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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 382 526 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 7.38% 11.82% 13.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.26% 12.68% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 255 278 351
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,879 £57,800
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +8.79% -3.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,465 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -3.02% -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 4,627 4,148 2,869
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.39% 93.23% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,641 2,019 2,449
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,877 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -2 211 £65,000 +6.20% 51
Warwickshire +6 50 £55,500 -20.71% 14
Coventry -4 25 £66,250 +10.42% 15
Solihull +4 23 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Worcestershire -20 17 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Staffordshire -24 17 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Herefordshire +8 16 £70,000 -
Shropshire -24 5 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Wolverhampton +2 4 £80,000 -38.67% 6
Walsall - 1 £72,500 -
Wednesbury - 1 £55,000 -
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 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 71 (18.59%) Azure
2 58 (15.18%) SQL
3 54 (14.14%) Agile
4 52 (13.61%) Degree
5 47 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (10.99%) Microsoft
7 38 (9.95%) Security Cleared
8 37 (9.69%) CI/CD
9 36 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (9.42%) DevOps
9 36 (9.42%) Mentoring
10 32 (8.38%) C#
11 31 (8.12%) Analytics
12 30 (7.85%) Python
13 29 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (7.59%) Power Platform
14 28 (7.33%) Decision-Making
14 28 (7.33%) SC Cleared
15 27 (7.07%) SaaS
16 26 (6.81%) .NET
17 25 (6.54%) BPSS Clearance
17 25 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
18 24 (6.28%) QA
19 23 (6.02%) Data Analysis
19 23 (6.02%) Firewall
20 22 (5.76%) Power BI
20 22 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
21 21 (5.50%) Databricks
21 21 (5.50%) Migration
21 21 (5.50%) 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 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.52%) Confluence
3 2 (0.52%) WinCC
3 2 (0.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) Appian
4 1 (0.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.52%) Trello
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.52%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.26%) Maximo
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.26%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 71 (18.59%) Azure
2 29 (7.59%) Power Platform
3 27 (7.07%) SaaS
4 20 (5.24%) AWS
5 16 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (3.14%) Serverless
8 11 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.83%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.31%) GCP
10 5 (1.31%) GitHub
11 4 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.05%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.05%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.02%) Firewall
2 18 (4.71%) WAN
3 16 (4.19%) LAN
4 15 (3.93%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.31%) VPN
6 4 (1.05%) Modbus
6 4 (1.05%) MPLS
6 4 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.79%) Network Security
7 3 (0.79%) VLAN
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.52%) DHCP
8 2 (0.52%) DNS
8 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.52%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.52%) Wireless
9 1 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) SMS
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.76%) Power BI
2 21 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.36%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.57%) Tableau
6 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.05%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.05%) Metadata
6 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.52%) Redis
9 1 (0.26%) DB2
9 1 (0.26%) MySQL
9 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.26%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (1.83%) JIRA
2 4 (1.05%) Git
2 4 (1.05%) MSTest
2 4 (1.05%) NUnit
2 4 (1.05%) Selenium
3 3 (0.79%) JUnit
3 3 (0.79%) Maven
4 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
4 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.52%) Mockito
4 2 (0.52%) Moq
4 2 (0.52%) NSubstitute
4 2 (0.52%) Postman
4 2 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.26%) Gatling
5 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (15.71%) Finance
2 56 (14.66%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.50%) Manufacturing
7 20 (5.24%) Law
8 19 (4.97%) Legal
9 15 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (3.40%) Retail
11 11 (2.88%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.36%) Banking
12 9 (2.36%) Marketing
13 5 (1.31%) Automotive
14 3 (0.79%) Billing
14 3 (0.79%) Games
14 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.52%) Spanish Language
16 1 (0.26%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.81%) .NET
2 8 (2.09%) Spring
3 7 (1.83%) .NET Framework
3 7 (1.83%) React
3 7 (1.83%) REST
4 6 (1.57%) .NET Core
4 6 (1.57%) Entity Framework
4 6 (1.57%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.31%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.31%) PySpark
6 4 (1.05%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (1.05%) Blazor
6 4 (1.05%) CSS
6 4 (1.05%) HTML
6 4 (1.05%) RESTful
6 4 (1.05%) YAML
7 3 (0.79%) Django
7 3 (0.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.71%) Driving Licence
2 11 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (1.83%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.57%) Operational Technology
4 6 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.05%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.05%) SCADA
5 4 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.52%) Life Science
7 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.52%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.26%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.26%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.62%) Linux
1 10 (2.62%) Windows
2 8 (2.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Android
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (14.14%) Agile
2 47 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (9.69%) CI/CD
4 36 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (9.42%) DevOps
4 36 (9.42%) Mentoring
5 31 (8.12%) Analytics
6 29 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (7.33%) Decision-Making
8 25 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (6.02%) Data Analysis
10 22 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (5.50%) Migration
11 21 (5.50%) Roadmaps
12 18 (4.71%) Project Delivery
13 17 (4.45%) Data Modelling
13 17 (4.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (4.19%) Data Engineering
14 16 (4.19%) ETL
14 16 (4.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (15.18%) SQL
2 32 (8.38%) C#
3 30 (7.85%) Python
4 15 (3.93%) T-SQL
5 12 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.88%) Java
7 10 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.83%) Scala
9 5 (1.31%) Bicep
10 4 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.79%) Bash
11 3 (0.79%) Go
12 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.52%) VBA
13 1 (0.26%) C
13 1 (0.26%) Delphi
13 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (13.61%) Degree
2 38 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.36%) CCNP
6 9 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.36%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (2.09%) ACCA
7 8 (2.09%) CIMA
8 7 (1.83%) AAT
8 7 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.31%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.31%) PMP
11 4 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.28%) QA
2 8 (2.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.09%) GDPR
3 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 4 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.05%) PMO
6 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.52%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.52%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (3.14%) Docker
2 7 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.05%) XenApp
5 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (3.66%) Terraform
2 12 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.79%) Ansible
4 3 (0.79%) FlexNet
5 2 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.26%) Control-M
6 1 (0.26%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.50%) Databricks
3 17 (4.45%) Cisco
4 7 (1.83%) VMware
5 6 (1.57%) IBM
5 6 (1.57%) Meraki
6 5 (1.31%) Citrix
6 5 (1.31%) SAP
6 5 (1.31%) Veeam
7 4 (1.05%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.05%) Google
7 4 (1.05%) Oracle
7 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.05%) SonicWALL
8 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.52%) Genesys
8 2 (0.52%) Pega
8 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) Siemens
8 2 (0.52%) Veritas