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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 855 305 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.18% 8.94% 12.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.81% 9.95% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 628 195 555
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,688 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £79,500
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 7,908 3,064 6,169
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 89.85% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,856 2,102 4,123
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £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 £67,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,875 £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 3 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 3 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 +2 408 £70,000 +7.69% 109
Warwickshire +9 107 £57,750 +5.00% 24
Worcestershire +22 87 £65,000 -10.34% 17
Staffordshire +36 62 £60,000 +14.29% 11
Shropshire +4 60 £50,000 -28.57% 10
Coventry -2 43 £60,715 -2.86% 17
Herefordshire -6 28 £75,000 +150.00% 5
Wolverhampton -14 12 £69,000 -1.43%
Solihull +13 9 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 5 - - 1
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 2
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
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 3 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.

1 132 (15.44%) Azure
2 103 (12.05%) Mentoring
3 89 (10.41%) Software Engineering
4 85 (9.94%) Agile
4 85 (9.94%) AWS
5 77 (9.01%) Security Cleared
6 75 (8.77%) AI
7 61 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
8 60 (7.02%) CI/CD
9 58 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (6.67%) Coaching
11 56 (6.55%) Microsoft
12 55 (6.43%) SC Cleared
13 52 (6.08%) Python
14 51 (5.96%) DevOps
15 50 (5.85%) SQL
16 47 (5.50%) C#
16 47 (5.50%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (5.38%) Degree
18 41 (4.80%) Analytics
19 37 (4.33%) Full-Stack Development
20 35 (4.09%) Business Development
21 34 (3.98%) SaaS
22 32 (3.74%) SDLC
23 30 (3.51%) Business Intelligence
23 30 (3.51%) SQL Server
24 29 (3.39%) Project Delivery
24 29 (3.39%) Stakeholder Management
25 28 (3.27%) Power Platform
25 28 (3.27%) React

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 11 (1.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.94%) Confluence
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.47%) CMS
5 4 (0.47%) WordPress
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) IIS
6 3 (0.35%) nginx
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Appian
8 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.12%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.35%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 132 (15.44%) Azure
2 85 (9.94%) AWS
3 34 (3.98%) SaaS
4 28 (3.27%) Power Platform
5 26 (3.04%) GCP
6 17 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.40%) Serverless
9 11 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 8 (0.94%) Azure AI
10 8 (0.94%) Snowflake
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.70%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.47%) dbt
14 4 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.81%) Firewall
2 17 (1.99%) VPN
3 15 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (1.64%) WAN
5 13 (1.52%) BGP
5 13 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (1.52%) EIGRP
5 13 (1.52%) LAN
5 13 (1.52%) OSPF
6 7 (0.82%) Bluetooth
6 7 (0.82%) DNS
6 7 (0.82%) Wireless
7 4 (0.47%) DHCP
7 4 (0.47%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.35%) Modbus
8 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.35%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.04%) Power BI
3 9 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.58%) MySQL
7 4 (0.47%) Metadata
8 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.23%) Looker
9 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.23%) Redis
9 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (2.46%) Git
2 15 (1.75%) JIRA
3 12 (1.40%) JUnit
4 11 (1.29%) Selenium
5 10 (1.17%) Snyk
6 9 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.05%) GitLab
6 9 (1.05%) Postman
7 6 (0.70%) Gatling
7 6 (0.70%) Maven
7 6 (0.70%) Mockito
8 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.35%) JMeter
9 3 (0.35%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.23%) TestRail
10 2 (0.23%) Toad
10 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
General
1 107 (12.51%) Finance
2 79 (9.24%) Social Skills
3 44 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 44 (5.15%) Public Sector
4 40 (4.68%) Manufacturing
5 38 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.33%) Games
7 26 (3.04%) Aerospace
8 25 (2.92%) Electronics
9 20 (2.34%) Legal
10 17 (1.99%) Law
11 12 (1.40%) Retail
12 11 (1.29%) Marketing
13 10 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.17%) Military
14 7 (0.82%) Banking
14 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.58%) Automotive
16 5 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.27%) React
2 24 (2.81%) .NET
3 20 (2.34%) REST
4 17 (1.99%) Playwright
5 16 (1.87%) .NET Core
5 16 (1.87%) Blazor
6 14 (1.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 11 (1.29%) Node.js
8 9 (1.05%) RESTful
9 7 (0.82%) Spring
10 6 (0.70%) Kafka
11 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.58%) Keycloak
12 4 (0.47%) PySpark
13 3 (0.35%) EDI
14 2 (0.23%) ADO
14 2 (0.23%) JSON
14 2 (0.23%) SOAP
14 2 (0.23%) Visualforce
14 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.04%) Virtual Reality
3 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
3 12 (1.40%) Operational Technology
4 11 (1.29%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.17%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (0.94%) Robotics
7 8 (0.94%) Smartphone
8 7 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 7 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 7 (0.82%) Mobile Games
9 6 (0.70%) FMCG
10 5 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.58%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.58%) SCADA
11 4 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.57%) Linux
2 14 (1.64%) Windows
3 9 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (0.70%) Unix
5 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (12.05%) Mentoring
2 89 (10.41%) Software Engineering
3 85 (9.94%) Agile
4 75 (8.77%) AI
5 61 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
6 60 (7.02%) CI/CD
7 58 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (6.67%) Coaching
9 51 (5.96%) DevOps
10 47 (5.50%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (4.80%) Analytics
12 37 (4.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (4.09%) Business Development
14 32 (3.74%) SDLC
15 30 (3.51%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (3.39%) Project Delivery
16 29 (3.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (3.27%) Scrum
18 25 (2.92%) ETL
19 24 (2.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.08%) Python
2 50 (5.85%) SQL
3 47 (5.50%) C#
4 25 (2.92%) Java
5 20 (2.34%) TypeScript
6 17 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.87%) C
8 10 (1.17%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.94%) Bash
9 8 (0.94%) Go
10 7 (0.82%) Scala
11 6 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.47%) PHP
13 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.23%) R
14 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 55 (6.43%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.38%) Degree
4 20 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.52%) CCNP
8 12 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.29%) CISSP
10 9 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.82%) CISA
12 7 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.82%) SSCP
13 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.47%) CISM
15 4 (0.47%) RIBA
16 3 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.04%) QA
2 18 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.40%) GRC
3 12 (1.40%) NIST
4 11 (1.29%) GDPR
5 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.94%) SLA
7 7 (0.82%) ITGC
8 6 (0.70%) PMO
9 5 (0.58%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.58%) MISRA
9 5 (0.58%) MISRA C
9 5 (0.58%) WCAG
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 21 (2.46%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) Firmware
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.40%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Argo
4 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.23%) 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 56 (6.55%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.11%) Adobe
3 16 (1.87%) ServiceNow
4 15 (1.75%) Google
5 14 (1.64%) Cisco
5 14 (1.64%) SAP
6 13 (1.52%) Apple
6 13 (1.52%) Oracle
7 11 (1.29%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.17%) HP
8 10 (1.17%) Tenable
9 8 (0.94%) Aruba
9 8 (0.94%) Pega
10 7 (0.82%) Siemens
11 6 (0.70%) Foundry
12 5 (0.58%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Citrix
13 4 (0.47%) Databricks
13 4 (0.47%) Hotjar