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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 849 307 799
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 9.97% 8.92% 12.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.61% 9.93% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 626 193 552
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £79,206
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 8,001 3,093 6,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.83% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,924 2,101 4,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,656 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 15 August 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 August 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 +4 413 £70,000 +7.69% 214
Worcestershire +23 97 £75,000 +3.45% 24
Warwickshire +6 94 £55,250 +0.45% 29
Staffordshire +41 64 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Shropshire +4 61 £50,000 -28.57% 19
Coventry -4 40 £60,000 -4.00% 25
Herefordshire -2 32 £75,000 +150.00% 1
Wolverhampton -8 12 £69,000 -1.43% 4
Solihull +10 5 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - - 1
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 3 £50,000 - 1
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 - 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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.

1 145 (17.08%) Azure
2 98 (11.54%) Mentoring
3 93 (10.95%) Software Engineering
4 89 (10.48%) Agile
5 84 (9.89%) AWS
6 83 (9.78%) AI
7 81 (9.54%) Security Cleared
8 66 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (7.42%) CI/CD
9 63 (7.42%) Microsoft
10 60 (7.07%) DevOps
11 59 (6.95%) SC Cleared
12 58 (6.83%) Cybersecurity
13 52 (6.12%) Python
14 51 (6.01%) SQL
15 50 (5.89%) Coaching
15 50 (5.89%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (5.54%) C#
17 45 (5.30%) Degree
18 40 (4.71%) Analytics
19 38 (4.48%) Full-Stack Development
20 35 (4.12%) SDLC
21 30 (3.53%) SaaS
21 30 (3.53%) Scrum
22 29 (3.42%) Business Development
22 29 (3.42%) Decision-Making
22 29 (3.42%) React
23 28 (3.30%) Business Intelligence
23 28 (3.30%) Project Delivery
23 28 (3.30%) SQL Server

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 14 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.06%) Confluence
2 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.47%) Apache
4 4 (0.47%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) IIS
4 4 (0.47%) nginx
4 4 (0.47%) WordPress
5 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.12%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 145 (17.08%) Azure
2 84 (9.89%) AWS
3 30 (3.53%) SaaS
4 27 (3.18%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.94%) GCP
6 22 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (1.41%) Serverless
10 11 (1.30%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.18%) Azure AI
12 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (0.94%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.82%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.71%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
17 4 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
17 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Advertising
17 4 (0.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.94%) Firewall
2 15 (1.77%) VPN
3 13 (1.53%) WAN
3 13 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (1.41%) BGP
4 12 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.41%) EIGRP
4 12 (1.41%) LAN
4 12 (1.41%) OSPF
5 7 (0.82%) DNS
6 6 (0.71%) Bluetooth
7 5 (0.59%) Wireless
8 3 (0.35%) DHCP
8 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.35%) Modbus
8 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
9 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.12%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.94%) Power BI
3 11 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.59%) MySQL
8 4 (0.47%) Metadata
9 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.24%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.24%) Redis
10 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.71%) Git
2 18 (2.12%) JIRA
3 13 (1.53%) JUnit
4 11 (1.30%) Selenium
5 10 (1.18%) Snyk
6 9 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.06%) GitLab
6 9 (1.06%) Postman
7 7 (0.82%) Maven
7 7 (0.82%) Mockito
8 6 (0.71%) Gatling
9 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.35%) JMeter
10 3 (0.35%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.24%) TestRail
11 2 (0.24%) Toad
12 1 (0.12%) Appium
12 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 110 (12.96%) Finance
2 86 (10.13%) Social Skills
3 42 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (4.83%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.36%) Games
6 35 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.06%) Aerospace
8 25 (2.94%) Electronics
9 19 (2.24%) Legal
10 15 (1.77%) Law
11 13 (1.53%) Marketing
12 12 (1.41%) Retail
13 10 (1.18%) Military
14 8 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.82%) Banking
15 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.59%) Automotive
16 5 (0.59%) Local Government
16 5 (0.59%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.42%) React
2 22 (2.59%) .NET
3 21 (2.47%) REST
4 17 (2.00%) Playwright
5 14 (1.65%) .NET Core
5 14 (1.65%) Blazor
5 14 (1.65%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 11 (1.30%) Node.js
7 9 (1.06%) RESTful
8 8 (0.94%) Kafka
8 8 (0.94%) Spring
9 7 (0.82%) Keycloak
10 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.47%) PySpark
12 3 (0.35%) EDI
13 2 (0.24%) JSON
13 2 (0.24%) OAuth
13 2 (0.24%) SOAP
13 2 (0.24%) Visualforce
13 2 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.06%) Virtual Reality
3 14 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (1.53%) Onboarding
4 13 (1.53%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.41%) Operational Technology
5 12 (1.41%) Robotics
6 9 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.06%) SCADA
7 8 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 8 (0.94%) Smartphone
8 7 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 7 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 7 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.82%) Mobile Games
9 5 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.59%) FMCG
9 5 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.71%) Linux
2 16 (1.88%) Windows
3 9 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.71%) Unix
6 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (11.54%) Mentoring
2 93 (10.95%) Software Engineering
3 89 (10.48%) Agile
4 83 (9.78%) AI
5 66 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (7.42%) CI/CD
7 60 (7.07%) DevOps
8 58 (6.83%) Cybersecurity
9 50 (5.89%) Coaching
9 50 (5.89%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (4.71%) Analytics
11 38 (4.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (4.12%) SDLC
13 30 (3.53%) Scrum
14 29 (3.42%) Business Development
14 29 (3.42%) Decision-Making
15 28 (3.30%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (3.30%) Project Delivery
15 28 (3.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (3.18%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.12%) Python
2 51 (6.01%) SQL
3 47 (5.54%) C#
4 27 (3.18%) Java
5 20 (2.36%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.88%) C
8 10 (1.18%) Go
8 10 (1.18%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.06%) Bash
10 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.59%) Scala
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.35%) PHP
14 2 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.12%) R
15 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 81 (9.54%) Security Cleared
2 59 (6.95%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.30%) Degree
4 23 (2.71%) DV Cleared
5 16 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.41%) CCNP
8 11 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.30%) CISSP
9 7 (0.82%) CISA
9 7 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (0.82%) SSCP
10 6 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
11 5 (0.59%) City & Guilds
11 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.06%) QA
2 18 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) GDPR
3 12 (1.41%) GRC
3 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.41%) NIST
4 8 (0.94%) SLA
5 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.59%) IEC 61508
6 5 (0.59%) ITGC
6 5 (0.59%) MISRA
6 5 (0.59%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.59%) PMO
6 5 (0.59%) WCAG
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 22 (2.59%) Docker
2 16 (1.88%) Firmware
3 11 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.24%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.41%) Terraform
3 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.24%) Argo
4 2 (0.24%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.24%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 63 (7.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.12%) Adobe
3 16 (1.88%) Google
3 16 (1.88%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.65%) Oracle
5 13 (1.53%) Apple
5 13 (1.53%) Cisco
5 13 (1.53%) SAP
6 11 (1.30%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.18%) HP
7 10 (1.18%) Tenable
8 8 (0.94%) Aruba
8 8 (0.94%) Foundry
8 8 (0.94%) Pega
9 7 (0.82%) Siemens
10 6 (0.71%) VMware
11 5 (0.59%) Citrix
11 5 (0.59%) NEC
12 4 (0.47%) SonicWALL