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 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 565 390 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.39% 11.25% 12.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.24% 12.58% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 388 217 609
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £40,877
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 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,250 £76,350
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 6,115 3,100 5,905
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 89.39% 93.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,728 1,786 4,658
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,754 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +6.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,188 £67,500 £63,217
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +2 291 £65,000 -3.70% 65
Warwickshire -1 81 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Coventry +2 47 £85,000 +41.67% 10
Worcestershire 0 43 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Shropshire -15 18 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Solihull +5 16 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Herefordshire -7 14 £87,500 - 1
Wolverhampton -5 12 £80,000 -15.79% 1
Staffordshire -22 12 £64,250 +27.23% 12
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 - 1
Willenhall - 1 - - 1
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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 83 (14.69%) Agile
2 65 (11.50%) Azure
3 62 (10.97%) Mentoring
4 50 (8.85%) Microsoft
5 48 (8.50%) SQL
6 47 (8.32%) Degree
7 46 (8.14%) SaaS
8 45 (7.96%) Security Cleared
9 44 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (7.79%) Coaching
9 44 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (7.61%) Analytics
11 38 (6.73%) SC Cleared
12 35 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
12 35 (6.19%) DevOps
13 34 (6.02%) Business Development
14 32 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 31 (5.49%) CI/CD
15 31 (5.49%) Python
16 30 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (5.13%) Power Platform
17 29 (5.13%) Project Delivery
18 27 (4.78%) Databricks
18 27 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 27 (4.78%) Software Engineering
19 26 (4.60%) Migration
19 26 (4.60%) Systems Engineering
20 25 (4.42%) AWS
21 24 (4.25%) Roadmaps

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 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.53%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) WordPress
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.53%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.53%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (0.53%) SAP FSCM
3 2 (0.35%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 65 (11.50%) Azure
2 46 (8.14%) SaaS
3 29 (5.13%) Power Platform
4 25 (4.42%) AWS
5 23 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.77%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.06%) GCP
10 6 (1.06%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (0.88%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.71%) GitHub
13 3 (0.53%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.53%) dbt
13 3 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.54%) WAN
2 18 (3.19%) LAN
3 16 (2.83%) Firewall
4 12 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (1.95%) VPN
6 10 (1.77%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.06%) BGP
7 6 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.06%) EIGRP
7 6 (1.06%) OSPF
7 6 (1.06%) Wireless
8 4 (0.71%) MPLS
8 4 (0.71%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.53%) DHCP
9 3 (0.53%) DNS
9 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.35%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.35%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.35%) PBX
10 2 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.89%) Power BI
1 22 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.24%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.88%) Metadata
4 5 (0.88%) Tableau
5 4 (0.71%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.35%) Looker
7 2 (0.35%) Redis
7 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 9 (1.59%) JIRA
2 7 (1.24%) Git
2 7 (1.24%) JUnit
2 7 (1.24%) Maven
3 6 (1.06%) Mockito
4 4 (0.71%) Selenium
5 3 (0.53%) Postman
6 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.35%) GitLab
6 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.18%) Appium
7 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) Gatling
7 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 81 (14.34%) Finance
2 57 (10.09%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.96%) Public Sector
4 39 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.60%) Legal
6 25 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.07%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.01%) Law
9 16 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.95%) Electronics
11 9 (1.59%) Retail
12 8 (1.42%) Marketing
13 7 (1.24%) Automotive
13 7 (1.24%) Banking
14 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Games
16 3 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.35%) iGaming
17 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.35%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.48%) .NET
2 12 (2.12%) React
3 9 (1.59%) REST
4 7 (1.24%) .NET Core
4 7 (1.24%) Blazor
4 7 (1.24%) PySpark
5 5 (0.88%) Node.js
5 5 (0.88%) Spring
6 3 (0.53%) Django
6 3 (0.53%) Flask
6 3 (0.53%) Playwright
6 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.35%) SOAP
8 1 (0.18%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.18%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.18%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.18%) jQuery
8 1 (0.18%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (1.77%) Driving Licence
3 9 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.06%) Low-Code
4 6 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 5 (0.88%) Data Centre
5 5 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (0.88%) Onboarding
5 5 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 5 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (0.71%) FMCG
6 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.53%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (0.53%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.53%) SCADA
7 3 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.83%) Linux
2 15 (2.65%) Windows
3 9 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (14.69%) Agile
2 62 (10.97%) Mentoring
3 44 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (7.79%) Coaching
3 44 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (7.61%) Analytics
5 35 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
5 35 (6.19%) DevOps
6 34 (6.02%) Business Development
7 31 (5.49%) CI/CD
8 30 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (5.13%) Project Delivery
10 27 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (4.78%) Software Engineering
11 26 (4.60%) Migration
11 26 (4.60%) Systems Engineering
12 24 (4.25%) Roadmaps
13 23 (4.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (3.72%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.50%) SQL
2 31 (5.49%) Python
3 22 (3.89%) C#
4 13 (2.30%) Java
5 10 (1.77%) Scala
6 9 (1.59%) Bash
6 9 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.59%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.42%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.06%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.88%) C
9 5 (0.88%) PHP
9 5 (0.88%) R
9 5 (0.88%) VBA
10 4 (0.71%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.18%) Delphi
12 1 (0.18%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 47 (8.32%) Degree
2 45 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 38 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.95%) CCNP
7 10 (1.77%) CISSP
8 8 (1.42%) CISA
8 8 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.24%) SSCP
10 5 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.88%) PMP
11 4 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.53%) CISM
12 3 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.01%) QA
2 14 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (1.95%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.95%) NIST
4 10 (1.77%) GDPR
5 9 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.24%) ITGC
7 5 (0.88%) PMO
8 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.53%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.35%) P3O
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (2.83%) Docker
2 11 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.71%) XenApp
5 3 (0.53%) Firmware
6 2 (0.35%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.77%) Terraform
4 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.53%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.35%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 50 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.78%) Databricks
3 15 (2.65%) Cisco
4 10 (1.77%) SAP
5 9 (1.59%) Meraki
5 9 (1.59%) Oracle
6 6 (1.06%) Google
6 6 (1.06%) IBM
7 5 (0.88%) VMware
8 4 (0.71%) CheckPoint
8 4 (0.71%) Citrix
8 4 (0.71%) SonicWALL
8 4 (0.71%) Veeam
9 2 (0.35%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.35%) Kaseya
9 2 (0.35%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.35%) Pega
9 2 (0.35%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (0.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.18%) Rockwell