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 6 July 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 526 1,009 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.71% 12.11% 12.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.11% 12.85% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 166 722 447
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,914 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,902 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -10.31% -

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 3,729 7,852 4,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.25% 90.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,937 5,543 3,271
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,700 £30,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Warwickshire +13 205 £55,000 -8.33% 52
Birmingham -3 186 £67,500 +12.50% 124
Coventry +17 59 £54,822 -15.66% 42
Shropshire +10 22 £70,000 +27.27% 21
Worcestershire -14 13 £68,750 +25.00% 18
Staffordshire -35 9 £45,000 -12.20% 79
Solihull -18 8 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Herefordshire +10 6 £60,000 -2.44% 6
Wolverhampton +16 5 £70,000 -46.34% 8
Walsall - 2 £66,250 - 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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.

1 227 (43.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 194 (36.88%) Degree
3 174 (33.08%) Systems Engineering
4 140 (26.62%) Mathematics
5 113 (21.48%) Social Skills
6 112 (21.29%) Agile
7 101 (19.20%) Manufacturing
8 99 (18.82%) Legal
9 97 (18.44%) Documentation Skills
10 78 (14.83%) Numerate Degree
11 72 (13.69%) Telecoms
12 69 (13.12%) Azure
13 67 (12.74%) Automotive
14 60 (11.41%) Physics
14 60 (11.41%) Ergonomics
14 60 (11.41%) Human Factors
15 55 (10.46%) SQL
16 54 (10.27%) Finance
17 49 (9.32%) C#
17 49 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (9.13%) Mentoring
19 44 (8.37%) .NET
20 40 (7.60%) Microsoft
21 38 (7.22%) Analytics
22 37 (7.03%) JIRA
22 37 (7.03%) Project Planning
23 36 (6.84%) Requirements Management
24 34 (6.46%) CI/CD
25 33 (6.27%) DevOps
26 31 (5.89%) Artificial Intelligence

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 12 (2.28%) Confluence
2 3 (0.57%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.57%) CMS
3 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.19%) Apache
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
4 1 (0.19%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (4.75%) Simulink
2 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.19%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (3.42%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.76%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.76%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.12%) Azure
2 24 (4.56%) Power Platform
3 22 (4.18%) AWS
4 18 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (1.71%) GitHub
6 9 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (1.71%) SaaS
7 8 (1.52%) GCP
8 7 (1.33%) Serverless
9 6 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (0.76%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.57%) Supabase
12 3 (0.57%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.47%) Firewall
1 13 (2.47%) Network Security
2 8 (1.52%) SD-WAN
2 8 (1.52%) WAN
3 7 (1.33%) VLAN
4 5 (0.95%) 3GPP
4 5 (0.95%) 5G
4 5 (0.95%) Broadband
5 4 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.38%) DHCP
6 2 (0.38%) DNS
6 2 (0.38%) HTTP
6 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.38%) VPN
7 1 (0.19%) ADSL2
7 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.19%) Internet
7 1 (0.19%) MPLS
7 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.19%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.61%) Power BI
3 15 (2.85%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.09%) MySQL
5 8 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.14%) Metadata
8 5 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.76%) Big Data
9 4 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.76%) Redis
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.57%) Data Hub
10 3 (0.57%) Tableau
11 2 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 37 (7.03%) JIRA
2 19 (3.61%) Git
3 16 (3.04%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.76%) JUnit
6 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.38%) Mockito
7 2 (0.38%) NUnit
7 2 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 113 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 101 (19.20%) Manufacturing
3 99 (18.82%) Legal
4 97 (18.44%) Documentation Skills
5 72 (13.69%) Telecoms
6 67 (12.74%) Automotive
7 54 (10.27%) Finance
8 27 (5.13%) Retail
9 24 (4.56%) Aerospace
10 22 (4.18%) Games
11 19 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
13 14 (2.66%) Law
14 12 (2.28%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.33%) Marketing
16 4 (0.76%) Banking
16 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.57%) Local Government
17 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.37%) .NET
2 23 (4.37%) HTML
3 18 (3.42%) React
4 16 (3.04%) Blazor
5 15 (2.85%) ASP.NET
6 13 (2.47%) ASP.NET MVC
6 13 (2.47%) RESTful
7 10 (1.90%) CSS
8 9 (1.71%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.71%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.71%) REST
9 6 (1.14%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.14%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.95%) Vue
11 4 (0.76%) Django
11 4 (0.76%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.76%) Laravel
11 4 (0.76%) Next.js
11 4 (0.76%) Node.js
12 3 (0.57%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.80%) Blockchain
1 20 (3.80%) Management Information System
1 20 (3.80%) Robotics
2 9 (1.71%) NHS
3 7 (1.33%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.14%) Security Posture
5 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (0.76%) Hackathon
6 4 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.57%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.57%) IoT
7 3 (0.57%) Lidar
7 3 (0.57%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.85%) Linux
2 13 (2.47%) Windows
3 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.76%) Unix
4 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.38%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (33.08%) Systems Engineering
2 140 (26.62%) Mathematics
3 112 (21.29%) Agile
4 60 (11.41%) Ergonomics
4 60 (11.41%) Human Factors
4 60 (11.41%) Physics
5 49 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (9.13%) Mentoring
7 38 (7.22%) Analytics
8 37 (7.03%) Project Planning
9 36 (6.84%) Requirements Management
10 34 (6.46%) CI/CD
11 33 (6.27%) DevOps
12 31 (5.89%) Artificial Intelligence
13 30 (5.70%) Coaching
13 30 (5.70%) Software Engineering
14 28 (5.32%) Validation
15 26 (4.94%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (4.94%) Software Testing
16 25 (4.75%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (10.46%) SQL
2 49 (9.32%) C#
3 25 (4.75%) MATLAB
4 24 (4.56%) Python
5 23 (4.37%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.90%) Java
6 10 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.76%) Bash
8 4 (0.76%) PHP
9 3 (0.57%) Swift
10 2 (0.38%) ABAP
10 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.38%) HLSL
10 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.38%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) Perl
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 227 (43.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 194 (36.88%) Degree
3 78 (14.83%) Numerate Degree
4 27 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 18 (3.42%) CISA
5 18 (3.42%) ISACA
6 12 (2.28%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.14%) HND
8 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.76%) HNC
8 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.38%) CCNP
10 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.80%) ITGC
2 11 (2.09%) QA
3 6 (1.14%) NCSC
3 6 (1.14%) PMO
4 4 (0.76%) GDPR
5 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.57%) NIST
6 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) COBIT
7 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 13 (2.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.09%) Ansible
3 6 (1.14%) Terraform
4 3 (0.57%) Grafana
4 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.19%) Puppet
6 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 40 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.51%) Oracle
3 28 (5.32%) SAP
4 9 (1.71%) Databricks
5 8 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.14%) Cisco
6 6 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.95%) VMware
8 4 (0.76%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.57%) Google
10 2 (0.38%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.38%) Okta
10 2 (0.38%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.19%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.19%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.19%) ConnectWise
11 1 (0.19%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.19%) Splunk
11 1 (0.19%) Tagetik
11 1 (0.19%) Veeam