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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 799 249 995
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.23% 8.15% 12.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.89% 9.09% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 567 135 734
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £39,268
25th Percentile £55,600 £52,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £59,050
Median % change year-on-year - +10.08% +2.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -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 7,335 2,738 7,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.56% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,168 1,696 5,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,325
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.87%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +8 368 £70,000 - 110
Warwickshire +15 116 £65,000 +20.37% 32
Worcestershire +19 76 £65,000 - 18
Coventry +5 60 £70,000 +66.10% 5
Staffordshire +28 52 £60,000 +14.63% 18
Shropshire +4 49 £50,000 -28.57% 18
Wolverhampton -10 17 £75,000 -9.09% 8
Herefordshire -15 10 £80,000 - 4
Solihull +9 9 £60,000 - 3
Dudley - 5 £65,000 -
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
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 6 June 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 95 (11.89%) Azure
2 87 (10.89%) Agile
3 86 (10.76%) Mentoring
4 76 (9.51%) Software Engineering
5 63 (7.88%) AWS
6 62 (7.76%) Security Cleared
7 57 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (7.01%) Microsoft
9 52 (6.51%) Coaching
10 51 (6.38%) AI
11 50 (6.26%) SQL
12 48 (6.01%) Python
13 46 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (5.63%) CI/CD
14 45 (5.63%) SC Cleared
15 44 (5.51%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (5.38%) Degree
17 42 (5.26%) Analytics
18 39 (4.88%) Business Intelligence
18 39 (4.88%) DevOps
19 33 (4.13%) C#
19 33 (4.13%) Project Delivery
20 32 (4.01%) Business Development
21 31 (3.88%) Full-Stack Development
22 30 (3.75%) Power Platform
22 30 (3.75%) SaaS
23 29 (3.63%) SQL Server
24 28 (3.50%) Stakeholder Management
25 27 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
26 26 (3.25%) Customer Service

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 (1.00%) Confluence
1 8 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.38%) CMS
4 3 (0.38%) WordPress
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.13%) Appian
6 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.50%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.38%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 95 (11.89%) Azure
2 63 (7.88%) AWS
3 30 (3.75%) Power Platform
3 30 (3.75%) SaaS
4 22 (2.75%) GCP
5 18 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.50%) Serverless
7 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.00%) Snowflake
9 7 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 7 (0.88%) Azure Stack
10 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.75%) Entra ID
11 5 (0.63%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.63%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (0.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.50%) Firewall
2 16 (2.00%) VPN
2 16 (2.00%) WAN
3 14 (1.75%) LAN
4 12 (1.50%) BGP
4 12 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.50%) EIGRP
4 12 (1.50%) OSPF
4 12 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.00%) Wireless
6 6 (0.75%) Bluetooth
7 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.63%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.50%) DHCP
8 4 (0.50%) DNS
8 4 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.38%) Modbus
9 3 (0.38%) VLAN
10 2 (0.25%) Broadband
10 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.75%) Power BI
3 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.63%) Metadata
6 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.38%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.38%) Tableau
7 2 (0.25%) Looker
7 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (1.63%) Git
1 13 (1.63%) JIRA
2 10 (1.25%) Snyk
3 8 (1.00%) JUnit
4 6 (0.75%) Maven
4 6 (0.75%) Mockito
5 5 (0.63%) Selenium
6 3 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.38%) GitLab
6 3 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.25%) Gatling
7 2 (0.25%) TestRail
7 2 (0.25%) Toad
7 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.13%) JMeter
8 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 91 (11.39%) Finance
2 68 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 50 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (6.13%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.63%) Games
7 31 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.00%) Electronics
9 22 (2.75%) Law
10 21 (2.63%) Legal
11 14 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.13%) Retail
13 8 (1.00%) Automotive
13 8 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.00%) Marketing
14 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.63%) Banking
16 4 (0.50%) Local Government
16 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.75%) React
2 19 (2.38%) .NET
3 14 (1.75%) REST
3 14 (1.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 12 (1.50%) .NET Core
4 12 (1.50%) Blazor
5 10 (1.25%) Node.js
6 7 (0.88%) PySpark
6 7 (0.88%) RESTful
7 6 (0.75%) Playwright
8 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.38%) Flask
9 3 (0.38%) Spring
10 2 (0.25%) OAuth
10 2 (0.25%) Visualforce
11 1 (0.13%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.13%) NumPy
11 1 (0.13%) SAP CAF
11 1 (0.13%) SQLAlchemy
11 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.25%) Virtual Reality
3 16 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 12 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (1.38%) Operational Technology
6 10 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.00%) FMCG
9 7 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 7 (0.88%) Mobile Games
9 7 (0.88%) Smartphone
10 6 (0.75%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.75%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.75%) Robotics
11 5 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.50%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.63%) Linux
2 10 (1.25%) Windows
3 9 (1.13%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.25%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (10.89%) Agile
2 86 (10.76%) Mentoring
3 76 (9.51%) Software Engineering
4 57 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (6.51%) Coaching
6 51 (6.38%) AI
7 46 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (5.63%) CI/CD
9 44 (5.51%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (5.26%) Analytics
11 39 (4.88%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (4.88%) DevOps
12 33 (4.13%) Project Delivery
13 32 (4.01%) Business Development
14 31 (3.88%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (3.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 26 (3.25%) Customer Service
17 26 (3.25%) SDLC
18 25 (3.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.26%) SQL
2 48 (6.01%) Python
3 33 (4.13%) C#
4 19 (2.38%) C
5 18 (2.25%) Java
6 14 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.25%) Scala
9 8 (1.00%) Bash
10 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.75%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.75%) R
11 5 (0.63%) PHP
12 4 (0.50%) C++
12 4 (0.50%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.50%) VBA
13 3 (0.38%) Go
14 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.25%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (7.76%) Security Cleared
2 45 (5.63%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.38%) Degree
4 25 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (1.88%) CCNP
7 12 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.25%) CISSP
9 9 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.00%) CISA
10 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.88%) SSCP
12 6 (0.75%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.50%) RIBA
15 3 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.88%) QA
2 12 (1.50%) GRC
3 11 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.38%) GDPR
3 11 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (1.38%) NIST
4 9 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.00%) PMO
6 7 (0.88%) ITGC
7 5 (0.63%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.63%) MISRA
7 5 (0.63%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.63%) SLA
8 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) P3O
9 2 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (1.75%) Docker
2 12 (1.50%) Firmware
3 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.88%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.38%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.25%) Terraform
3 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.25%) Argo
5 2 (0.25%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) Control-M
6 1 (0.13%) Grafana
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 56 (7.01%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.25%) Adobe
3 16 (2.00%) Cisco
3 16 (2.00%) Databricks
4 15 (1.88%) ServiceNow
5 13 (1.63%) Apple
6 12 (1.50%) Oracle
6 12 (1.50%) SAP
7 11 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.25%) Tenable
9 9 (1.13%) HP
10 8 (1.00%) Google
11 7 (0.88%) Aruba
12 6 (0.75%) Siemens
13 5 (0.63%) Meraki
14 3 (0.38%) Salesforce
15 2 (0.25%) IBM
15 2 (0.25%) Kaseya
15 2 (0.25%) VMware