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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 517 444 630
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.48% 11.75% 11.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.38% 12.81% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 354 212 514
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £101,250 £77,275
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -9.09%

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 5,513 3,465 5,067
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 91.72% 93.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,288 1,712 4,103
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.40% -4.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +3 264 £65,000 - 60
Warwickshire -1 79 £60,000 -14.29% 35
Coventry +3 47 £77,500 +29.17% 12
Worcestershire +1 37 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Solihull +6 22 £53,750 +4.88% 4
Shropshire -15 12 £50,000 -13.04% 9
Herefordshire -4 11 £87,500 - 6
Staffordshire -22 11 £65,000 +27.45% 8
Wolverhampton - 11 £80,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 3 £50,000 - 6
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 February 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 74 (14.31%) Agile
2 64 (12.38%) Azure
3 57 (11.03%) Mentoring
4 51 (9.86%) Microsoft
5 49 (9.48%) Degree
5 49 (9.48%) SQL
6 47 (9.09%) Security Cleared
7 44 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (8.32%) SaaS
9 42 (8.12%) Analytics
9 42 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (7.74%) SC Cleared
11 39 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (6.77%) Coaching
13 32 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
14 31 (6.00%) DevOps
14 31 (6.00%) Python
15 30 (5.80%) Business Development
15 30 (5.80%) CI/CD
15 30 (5.80%) Project Delivery
15 30 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (5.61%) Decision-Making
16 29 (5.61%) Power Platform
17 28 (5.42%) AWS
17 28 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 28 (5.42%) Migration
18 27 (5.22%) Databricks
19 26 (5.03%) Systems Engineering
20 25 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
21 23 (4.45%) Roadmaps

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 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.58%) Confluence
5 2 (0.39%) WordPress
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
3 2 (0.39%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.39%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.19%) Maximo
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 64 (12.38%) Azure
2 43 (8.32%) SaaS
3 29 (5.61%) Power Platform
4 28 (5.42%) AWS
5 22 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.55%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.35%) GCP
10 6 (1.16%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.97%) GitHub
11 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.77%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.77%) Serverless
13 3 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.58%) dbt
13 3 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.87%) Firewall
2 19 (3.68%) WAN
3 17 (3.29%) LAN
4 12 (2.32%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.93%) VPN
6 8 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.16%) BGP
7 6 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.16%) EIGRP
7 6 (1.16%) OSPF
7 6 (1.16%) Wireless
8 4 (0.77%) MPLS
8 4 (0.77%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.58%) DHCP
9 3 (0.58%) DNS
9 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.39%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.39%) RFID
10 2 (0.39%) VLAN
10 2 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.45%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.26%) Power BI
3 9 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.97%) Metadata
5 5 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.97%) Tableau
6 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.77%) Delta Lake
6 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.39%) Looker
8 2 (0.39%) Redis
8 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.35%) JUnit
1 7 (1.35%) Maven
2 6 (1.16%) JIRA
2 6 (1.16%) Mockito
3 5 (0.97%) Git
4 4 (0.77%) Selenium
5 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.39%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.39%) Postman
5 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.19%) Gatling
6 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 72 (13.93%) Finance
2 61 (11.80%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (5.03%) Law
6 26 (5.03%) Legal
7 20 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.74%) Marketing
9 9 (1.74%) Retail
10 8 (1.55%) Automotive
10 8 (1.55%) Electronics
11 7 (1.35%) Banking
12 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.39%) Games
13 2 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.71%) .NET
2 9 (1.74%) React
2 9 (1.74%) REST
3 7 (1.35%) PySpark
4 5 (0.97%) Spring
5 4 (0.77%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.77%) Blazor
6 3 (0.58%) Django
6 3 (0.58%) Flask
6 3 (0.58%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.39%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.39%) jQuery
7 2 (0.39%) Node.js
7 2 (0.39%) Playwright
7 2 (0.39%) SOAP
7 2 (0.39%) Web Services
8 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.19%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.51%) Driving Licence
2 12 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (1.74%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.16%) Data Centre
5 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 5 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (0.77%) Operational Technology
6 4 (0.77%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.77%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.58%) FMCG
7 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.39%) SCADA
8 2 (0.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.29%) Linux
2 13 (2.51%) Windows
3 9 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.39%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (14.31%) Agile
2 57 (11.03%) Mentoring
3 44 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (8.12%) Analytics
4 42 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (6.77%) Coaching
7 31 (6.00%) DevOps
8 30 (5.80%) Business Development
8 30 (5.80%) CI/CD
8 30 (5.80%) Project Delivery
8 30 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (5.61%) Decision-Making
10 28 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (5.42%) Migration
11 26 (5.03%) Systems Engineering
12 25 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (4.45%) Roadmaps
13 23 (4.45%) Software Engineering
14 22 (4.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 49 (9.48%) SQL
2 31 (6.00%) Python
3 19 (3.68%) C#
4 13 (2.51%) Java
5 11 (2.13%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.93%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.55%) Bash
7 8 (1.55%) Scala
8 7 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.97%) C
10 5 (0.97%) R
10 5 (0.97%) VBA
11 4 (0.77%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.19%) Delphi
14 1 (0.19%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 49 (9.48%) Degree
2 47 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.71%) CCNP
5 14 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.55%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.16%) PMP
9 5 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.06%) QA
2 14 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.74%) GDPR
5 8 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.35%) ITGC
7 5 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.77%) PMO
9 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.39%) NIST
9 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.39%) P3O
9 2 (0.39%) SLA
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (3.29%) Docker
2 9 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.77%) XenApp
5 3 (0.58%) Firmware
6 2 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.32%) Terraform
3 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) FlexNet
5 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.19%) Control-M
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 51 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.22%) Databricks
3 18 (3.48%) Cisco
4 9 (1.74%) Meraki
4 9 (1.74%) Oracle
5 6 (1.16%) Google
5 6 (1.16%) IBM
5 6 (1.16%) SAP
6 5 (0.97%) Citrix
6 5 (0.97%) VMware
7 4 (0.77%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.77%) SonicWALL
7 4 (0.77%) Veeam
8 2 (0.39%) Aruba
8 2 (0.39%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.39%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.39%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.39%) Pega
8 2 (0.39%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow