
7 15 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.58%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.58%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.02%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.90%) Smartphone
12 7 (0.79%) Driving Licence
12 7 (0.79%) Mobile Games
13 5 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.57%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.57%) IoT
13 5 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.60%) Linux
2 18 (2.04%) Windows
3 10 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.02%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (0.68%) Unix
6 5 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.23%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (11.88%) Mentoring
2 99 (11.20%) Software Engineering
3 93 (10.52%) AI
4 88 (9.95%) Agile
5 81 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (7.58%) CI/CD
7 65 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
7 65 (7.35%) DevOps
8 51 (5.77%) Coaching
9 50 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (4.52%) Decision-Making
10 40 (4.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (4.19%) Analytics
12 36 (4.07%) Project Delivery
12 36 (4.07%) SDLC
13 35 (3.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (3.85%) Line Management
14 34 (3.85%) Scrum
14 34 (3.85%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (3.39%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (6.33%) Python
2 53 (6.00%) SQL
3 44 (4.98%) C#
4 32 (3.62%) Java
5 26 (2.94%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.81%) C
8 12 (1.36%) Go
8 12 (1.36%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.90%) Bash
9 8 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.45%) C++
10 4 (0.45%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.11%) R
12 1 (0.11%) Rust
12 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 83 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 61 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.45%) Degree
4 25 (2.83%) DV Cleared
5 17 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.36%) CCNP
8 12 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.36%) NVQ Level 3
9 8 (0.90%) City & Guilds
10 7 (0.79%) CISSP
11 5 (0.57%) CISA
11 5 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.57%) SSCP
12 4 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.94%) QA
2 22 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.15%) GDPR
4 17 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.58%) NIST
6 12 (1.36%) GRC
7 9 (1.02%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.90%) WCAG
9 7 (0.79%) SLA
10 5 (0.57%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.57%) MISRA
10 5 (0.57%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.45%) PMO
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 2 (0.23%) NCSC
12 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61131
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (2.38%) Docker
2 19 (2.15%) Firmware
3 11 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.13%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.34%) Ansible
4 2 (0.23%) Argo
4 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.23%) Grafana
4 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.83%) Oracle
3 18 (2.04%) Adobe
3 18 (2.04%) ServiceNow
4 17 (1.92%) Google
5 15 (1.70%) Cisco
6 13 (1.47%) Apple
7 11 (1.24%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.13%) HP
8 10 (1.13%) Tenable
9 9 (1.02%) Pega
9 9 (1.02%) SAP
10 8 (0.90%) Aruba
10 8 (0.90%) Foundry
10 8 (0.90%) NEC
10 8 (0.90%) VMware
11 7 (0.79%) YouTube
12 6 (0.68%) Citrix
12 6 (0.68%) Siemens