Senior Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior
England > West Midlands

The median Senior salary in the West Midlands is £57,965 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 892 712 918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.96% 11.38% 12.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.68% 12.63% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 677 410 601
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,772 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 7,036 5,639 6,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.14% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 3,228 4,778
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the West Midlands

Senior
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior 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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +6 451 £60,000 -1.40% 111
Warwickshire +7 127 £54,500 -0.91% 47
Staffordshire -6 61 £50,000 +8.70% 34
Worcestershire +11 53 £52,500 -12.50% 19
Solihull +23 43 £62,500 +20.77% 3
Coventry +5 32 £65,000 +18.18% 30
Shropshire +15 25 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Halesowen - 17 £60,000 - 7
Wolverhampton +11 5 £63,500 +15.45% 8
West Bromwich +3 5 £78,500 +52.21% 2
Herefordshire -5 5 £61,500 +36.67% 4
Brierley Hill -8 1 £55,000 -
Senior
England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 182 (20.40%) Azure
2 169 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 159 (17.83%) Microsoft
4 145 (16.26%) Agile
5 136 (15.25%) Finance
6 134 (15.02%) SQL
7 111 (12.44%) Degree
8 110 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (12.22%) Mentoring
10 108 (12.11%) Software Engineering
11 97 (10.87%) Analytics
12 94 (10.54%) C#
13 85 (9.53%) DevOps
14 84 (9.42%) .NET
15 82 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
16 81 (9.08%) AWS
17 70 (7.85%) Windows
18 68 (7.62%) Python
19 67 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
19 67 (7.51%) VMware
20 63 (7.06%) Coaching
20 63 (7.06%) Power Platform
21 61 (6.84%) WAN
22 60 (6.73%) Firewall
23 59 (6.61%) Cisco
24 58 (6.50%) JavaScript
24 58 (6.50%) Project Management
25 57 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
25 57 (6.39%) Power BI
26 56 (6.28%) Actionable Insight

