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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 15 8
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 966 285 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.83% 8.74% 12.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.70% 9.46% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 726 176 400
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,938 £49,763 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £59,764 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% -0.39% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.46% +1.15% -3.74%

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 8,258 3,013 5,360
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 92.37% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,973 1,939 2,899
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,519 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%

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 9 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 9 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 +5 509 £70,000 +16.67% 272
Worcestershire +23 126 £75,000 +15.38% 35
Warwickshire 0 82 £65,000 +18.18% 105
Staffordshire +46 77 £60,000 +14.29% 56
Shropshire +11 55 £50,000 -32.20% 24
Coventry +3 47 £60,715 -6.59% 40
Herefordshire +3 40 £72,575 +141.92% 9
Solihull -4 6 £65,000 - 35
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 4
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Wolverhampton -5 4 £85,000 +21.43% 9
Stourbridge - 4 £85,000 - 1
Willenhall - 2 - -
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 (16.98%) Azure
2 111 (11.49%) Mentoring
2 111 (11.49%) Software Engineering
3 92 (9.52%) Agile
3 92 (9.52%) AI
4 91 (9.42%) Security Cleared
5 88 (9.11%) Microsoft
6 86 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (8.80%) AWS
8 74 (7.66%) SC Cleared
9 69 (7.14%) DevOps
10 68 (7.04%) CI/CD
10 68 (7.04%) Degree
11 58 (6.00%) SQL
12 57 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
12 57 (5.90%) Python
13 53 (5.49%) Java
14 52 (5.38%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (5.07%) Analytics
16 48 (4.97%) Coaching
17 45 (4.66%) Decision-Making
17 45 (4.66%) Technical Leadership
18 43 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
19 42 (4.35%) C#
20 41 (4.24%) Business Development
20 41 (4.24%) Firewall
20 41 (4.24%) Project Delivery
21 39 (4.04%) Stakeholder Management
22 38 (3.93%) Line Management
23 37 (3.83%) Scrum

