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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 601 338 821
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.38% 10.05% 12.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.19% 11.35% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 422 201 641
10th Percentile £47,775 £43,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,672 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +12.14% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £101,250 £75,772
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 6,542 2,977 6,288
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 88.50% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,104 1,799 4,913
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,900 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,688 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,250 £67,500 £63,117
90th Percentile £84,498 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 April 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 April 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 +2 306 £65,000 -3.88% 67
Warwickshire +1 82 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Coventry +1 48 £85,000 +41.67% 12
Worcestershire +2 46 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Shropshire -14 25 £50,000 -28.57% 14
Solihull +11 18 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Staffordshire -19 16 £65,000 +25.79% 12
Wolverhampton -8 15 £77,500 -18.42% 1
Herefordshire -12 13 £90,000 - 3
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 2 - - 2
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 April 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 86 (14.31%) Agile
2 71 (11.81%) Azure
3 65 (10.82%) Mentoring
4 52 (8.65%) SQL
5 49 (8.15%) Degree
6 48 (7.99%) Microsoft
6 48 (7.99%) Security Cleared
7 46 (7.65%) Coaching
7 46 (7.65%) SaaS
8 45 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (7.32%) Analytics
9 44 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
10 42 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (6.49%) DevOps
11 39 (6.49%) SC Cleared
12 38 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (5.82%) Business Development
13 35 (5.82%) Python
13 35 (5.82%) Software Engineering
14 30 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
14 30 (4.99%) CI/CD
15 29 (4.83%) AWS
15 29 (4.83%) Power Platform
15 29 (4.83%) Project Delivery
15 29 (4.83%) Roadmaps
16 28 (4.66%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 26 (4.33%) Databricks
19 25 (4.16%) C#
19 25 (4.16%) 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 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.16%) Confluence
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.33%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.50%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.50%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (0.50%) SAP FSCM
2 3 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.33%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.33%) Shopify
4 1 (0.17%) Maximo
4 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (11.81%) Azure
2 46 (7.65%) SaaS
3 29 (4.83%) AWS
3 29 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 22 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (1.83%) GCP
7 10 (1.66%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (0.83%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.83%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.67%) GitHub
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (0.50%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.50%) dbt
11 3 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.49%) WAN
2 18 (3.00%) LAN
3 16 (2.66%) Firewall
4 11 (1.83%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.66%) VPN
6 6 (1.00%) BGP
6 6 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.00%) EIGRP
6 6 (1.00%) OSPF
6 6 (1.00%) Wireless
7 4 (0.67%) MPLS
7 4 (0.67%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.50%) DHCP
8 3 (0.50%) DNS
8 3 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.50%) Modbus
8 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.50%) VLAN
9 2 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.66%) Power BI
1 22 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.83%) Metadata
3 5 (0.83%) Tableau
4 3 (0.50%) Delta Lake
4 3 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.50%) Redis
4 3 (0.50%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.33%) Looker
5 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.17%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (2.16%) JIRA
2 7 (1.16%) Git
3 6 (1.00%) JUnit
3 6 (1.00%) Maven
4 5 (0.83%) Mockito
5 4 (0.67%) Selenium
6 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.33%) GitLab
7 2 (0.33%) Postman
7 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Appium
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.17%) JMeter
8 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 85 (14.14%) Finance
2 58 (9.65%) Social Skills
3 48 (7.99%) Public Sector
4 42 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (4.33%) Legal
7 25 (4.16%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.00%) Law
9 15 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.50%) Electronics
10 10 (1.66%) Retail
11 8 (1.33%) Banking
11 8 (1.33%) Marketing
12 7 (1.16%) Automotive
13 5 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Games
14 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.33%) iGaming
15 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.33%) React
2 13 (2.16%) .NET
3 8 (1.33%) Node.js
3 8 (1.33%) PySpark
3 8 (1.33%) REST
4 7 (1.16%) .NET Core
4 7 (1.16%) Blazor
5 4 (0.67%) Spring
6 3 (0.50%) Django
6 3 (0.50%) Flask
6 3 (0.50%) Playwright
6 3 (0.50%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.33%) RESTful
7 2 (0.33%) SOAP
8 1 (0.17%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.17%) Web Services
8 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (1.66%) Driving Licence
2 10 (1.66%) Product Ownership
3 9 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
4 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
5 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
6 5 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 5 (0.83%) FMCG
6 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.83%) Operational Technology
6 5 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.50%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.50%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.50%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.50%) Linux
1 15 (2.50%) Windows
2 9 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (14.31%) Agile
2 65 (10.82%) Mentoring
3 46 (7.65%) Coaching
4 45 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (7.32%) Analytics
5 44 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
6 42 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (6.49%) DevOps
8 38 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (5.82%) Business Development
9 35 (5.82%) Software Engineering
10 30 (4.99%) CI/CD
11 29 (4.83%) Project Delivery
11 29 (4.83%) Roadmaps
12 28 (4.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (4.16%) Decision-Making
14 25 (4.16%) Migration
15 24 (3.99%) Systems Engineering
16 22 (3.66%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 52 (8.65%) SQL
2 35 (5.82%) Python
3 25 (4.16%) C#
4 12 (2.00%) Java
5 10 (1.66%) Scala
6 9 (1.50%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.50%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.33%) Bash
7 8 (1.33%) C
8 7 (1.16%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.00%) R
9 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.83%) PHP
10 5 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.83%) VBA
11 2 (0.33%) Bicep
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) Delphi
12 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 49 (8.15%) Degree
2 48 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.49%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.66%) CCNP
6 10 (1.66%) CISSP
7 8 (1.33%) CISA
8 7 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.16%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.16%) SSCP
9 6 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.83%) PMP
11 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.50%) CISM
11 3 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.66%) QA
2 14 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 12 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.83%) GDPR
4 11 (1.83%) NIST
5 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.16%) ITGC
7 6 (1.00%) PMO
8 3 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.50%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.50%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.50%) MISRA
8 3 (0.50%) MISRA C
8 3 (0.50%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.33%) P3O
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (2.33%) Docker
2 11 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.00%) Firmware
4 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.67%) XenApp
6 3 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.33%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.50%) Terraform
4 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.50%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.33%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Ansible
7 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 48 (7.99%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.33%) Databricks
3 15 (2.50%) Cisco
4 12 (2.00%) SAP
5 9 (1.50%) Google
6 8 (1.33%) Meraki
6 8 (1.33%) Oracle
7 6 (1.00%) IBM
8 5 (0.83%) VMware
9 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.67%) Citrix
9 4 (0.67%) SonicWALL
9 4 (0.67%) Veeam
10 2 (0.33%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.33%) Kaseya
10 2 (0.33%) Pega
10 2 (0.33%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.33%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.17%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.17%) Zscaler