Senior Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior salary in the West Midlands is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 907 285 723
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.38% 8.56% 11.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.08% 9.53% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 685 168 463
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,976 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,600 £50,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,750 £79,130
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 8,189 2,989 5,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.79% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,035 1,991 3,501
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,578 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.49%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £58,015 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.48% - -8.33%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 +6 451 £70,000 +11.11% 201
Worcestershire +24 111 £75,000 +3.45% 20
Warwickshire +3 90 £55,500 +0.91% 31
Staffordshire +52 76 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Shropshire +5 62 £50,000 -28.57% 13
Coventry -1 48 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Herefordshire -2 31 £75,000 +150.00% 7
Wolverhampton -6 10 £69,000 +2.22% 5
Solihull -3 5 £60,000 -12.73% 13
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 4
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 £50,000 -
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 -
Stourbridge - 1 £85,000 - 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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.

1 162 (17.86%) Azure
2 105 (11.58%) Mentoring
3 104 (11.47%) Software Engineering
4 95 (10.47%) AI
5 90 (9.92%) AWS
6 88 (9.70%) Agile
7 86 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (9.48%) Security Cleared
8 78 (8.60%) Microsoft
9 69 (7.61%) CI/CD
10 68 (7.50%) DevOps
11 64 (7.06%) SC Cleared
12 61 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
13 59 (6.50%) Degree
14 57 (6.28%) Python
15 54 (5.95%) SQL
16 48 (5.29%) Coaching
17 46 (5.07%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (4.85%) C#
19 42 (4.63%) Decision-Making
20 40 (4.41%) Full-Stack Development
21 39 (4.30%) Analytics
22 37 (4.08%) SDLC
22 37 (4.08%) Stakeholder Management
23 36 (3.97%) Firewall
23 36 (3.97%) Java
23 36 (3.97%) Line Management
23 36 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
23 36 (3.97%) Scrum
23 36 (3.97%) Technical Leadership

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 20 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.99%) Confluence
4 7 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.55%) Apache
5 5 (0.55%) IIS
5 5 (0.55%) nginx
6 4 (0.44%) CMS
6 4 (0.44%) WordPress
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.32%) Cloudability
2 11 (1.21%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.33%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (17.86%) Azure
2 90 (9.92%) AWS
3 36 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (3.75%) SaaS
5 29 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 27 (2.98%) GCP
7 26 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.76%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (1.54%) Serverless
11 10 (1.10%) Azure AI
11 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (0.88%) Power Automate
12 8 (0.88%) Snowflake
13 7 (0.77%) Azure Stack
14 6 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (0.55%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.55%) OCI
16 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.97%) Firewall
2 21 (2.32%) VPN
3 15 (1.65%) BGP
3 15 (1.65%) EIGRP
3 15 (1.65%) OSPF
4 13 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.32%) WAN
6 11 (1.21%) DNS
7 10 (1.10%) LAN
8 8 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.66%) DHCP
10 5 (0.55%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.44%) VLAN
12 3 (0.33%) Modbus
12 3 (0.33%) Wireless
13 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.22%) HSRP
13 2 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.76%) Power BI
3 13 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.77%) Metadata
5 7 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.55%) MySQL
7 4 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.22%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.22%) Redis
9 2 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (2.98%) Git
2 19 (2.09%) JIRA
3 13 (1.43%) JUnit
4 12 (1.32%) GitLab
4 12 (1.32%) Selenium
5 10 (1.10%) Cucumber
5 10 (1.10%) Postman
5 10 (1.10%) Snyk
6 7 (0.77%) Gatling
6 7 (0.77%) Maven
6 7 (0.77%) Mockito
7 5 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.44%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.44%) JMeter