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.68%) IIS
3 8 (0.90%) Confluence
3 8 (0.90%) SAS
4 6 (0.67%) Tuxedo
5 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) WinCC
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Moodle
8 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.01%) Simulink
5 6 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.34%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.34%) Sketch
8 2 (0.22%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.35%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 182 (20.40%) Azure
2 81 (9.08%) AWS
3 63 (7.06%) Power Platform
4 48 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
7 30 (3.36%) Entra ID
7 30 (3.36%) SaaS
8 22 (2.47%) PowerApps
9 21 (2.35%) GCP
9 21 (2.35%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.91%) OneDrive
11 13 (1.46%) GitHub
12 12 (1.35%) Serverless
13 11 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.78%) Azure API Management
16 7 (0.78%) Azure Event Grid
16 7 (0.78%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.84%) WAN
2 60 (6.73%) Firewall
3 32 (3.59%) SD-WAN
4 31 (3.48%) Wireless
5 30 (3.36%) VLAN
6 26 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (2.69%) TCP/IP
8 23 (2.58%) LAN
9 20 (2.24%) DNS
10 19 (2.13%) DHCP
11 15 (1.68%) VPN
12 14 (1.57%) Cisco Firepower
12 14 (1.57%) SAN
13 13 (1.46%) WLAN
14 12 (1.35%) OSPF
15 11 (1.23%) MPLS
16 10 (1.12%) J1939
16 10 (1.12%) VoIP
17 8 (0.90%) Wireshark
18 7 (0.78%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.39%) Power BI
2 53 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.91%) Tableau
4 22 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (2.24%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.13%) MySQL
7 18 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.23%) SQLite
10 8 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.67%) Looker
12 6 (0.67%) Metadata
13 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.56%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.45%) Big Data
14 4 (0.45%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.14%) Git
2 10 (1.12%) JIRA
2 10 (1.12%) Postman
3 6 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (0.56%) MSTest
4 5 (0.56%) SoapUI
5 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.34%) Axure RP
6 3 (0.34%) GitLab
6 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.22%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.11%) NUnit
8 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 169 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 136 (15.25%) Finance
3 82 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (4.04%) Retail
6 35 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 30 (3.36%) Automotive
8 29 (3.25%) Legal
9 28 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.35%) Games
12 20 (2.24%) Electronics
13 18 (2.02%) Law
14 17 (1.91%) Marketing
15 16 (1.79%) Banking
16 15 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.12%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (9.42%) .NET
2 40 (4.48%) HTML
3 36 (4.04%) .NET Framework
3 36 (4.04%) AngularJS
4 33 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 32 (3.59%) Entity Framework
5 32 (3.59%) REST
6 29 (3.25%) RESTful
7 26 (2.91%) ASP.NET
7 26 (2.91%) CSS
7 26 (2.91%) React
8 19 (2.13%) Blazor
9 18 (2.02%) Vue
10 16 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (1.68%) Web Services
11 15 (1.68%) WebRTC
12 13 (1.46%) Yocto
13 12 (1.35%) WPF
14 11 (1.23%) Universal Windows Platform
14 11 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 25 (2.80%) Driving Licence
3 24 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 22 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.24%) IoT
6 17 (1.91%) Clustering
7 16 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.12%) PMI
11 9 (1.01%) CUDA
11 9 (1.01%) FMCG
11 9 (1.01%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (0.78%) NHS
12 7 (0.78%) PKI
13 6 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.85%) Windows
2 46 (5.16%) Windows Server
3 38 (4.26%) Linux
4 13 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (1.01%) Android
5 9 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.56%) SUSE
9 5 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.45%) Unix
10 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.22%) VME
12 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.11%) HPUX
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (16.26%) Agile
2 110 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (12.22%) Mentoring
4 108 (12.11%) Software Engineering
5 97 (10.87%) Analytics
6 85 (9.53%) DevOps
7 67 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
8 63 (7.06%) Coaching
9 58 (6.50%) Project Management
10 57 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
11 56 (6.28%) Actionable Insight
12 55 (6.17%) Data Modelling
12 55 (6.17%) Machine Learning
13 50 (5.61%) Project Delivery
14 45 (5.04%) Migration
15 44 (4.93%) User Experience
16 43 (4.82%) Visualisation
17 42 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence
17 42 (4.71%) ITIL
18 41 (4.60%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 134 (15.02%) SQL
2 94 (10.54%) C#
3 68 (7.62%) Python
4 58 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 35 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 33 (3.70%) C
7 26 (2.91%) Java
8 22 (2.47%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.35%) C++
10 12 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.23%) XAML
12 10 (1.12%) PHP
13 8 (0.90%) COBOL
13 8 (0.90%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.90%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 6 (0.67%) Bicep
14 6 (0.67%) Go
14 6 (0.67%) R
15 4 (0.45%) Bash
15 4 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 111 (12.44%) Degree
2 51 (5.72%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (3.92%) CCNP
6 28 (3.14%) CCNA
7 18 (2.02%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.57%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.12%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.90%) CCIE
12 8 (0.90%) CCSA
13 7 (0.78%) PhD
13 7 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.67%) CCDP
14 6 (0.67%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 6 (0.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.02%) QA
2 13 (1.46%) Accessibility
2 13 (1.46%) SLA
3 11 (1.23%) Automotive SPICE
3 11 (1.23%) AUTOSAR
4 8 (0.90%) GDPR
4 8 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.78%) GMP
5 7 (0.78%) ISO 26262
6 6 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.45%) GRC
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.45%) MISRA
7 4 (0.45%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.45%) PMO
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 48 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 42 (4.71%) Docker
4 27 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.13%) Firmware
6 10 (1.12%) vSphere
7 7 (0.78%) NFS
8 5 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.03%) Terraform
3 11 (1.23%) SCCM
4 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.90%) Stealthwatch
5 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.67%) Ansible
6 6 (0.67%) Rancher
7 5 (0.56%) CASB
7 5 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.45%) Nagios
8 4 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.45%) VxRail
9 2 (0.22%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.22%) MIIS
10 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 159 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.51%) VMware
3 59 (6.61%) Cisco
4 45 (5.04%) CheckPoint
5 31 (3.48%) Meraki
6 21 (2.35%) Adobe
7 19 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 18 (2.02%) Databricks
8 18 (2.02%) Google
9 13 (1.46%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.46%) Apple
10 12 (1.35%) Oracle
10 12 (1.35%) Xamarin
11 11 (1.23%) Dell
11 11 (1.23%) HP
11 11 (1.23%) IBM
11 11 (1.23%) Juniper
12 10 (1.12%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.01%) Aruba