Senior Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior salary in the West Midlands is £65,903 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 15 8
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 987 281 718
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.96% 8.79% 12.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.87% 9.52% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 742 176 398
10th Percentile £45,100 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,763 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,903 £59,764 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.27% -0.39% +3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 8,317 2,953 5,335
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.37% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,036 1,913 2,837
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,196
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.34% +2.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +9 520 £70,000 +16.67% 182
Worcestershire +23 131 £70,000 +7.69% 23
Warwickshire +2 84 £65,000 +18.18% 68
Staffordshire +48 75 £60,000 +14.29% 28
Shropshire +10 53 £50,000 -32.20% 16
Coventry +3 49 £60,358 -7.14% 20
Herefordshire +6 42 £67,575 +125.25% 8
Solihull -5 6 £65,000 - 26
Wolverhampton -4 5 £72,500 +3.57% 7
Stourbridge - 5 £85,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Dudley - 4 £65,000 - 3
Willenhall - 1 - -
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 172 (17.43%) Azure
2 119 (12.06%) Mentoring
2 119 (12.06%) Software Engineering
3 96 (9.73%) Agile
3 96 (9.73%) AI
4 95 (9.63%) Microsoft
5 90 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 90 (9.12%) Security Cleared
6 85 (8.61%) AWS
7 74 (7.50%) Degree
7 74 (7.50%) SC Cleared
8 73 (7.40%) CI/CD
8 73 (7.40%) DevOps
9 64 (6.48%) SQL
10 61 (6.18%) Python
11 60 (6.08%) Java
12 56 (5.67%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (5.47%) Analytics
13 54 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
14 51 (5.17%) Coaching
14 51 (5.17%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (4.86%) Decision-Making
16 46 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
17 45 (4.56%) C#
18 44 (4.46%) Firewall
19 43 (4.36%) Project Delivery
19 43 (4.36%) Stakeholder Management
20 42 (4.26%) Business Development
21 40 (4.05%) Line Management
22 39 (3.95%) Full-Stack Development

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 26 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.51%) Apache
4 5 (0.51%) IIS
4 5 (0.51%) nginx
4 5 (0.51%) WordPress
5 4 (0.41%) CMS
6 3 (0.30%) Confluence
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.10%) SAS
8 1 (0.10%) WinCC
Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 12 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.81%) Cloudability
3 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) Misys Midas
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 172 (17.43%) Azure
2 85 (8.61%) AWS
3 46 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (3.44%) SaaS
5 31 (3.14%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 22 (2.23%) GCP
9 18 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.11%) Azure AI
11 11 (1.11%) Serverless
11 11 (1.11%) Snowflake
12 10 (1.01%) Power Automate
13 8 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (0.71%) Azure Stack
14 7 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.61%) Azure Databricks
16 5 (0.51%) Azure Functions
16 5 (0.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.46%) Firewall
2 34 (3.44%) VPN
3 21 (2.13%) BGP
3 21 (2.13%) EIGRP
3 21 (2.13%) OSPF
4 20 (2.03%) DNS
5 19 (1.93%) WAN
6 17 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
7 16 (1.62%) LAN
8 13 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.11%) DHCP
10 6 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.61%) VLAN
11 4 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (0.41%) HSRP
11 4 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.41%) VRRP
11 4 (0.41%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.30%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 24 (2.43%) Power BI
3 19 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.32%) Metadata
5 11 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.71%) Star Schema
9 6 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.51%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.51%) MySQL
11 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (2.84%) Git
2 13 (1.32%) JIRA
2 13 (1.32%) JUnit
3 12 (1.22%) GitLab
4 10 (1.01%) Selenium
5 9 (0.91%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.81%) Postman
7 7 (0.71%) Maven
7 7 (0.71%) Mockito
8 6 (0.61%) Gatling
9 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.41%) Snyk
9 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.30%) JMeter
11 2 (0.20%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.20%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.10%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 120 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 108 (10.94%) Finance
