Senior Manager Jobs

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 leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 260 252
Rank change year-on-year +78 -8 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 1,663 1,323 2,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.42% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.56% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 978 819 1,318
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £51,000 £60,800 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +2.19%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £99,125 £106,520 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £64,500
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.58% +7.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 103,724 84,717 165,173
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.22% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 73,308 55,181 85,146
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,605 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Top 17 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 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +77 1,432 £62,500 -10.71% 529
UK excluding London +66 954 £60,000 -1.48% 309
London +69 625 £71,146 -17.27% 242
Work from Home +34 489 £60,000 -17.41% 265
North of England +67 256 £60,000 -1.32% 66
Midlands +66 176 £62,500 +2.63% 45
South West +40 163 £55,000 -9.54% 44
South East -56 137 £62,500 -3.85% 74
West Midlands +61 120 £61,000 -9.63% 30
Scotland +15 120 £75,000 +15.38% 36
North West +34 113 £57,965 -4.82% 40
Yorkshire +58 101 £64,080 +5.39% 21
East of England +5 65 £55,000 -9.54% 39
East Midlands -12 52 £62,500 +2.80% 15
North East +3 42 £58,800 -3.29% 5
Wales +18 26 £40,000 -33.77% 9
Northern Ireland - 12 £63,150 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 604 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 548 (32.95%) Project Management
3 537 (32.29%) Finance
4 429 (25.80%) Agile
5 347 (20.87%) Mentoring
6 318 (19.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 305 (18.34%) Coaching
8 278 (16.72%) Degree
9 244 (14.67%) Microsoft
10 214 (12.87%) Law
11 208 (12.51%) Project Delivery
12 199 (11.97%) Risk Management
13 196 (11.79%) Decision-Making
14 193 (11.61%) PRINCE2
15 192 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
16 180 (10.82%) Marketing
17 171 (10.28%) Roadmaps
18 170 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 160 (9.62%) Service Delivery
20 149 (8.96%) SaaS
21 147 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
22 140 (8.42%) Change Management
23 136 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
24 135 (8.12%) Security Cleared
25 131 (7.88%) Analytics
26 125 (7.52%) ServiceNow
26 125 (7.52%) Line Management
27 121 (7.28%) Programme Management
28 115 (6.92%) Performance Management
29 111 (6.67%) Scrum

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 28 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.78%) Confluence
4 12 (0.72%) SAS
5 11 (0.66%) CMS
6 6 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.36%) WordPress
7 4 (0.24%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.24%) Site Server
8 3 (0.18%) Drupal
8 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.12%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.12%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.060%) GlassFish
10 1 (0.060%) JCAPS
10 1 (0.060%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.060%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.060%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 67 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.84%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.18%) Siemens NX
6 3 (0.18%) SPSS
6 3 (0.18%) Stata
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.060%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.060%) InDesign
8 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 34 (2.04%) Endur
2 8 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.48%) Shopify
3 7 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) SAP HCM
4 6 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.24%) Primavera
5 4 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.18%) Magento
6 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.060%) Adaptiv
7 1 (0.060%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.060%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.060%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.060%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.060%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.060%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 149 (8.96%) SaaS
2 71 (4.27%) Azure
3 47 (2.83%) AWS
4 42 (2.53%) Power Platform
5 37 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (1.38%) GCP
7 18 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 10 (0.60%) OCI
9 10 (0.60%) PaaS
10 9 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (0.54%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (0.54%) Entra ID
10 9 (0.54%) Serverless
11 7 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.42%) GitHub
11 7 (0.42%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.36%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.20%) LAN
2 18 (1.08%) WAN
3 17 (1.02%) 5G
4 9 (0.54%) Network Security
5 8 (0.48%) 4G
5 8 (0.48%) Broadband
6 7 (0.42%) DNS
6 7 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.36%) SAN
8 5 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.24%) Firewall
9 4 (0.24%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 4 (0.24%) WLAN
10 3 (0.18%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.12%) DHCP
11 2 (0.12%) PPP
11 2 (0.12%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.12%) Wireless
12 1 (0.060%) FTP
12 1 (0.060%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 32 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 27 (1.62%) Power BI
