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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 767 273 886
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 9.12% 8.55% 12.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.90% 9.55% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 529 155 677
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,672 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 7,748 2,859 6,948
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 89.51% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,013 1,795 5,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +4.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +8 366 £68,076 -2.75% 61
Warwickshire +4 114 £62,500 +9.65% 31
Worcestershire +4 60 £65,000 - 25
Coventry +2 55 £70,000 +37.06% 5
Staffordshire +13 47 £63,000 +20.36% 12
Shropshire +2 45 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Wolverhampton -8 16 £75,000 -21.05% 2
Herefordshire -16 11 £70,000 - 1
Solihull +11 10 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley - 4 £65,000 -
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 12 May 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 89 (11.60%) Agile
2 84 (10.95%) Azure
3 81 (10.56%) Mentoring
4 57 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
4 57 (7.43%) Software Engineering
5 55 (7.17%) Security Cleared
6 53 (6.91%) Microsoft
7 52 (6.78%) AWS
7 52 (6.78%) Coaching
8 51 (6.65%) SQL
9 49 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (6.39%) Degree
10 47 (6.13%) AI
10 47 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (5.74%) Analytics
12 41 (5.35%) Python
12 41 (5.35%) SC Cleared
13 38 (4.95%) CI/CD
13 38 (4.95%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (4.56%) DevOps
15 34 (4.43%) Power Platform
16 32 (4.17%) Business Development
17 30 (3.91%) SaaS
18 29 (3.78%) SQL Server
19 28 (3.65%) Stakeholder Management
20 27 (3.52%) Full-Stack Development
20 27 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 27 (3.52%) Power BI
21 26 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
21 26 (3.39%) 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 8 (1.04%) Confluence
1 8 (1.04%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Appian
4 1 (0.13%) CMS
4 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.13%) WinCC
4 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.56%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.39%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.39%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 84 (10.95%) Azure
2 52 (6.78%) AWS
3 34 (4.43%) Power Platform
4 30 (3.91%) SaaS
5 21 (2.74%) GCP
6 16 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (1.30%) Serverless
9 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.78%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.78%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.65%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.65%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.65%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.52%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.39%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.22%) WAN
2 16 (2.09%) Firewall
3 14 (1.83%) LAN
4 13 (1.69%) VPN
5 12 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.17%) BGP
6 9 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (1.17%) EIGRP
6 9 (1.17%) OSPF
7 7 (0.91%) Wireless
8 6 (0.78%) Bluetooth
8 6 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.65%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.52%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.39%) DHCP
11 3 (0.39%) DNS
11 3 (0.39%) Modbus
11 3 (0.39%) VLAN
12 2 (0.26%) RFID
12 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.52%) Power BI
3 6 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (0.78%) Metadata
3 6 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (0.65%) Tableau
5 4 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.39%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.26%) Looker
7 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) Parquet
8 1 (0.13%) Redis
8 1 (0.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.69%) JIRA
2 11 (1.43%) Git
3 10 (1.30%) Snyk
4 6 (0.78%) Maven
5 5 (0.65%) JUnit
5 5 (0.65%) Mockito
6 4 (0.52%) Selenium
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) GitLab
7 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.26%) Postman
7 2 (0.26%) TestRail
7 2 (0.26%) Toad
7 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 90 (11.73%) Finance
2 55 (7.17%) Social Skills
3 52 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (5.87%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.69%) Games
7 32 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.13%) Electronics
9 22 (2.87%) Legal
10 21 (2.74%) Law
11 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.43%) Retail
12 10 (1.30%) Automotive
13 9 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.04%) Marketing
15 7 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.52%) Banking
18 3 (0.39%) Retail Finance
18 3 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.35%) React
2 14 (1.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 13 (1.69%) .NET
4 12 (1.56%) REST
5 10 (1.30%) Node.js
6 9 (1.17%) .NET Core
6 9 (1.17%) Blazor
7 8 (1.04%) PySpark
8 6 (0.78%) RESTful
9 4 (0.52%) Playwright
10 3 (0.39%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.39%) Flask
11 2 (0.26%) OAuth
11 2 (0.26%) Visualforce
12 1 (0.13%) ActiveMQ
12 1 (0.13%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.13%) CSS
12 1 (0.13%) HTML
12 1 (0.13%) SAP Basis
12 1 (0.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (3.00%) Virtual Reality
3 17 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.04%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.04%) FMCG
7 8 (1.04%) Operational Technology
8 7 (0.91%) Low-Code
8 7 (0.91%) Mobile Games
9 6 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.78%) Robotics
9 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (0.65%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.52%) CAN bus
11 4 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.56%) Linux
2 10 (1.30%) Windows
3 9 (1.17%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (11.60%) Agile
2 81 (10.56%) Mentoring
3 57 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (7.43%) Software Engineering
4 52 (6.78%) Coaching
5 49 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (6.13%) AI
6 47 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (5.74%) Analytics
8 38 (4.95%) CI/CD
8 38 (4.95%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (4.56%) DevOps
10 32 (4.17%) Business Development
11 28 (3.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (3.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (3.39%) Decision-Making
13 26 (3.39%) Migration
13 26 (3.39%) Project Delivery
13 26 (3.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (6.65%) SQL
2 41 (5.35%) Python
3 25 (3.26%) C#
4 19 (2.48%) C
5 12 (1.56%) Java
6 11 (1.43%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.30%) Scala
8 9 (1.17%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.91%) Bash
10 6 (0.78%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.78%) R
11 5 (0.65%) PHP
11 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.52%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.52%) VBA
13 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.26%) Bicep
13 2 (0.26%) C++
13 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (7.17%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.39%) Degree
3 41 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (1.56%) CCNP
7 9 (1.17%) CISSP
7 9 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.04%) CISA
8 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (0.91%) SSCP
10 6 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.52%) PMP
11 4 (0.52%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.74%) QA
2 11 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.43%) GDPR
2 11 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 10 (1.30%) GRC
4 9 (1.17%) NIST
5 8 (1.04%) PMO
6 7 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.91%) ITGC
7 5 (0.65%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.65%) MISRA
7 5 (0.65%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) P3O
10 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 11 (1.43%) Docker
1 11 (1.43%) Firmware
2 10 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.26%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (1.30%) Terraform
2 9 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.39%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.26%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Control-M
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 53 (6.91%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.00%) Databricks
3 15 (1.96%) Adobe
4 14 (1.83%) SAP
4 14 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 13 (1.69%) Apple
5 13 (1.69%) Cisco
6 12 (1.56%) Oracle
7 11 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.30%) Tenable
9 8 (1.04%) Google
10 7 (0.91%) HP
11 5 (0.65%) Aruba
11 5 (0.65%) Meraki
12 3 (0.39%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.39%) Siemens
13 2 (0.26%) IBM
13 2 (0.26%) Kaseya
13 2 (0.26%) Rockwell