8 4 (0.44%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.33%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 103 (11.36%) Finance
2 101 (11.14%) Social Skills
3 57 (6.28%) Public Sector
4 45 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (4.52%) Games
6 33 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.09%) Aerospace
8 25 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.65%) Electronics
9 24 (2.65%) Legal
10 16 (1.76%) Marketing
11 15 (1.65%) Retail
12 14 (1.54%) Law
13 12 (1.32%) Banking
14 11 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.10%) Military
16 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.88%) Social Housing
17 6 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.20%) React
2 23 (2.54%) REST
3 20 (2.21%) Playwright
4 19 (2.09%) .NET
5 15 (1.65%) Kafka
6 14 (1.54%) Terraform
6 14 (1.54%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 13 (1.43%) Node.js
8 11 (1.21%) .NET Core
8 11 (1.21%) Blazor
8 11 (1.21%) RESTful
9 10 (1.10%) Spring
10 9 (0.99%) Keycloak
11 5 (0.55%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.55%) XML
12 4 (0.44%) CSS
12 4 (0.44%) HTML
12 4 (0.44%) JSON
12 4 (0.44%) PySpark
13 3 (0.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (2.87%) Virtual Reality
3 21 (2.32%) Onboarding
4 20 (2.21%) Operational Technology
5 18 (1.98%) Robotics
6 16 (1.76%) SCADA
7 15 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.88%) Smartphone
13 7 (0.77%) Driving Licence
13 7 (0.77%) Mobile Games
14 6 (0.66%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.55%) IoT
15 5 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.54%) Linux
2 19 (2.09%) Windows
3 12 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.99%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (0.66%) Unix
6 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (11.58%) Mentoring
2 104 (11.47%) Software Engineering
3 95 (10.47%) AI
4 88 (9.70%) Agile
5 86 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (7.61%) CI/CD
7 68 (7.50%) DevOps
8 61 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (5.29%) Coaching
10 46 (5.07%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (4.63%) Decision-Making
12 40 (4.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (4.30%) Analytics
14 37 (4.08%) SDLC
14 37 (4.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (3.97%) Line Management
15 36 (3.97%) Scrum
15 36 (3.97%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (3.86%) Project Delivery
17 31 (3.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 57 (6.28%) Python
2 54 (5.95%) SQL
3 44 (4.85%) C#
4 36 (3.97%) Java
5 27 (2.98%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.76%) C
8 12 (1.32%) Go
9 11 (1.21%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.88%) Bash
10 8 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.44%) C++
11 4 (0.44%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.22%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.11%) R
13 1 (0.11%) Rust
13 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (9.48%) Security Cleared
2 64 (7.06%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.50%) Degree
4 25 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 17 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 17 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.43%) CCNP
7 13 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.32%) NVQ Level 3
9 8 (0.88%) City & Guilds
10 6 (0.66%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.44%) CBAP
12 4 (0.44%) CIPD
12 4 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.87%) QA
2 24 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.21%) GDPR
4 17 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.32%) GRC
6 10 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.10%) NIST
6 10 (1.10%) WCAG
7 7 (0.77%) SLA
8 5 (0.55%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.55%) MISRA
8 5 (0.55%) MISRA C
9 4 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.22%) NCSC
10 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.11%) IEC 61131
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (2.32%) Docker
2 20 (2.21%) Firmware
3 11 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.10%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.33%) Ansible
4 2 (0.22%) Argo
4 2 (0.22%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.22%) Grafana
4 2 (0.22%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.76%) Oracle
3 18 (1.98%) Adobe
3 18 (1.98%) ServiceNow
4 17 (1.87%) Google
5 16 (1.76%) Cisco
6 13 (1.43%) Apple
7 11 (1.21%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.10%) HP
8 10 (1.10%) Pega
8 10 (1.10%) Tenable
9 9 (0.99%) SAP
9 9 (0.99%) VMware
10 8 (0.88%) Aruba
10 8 (0.88%) Foundry
10 8 (0.88%) NEC
11 7 (0.77%) YouTube
12 6 (0.66%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.66%) Siemens