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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 940 278 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 10.54% 8.54% 12.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.28% 9.34% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 710 164 440
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,278 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £49,763 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,625 £79,253
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 8,330 2,975 5,720
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 91.43% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,104 1,990 3,329
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,225 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,875 £79,085
England median annual salary £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +7 478 £70,000 +15.70% 322
Worcestershire +25 117 £75,000 +3.45% 39
Warwickshire +3 92 £65,000 +18.18% 73
Staffordshire +48 81 £60,000 +14.29% 44
Shropshire +7 60 £50,000 -31.03% 30
Coventry -4 48 £60,358 -7.14% 32
Herefordshire -3 32 £75,000 +150.00% 11
Wolverhampton -3 10 £69,000 +2.22% 22
Solihull -3 6 £65,000 -5.45% 27
Dudley - 5 £65,000 - 4
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £80,000 -
Willenhall - 4 - -
Stourbridge - 2 £85,000 - 2
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 169 (17.98%) Azure
2 114 (12.13%) Mentoring
3 109 (11.60%) Software Engineering
4 100 (10.64%) AI
5 93 (9.89%) AWS
6 91 (9.68%) Agile
7 90 (9.57%) Security Cleared
8 86 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (8.83%) Microsoft
10 70 (7.45%) CI/CD
11 69 (7.34%) DevOps
12 68 (7.23%) SC Cleared
13 64 (6.81%) Cybersecurity
14 63 (6.70%) Degree
15 62 (6.60%) Python
16 58 (6.17%) SQL
17 51 (5.43%) Coaching
18 50 (5.32%) Problem-Solving
19 46 (4.89%) Decision-Making
20 45 (4.79%) C#
21 41 (4.36%) Analytics
21 41 (4.36%) Firewall
21 41 (4.36%) Java
22 40 (4.26%) Full-Stack Development
23 39 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
24 38 (4.04%) Technical Leadership
25 37 (3.94%) Line Management
25 37 (3.94%) Project Delivery
25 37 (3.94%) SDLC
26 36 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management

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 22 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.96%) Confluence
4 7 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.53%) Apache
5 5 (0.53%) IIS
5 5 (0.53%) nginx
6 4 (0.43%) CMS
6 4 (0.43%) WordPress
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.11%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.28%) Cloudability
1 12 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.32%) Misys Midas
2 3 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 169 (17.98%) Azure
2 93 (9.89%) AWS
3 39 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (3.72%) SaaS
5 29 (3.09%) GCP
6 28 (2.98%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (1.60%) Serverless
10 10 (1.06%) Azure AI
10 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (0.96%) Power Automate
11 9 (0.96%) Snowflake
12 7 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (0.74%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (0.53%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.36%) Firewall
2 24 (2.55%) VPN
3 17 (1.81%) BGP
3 17 (1.81%) EIGRP
3 17 (1.81%) OSPF
4 15 (1.60%) WAN
5 14 (1.49%) DNS
6 13 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (1.28%) LAN
8 9 (0.96%) DHCP
9 8 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.64%) VLAN
11 5 (0.53%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (0.43%) HSRP
12 4 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (0.43%) VRRP
12 4 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.45%) Power BI
3 16 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.85%) Metadata
8 7 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.53%) MySQL
9 5 (0.53%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.32%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.21%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (3.09%) Git
2 18 (1.91%) JIRA
3 13 (1.38%) JUnit
4 12 (1.28%) GitLab
5 11 (1.17%) Selenium
6 10 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.06%) Snyk
7 9 (0.96%) Postman
8 7 (0.74%) Gatling
8 7 (0.74%) Maven
8 7 (0.74%) Mockito
9 4 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.43%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.43%) JMeter
9 4 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.21%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.21%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 107 (11.38%) Social Skills
2 106 (11.28%) Finance
