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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 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 839 291 945
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.42% 8.60% 12.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.06% 9.69% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 620 178 673
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £100,000 £79,030
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
% change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%

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 7,583 3,003 7,350
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 88.71% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,597 2,036 5,097
10th Percentile £31,159 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,688 £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 £78,450
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 18 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 18 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 +5 396 £70,000 +4.87% 45
Warwickshire +10 110 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Worcestershire +17 81 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Shropshire +7 64 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Staffordshire +46 62 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Coventry -2 42 £60,715 -2.86% 5
Herefordshire -12 20 £75,000 +150.00% 6
Wolverhampton -13 13 £69,000 -1.43% 1
Solihull +15 8 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley - 5 £65,000 -
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 4 £80,000 -
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 18 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.

1 112 (13.35%) Azure
2 95 (11.32%) Mentoring
3 84 (10.01%) Software Engineering
4 77 (9.18%) Agile
5 73 (8.70%) AWS
6 64 (7.63%) Security Cleared
7 62 (7.39%) AI
8 61 (7.27%) Microsoft
9 59 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
10 58 (6.91%) Coaching
11 53 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (5.96%) CI/CD
12 50 (5.96%) DevOps
13 47 (5.60%) Python
13 47 (5.60%) SQL
14 45 (5.36%) Degree
14 45 (5.36%) SC Cleared
15 43 (5.13%) Analytics
15 43 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (5.01%) C#
17 35 (4.17%) Business Development
18 34 (4.05%) Stakeholder Management
19 33 (3.93%) SQL Server
20 32 (3.81%) Business Intelligence
20 32 (3.81%) Project Delivery
21 31 (3.69%) Full-Stack Development
22 30 (3.58%) SaaS
23 29 (3.46%) Power Platform
24 27 (3.22%) Decision-Making
25 24 (2.86%) GCP

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 10 (1.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.95%) Confluence
3 4 (0.48%) CMS
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.48%) WordPress
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.24%) IIS
5 2 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.43%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.36%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 112 (13.35%) Azure
2 73 (8.70%) AWS
3 30 (3.58%) SaaS
4 29 (3.46%) Power Platform
5 24 (2.86%) GCP
6 17 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.43%) Serverless
8 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (0.95%) Entra ID
9 8 (0.95%) Snowflake
10 7 (0.83%) Amazon S3
10 7 (0.83%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.48%) Google Data Studio
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Advertising
13 4 (0.48%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.62%) Firewall
2 16 (1.91%) VPN
3 14 (1.67%) WAN
3 14 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.55%) LAN
5 12 (1.43%) BGP
5 12 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.43%) EIGRP
5 12 (1.43%) OSPF
6 7 (0.83%) Bluetooth
6 7 (0.83%) Wireless
7 5 (0.60%) DNS
8 4 (0.48%) DHCP
8 4 (0.48%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.36%) Modbus
9 3 (0.36%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.24%) Broadband
10 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.74%) Power BI
3 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.60%) Metadata
6 5 (0.60%) MySQL
7 4 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.36%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.24%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.24%) Looker
9 2 (0.24%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.24%) Redis
9 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (2.03%) Git
2 13 (1.55%) JIRA
3 10 (1.19%) Snyk
4 8 (0.95%) Selenium
5 6 (0.72%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.72%) GitLab
5 6 (0.72%) JUnit
5 6 (0.72%) Postman
6 4 (0.48%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.36%) Gatling
7 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.36%) JMeter
7 3 (0.36%) Maven
7 3 (0.36%) Mockito
7 3 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.24%) TestRail
8 2 (0.24%) Toad
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 94 (11.20%) Finance
2 67 (7.99%) Social Skills
3 52 (6.20%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 37 (4.41%) Games
8 24 (2.86%) Electronics
9 23 (2.74%) Aerospace
10 21 (2.50%) Legal
11 19 (2.26%) Law
12 12 (1.43%) Marketing
13 9 (1.07%) Military
13 9 (1.07%) Retail
14 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.83%) Banking
15 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.60%) Automotive
16 5 (0.60%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.74%) .NET
2 22 (2.62%) React
3 15 (1.79%) .NET Core
3 15 (1.79%) Blazor
4 14 (1.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 13 (1.55%) REST
6 11 (1.31%) Node.js
7 10 (1.19%) Playwright
8 9 (1.07%) RESTful
9 5 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.60%) Kafka
10 4 (0.48%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.48%) PySpark
10 4 (0.48%) Spring
11 3 (0.36%) EDI
12 2 (0.24%) ADO
12 2 (0.24%) JSON
12 2 (0.24%) SOAP
12 2 (0.24%) Visualforce
12 2 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.10%) Virtual Reality
3 12 (1.43%) Data Centre
3 12 (1.43%) Operational Technology
4 11 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (1.07%) Product Ownership
6 8 (0.95%) Smartphone
7 7 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 7 (0.83%) FMCG
7 7 (0.83%) Mobile Games
8 6 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.72%) Robotics
8 6 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.60%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.60%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.60%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.79%) Linux
2 12 (1.43%) Windows
3 9 (1.07%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (11.32%) Mentoring
2 84 (10.01%) Software Engineering
3 77 (9.18%) Agile
4 62 (7.39%) AI
5 59 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
6 58 (6.91%) Coaching
7 53 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (5.96%) CI/CD
8 50 (5.96%) DevOps
9 43 (5.13%) Analytics
9 43 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (4.17%) Business Development
11 34 (4.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (3.81%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (3.81%) Project Delivery
13 31 (3.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (3.22%) Decision-Making
15 24 (2.86%) Roadmaps
15 24 (2.86%) SDLC
16 23 (2.74%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.60%) Python
1 47 (5.60%) SQL
2 42 (5.01%) C#
3 20 (2.38%) Java
4 16 (1.91%) C
4 16 (1.91%) TypeScript
5 12 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.95%) PowerShell
6 8 (0.95%) Scala
7 7 (0.83%) Go
8 5 (0.60%) Bash
8 5 (0.60%) PHP
9 4 (0.48%) C++
9 4 (0.48%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.24%) R
11 2 (0.24%) VBA
12 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (7.63%) Security Cleared
2 45 (5.36%) Degree
2 45 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 18 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.55%) CCNP
7 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.31%) CISSP
9 8 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.83%) CISA
10 7 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.83%) SSCP
11 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.48%) CISM
12 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.48%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.86%) QA
2 12 (1.43%) GDPR
2 12 (1.43%) GRC
2 12 (1.43%) NIST
3 11 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.95%) PMO
6 7 (0.83%) ITGC
7 6 (0.72%) SLA
8 5 (0.60%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.60%) MISRA
8 5 (0.60%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.24%) P3O
10 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (1.91%) Docker
2 14 (1.67%) Firmware
3 11 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.07%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.36%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.95%) Terraform
3 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.24%) Argo
5 2 (0.24%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.24%) 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 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.15%) Adobe
3 15 (1.79%) Google
3 15 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.67%) Cisco
4 14 (1.67%) SAP
5 13 (1.55%) Apple
6 11 (1.31%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.19%) HP
7 10 (1.19%) Oracle
7 10 (1.19%) Tenable
8 8 (0.95%) Aruba
8 8 (0.95%) Pega
9 7 (0.83%) Siemens
10 4 (0.48%) Databricks
10 4 (0.48%) Foundry
10 4 (0.48%) Hotjar
11 3 (0.36%) Meraki
11 3 (0.36%) Salesforce