Senior Manager Contracts in the East of England

Senior Manager
England > East of England

The median Senior Manager daily rate in the East of England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 95 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +19
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 11 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.87% 0.51% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.58% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 14
10th Percentile £598 £313 £402
25th Percentile £623 £326 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £448 £600
Median % change year-on-year +62.01% -25.42% +17.07%
75th Percentile £766 £575 £650
90th Percentile £839 - £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate - £41.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.49% -41.10%
75th Percentile - £42.25 £44.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £61.06 £48.00
% change year-on-year - +27.21% -34.25%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,080 1,382 1,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.85% 87.52% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 589 1,057
10th Percentile £188 £204 £200
25th Percentile £350 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £580 £563 £600
90th Percentile £677 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 430 248
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.37 £16.70
Median hourly rate £42.75 £47.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +69.64% +41.34%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.95 £70.00 £78.10
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -42.22% +6.95% +63.85%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the East of England

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in the East of England

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Senior Manager
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +13 7 £700 +27.27% 9
Bedfordshire - 2 £850 - 2
Cambridgeshire +6 1 £750 +117.39% 13
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 6
Senior Manager
England

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 21 August 2025, 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 across the East of England region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) PMP
4 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) PMO
4 2 (18.18%) Tech Ops
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Spotify
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Business Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Tech Ops
5 1 (9.09%) Budget Management
5 1 (9.09%) Budgeting
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Enablement
5 1 (9.09%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
1 2 (18.18%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) ACCA
2 1 (9.09%) CIMA
2 1 (9.09%) CIPFA
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Spotify
1 1 (9.09%) Workday