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 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 215 243
Rank change year-on-year -18 +28 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 440 726 1,029
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.25% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.32% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 569 708
10th Percentile £454 £438 £440
25th Percentile £501 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year - +1.27% +12.86%
75th Percentile £693 £700 £675
90th Percentile £789 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 4
10th Percentile £31.60 £29.27 £13.10
25th Percentile £33.65 £36.34 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £44.00 £37.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +18.07% -36.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.88 £55.52
90th Percentile £80.00 £64.50 £64.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £45.75 £37.27
% change year-on-year +11.48% +22.77% -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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

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 May 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 May 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -29 380 £600 - 505
London -26 205 £600 -4.00% 237
UK excluding London -17 200 £575 +4.55% 280
Work from Home +41 179 £600 - 198
South East -19 60 £600 +17.07% 76
South West +12 35 £550 -8.33% 36
North of England 0 34 £575 -6.12% 73
Midlands +20 27 £613 +11.36% 40
Scotland +22 24 £438 -13.37% 26
West Midlands +15 24 £625 +13.64% 30
North West +8 23 £593 +3.11% 39
Wales +22 11 £600 +9.09% 8
Yorkshire 0 11 £563 -10.89% 25
East of England -1 8 £500 -9.09% 27
East Midlands +14 3 £500 - 10
North East +11 2 £600 -7.69% 10
Northern Ireland +6 2 £435 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 170 (38.64%) Project Management
2 164 (37.27%) Agile
3 134 (30.45%) Finance
4 111 (25.23%) Social Skills
5 102 (23.18%) Security Cleared
6 93 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 86 (19.55%) SC Cleared
8 84 (19.09%) Public Sector
9 80 (18.18%) Project Delivery
10 73 (16.59%) PRINCE2
11 53 (12.05%) Risk Management
12 44 (10.00%) Migration
13 43 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (9.55%) Scrum
15 40 (9.09%) SAP
16 39 (8.86%) Change Management
17 37 (8.41%) Microsoft
17 37 (8.41%) Decision-Making
18 34 (7.73%) JIRA
18 34 (7.73%) Waterfall
19 30 (6.82%) Business Case
20 29 (6.59%) Roadmaps
20 29 (6.59%) Degree
21 28 (6.36%) Programme Management
21 28 (6.36%) PMP
22 27 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
22 27 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
23 26 (5.91%) Coaching
23 26 (5.91%) Analytics
23 26 (5.91%) Local Government

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 22 (5.00%) Confluence
2 19 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.14%) CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Camunda
5 1 (0.23%) Drupal
5 1 (0.23%) Kentico
5 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (2.05%) Acrobat
2 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.68%) Shopify
4 2 (0.45%) Primavera
4 2 (0.45%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (5.23%) Azure
2 16 (3.64%) SaaS
3 13 (2.95%) Power Platform
4 10 (2.27%) AWS
4 10 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (0.91%) GCP
5 4 (0.91%) WhatsApp
6 3 (0.68%) BigCommerce
6 3 (0.68%) PaaS
6 3 (0.68%) PowerApps
6 3 (0.68%) Slack
6 3 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.45%) IaaS
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.23%) Kontent
8 1 (0.23%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.91%) SNA
2 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.45%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.23%) Broadband
3 1 (0.23%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.23%) Intranet
3 1 (0.23%) LAN
3 1 (0.23%) NFC
3 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.95%) Power BI
2 6 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.45%) MySQL
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (0.45%) Tableau
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.23%) Big Data
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.23%) IDMS
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (7.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.45%) Git
2 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.45%) Maven
2 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 134 (30.45%) Finance
2 111 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 84 (19.09%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
5 26 (5.91%) Local Government
6 25 (5.68%) Marketing
7 24 (5.45%) Legal
8 14 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.73%) Banking
10 12 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.27%) Retail
11 10 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.36%) Military
12 6 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.14%) Front Office
14 4 (0.91%) French Language
14 4 (0.91%) German Language
14 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.68%) VML
2 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.45%) CSS
2 2 (0.45%) J2EE
2 2 (0.45%) jQuery
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (0.45%) REST
2 2 (0.45%) Sass
2 2 (0.45%) Spring
2 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
2 2 (0.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (0.45%) Web Services
3 1 (0.23%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.23%) JSON
3 1 (0.23%) Middleware
3 1 (0.23%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.23%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 12 (2.73%) NHS
3 11 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.59%) FMCG
5 7 (1.59%) Freedom of Information
6 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.14%) PMI
7 5 (1.14%) Social Media
8 4 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.68%) Blog
9 3 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.68%) Housing Association
9 3 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.45%) IVR
10 2 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.59%) Windows
2 6 (1.36%) Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Unix
4 3 (0.68%) Android
4 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (38.64%) Project Management
2 164 (37.27%) Agile
3 93 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 73 (16.59%) PRINCE2
6 53 (12.05%) Risk Management
7 44 (10.00%) Migration
8 43 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (9.55%) Scrum
10 39 (8.86%) Change Management
11 37 (8.41%) Decision-Making
12 34 (7.73%) Waterfall
13 30 (6.82%) Business Case
14 29 (6.59%) Roadmaps
15 28 (6.36%) Programme Management
16 27 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (5.91%) Analytics
17 26 (5.91%) Coaching
18 21 (4.77%) Project Governance
19 19 (4.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (1.59%) SQL
2 6 (1.36%) Python
3 4 (0.91%) Java
4 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 86 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.59%) Degree
4 28 (6.36%) PMP
5 23 (5.23%) PMI Certification
6 16 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 12 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) CISM
10 2 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CAPM
11 1 (0.23%) CCIP
11 1 (0.23%) CIPD
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.55%) PMO
2 9 (2.05%) QA
3 8 (1.82%) GDPR
4 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.36%) SLA
6 4 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) P3O
8 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) Ansible
1 3 (0.68%) Terraform
2 2 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (9.09%) SAP
2 37 (8.41%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.73%) Adobe
4 10 (2.27%) Oracle
5 5 (1.14%) Progress
5 5 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.91%) Cadence
6 4 (0.91%) Google
6 4 (0.91%) Workday
7 3 (0.68%) Ariba
7 3 (0.68%) Dell
7 3 (0.68%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.45%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.45%) Brandwatch
8 2 (0.45%) BT
8 2 (0.45%) Cisco
8 2 (0.45%) Fujitsu
8 2 (0.45%) Intel
8 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow