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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 981 283 715
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.89% 8.66% 12.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.74% 9.40% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 729 173 399
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,853 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,050 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -5.80%

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 8,356 3,011 5,402
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 92.11% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,047 1,938 2,937
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,875 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 6 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 6 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 +7 510 £70,932 +18.22% 280
Worcestershire +21 127 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Warwickshire +5 91 £65,000 +18.18% 109
Staffordshire +48 80 £60,000 +14.29% 71
Shropshire +10 55 £50,000 -32.20% 32
Coventry +1 50 £60,000 -7.69% 38
Herefordshire +2 39 £75,000 +150.00% 12
Solihull -4 6 £65,000 -5.45% 35
Wolverhampton -4 5 £85,000 +21.43% 13
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 - 3
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 4
Stourbridge - 4 £85,000 - 3
Willenhall - 2 - -
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 164 (16.72%) Azure
2 112 (11.42%) Mentoring
2 112 (11.42%) Software Engineering
3 95 (9.68%) AI
4 91 (9.28%) Security Cleared
5 90 (9.17%) Agile
6 87 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 87 (8.87%) Microsoft
7 86 (8.77%) AWS
8 74 (7.54%) SC Cleared
9 69 (7.03%) Degree
9 69 (7.03%) DevOps
10 68 (6.93%) CI/CD
11 60 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
12 59 (6.01%) Python
13 56 (5.71%) SQL
14 52 (5.30%) Problem-Solving
15 50 (5.10%) Java
16 48 (4.89%) Coaching
17 47 (4.79%) Analytics
18 44 (4.49%) Decision-Making
18 44 (4.49%) Technical Leadership
19 42 (4.28%) C#
19 42 (4.28%) Firewall
19 42 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
20 40 (4.08%) Project Delivery
21 39 (3.98%) Business Development
22 38 (3.87%) Line Management
23 37 (3.77%) Full-Stack Development
23 37 (3.77%) Stakeholder Management

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 23 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.51%) Apache
4 5 (0.51%) IIS
4 5 (0.51%) nginx
5 4 (0.41%) CMS
5 4 (0.41%) Confluence
5 4 (0.41%) WordPress
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) Appian
8 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.10%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.12%) Cloudability
3 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.31%) Misys Midas
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 164 (16.72%) Azure
2 86 (8.77%) AWS
3 42 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (3.47%) SaaS
5 28 (2.85%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (2.45%) GCP
8 19 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 18 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (1.43%) Serverless
11 11 (1.12%) Snowflake
12 10 (1.02%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (1.02%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (0.71%) Azure Stack
14 6 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.51%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.28%) Firewall
2 29 (2.96%) VPN
3 20 (2.04%) BGP
3 20 (2.04%) EIGRP
3 20 (2.04%) OSPF
4 17 (1.73%) WAN
5 16 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
5 16 (1.63%) DNS
6 15 (1.53%) LAN
7 11 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.92%) DHCP
9 6 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.51%) VLAN
11 4 (0.41%) Bluetooth
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.24%) Power BI
3 18 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.12%) Metadata
6 10 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.71%) Metadata Repository
7 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.61%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.51%) MySQL
9 5 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (2.85%) Git
2 14 (1.43%) JIRA
3 13 (1.33%) JUnit
4 12 (1.22%) GitLab
5 9 (0.92%) Cucumber
5 9 (0.92%) Selenium
6 8 (0.82%) Postman
6 8 (0.82%) Snyk
7 7 (0.71%) Maven
7 7 (0.71%) Mockito
8 6 (0.61%) Gatling
9 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.31%) JMeter
10 3 (0.31%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.20%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.10%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (11.31%) Social Skills
2 105 (10.70%) Finance
3 70 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 41 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (3.36%) Games
6 31 (3.16%) Aerospace
6 31 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 28 (2.85%) Legal
8 27 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (1.94%) Electronics
9 19 (1.94%) Retail
10 18 (1.83%) Marketing
11 17 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.63%) Banking
13 13 (1.33%) Law
14 11 (1.12%) Social Housing
15 10 (1.02%) Military
16 9 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.55%) REST
2 23 (2.34%) React
3 20 (2.04%) Kafka
4 19 (1.94%) .NET
4 19 (1.94%) Terraform
5 18 (1.83%) Playwright
6 13 (1.33%) Keycloak
7 12 (1.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 11 (1.12%) .NET Core
8 11 (1.12%) Spring
9 10 (1.02%) Blazor
9 10 (1.02%) XML
10 8 (0.82%) Node.js
10 8 (0.82%) RESTful
11 7 (0.71%) JSON
12 4 (0.41%) CSS
12 4 (0.41%) HTML
12 4 (0.41%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.41%) XSLT
12 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
2 27 (2.75%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.34%) Virtual Reality
4 22 (2.24%) SCADA
5 20 (2.04%) Robotics
6 18 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 15 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.92%) Product Ownership
11 9 (0.92%) Taxonomies
12 8 (0.82%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.82%) Driving Licence
13 7 (0.71%) Smartphone
14 6 (0.61%) Credit Risk
14 6 (0.61%) Online Gambling
15 5 (0.51%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.45%) Linux
2 23 (2.34%) Windows
3 17 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.71%) Unix
5 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.41%) Android
6 4 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (11.42%) Mentoring
1 112 (11.42%) Software Engineering
2 95 (9.68%) AI
3 90 (9.17%) Agile
4 87 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (7.03%) DevOps
6 68 (6.93%) CI/CD
7 60 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (5.30%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (4.89%) Coaching
10 47 (4.79%) Analytics
11 44 (4.49%) Decision-Making
11 44 (4.49%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (4.08%) Project Delivery
13 39 (3.98%) Business Development
14 38 (3.87%) Line Management
15 37 (3.77%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (3.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (3.67%) Scrum
17 34 (3.47%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (6.01%) Python
2 56 (5.71%) SQL
3 50 (5.10%) Java
4 42 (4.28%) C#
5 26 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.63%) Go
8 12 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.02%) C
9 10 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.82%) Bash
11 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.31%) C++
12 3 (0.31%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.10%) Ruby
14 1 (0.10%) Rust
14 1 (0.10%) Scala
14 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (9.28%) Security Cleared
2 74 (7.54%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.03%) Degree
4 24 (2.45%) Azure Certification
4 24 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 18 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 17 (1.73%) NVQ Level 3
7 16 (1.63%) CCNP
7 16 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.82%) City & Guilds
10 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.41%) AAT
11 4 (0.41%) CBAP
11 4 (0.41%) CIPD
11 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.65%) QA
2 25 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.14%) GDPR
4 16 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.22%) WCAG
7 10 (1.02%) GRC
8 9 (0.92%) NIST
9 7 (0.71%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) GxP
12 1 (0.10%) IEC 61131
12 1 (0.10%) MISRA
12 1 (0.10%) MISRA C
12 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (2.14%) Docker
2 16 (1.63%) Firmware
3 12 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.61%) Ansible
4 2 (0.20%) Argo
4 2 (0.20%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 87 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 31 (3.16%) Oracle
3 20 (2.04%) Cisco
4 18 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 16 (1.63%) Adobe
5 16 (1.63%) Google
6 14 (1.43%) Apple
7 12 (1.22%) VMware
8 10 (1.02%) Pega
9 9 (0.92%) Palo Alto
10 8 (0.82%) Citrix
10 8 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.82%) Databricks
10 8 (0.82%) Foundry
10 8 (0.82%) HP
10 8 (0.82%) HubSpot
10 8 (0.82%) NEC
10 8 (0.82%) Tenable
10 8 (0.82%) YouTube
11 7 (0.71%) Siemens