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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 901 285 740
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.37% 8.50% 12.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.06% 9.48% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 680 169 481
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,151 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,600 £50,500 £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 £80,500 £78,750
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 8,144 3,006 5,832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.70% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6,003 2,007 3,602
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 5 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 5 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 +7 448 £70,466 +10.97% 148
Worcestershire +23 111 £75,000 +3.45% 22
Warwickshire +4 90 £55,500 +0.91% 30
Staffordshire +53 75 £60,000 +14.29% 17
Shropshire +7 61 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Coventry -2 48 £60,000 -7.69% 12
Herefordshire -2 31 £75,000 +150.00% 7
Wolverhampton -6 10 £69,000 +2.22% 4
Solihull -2 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 -
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 161 (17.87%) Azure
2 105 (11.65%) Mentoring
3 102 (11.32%) Software Engineering
4 94 (10.43%) AI
5 89 (9.88%) Agile
5 89 (9.88%) AWS
6 85 (9.43%) Security Cleared
7 84 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (8.55%) Microsoft
9 68 (7.55%) CI/CD
10 67 (7.44%) DevOps
11 63 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
11 63 (6.99%) SC Cleared
12 58 (6.44%) Degree
13 57 (6.33%) Python
14 54 (5.99%) SQL
15 50 (5.55%) Coaching
16 49 (5.44%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (4.88%) C#
18 41 (4.55%) Decision-Making
19 40 (4.44%) Full-Stack Development
20 39 (4.33%) Analytics
21 37 (4.11%) SDLC
22 35 (3.88%) Firewall
22 35 (3.88%) Line Management
22 35 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
22 35 (3.88%) Project Delivery
22 35 (3.88%) Scrum
22 35 (3.88%) Stakeholder Management
23 34 (3.77%) Java

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 19 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.00%) Confluence
2 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.55%) Apache
4 5 (0.55%) IIS
4 5 (0.55%) nginx
5 4 (0.44%) CMS
5 4 (0.44%) WordPress
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.11%) Appian
7 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 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 (1.33%) Cloudability
2 11 (1.22%) 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
1 161 (17.87%) Azure
2 89 (9.88%) AWS
3 35 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (3.77%) SaaS
5 29 (3.22%) Power Platform
6 27 (3.00%) GCP
7 26 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.55%) Serverless
10 10 (1.11%) Azure AI
10 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (0.89%) Power Automate
11 8 (0.89%) Snowflake
12 7 (0.78%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.55%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (0.55%) OCI
15 4 (0.44%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.88%) Firewall
2 20 (2.22%) VPN
3 15 (1.66%) BGP
3 15 (1.66%) EIGRP
3 15 (1.66%) OSPF
4 13 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.33%) WAN
6 10 (1.11%) DNS
6 10 (1.11%) LAN
7 8 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.55%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.55%) DHCP
9 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.44%) VLAN
10 3 (0.33%) Modbus
10 3 (0.33%) Wireless
11 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.22%) Network Security
11 2 (0.22%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.77%) Power BI
3 13 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.78%) Metadata
5 7 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.55%) MySQL
7 3 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.22%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.22%) Redis
8 2 (0.22%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (3.00%) Git
2 19 (2.11%) JIRA
3 13 (1.44%) JUnit
4 12 (1.33%) Selenium
5 11 (1.22%) GitLab
6 10 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.11%) Postman
6 10 (1.11%) Snyk
7 7 (0.78%) Gatling
7 7 (0.78%) Maven
7 7 (0.78%) Mockito
8 4 (0.44%) 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
1 105 (11.65%) Finance
2 99 (10.99%) Social Skills
3 56 (6.22%) Public Sector
4 45 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (4.55%) Games
6 33 (3.66%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.11%) Aerospace
7 28 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (2.66%) Electronics
9 23 (2.55%) Legal
10 16 (1.78%) Marketing
11 15 (1.66%) Retail
12 14 (1.55%) Law
13 12 (1.33%) Banking
14 11 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.11%) Military
16 8 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.89%) Social Housing
17 6 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.11%) React
2 22 (2.44%) REST
3 19 (2.11%) .NET
3 19 (2.11%) Playwright
4 14 (1.55%) Kafka
4 14 (1.55%) Terraform
4 14 (1.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 13 (1.44%) Node.js
6 11 (1.22%) .NET Core
6 11 (1.22%) Blazor
7 10 (1.11%) RESTful
8 9 (1.00%) Keycloak
8 9 (1.00%) Spring
9 5 (0.55%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.55%) XML
10 4 (0.44%) JSON
10 4 (0.44%) PySpark
11 3 (0.33%) CSS
11 3 (0.33%) EDI
11 3 (0.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (2.89%) Virtual Reality
3 20 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 20 (2.22%) Operational Technology
4 18 (2.00%) Robotics
5 16 (1.78%) SCADA
6 15 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.00%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.89%) Smartphone
12 7 (0.78%) Driving Licence
12 7 (0.78%) Mobile Games
13 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.55%) IoT
14 5 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.55%) Linux
2 18 (2.00%) Windows
3 11 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (0.67%) 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 (11.65%) Mentoring
2 102 (11.32%) Software Engineering
3 94 (10.43%) AI
4 89 (9.88%) Agile
5 84 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (7.55%) CI/CD
7 67 (7.44%) DevOps
8 63 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
9 50 (5.55%) Coaching
10 49 (5.44%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (4.55%) Decision-Making
12 40 (4.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (4.33%) Analytics
14 37 (4.11%) SDLC
15 35 (3.88%) Line Management
15 35 (3.88%) Project Delivery
15 35 (3.88%) Scrum
15 35 (3.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (3.77%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (3.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 57 (6.33%) Python
2 54 (5.99%) SQL
3 44 (4.88%) C#
4 34 (3.77%) Java
5 26 (2.89%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.78%) C
8 12 (1.33%) Go
9 11 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.89%) Bash
10 8 (0.89%) 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 85 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 63 (6.99%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.44%) Degree
4 25 (2.77%) DV Cleared
5 17 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.44%) CCNP
7 13 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.33%) NVQ Level 3
9 8 (0.89%) City & Guilds
10 6 (0.67%) CISSP
10 6 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.44%) CBAP
12 4 (0.44%) CIPD
12 4 (0.44%) CISA
12 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.89%) QA
2 23 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.22%) GDPR
4 17 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.44%) NIST
6 12 (1.33%) GRC
7 10 (1.11%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.00%) WCAG
9 7 (0.78%) SLA
10 5 (0.55%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.55%) MISRA
10 5 (0.55%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.44%) PMO
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 2 (0.22%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) GxP
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 21 (2.33%) Docker
2 20 (2.22%) Firmware
3 11 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.00%) 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 77 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.77%) Oracle
3 18 (2.00%) Adobe
3 18 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 17 (1.89%) Google
5 16 (1.78%) Cisco
6 13 (1.44%) Apple
7 11 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.11%) HP
8 10 (1.11%) Tenable
9 9 (1.00%) Pega
9 9 (1.00%) SAP
10 8 (0.89%) Aruba
10 8 (0.89%) Foundry
10 8 (0.89%) NEC
10 8 (0.89%) VMware
11 7 (0.78%) YouTube
12 6 (0.67%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.67%) Siemens