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 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.52%) Apache
4 5 (0.52%) IIS
4 5 (0.52%) nginx
5 4 (0.41%) CMS
5 4 (0.41%) Confluence
5 4 (0.41%) WordPress
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.10%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) 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
Business Applications
1 12 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.04%) 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 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 164 (16.98%) Azure
2 85 (8.80%) AWS
3 43 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (3.52%) SaaS
5 28 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (2.38%) GCP
8 20 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 18 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.24%) Serverless
11 11 (1.14%) Snowflake
12 10 (1.04%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (1.04%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (0.72%) Azure Stack
14 6 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.52%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.52%) Azure Databricks
15 5 (0.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.24%) Firewall
2 30 (3.11%) VPN
3 20 (2.07%) BGP
3 20 (2.07%) EIGRP
3 20 (2.07%) OSPF
4 17 (1.76%) DNS
4 17 (1.76%) WAN
5 16 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
6 15 (1.55%) LAN
7 11 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.93%) DHCP
9 6 (0.62%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.52%) 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 (0.31%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.28%) Power BI
3 18 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.14%) Metadata
6 10 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
7 7 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.62%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.52%) MySQL
9 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.52%) 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%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (2.69%) Git
2 14 (1.45%) JIRA
3 13 (1.35%) JUnit
4 12 (1.24%) GitLab
5 10 (1.04%) Selenium
6 9 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.83%) Postman
8 7 (0.72%) Maven
8 7 (0.72%) Mockito
9 6 (0.62%) Gatling
9 6 (0.62%) Snyk
10 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.31%) JMeter
11 3 (0.31%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.21%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.10%) Burp Suite
13 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (11.70%) Social Skills
2 105 (10.87%) Finance
3 73 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 39 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (3.11%) Manufacturing
6 28 (2.90%) Aerospace
7 27 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (2.80%) Games
7 27 (2.80%) Legal
8 19 (1.97%) Marketing
8 19 (1.97%) Retail
9 17 (1.76%) Banking
9 17 (1.76%) Electronics
9 17 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.45%) Law
11 11 (1.14%) Social Housing
12 10 (1.04%) Military
12 10 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.48%) REST
2 23 (2.38%) React
3 20 (2.07%) Kafka
4 19 (1.97%) .NET
4 19 (1.97%) Terraform
5 18 (1.86%) Playwright
6 13 (1.35%) Keycloak
7 11 (1.14%) .NET Core
7 11 (1.14%) Spring
8 10 (1.04%) Blazor
8 10 (1.04%) XML
9 9 (0.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 8 (0.83%) Node.js
10 8 (0.83%) RESTful
11 7 (0.72%) JSON
12 4 (0.41%) CSS
12 4 (0.41%) HTML
12 4 (0.41%) Next.js
12 4 (0.41%) XSLT
12 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (2.90%) Onboarding
2 27 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (2.38%) SCADA
4 21 (2.17%) Robotics
5 17 (1.76%) Operational Technology
5 17 (1.76%) Virtual Reality
6 15 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.24%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.14%) Cloud Native
10 9 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 9 (0.93%) Taxonomies
11 8 (0.83%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.83%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.62%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.62%) Online Gambling
12 6 (0.62%) Smartphone
13 5 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.48%) Linux
1 24 (2.48%) Windows
2 18 (1.86%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.72%) Unix
4 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.41%) Android
6 3 (0.31%) VMS
7 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (11.49%) Mentoring
1 111 (11.49%) Software Engineering
2 92 (9.52%) Agile
2 92 (9.52%) AI
3 86 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 69 (7.14%) DevOps
5 68 (7.04%) CI/CD
6 57 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
7 52 (5.38%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (5.07%) Analytics
9 48 (4.97%) Coaching
10 45 (4.66%) Decision-Making
10 45 (4.66%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (4.24%) Business Development
11 41 (4.24%) Project Delivery
12 39 (4.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (3.93%) Line Management
14 37 (3.83%) Scrum
15 36 (3.73%) Full-Stack Development
16 33 (3.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 58 (6.00%) SQL
2 57 (5.90%) Python
3 53 (5.49%) Java
4 42 (4.35%) C#
5 26 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.28%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.66%) Go
8 12 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.93%) C
11 8 (0.83%) Bash
12 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.31%) C++
14 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.21%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.10%) Ruby
15 1 (0.10%) Scala
15 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 74 (7.66%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.04%) Degree
4 24 (2.48%) Azure Certification
4 24 (2.48%) DV Cleared
5 18 (1.86%) NVQ Level 3
6 16 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.66%) CCNP
6 16 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.83%) City & Guilds
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.62%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.41%) AAT
10 4 (0.41%) CBAP
10 4 (0.41%) CIPD
10 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.80%) Accessibility
1 27 (2.80%) QA
2 20 (2.07%) GDPR
3 16 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.24%) WCAG
6 9 (0.93%) NIST
7 8 (0.83%) GRC
8 7 (0.72%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) PMO
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.21%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.10%) IEC 61131
11 1 (0.10%) JTAG
11 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (2.17%) Docker
2 14 (1.45%) Firmware
3 13 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.62%) Ansible
4 2 (0.21%) Argo
4 2 (0.21%) 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 ALM
5 1 (0.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 88 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.31%) Oracle
3 20 (2.07%) Cisco
4 17 (1.76%) ServiceNow
5 16 (1.66%) Adobe
5 16 (1.66%) Google
6 13 (1.35%) Apple
6 13 (1.35%) VMware
7 10 (1.04%) Pega
8 9 (0.93%) Citrix
9 8 (0.83%) Databricks
9 8 (0.83%) Foundry
9 8 (0.83%) HubSpot
9 8 (0.83%) NEC
9 8 (0.83%) YouTube
10 7 (0.72%) HP
10 7 (0.72%) Palo Alto
10 7 (0.72%) Siemens
11 6 (0.62%) Aruba
11 6 (0.62%) CrowdStrike