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 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 630 333 836
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.54% 9.90% 12.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.35% 11.19% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 437 197 652
10th Percentile £49,200 £43,500 £40,110
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +12.14% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £76,225
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -10.04%

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 6,735 2,977 6,340
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 88.47% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,232 1,803 4,944
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,967 £63,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,810 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.72%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +3 320 £66,720 -1.34% 67
Warwickshire +3 87 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Coventry 0 49 £85,000 +41.67% 12
Worcestershire +3 47 £62,500 -3.85% 6
Shropshire -12 28 £50,000 -28.57% 14
Staffordshire -15 19 £65,000 +25.79% 12
Solihull +12 18 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Wolverhampton -9 16 £77,500 -18.42% 1
Herefordshire -14 13 £90,000 - 3
Brierley Hill - 5 £50,000 -
Willenhall - 3 - - 2
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 -
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 April 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 86 (13.65%) Agile
2 75 (11.90%) Azure
3 66 (10.48%) Mentoring
4 52 (8.25%) Microsoft
5 51 (8.10%) Security Cleared
6 50 (7.94%) SQL
7 49 (7.78%) Degree
8 45 (7.14%) Coaching
8 45 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 44 (6.98%) Analytics
9 44 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (6.98%) SaaS
10 42 (6.67%) DevOps
10 42 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (6.51%) Software Engineering
12 40 (6.35%) SC Cleared
13 36 (5.71%) Python
14 35 (5.56%) Business Development
15 34 (5.40%) CI/CD
16 32 (5.08%) AWS
17 30 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (4.60%) Power Platform
18 29 (4.60%) Project Delivery
19 28 (4.44%) Roadmaps
19 28 (4.44%) Stakeholder Management
20 27 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 26 (4.13%) AI
21 26 (4.13%) Migration
22 25 (3.97%) C#

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 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.27%) Confluence
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
1 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.48%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.48%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (0.48%) SAP FSCM
3 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.32%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 75 (11.90%) Azure
2 44 (6.98%) SaaS
3 32 (5.08%) AWS
4 29 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 22 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (2.06%) GCP
7 12 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.59%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (0.79%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.79%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.79%) Serverless
12 4 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.63%) GitHub
13 3 (0.48%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (0.48%) dbt
13 3 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.33%) WAN
2 18 (2.86%) LAN
3 17 (2.70%) Firewall
4 11 (1.75%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.59%) VPN
6 6 (0.95%) BGP
6 6 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.95%) EIGRP
6 6 (0.95%) OSPF
6 6 (0.95%) Wireless
7 4 (0.63%) MPLS
7 4 (0.63%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.48%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.48%) DHCP
8 3 (0.48%) DNS
8 3 (0.48%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.48%) Modbus
8 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 22 (3.49%) Power BI
3 5 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (0.79%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.79%) Metadata
3 5 (0.79%) Tableau
4 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.48%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.48%) Redis
5 3 (0.48%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.32%) Looker
6 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.16%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (2.22%) JIRA
2 8 (1.27%) Git
3 6 (0.95%) JUnit
3 6 (0.95%) Maven
4 5 (0.79%) Mockito
4 5 (0.79%) Selenium
5 4 (0.63%) Snyk
6 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.32%) GitLab
7 2 (0.32%) Postman
7 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.16%) Appium
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 85 (13.49%) Finance
2 58 (9.21%) Social Skills
3 48 (7.62%) Public Sector
4 42 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (4.13%) Legal
6 26 (4.13%) Manufacturing
7 18 (2.86%) Electronics
7 18 (2.86%) Law
8 15 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.75%) Games
9 11 (1.75%) Retail
10 8 (1.27%) Automotive
10 8 (1.27%) Banking
10 8 (1.27%) Marketing
11 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.32%) iGaming
13 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.38%) React
2 13 (2.06%) .NET
3 9 (1.43%) Node.js
4 8 (1.27%) PySpark
4 8 (1.27%) REST
5 7 (1.11%) .NET Core
5 7 (1.11%) Blazor
6 4 (0.63%) Spring
7 3 (0.48%) Django
7 3 (0.48%) Flask
7 3 (0.48%) Playwright
7 3 (0.48%) RESTful
7 3 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.32%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.32%) SOAP
8 2 (0.32%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 1 (0.16%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.16%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.16%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (1.59%) Management Information System
2 10 (1.59%) Product Ownership
3 9 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (1.43%) Data Centre
3 9 (1.43%) Driving Licence
4 8 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (0.95%) Low-Code
5 6 (0.95%) Operational Technology
5 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 5 (0.79%) FMCG
6 5 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (0.63%) Robotics
7 4 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.48%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.48%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.38%) Linux
1 15 (2.38%) Windows
2 9 (1.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.32%) Unix
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (13.65%) Agile
2 66 (10.48%) Mentoring
3 45 (7.14%) Coaching
3 45 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (6.98%) Analytics
4 44 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (6.67%) DevOps
5 42 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (6.51%) Software Engineering
7 35 (5.56%) Business Development
8 34 (5.40%) CI/CD
9 29 (4.60%) Project Delivery
10 28 (4.44%) Roadmaps
10 28 (4.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (4.13%) AI
12 26 (4.13%) Migration
13 25 (3.97%) Decision-Making
14 24 (3.81%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (7.94%) SQL
2 36 (5.71%) Python
3 25 (3.97%) C#
4 12 (1.90%) Java
5 11 (1.75%) C
6 10 (1.59%) Scala
7 9 (1.43%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.27%) Bash
8 8 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.11%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.11%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.95%) R
11 5 (0.79%) PHP
11 5 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.79%) VBA
12 2 (0.32%) Bicep
12 2 (0.32%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.16%) C++
13 1 (0.16%) Delphi
13 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 51 (8.10%) Security Cleared
2 49 (7.78%) Degree
3 40 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.59%) CCNP
6 10 (1.59%) CISSP
7 8 (1.27%) CISA
7 8 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.11%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.11%) SSCP
9 6 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.79%) PMP
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.48%) CISM
11 3 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.70%) QA
2 14 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 12 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.90%) GDPR
4 11 (1.75%) NIST
5 8 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.11%) ITGC
7 6 (0.95%) PMO
8 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.63%) GRC
8 4 (0.63%) IEC 61508
8 4 (0.63%) MISRA
8 4 (0.63%) MISRA C
9 3 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.48%) SLA
10 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.32%) P3O
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (2.22%) Docker
2 11 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.27%) Firmware
4 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.63%) XenApp
6 2 (0.32%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.43%) Terraform
4 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.48%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Ansible
7 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.16%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 52 (8.25%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.97%) Databricks
3 15 (2.38%) Cisco
4 13 (2.06%) SAP
5 9 (1.43%) Google
5 9 (1.43%) Oracle
6 8 (1.27%) Meraki
7 6 (0.95%) IBM
8 5 (0.79%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.79%) VMware
9 4 (0.63%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.63%) Citrix
9 4 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.63%) SonicWALL
9 4 (0.63%) Tenable
9 4 (0.63%) Veeam
10 3 (0.48%) Adobe
11 2 (0.32%) Apple
11 2 (0.32%) HP