Senior Manager
UK

The median Senior Manager salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 252 257
Rank change year-on-year +60 +5 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 1,537 1,491 2,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 1.44% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.57% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 929 839 1,268
10th Percentile £43,109 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,800 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +64 1,334 £62,500 -16.67% 514
UK excluding London +70 863 £60,000 -1.48% 258
London +67 590 £72,000 -15.79% 260
Work from Home +49 479 £62,500 -14.91% 209
North of England +81 228 £60,000 -1.48% 66
Midlands +89 159 £62,500 -3.85% 37
South West +45 153 £55,000 -9.69% 38
South East -45 132 £62,500 -3.85% 69
West Midlands +70 104 £61,000 -14.39% 29
Scotland -13 97 £65,000 -7.14% 23
North West +38 95 £57,965 -7.18% 37
Yorkshire +72 94 £64,080 +5.39% 23
East of England +9 62 £55,000 -9.69% 23
East Midlands +21 51 £62,500 +2.80% 8
North East +17 39 £59,250 -2.55% 7
Wales +16 21 £52,368 -4.79% 6
Northern Ireland - 11 £67,500 - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior Manager 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 featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 580 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 549 (35.72%) Project Management
3 523 (34.03%) Finance
4 409 (26.61%) Agile
5 311 (20.23%) Mentoring
6 298 (19.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 280 (18.22%) Coaching
8 254 (16.53%) Degree
9 243 (15.81%) Microsoft
10 205 (13.34%) Law
11 201 (13.08%) Project Delivery
12 191 (12.43%) PRINCE2
12 191 (12.43%) Decision-Making
13 182 (11.84%) Risk Management
14 179 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
15 172 (11.19%) Marketing
16 160 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 154 (10.02%) Service Delivery
18 152 (9.89%) Roadmaps
19 150 (9.76%) SaaS
20 143 (9.30%) Change Management
21 133 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
22 129 (8.39%) Analytics
23 125 (8.13%) ServiceNow
23 125 (8.13%) Security Cleared
24 123 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
25 119 (7.74%) Programme Management
26 118 (7.68%) Line Management
27 113 (7.35%) Performance Management
28 111 (7.22%) Contract Negotiation

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 30 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.91%) Confluence
4 11 (0.72%) SAS
5 9 (0.59%) CMS
6 6 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.39%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.33%) WordPress
8 4 (0.26%) Apache
8 4 (0.26%) Site Server
9 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.13%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.065%) GlassFish
11 1 (0.065%) JCAPS
11 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.065%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 65 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.85%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.20%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.20%) SPSS
7 3 (0.20%) Stata
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 30 (1.95%) Endur
2 8 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Shopify
4 6 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.26%) Primavera
5 4 (0.26%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.13%) Magento
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.065%) Adaptiv
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.065%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.065%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (9.76%) SaaS
2 78 (5.07%) Azure
3 41 (2.67%) AWS
3 41 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (2.54%) Power Platform
5 26 (1.69%) GCP
6 18 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (0.65%) Entra ID
7 10 (0.65%) OCI
7 10 (0.65%) PaaS
8 8 (0.52%) GitHub
8 8 (0.52%) PowerApps
9 6 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.33%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.33%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (0.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.43%) 5G
1 22 (1.43%) WAN
2 21 (1.37%) LAN
3 11 (0.72%) DNS
4 10 (0.65%) Broadband
5 9 (0.59%) Network Security
6 8 (0.52%) 4G
6 8 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.46%) Firewall
7 7 (0.46%) SAN
7 7 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.33%) DHCP
9 4 (0.26%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 4 (0.26%) WLAN
10 3 (0.20%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.20%) VLAN
11 2 (0.13%) MPLS
11 2 (0.13%) PPP
11 2 (0.13%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.02%) Relational Database
3 26 (1.69%) Power BI
4 23 (1.50%) RDBMS
5 16 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.72%) Tableau
7 10 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (0.52%) Big Data
10 7 (0.46%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.39%) MySQL
11 6 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.33%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.26%) GIS
14 3 (0.20%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.20%) Star Schema
15 2 (0.13%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 29 (1.89%) JIRA
2 7 (0.46%) Git
3 6 (0.39%) PHPUnit
4 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.13%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.065%) Ant
