Senior Jobs 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 3 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 406 822 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.71% 12.21% 11.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.93% 13.04% 12.48%
Number of salaries quoted 198 641 422
10th Percentile £43,500 £40,000 £41,025
25th Percentile £51,543 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,965 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% +0.81% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £76,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £70,588
% change year-on-year -2.34% -9.33% +0.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,713 6,306 6,480
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.81% 93.66% 90.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 4,923 3,510
10th Percentile £29,400 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,967 £62,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.65% -8.71% +0.42%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior 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 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 2025. 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 -2 198 £67,626 +12.71% 134
Warwickshire -9 109 £70,000 +33.33% 40
Coventry -9 28 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Staffordshire -8 19 £51,672 +3.34% 64
Solihull -10 17 £50,000 -20.00% 3
Worcestershire -4 13 £65,000 +23.81% 22
Shropshire +4 9 £70,000 +27.27% 17
Herefordshire +6 4 - -
Wolverhampton +11 3 £95,000 +46.15% 11
Walsall - 1 £60,000 - 4
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 April 2025, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 126 (31.03%) Azure
2 101 (24.88%) Agile
3 95 (23.40%) Degree
4 84 (20.69%) Finance
5 81 (19.95%) Social Skills
6 74 (18.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 72 (17.73%) C#
8 70 (17.24%) .NET
8 70 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
9 64 (15.76%) Microsoft
10 63 (15.52%) SQL
11 61 (15.02%) DevOps
12 60 (14.78%) CI/CD
13 59 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (14.04%) Mentoring
15 52 (12.81%) Risk Management
16 48 (11.82%) Coaching
17 46 (11.33%) Computer Science
18 44 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 42 (10.34%) Analytics
19 42 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
20 40 (9.85%) Software Engineering
20 40 (9.85%) Project Management
21 36 (8.87%) Telecoms
22 35 (8.62%) HTML
22 35 (8.62%) JIRA
23 32 (7.88%) Retail
24 31 (7.64%) Creative Thinking
24 31 (7.64%) Systems Engineering
25 30 (7.39%) Full-Stack Development

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.19%) Confluence
2 10 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.74%) CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) Mule
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.25%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.74%) ProjectWise
3 3 (0.74%) Simulink
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Revit
4 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (4.68%) Dynamics AX
2 9 (2.22%) NEC Housing
3 7 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle SCM
6 2 (0.49%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (31.03%) Azure
2 42 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (4.43%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.45%) AWS
5 14 (3.45%) GitHub
6 11 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.72%) SaaS
8 7 (1.72%) Serverless
9 6 (1.48%) GCP
10 5 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.74%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.74%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.74%) Supabase
12 3 (0.74%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.68%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (3.69%) Firewall
2 15 (3.69%) SD-WAN
2 15 (3.69%) WAN
3 12 (2.96%) VLAN
4 11 (2.71%) 3GPP
4 11 (2.71%) 5G
5 9 (2.22%) Network Security
6 8 (1.97%) Wireless
7 4 (0.99%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.99%) GSM
7 4 (0.99%) J1939
8 3 (0.74%) VPN
9 2 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.49%) HTTP
9 2 (0.49%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.49%) Internet
9 2 (0.49%) IPsec
9 2 (0.49%) MQTT
9 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.20%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.96%) Power BI
5 11 (2.71%) BusinessObjects
5 11 (2.71%) MySQL
5 11 (2.71%) Redis
6 7 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.99%) Big Data
7 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.74%) GIS
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.49%) Metadata
9 2 (0.49%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.49%) MS Access
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (8.62%) JIRA
2 30 (7.39%) Git
3 11 (2.71%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.46%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.99%) JUnit
7 2 (0.49%) GitLab
7 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.49%) Mockito