3 65 (6.91%) Public Sector
4 46 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (4.15%) Games
6 33 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 29 (3.09%) Aerospace
8 26 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (2.77%) Legal
9 25 (2.66%) Electronics
10 18 (1.91%) Marketing
10 18 (1.91%) Retail
11 16 (1.70%) Banking
12 14 (1.49%) Law
12 14 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.06%) Military
14 9 (0.96%) Social Housing
15 8 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.98%) React
2 24 (2.55%) REST
3 19 (2.02%) .NET
3 19 (2.02%) Playwright
3 19 (2.02%) Terraform
4 18 (1.91%) Kafka
5 14 (1.49%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 12 (1.28%) Node.js
7 11 (1.17%) .NET Core
7 11 (1.17%) Keycloak
7 11 (1.17%) RESTful
7 11 (1.17%) Spring
8 10 (1.06%) Blazor
9 8 (0.85%) XML
10 5 (0.53%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.53%) JSON
11 4 (0.43%) CSS
11 4 (0.43%) PySpark
11 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (2.77%) Virtual Reality
3 22 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 20 (2.13%) Operational Technology
5 18 (1.91%) Robotics
6 17 (1.81%) SCADA
7 16 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.06%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.85%) Driving Licence
13 8 (0.85%) Smartphone
14 7 (0.74%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.74%) Mobile Games
15 5 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.53%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.66%) Linux
2 22 (2.34%) Windows
3 15 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (0.74%) Unix
6 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.32%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (12.13%) Mentoring
2 109 (11.60%) Software Engineering
3 100 (10.64%) AI
4 91 (9.68%) Agile
5 86 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (7.45%) CI/CD
7 69 (7.34%) DevOps
8 64 (6.81%) Cybersecurity
9 51 (5.43%) Coaching
10 50 (5.32%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (4.89%) Decision-Making
12 41 (4.36%) Analytics
13 40 (4.26%) Full-Stack Development
14 38 (4.04%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (3.94%) Line Management
15 37 (3.94%) Project Delivery
15 37 (3.94%) SDLC
16 36 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (3.62%) Scrum
18 30 (3.19%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 62 (6.60%) Python
2 58 (6.17%) SQL
3 45 (4.79%) C#
4 41 (4.36%) Java
5 27 (2.87%) TypeScript
6 24 (2.55%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.70%) C
8 14 (1.49%) Go
9 13 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.96%) Bash
12 4 (0.43%) C++
12 4 (0.43%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.21%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.11%) R
14 1 (0.11%) Scala
14 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.70%) Degree
4 27 (2.87%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 18 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.38%) CCNP
7 13 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.28%) NVQ Level 3
9 8 (0.85%) City & Guilds
10 6 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.43%) CBAP
12 4 (0.43%) CIPD
12 4 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.43%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.43%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.66%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.55%) QA
3 21 (2.23%) GDPR
4 17 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.28%) GRC
6 11 (1.17%) WCAG
7 9 (0.96%) NIST
8 7 (0.74%) SLA
9 5 (0.53%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.53%) MISRA
9 5 (0.53%) MISRA C
10 4 (0.43%) PMO
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.21%) NCSC
11 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.11%) IEC 61131
12 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (2.34%) Docker
2 21 (2.23%) Firmware
3 11 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 22 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.64%) Ansible
4 3 (0.32%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.21%) Argo
5 2 (0.21%) Grafana
5 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 83 (8.83%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.09%) Oracle
3 19 (2.02%) Google
4 18 (1.91%) Cisco
4 18 (1.91%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.81%) Adobe
6 14 (1.49%) Apple
7 11 (1.17%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.06%) HP
8 10 (1.06%) Pega
8 10 (1.06%) Tenable
8 10 (1.06%) VMware
9 8 (0.85%) Aruba
9 8 (0.85%) Foundry
9 8 (0.85%) NEC
9 8 (0.85%) YouTube
10 7 (0.74%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.74%) SAP
11 6 (0.64%) Citrix