3 78 (7.90%) Public Sector
4 36 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.24%) Manufacturing
7 30 (3.04%) Legal
8 29 (2.94%) Aerospace
9 26 (2.63%) Games
10 21 (2.13%) Marketing
11 19 (1.93%) Retail
12 17 (1.72%) Banking
12 17 (1.72%) Electronics
12 17 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.42%) Law
14 11 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.11%) Social Housing
15 10 (1.01%) Military
16 8 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.74%) REST
2 24 (2.43%) React
3 22 (2.23%) .NET
4 21 (2.13%) Terraform
5 20 (2.03%) Kafka
6 18 (1.82%) Playwright
7 13 (1.32%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.11%) Spring
8 11 (1.11%) XML
9 10 (1.01%) .NET Core
10 9 (0.91%) Blazor
10 9 (0.91%) JSON
10 9 (0.91%) Node.js
10 9 (0.91%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 8 (0.81%) RESTful
12 6 (0.61%) CSS
12 6 (0.61%) HTML
13 4 (0.41%) SOAP
13 4 (0.41%) XSLT
13 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.34%) Onboarding
2 25 (2.53%) SCADA
3 23 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (2.33%) Robotics
4 16 (1.62%) Operational Technology
4 16 (1.62%) Virtual Reality
5 15 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.42%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.01%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.01%) Taxonomies
9 9 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 8 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.61%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.61%) Online Gambling
12 5 (0.51%) CMDB
12 5 (0.51%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.74%) Windows
2 24 (2.43%) Linux
3 21 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.71%) Unix
5 5 (0.51%) Android
5 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.30%) VMS
7 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (12.06%) Mentoring
1 119 (12.06%) Software Engineering
2 96 (9.73%) Agile
2 96 (9.73%) AI
3 90 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (7.40%) CI/CD
4 73 (7.40%) DevOps
5 56 (5.67%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (5.47%) Analytics
6 54 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (5.17%) Coaching
7 51 (5.17%) Technical Leadership
8 48 (4.86%) Decision-Making
9 43 (4.36%) Project Delivery
9 43 (4.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (4.26%) Business Development
11 40 (4.05%) Line Management
12 39 (3.95%) Full-Stack Development
13 38 (3.85%) Scrum
14 36 (3.65%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 64 (6.48%) SQL
2 61 (6.18%) Python
3 60 (6.08%) Java
4 45 (4.56%) C#
5 27 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.62%) Go
8 14 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.01%) C
9 10 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.81%) Bash
11 5 (0.51%) C++
11 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.20%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.10%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.10%) Scala
14 1 (0.10%) VBA
14 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (9.12%) Security Cleared
2 74 (7.50%) Degree
2 74 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 24 (2.43%) Azure Certification
4 23 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.03%) NVQ Level 3
6 18 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.72%) CCNP
8 14 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.91%) City & Guilds
10 8 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.41%) AAT
13 4 (0.41%) CBAP
13 4 (0.41%) CIPD
13 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.74%) QA
3 20 (2.03%) GDPR
4 16 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.22%) WCAG
6 9 (0.91%) NIST
7 7 (0.71%) SLA
8 6 (0.61%) GRC
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.20%) NCSC
9 2 (0.20%) PMO
10 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.10%) GAAP
10 1 (0.10%) GxP
10 1 (0.10%) IEC 61131
10 1 (0.10%) JTAG
10 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (2.43%) Docker
2 16 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.42%) Firmware
4 11 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 24 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.61%) Ansible
4 2 (0.20%) Argo
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.10%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 95 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 31 (3.14%) Oracle
3 22 (2.23%) Cisco
4 16 (1.62%) Google
4 16 (1.62%) ServiceNow
4 16 (1.62%) VMware
5 14 (1.42%) Adobe
6 11 (1.11%) Apple
7 10 (1.01%) Citrix
7 10 (1.01%) NEC
7 10 (1.01%) Pega
8 9 (0.91%) Databricks
8 9 (0.91%) Foundry
8 9 (0.91%) YouTube
9 8 (0.81%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.71%) Siemens
11 6 (0.61%) SAP
12 5 (0.51%) HP
12 5 (0.51%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.51%) SonicWALL