7 2 (0.49%) NUnit
8 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.25%) Vite
General
1 84 (20.69%) Finance
2 81 (19.95%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (8.87%) Telecoms
5 32 (7.88%) Retail
6 25 (6.16%) Manufacturing
7 23 (5.67%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.68%) Games
9 16 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (3.94%) Police
10 12 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.96%) Legal
11 11 (2.71%) Automotive
12 10 (2.46%) Tech for Good
13 9 (2.22%) Local Government
14 7 (1.72%) Banking
14 7 (1.72%) Marketing
15 6 (1.48%) Law
16 3 (0.74%) Advertising
16 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.24%) .NET
2 35 (8.62%) HTML
3 21 (5.17%) ASP.NET
3 21 (5.17%) CSS
3 21 (5.17%) MvvmCross
4 19 (4.68%) React
5 17 (4.19%) RESTful
6 14 (3.45%) Blazor
7 13 (3.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (3.20%) REST
8 12 (2.96%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.71%) Django
10 10 (2.46%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.46%) GraphQL
10 10 (2.46%) Node.js
10 10 (2.46%) OAuth
11 9 (2.22%) Flask
11 9 (2.22%) pytest
11 9 (2.22%) SQLAlchemy
11 9 (2.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.67%) Mobile App
2 21 (5.17%) Blockchain
2 21 (5.17%) Robotics
3 19 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.72%) IoT
7 6 (1.48%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.99%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.74%) Lidar
9 3 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.14%) Linux
2 24 (5.91%) Apple iOS
3 23 (5.67%) Windows
4 22 (5.42%) Android
5 9 (2.22%) Solaris
6 7 (1.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.74%) Unix
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (24.88%) Agile
2 70 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (15.02%) DevOps
4 60 (14.78%) CI/CD
5 59 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (14.04%) Mentoring
7 52 (12.81%) Risk Management
8 48 (11.82%) Coaching
9 46 (11.33%) Computer Science
10 42 (10.34%) Analytics
11 40 (9.85%) Project Management
11 40 (9.85%) Software Engineering
12 31 (7.64%) Creative Thinking
12 31 (7.64%) Systems Engineering
13 30 (7.39%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (7.14%) Project Delivery
15 26 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
16 24 (5.91%) Change Management
16 24 (5.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (5.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (17.73%) C#
2 63 (15.52%) SQL
3 29 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 26 (6.40%) Python
5 11 (2.71%) C
6 10 (2.46%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.48%) Java
8 4 (0.99%) C++
8 4 (0.99%) PHP
8 4 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.74%) Bash
9 3 (0.74%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.74%) Ruby
9 3 (0.74%) Swift
10 2 (0.49%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.49%) Scala
10 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.25%) ABAP
11 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (23.40%) Degree
2 74 (18.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (6.16%) Security Cleared
4 19 (4.68%) CISA
4 19 (4.68%) ISACA
5 14 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.46%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.97%) ACCA
8 5 (1.23%) HND
8 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.99%) CCNP
9 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.99%) PMP
10 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.49%) CCIE
11 2 (0.49%) CCNA
11 2 (0.49%) CITP
11 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.17%) ITGC
2 11 (2.71%) NCSC
3 10 (2.46%) IFRS
4 9 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.22%) ISO 9001
5 8 (1.97%) GAAP
6 7 (1.72%) QA
7 4 (0.99%) Automotive SPICE
7 4 (0.99%) AUTOSAR
7 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.99%) PMO
8 2 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.49%) COBIT
8 2 (0.49%) GDPR
8 2 (0.49%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.49%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) NIST
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (4.43%) Docker
2 12 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.23%) Firmware
4 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.46%) Ansible
3 9 (2.22%) Grafana
3 9 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.48%) Terraform
6 2 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.39%) Oracle
3 24 (5.91%) SAP
4 21 (5.17%) Xamarin
5 10 (2.46%) Cisco
5 10 (2.46%) NEC
6 9 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.22%) Citrix
7 8 (1.97%) Adobe
7 8 (1.97%) Apple
8 7 (1.72%) Acronis
8 7 (1.72%) Databricks
9 6 (1.48%) VMware
10 5 (1.23%) Google
10 5 (1.23%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.23%) WatchGuard
11 4 (0.99%) Okta
12 2 (0.49%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.49%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.49%) Telerik