Senior Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior salary in the West Midlands is £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 9 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 360 655 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 9.69% 12.06% 13.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.49% 13.04% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 238 358 365
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,879 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% +9.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,688 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,750 £82,000 £78,250
England median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,433 5,024 3,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.49% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 2,584 2,528
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 0 194 £65,000 +8.33% 62
Warwickshire +16 48 £55,000 -21.43% 27
Solihull +13 24 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Coventry -5 21 £63,750 +6.25% 16
Worcestershire -9 16 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Herefordshire +8 14 £30,000 - 2
Staffordshire -20 13 £64,000 +22.09% 14
Shropshire -7 11 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Wolverhampton +3 3 £80,000 -38.67% 1
Walsall - 1 £72,500 -
Wednesbury - 1 £55,000 - 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 November 2025, 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 74 (20.56%) Azure
2 61 (16.94%) SQL
3 53 (14.72%) Agile
4 46 (12.78%) Microsoft
5 45 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (11.94%) Degree
7 41 (11.39%) Mentoring
8 40 (11.11%) Security Cleared
9 39 (10.83%) DevOps
10 38 (10.56%) C#
10 38 (10.56%) CI/CD
11 33 (9.17%) .NET
12 29 (8.06%) SaaS
13 28 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (7.50%) SC Cleared
15 26 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (7.22%) SQL Server
16 25 (6.94%) Firewall
16 25 (6.94%) Python
16 25 (6.94%) QA
17 24 (6.67%) Analytics
17 24 (6.67%) AWS
17 24 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
17 24 (6.67%) Decision-Making
17 24 (6.67%) Power Platform
18 22 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
19 20 (5.56%) JavaScript
19 20 (5.56%) Software Engineering
20 19 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
21 18 (5.00%) Project Delivery

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 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.56%) Confluence
2 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.56%) WinCC
2 2 (0.56%) WordPress
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.28%) Appian
3 1 (0.28%) IIS
3 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.56%) Trello
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.28%) Maya
6 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.56%) Shopify
4 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.28%) Maximo
4 1 (0.28%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.28%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.56%) Azure
2 29 (8.06%) SaaS
3 24 (6.67%) AWS
3 24 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.61%) Serverless
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.39%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.39%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.39%) GCP
10 5 (1.39%) GitHub
11 4 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.94%) Firewall
2 16 (4.44%) WAN
3 15 (4.17%) LAN
4 14 (3.89%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.67%) Network Security
6 4 (1.11%) Modbus
6 4 (1.11%) MPLS
7 3 (0.83%) VPN
7 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.56%) DHCP
8 2 (0.56%) DNS
8 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.56%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.56%) VLAN
9 1 (0.28%) ISDN
9 1 (0.28%) PSTN
9 1 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) VoIP
9 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (4.72%) Power BI
3 11 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.83%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.83%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.83%) Tableau
8 2 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.56%) Metadata
8 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.56%) Redis
8 2 (0.56%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (2.22%) JIRA
2 4 (1.11%) Git
2 4 (1.11%) MSTest
2 4 (1.11%) NUnit
2 4 (1.11%) Selenium
3 3 (0.83%) JUnit
3 3 (0.83%) Maven
4 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.56%) GitLab
4 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) Mockito
4 2 (0.56%) Moq
4 2 (0.56%) NSubstitute
4 2 (0.56%) Postman
4 2 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.28%) Gatling
5 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (16.39%) Finance
1 59 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 32 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 28 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (7.78%) Law
4 23 (6.39%) Legal
5 20 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.28%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.89%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.06%) Retail
9 8 (2.22%) Banking
10 7 (1.94%) Marketing
11 4 (1.11%) Automotive
11 4 (1.11%) Billing
12 3 (0.83%) Games
13 2 (0.56%) Electronics
13 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.56%) Local Government
14 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.17%) .NET
2 11 (3.06%) React
3 9 (2.50%) HTML
4 8 (2.22%) Spring
5 7 (1.94%) .NET Framework
5 7 (1.94%) CSS
5 7 (1.94%) Entity Framework
5 7 (1.94%) REST
6 6 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 6 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.67%) ASP.NET
6 6 (1.67%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.39%) Blazor
7 5 (1.39%) RESTful
8 4 (1.11%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.11%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (1.11%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (1.11%) YAML
9 3 (0.83%) Django
9 3 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (1.94%) Cloud Native
3 7 (1.94%) Operational Technology
4 5 (1.39%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.11%) NHS
5 4 (1.11%) SCADA
5 4 (1.11%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (0.83%) Life Science
6 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.06%) Linux
1 11 (3.06%) Windows
2 9 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.56%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (14.72%) Agile
2 45 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (11.39%) Mentoring
4 39 (10.83%) DevOps
5 38 (10.56%) CI/CD
6 28 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (6.67%) Analytics
8 24 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (6.67%) Decision-Making
9 22 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (5.56%) Software Engineering
11 18 (5.00%) Project Delivery
11 18 (5.00%) Roadmaps
11 18 (5.00%) SDLC
12 17 (4.72%) TDD
13 16 (4.44%) Data Analysis
13 16 (4.44%) Data Modelling
13 16 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (4.44%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.94%) SQL
2 38 (10.56%) C#
3 25 (6.94%) Python
4 20 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 11 (3.06%) Java
7 10 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.39%) Scala
10 4 (1.11%) Bicep
11 3 (0.83%) Bash
11 3 (0.83%) Go
12 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.56%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) Delphi
13 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.28%) R
13 1 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (11.94%) Degree
2 40 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (2.22%) ACCA
6 8 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.22%) CCNP
6 8 (2.22%) CIMA
6 8 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.94%) AAT
7 7 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.83%) PMP
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.94%) QA
2 6 (1.67%) GDPR
2 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.67%) PMO
3 4 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (0.83%) NIST
5 2 (0.56%) IEC 61131
5 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.28%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (3.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.11%) XenApp
5 1 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.06%) Terraform
3 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) FlexNet
5 2 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.44%) Cisco
3 15 (4.17%) Databricks
4 8 (2.22%) VMware
5 6 (1.67%) SAP
6 5 (1.39%) Citrix
6 5 (1.39%) IBM
6 5 (1.39%) Meraki
6 5 (1.39%) Oracle
6 5 (1.39%) Veeam
7 4 (1.11%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.11%) Google
7 4 (1.11%) SonicWALL
8 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.56%) Aruba
9 2 (0.56%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.56%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.56%) Pega
9 2 (0.56%) Rockwell