6 1 (0.065%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.065%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.065%) JUnit
6 1 (0.065%) Maven
6 1 (0.065%) Subversion
6 1 (0.065%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 580 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 523 (34.03%) Finance
3 298 (19.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 205 (13.34%) Law
5 172 (11.19%) Marketing
6 133 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
7 88 (5.73%) Legal
8 87 (5.66%) Banking
9 83 (5.40%) Retail
10 82 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
11 63 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (3.71%) Public Sector
13 53 (3.45%) Manufacturing
14 46 (2.99%) Games
15 42 (2.73%) Investment Banking
16 41 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
17 35 (2.28%) Telecoms
18 33 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.56%) Front Office
20 19 (1.24%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.65%) .NET
1 10 (0.65%) HTML
2 9 (0.59%) XML
3 7 (0.46%) CSS
4 6 (0.39%) Apache Beam
4 6 (0.39%) Doctrine
4 6 (0.39%) HTML5
4 6 (0.39%) jQuery
4 6 (0.39%) Laravel
4 6 (0.39%) React
4 6 (0.39%) Symfony
4 6 (0.39%) Vue
5 5 (0.33%) .NET Core
5 5 (0.33%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.33%) LDAP
5 5 (0.33%) Middleware
5 5 (0.33%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (0.26%) Kafka
6 4 (0.26%) PySpark
6 4 (0.26%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
2 55 (3.58%) PMI
3 45 (2.93%) Cloud Native
3 45 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 29 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 26 (1.69%) Driving Licence
5 26 (1.69%) Social Media
6 24 (1.56%) Blog
6 24 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.24%) Life Science
10 18 (1.17%) Swaptions
11 17 (1.11%) NHS
11 17 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.04%) Derivative
13 15 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.43%) Windows
2 13 (0.85%) Linux
3 9 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.065%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (35.72%) Project Management
2 409 (26.61%) Agile
3 311 (20.23%) Mentoring
4 280 (18.22%) Coaching
5 201 (13.08%) Project Delivery
6 191 (12.43%) Decision-Making
6 191 (12.43%) PRINCE2
7 182 (11.84%) Risk Management
8 179 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 154 (10.02%) Service Delivery
11 152 (9.89%) Roadmaps
12 143 (9.30%) Change Management
13 129 (8.39%) Analytics
14 123 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 119 (7.74%) Programme Management
16 118 (7.68%) Line Management
17 113 (7.35%) Performance Management
18 111 (7.22%) Contract Negotiation
19 106 (6.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (3.64%) Java
2 45 (2.93%) SQL
3 36 (2.34%) Python
4 18 (1.17%) VB
5 11 (0.72%) R
6 9 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.46%) C#
8 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.39%) PHP
9 5 (0.33%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.20%) Scala
10 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.065%) Bash
11 1 (0.065%) C
11 1 (0.065%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.065%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.065%) XPath
Qualifications
1 254 (16.53%) Degree
2 125 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 81 (5.27%) PMI Certification
4 77 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 36 (2.34%) APMP
7 34 (2.21%) PMP
8 29 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.24%) ACCA
9 19 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 18 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
11 15 (0.98%) CISM
12 14 (0.91%) CISSP
13 13 (0.85%) MBA
14 12 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.65%) CSPO
15 10 (0.65%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.59%) CISA
16 9 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.70%) SLA
2 50 (3.25%) QA
3 43 (2.80%) PMO
4 30 (1.95%) IFRS
5 29 (1.89%) GDPR
6 16 (1.04%) IFRS 9
7 14 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.65%) COBIT
10 9 (0.59%) GRC
10 9 (0.59%) NIST
11 8 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.52%) CDISC
12 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.13%) COSO
14 2 (0.13%) GAAP
14 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (1.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.72%) IAG
3 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.33%) Firmware
4 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) Docker
5 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.065%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (0.33%) Rancher
2 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.20%) CASB
3 3 (0.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.20%) Terraform
4 2 (0.13%) SmoothWall
4 2 (0.13%) WSUS
5 1 (0.065%) Control-M
5 1 (0.065%) Core Impact
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.065%) Nmap
Vendors
1 243 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.13%) ServiceNow
3 96 (6.25%) Dell
4 40 (2.60%) Oracle
5 39 (2.54%) SAP
6 30 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.17%) OpenLink
7 18 (1.17%) Sybase
7 18 (1.17%) TIBCO
8 17 (1.11%) CA
9 14 (0.91%) Google
10 12 (0.78%) iManage
11 10 (0.65%) Apple
11 10 (0.65%) Cisco
11 10 (0.65%) Virgin Media
12 7 (0.46%) CheckPoint
12 7 (0.46%) VMware
13 6 (0.39%) Databricks
14 5 (0.33%) Automation Anywhere
14 5 (0.33%) Openreach