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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 853 307 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.23% 9.01% 11.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.86% 10.09% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 628 195 576
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 £79,363
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 7,854 3,044 6,452
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 89.29% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,806 2,084 4,341
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,688 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,625 £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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +2 407 £70,000 +7.69% 75
Warwickshire +9 107 £57,750 +5.00% 28
Worcestershire +21 85 £65,000 -10.34% 11
Staffordshire +34 62 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Shropshire +5 61 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Coventry -2 42 £60,715 -2.86% 19
Herefordshire -6 28 £72,575 +141.92% 4
Wolverhampton -13 12 £69,000 -1.43%
Solihull +14 10 £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 31 July 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.

1 127 (14.89%) Azure
2 97 (11.37%) Mentoring
3 88 (10.32%) Software Engineering
4 82 (9.61%) Agile
5 80 (9.38%) AWS
6 73 (8.56%) AI
6 73 (8.56%) Security Cleared
7 62 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
8 59 (6.92%) Microsoft
9 57 (6.68%) Coaching
10 56 (6.57%) CI/CD
11 55 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (6.10%) SC Cleared
13 51 (5.98%) Python
14 50 (5.86%) DevOps
15 49 (5.74%) SQL
16 46 (5.39%) C#
16 46 (5.39%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (5.28%) Degree
18 42 (4.92%) Analytics
19 36 (4.22%) Full-Stack Development
20 35 (4.10%) Business Development
21 34 (3.99%) SaaS
22 32 (3.75%) SQL Server
23 31 (3.63%) Business Intelligence
23 31 (3.63%) Project Delivery
24 30 (3.52%) Stakeholder Management
25 29 (3.40%) SDLC
26 28 (3.28%) Power Platform
27 25 (2.93%) Decision-Making

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 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.94%) Confluence
2 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.47%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) IIS
4 4 (0.47%) WordPress
5 3 (0.35%) Apache
5 3 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
7 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 (1.41%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.59%) 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
1 127 (14.89%) Azure
2 80 (9.38%) AWS
3 34 (3.99%) SaaS
4 28 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.93%) GCP
6 18 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.41%) Entra ID
8 12 (1.41%) Serverless
9 10 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (0.94%) Snowflake
11 7 (0.82%) Azure AI
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Stack
12 6 (0.70%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Advertising
14 4 (0.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.81%) Firewall
2 17 (1.99%) VPN
3 15 (1.76%) 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%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.93%) Power BI
3 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.59%) 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 (1.76%) JIRA
3 11 (1.29%) JUnit
3 11 (1.29%) Selenium
4 10 (1.17%) Snyk
5 9 (1.06%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.06%) GitLab
5 9 (1.06%) Postman
6 6 (0.70%) Gatling
7 5 (0.59%) Maven
7 5 (0.59%) 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
1 105 (12.31%) Finance
2 77 (9.03%) Social Skills
3 46 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (5.28%) Public Sector
5 40 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.57%) Manufacturing
7 37 (4.34%) Games
8 25 (2.93%) Aerospace
9 24 (2.81%) Electronics
10 21 (2.46%) Legal
11 18 (2.11%) Law
12 11 (1.29%) Marketing
12 11 (1.29%) Retail
13 10 (1.17%) Military
14 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.82%) Banking
15 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.59%) Automotive
17 5 (0.59%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.93%) React
2 24 (2.81%) .NET
3 17 (1.99%) REST
4 16 (1.88%) .NET Core
4 16 (1.88%) Blazor
5 15 (1.76%) Playwright
6 14 (1.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 11 (1.29%) Node.js
8 9 (1.06%) RESTful
9 6 (0.70%) Kafka
9 6 (0.70%) Spring
10 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.59%) Keycloak
11 4 (0.47%) PySpark
12 3 (0.35%) EDI
13 2 (0.23%) ADO
13 2 (0.23%) JSON
13 2 (0.23%) SOAP
13 2 (0.23%) Visualforce
13 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (3.05%) Virtual Reality
3 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
3 12 (1.41%) Operational Technology
4 11 (1.29%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (0.94%) Onboarding
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
9 6 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.70%) Robotics
10 5 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.47%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.34%) Linux
2 14 (1.64%) Windows
3 9 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (0.59%) 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 97 (11.37%) Mentoring
2 88 (10.32%) Software Engineering
3 82 (9.61%) Agile
4 73 (8.56%) AI
5 62 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
6 57 (6.68%) Coaching
7 56 (6.57%) CI/CD
8 55 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (5.86%) DevOps
10 46 (5.39%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (4.92%) Analytics
12 36 (4.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (4.10%) Business Development
14 31 (3.63%) Business Intelligence
14 31 (3.63%) Project Delivery
15 30 (3.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (3.40%) SDLC
17 25 (2.93%) Decision-Making
17 25 (2.93%) ETL
17 25 (2.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (5.98%) Python
2 49 (5.74%) SQL
3 46 (5.39%) C#
4 24 (2.81%) Java
5 18 (2.11%) TypeScript
6 16 (1.88%) C
7 14 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.17%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.94%) Go
10 7 (0.82%) Bash
10 7 (0.82%) Scala
11 5 (0.59%) PHP
11 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
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 73 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 52 (6.10%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.28%) Degree
4 19 (2.23%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.52%) CCNP
8 12 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.29%) CISSP
10 9 (1.06%) 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%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.47%) CISM
14 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.47%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.81%) QA
2 16 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) GDPR
3 12 (1.41%) GRC
3 12 (1.41%) NIST
4 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.94%) SLA
6 7 (0.82%) ITGC
7 6 (0.70%) PMO
8 5 (0.59%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.59%) MISRA
8 5 (0.59%) MISRA C
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (2.34%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) Firmware
3 11 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.17%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Argo
5 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 59 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.11%) Adobe
3 17 (1.99%) ServiceNow
4 15 (1.76%) Google
5 14 (1.64%) Cisco
5 14 (1.64%) SAP
6 13 (1.52%) Apple
7 12 (1.41%) Oracle
8 11 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.17%) HP
9 10 (1.17%) Tenable
10 8 (0.94%) Aruba
10 8 (0.94%) Pega
11 7 (0.82%) Siemens
12 5 (0.59%) Foundry
12 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Citrix
13 4 (0.47%) Databricks
13 4 (0.47%) Hotjar