4 24 (1.44%) RDBMS
5 23 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.08%) Tableau
7 16 (0.96%) Big Data
8 10 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.54%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
10 8 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.42%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.36%) MySQL
13 4 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.24%) GIS
14 3 (0.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (1.92%) JIRA
2 10 (0.60%) Git
3 6 (0.36%) PHPUnit
4 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.12%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.060%) Ant
5 1 (0.060%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.060%) JUnit
5 1 (0.060%) Maven
5 1 (0.060%) Subversion
5 1 (0.060%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 604 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 537 (32.29%) Finance
3 318 (19.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 214 (12.87%) Law
5 180 (10.82%) Marketing
6 147 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
7 105 (6.31%) Retail
8 90 (5.41%) Legal
9 89 (5.35%) Banking
10 87 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
11 65 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.61%) Public Sector
13 53 (3.19%) Manufacturing
14 47 (2.83%) Games
15 42 (2.53%) Investment Banking
16 41 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (1.68%) Front Office
19 27 (1.62%) Telecoms
20 19 (1.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.78%) .NET
2 10 (0.60%) HTML
2 10 (0.60%) React
3 9 (0.54%) .NET Core
3 9 (0.54%) .NET Framework
3 9 (0.54%) Unity DI Container
3 9 (0.54%) XML
4 8 (0.48%) CSS
5 6 (0.36%) Doctrine
5 6 (0.36%) HTML5
5 6 (0.36%) jQuery
5 6 (0.36%) Laravel
5 6 (0.36%) Symfony
5 6 (0.36%) Vue
6 5 (0.30%) Flash
6 5 (0.30%) LDAP
6 5 (0.30%) Middleware
6 5 (0.30%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (0.24%) Kafka
7 4 (0.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
2 52 (3.13%) PMI
3 51 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.86%) Blog
7 29 (1.74%) Social Media
8 28 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 27 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 26 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.20%) Derivative
12 20 (1.20%) Life Science
13 19 (1.14%) Swaptions
14 17 (1.02%) NHS
15 15 (0.90%) Data Centre
15 15 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
16 12 (0.72%) Biopharmaceutical
16 12 (0.72%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.02%) Windows
2 12 (0.72%) Linux
3 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.060%) Android
6 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (32.95%) Project Management
2 429 (25.80%) Agile
3 347 (20.87%) Mentoring
4 305 (18.34%) Coaching
5 208 (12.51%) Project Delivery
6 199 (11.97%) Risk Management
7 196 (11.79%) Decision-Making
8 193 (11.61%) PRINCE2
9 192 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
10 171 (10.28%) Roadmaps
11 170 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 160 (9.62%) Service Delivery
13 140 (8.42%) Change Management
14 136 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 131 (7.88%) Analytics
16 125 (7.52%) Line Management
17 121 (7.28%) Programme Management
18 115 (6.92%) Performance Management
19 111 (6.67%) Scrum
20 110 (6.61%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 61 (3.67%) Java
2 56 (3.37%) SQL
3 44 (2.65%) Python
4 19 (1.14%) R
4 19 (1.14%) VB
5 13 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.60%) C#
7 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.36%) PHP
9 3 (0.18%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.060%) C
10 1 (0.060%) Scala
10 1 (0.060%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.060%) XPath
Qualifications
1 278 (16.72%) Degree
2 135 (8.12%) Security Cleared
3 84 (5.05%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.75%) PMI Certification
5 56 (3.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 36 (2.16%) APMP
7 33 (1.98%) PMP
8 25 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 19 (1.14%) ACCA
11 18 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (0.78%) CISM
12 13 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.72%) CISSP
13 12 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.60%) CSPO
15 9 (0.54%) MBA
15 9 (0.54%) RIBA
16 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.19%) SLA
2 56 (3.37%) QA
3 44 (2.65%) PMO
4 30 (1.80%) IFRS
5 29 (1.74%) GDPR
6 16 (0.96%) IFRS 9
7 14 (0.84%) Data Quality
8 11 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.48%) CDISC
10 8 (0.48%) COBIT
10 8 (0.48%) NIST
11 7 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.42%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.18%) GRC
13 3 (0.18%) GxP
13 3 (0.18%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.66%) IAG
3 5 (0.30%) Firmware
4 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.12%) Docker
6 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.42%) Consul
2 5 (0.30%) Rancher
3 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.18%) CASB
5 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.12%) SmoothWall
6 1 (0.060%) Control-M
6 1 (0.060%) Core Impact
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.060%) Nmap
6 1 (0.060%) Terraform
Vendors
1 244 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 125 (7.52%) ServiceNow
3 95 (5.71%) Dell
4 44 (2.65%) Oracle
5 39 (2.35%) SAP
6 36 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.14%) OpenLink
7 19 (1.14%) Sybase
7 19 (1.14%) TIBCO
8 17 (1.02%) CA
9 13 (0.78%) Google
10 11 (0.66%) iManage
11 10 (0.60%) Apple
12 8 (0.48%) Cisco
12 8 (0.48%) Virgin Media
12 8 (0.48%) Workday
13 7 (0.42%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.36%) Adobe
14 6 (0.36%) Databricks
14 6 (0.36%) Instagram