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 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 514 453 630
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.51% 11.73% 11.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.41% 12.79% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 352 214 515
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £101,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 5,461 3,542 5,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.40% 91.74% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,255 1,737 4,120
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £49,748
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.92% -5.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +3 261 £65,000 +1.17% 59
Warwickshire +1 80 £60,000 -14.29% 32
Coventry +3 47 £77,500 +29.17% 10
Worcestershire -2 37 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Solihull +5 22 £53,750 +4.88% 4
Shropshire -17 12 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Herefordshire -3 11 £87,500 - 5
Staffordshire -23 11 £65,000 +27.45% 7
Wolverhampton - 11 £80,000 - 1
Brierley Hill - 3 £50,000 - 5
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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 71 (13.81%) Agile
2 64 (12.45%) Azure
3 55 (10.70%) Mentoring
4 51 (9.92%) Microsoft
5 50 (9.73%) Degree
6 49 (9.53%) SQL
7 48 (9.34%) Security Cleared
8 44 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
9 43 (8.37%) SaaS
10 42 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (7.98%) SC Cleared
12 40 (7.78%) Analytics
13 39 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 33 (6.42%) Coaching
15 31 (6.03%) DevOps
15 31 (6.03%) Python
16 30 (5.84%) CI/CD
16 30 (5.84%) Project Delivery
17 29 (5.64%) Decision-Making
17 29 (5.64%) Power Platform
17 29 (5.64%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (5.45%) AWS
18 28 (5.45%) Business Development
18 28 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 28 (5.45%) Migration
19 27 (5.25%) Databricks
20 26 (5.06%) Systems Engineering
21 25 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
22 23 (4.47%) Software Engineering

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 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.58%) Confluence
5 2 (0.39%) WordPress
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
3 2 (0.39%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.39%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.19%) Maximo
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 64 (12.45%) Azure
2 43 (8.37%) SaaS
3 29 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 28 (5.45%) AWS
5 22 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.36%) GCP
10 6 (1.17%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.97%) GitHub
11 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.78%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.78%) Serverless
13 3 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.58%) dbt
13 3 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.09%) Firewall
2 20 (3.89%) WAN
3 18 (3.50%) LAN
4 13 (2.53%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.95%) VPN
6 8 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.17%) BGP
7 6 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.17%) EIGRP
7 6 (1.17%) OSPF
7 6 (1.17%) Wireless
8 4 (0.78%) MPLS
8 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.58%) DHCP
9 3 (0.58%) DNS
9 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.39%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.39%) RFID
10 2 (0.39%) VLAN
10 2 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.28%) Power BI
3 9 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.36%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.97%) Metadata
5 5 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.97%) Tableau
6 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.78%) Delta Lake
6 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.39%) Looker
8 2 (0.39%) Redis
8 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.36%) JUnit
1 7 (1.36%) Maven
2 6 (1.17%) JIRA
2 6 (1.17%) Mockito
3 5 (0.97%) Git
4 4 (0.78%) Selenium
5 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.39%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.39%) Postman
5 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.19%) Gatling
6 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (13.62%) Finance
2 58 (11.28%) Social Skills
3 48 (9.34%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (5.25%) Legal
7 26 (5.06%) Law
8 21 (4.09%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.75%) Marketing
10 9 (1.75%) Retail
11 8 (1.56%) Automotive
11 8 (1.56%) Electronics
12 7 (1.36%) Banking
13 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.39%) Games
14 2 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.72%) .NET
2 9 (1.75%) React
2 9 (1.75%) REST
3 7 (1.36%) PySpark
4 5 (0.97%) Spring
5 4 (0.78%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.78%) Blazor
6 3 (0.58%) Django
6 3 (0.58%) Flask
6 3 (0.58%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.39%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.39%) jQuery
7 2 (0.39%) Node.js
7 2 (0.39%) Playwright
7 2 (0.39%) SOAP
7 2 (0.39%) Web Services
8 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.19%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.53%) Driving Licence
2 12 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 5 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (0.78%) Operational Technology
6 4 (0.78%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.58%) FMCG
7 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.39%) SCADA
8 2 (0.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.31%) Linux
2 13 (2.53%) Windows
3 9 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.39%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (13.81%) Agile
2 55 (10.70%) Mentoring
3 44 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (7.78%) Analytics
6 39 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (6.42%) Coaching
8 31 (6.03%) DevOps
9 30 (5.84%) CI/CD
9 30 (5.84%) Project Delivery
10 29 (5.64%) Decision-Making
10 29 (5.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (5.45%) Business Development
11 28 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (5.45%) Migration
12 26 (5.06%) Systems Engineering
13 25 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (4.47%) Software Engineering
15 22 (4.28%) Roadmaps
15 22 (4.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 49 (9.53%) SQL
2 31 (6.03%) Python
3 19 (3.70%) C#
4 13 (2.53%) Java
5 11 (2.14%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.56%) Bash
8 7 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.36%) Scala
9 6 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.97%) C
10 5 (0.97%) R
10 5 (0.97%) VBA
11 4 (0.78%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.19%) Delphi
14 1 (0.19%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 50 (9.73%) Degree
2 48 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 41 (7.98%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.92%) CCNP
5 15 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.56%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.17%) PMP
10 5 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.09%) QA
2 14 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.75%) GDPR
5 8 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.97%) ITGC
7 4 (0.78%) PMO
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
8 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.39%) P3O
8 2 (0.39%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (3.31%) Docker
2 9 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.78%) XenApp
5 3 (0.58%) Firmware
6 2 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.33%) Terraform
3 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) FlexNet
5 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.19%) Control-M
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 51 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.25%) Databricks
3 19 (3.70%) Cisco
4 9 (1.75%) Meraki
4 9 (1.75%) Oracle
5 6 (1.17%) Google
5 6 (1.17%) IBM
5 6 (1.17%) SAP
6 5 (0.97%) Citrix
6 5 (0.97%) VMware
7 4 (0.78%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.78%) SonicWALL
7 4 (0.78%) Veeam
8 2 (0.39%) Aruba
8 2 (0.39%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.39%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.39%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.39%) Pega
8 2 (0.39%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow