Senior Manager Contracts

Senior Manager
UK

The median Senior Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 225 242
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 480 668 1,031
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 1.20% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.27% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 533 742
10th Percentile £455 £455 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £777 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +7.80% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 3
10th Percentile £31.60 £31.17 £29.66
25th Percentile £33.65 £41.50 £36.64
Median hourly rate £51.00 £48.00 £49.53
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.09% -16.19%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.50 £60.39
90th Percentile £78.65 £63.75 £66.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £43.00 £37.27
% change year-on-year +18.60% +15.39% -36.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Manager.

Daily rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -12 408 £600 - 527
UK excluding London +13 222 £593 +7.80% 311
London -13 215 £600 -4.00% 243
Work from Home +58 197 £600 - 273
South East -15 63 £611 +21.52% 68
North of England +19 46 £575 -9.80% 69
South West +10 38 £550 -10.20% 43
Midlands +7 28 £625 +16.28% 46
Scotland +30 27 £450 -10.89% 39
North West +15 27 £584 -6.57% 43
West Midlands +3 25 £613 +11.36% 31
Yorkshire +5 17 £538 -17.31% 20
Wales +21 11 £600 +9.09% 9
East of England -8 8 £500 -9.09% 41
North East +13 4 £663 +1.92% 6
East Midlands +5 3 £650 +30.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 2 £435 - 6

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior Manager contract 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 contract job ads featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 180 (37.50%) Agile
2 169 (35.21%) Project Management
3 150 (31.25%) Finance
4 130 (27.08%) Social Skills
5 112 (23.33%) Security Cleared
6 100 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 90 (18.75%) Project Delivery
8 88 (18.33%) SC Cleared
9 85 (17.71%) Public Sector
10 66 (13.75%) PRINCE2
11 58 (12.08%) Risk Management
12 54 (11.25%) Change Management
13 45 (9.38%) SAP
14 42 (8.75%) Migration
14 42 (8.75%) Waterfall
15 40 (8.33%) Scrum
15 40 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (7.50%) Microsoft
17 35 (7.29%) JIRA
18 33 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (6.88%) Decision-Making
18 33 (6.88%) Roadmaps
19 32 (6.67%) Degree
20 31 (6.46%) Coaching
21 26 (5.42%) Azure
21 26 (5.42%) Marketing
21 26 (5.42%) Legal
22 25 (5.21%) PMP
23 24 (5.00%) Local Government
23 24 (5.00%) ERP

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (3.96%) Confluence
2 16 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.04%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.42%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
5 1 (0.21%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (1.88%) Acrobat
2 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.04%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.63%) Shopify
5 2 (0.42%) Primavera
5 2 (0.42%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.42%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.21%) Endur
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 26 (5.42%) Azure
2 16 (3.33%) SaaS
3 14 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (2.71%) AWS
5 11 (2.29%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.46%) GCP
7 6 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (1.04%) PaaS
9 3 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.63%) BigCommerce
9 3 (0.63%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.63%) Slack
9 3 (0.63%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.42%) IaaS
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.21%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.21%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle CX
11 1 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) Firewall
2 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.42%) Internet
3 2 (0.42%) SNA
3 2 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.21%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) LAN
4 1 (0.21%) NFC
4 1 (0.21%) WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.29%) Power BI
2 6 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (0.63%) Tableau
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.42%) GIS
4 2 (0.42%) MySQL
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.21%) Big Data
5 1 (0.21%) IDMS
5 1 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (7.29%) JIRA
2 6 (1.25%) Git
3 4 (0.83%) Artifactory
3 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.83%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.42%) Maven
General
1 150 (31.25%) Finance
2 130 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 85 (17.71%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.42%) Legal
4 26 (5.42%) Marketing
5 24 (5.00%) Local Government
6 22 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (3.96%) Banking
9 15 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.92%) Retail
11 11 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.04%) Military
15 4 (0.83%) French Language
15 4 (0.83%) German Language
15 4 (0.83%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.63%) VML
2 2 (0.42%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.42%) CSS
2 2 (0.42%) J2EE
2 2 (0.42%) jQuery
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (0.42%) REST
2 2 (0.42%) Sass
2 2 (0.42%) Spring
2 2 (0.42%) Spring MVC
2 2 (0.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (0.42%) Web Services
3 1 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.21%) JSON
3 1 (0.21%) Middleware
3 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.21%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.96%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.33%) NHS
3 11 (2.29%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.29%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.67%) FMCG
6 7 (1.46%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.04%) PMI
8 4 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.83%) Social Media
9 3 (0.63%) Blog
9 3 (0.63%) CMDB
9 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.63%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.63%) Replication
9 3 (0.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.67%) Linux
2 7 (1.46%) Windows
3 6 (1.25%) Unix
4 4 (0.83%) Android
4 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (37.50%) Agile
2 169 (35.21%) Project Management
3 100 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 66 (13.75%) PRINCE2
6 58 (12.08%) Risk Management
7 54 (11.25%) Change Management
8 42 (8.75%) Migration
8 42 (8.75%) Waterfall
9 40 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (8.33%) Scrum
10 33 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (6.88%) Decision-Making
10 33 (6.88%) Roadmaps
11 31 (6.46%) Coaching
12 24 (5.00%) ERP
12 24 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (4.79%) Analytics
13 23 (4.79%) Business Case
13 23 (4.79%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.08%) Python
2 9 (1.88%) SQL
3 3 (0.63%) Java
3 3 (0.63%) R
4 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 112 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 88 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.67%) Degree
4 25 (5.21%) PMP
5 22 (4.58%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (1.25%) CIPD
9 5 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.42%) CISM
12 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.21%) CAPM
13 1 (0.21%) CIMA
13 1 (0.21%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.96%) PMO
2 7 (1.46%) GDPR
2 7 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.46%) QA
3 5 (1.04%) SLA
4 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.42%) GRC
4 2 (0.42%) IFRS
5 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.21%) COBIT
5 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.21%) GAAP
5 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.21%) NIST
5 1 (0.21%) P3O
5 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.42%) HDFS
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.04%) Ansible
1 5 (1.04%) Terraform
2 4 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (9.38%) SAP
2 36 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.50%) Adobe
4 10 (2.08%) Oracle
4 10 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.25%) Cadence
7 5 (1.04%) Progress
7 5 (1.04%) Workday
8 4 (0.83%) Google
9 3 (0.63%) Ariba
9 3 (0.63%) BT
9 3 (0.63%) Dell
9 3 (0.63%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.42%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco
10 2 (0.42%) Fujitsu
10 2 (0.42%) Intel
11 1 (0.21%) Databricks