Senior Manager Contracts in England

Senior Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Manager daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 238 196
Rank change year-on-year -7 -42 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 257 364 685
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 0.98% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.06% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 256 540
10th Percentile £450 £463 £438
25th Percentile £508 £508 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £694 £700 £700
90th Percentile £820 £789 £775
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 16
10th Percentile - £31.60 £29.59
25th Percentile - £33.65 £38.92
Median hourly rate £80.00 £44.74 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.81% -2.74% -7.13%
75th Percentile - £60.31 £62.44
90th Percentile - £65.00 £64.38
UK median hourly rate £73.23 £47.87 £46.00
% change year-on-year +52.97% +4.07% +23.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

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

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 158 £575 -4.17% 1,337
South East +23 33 £541 -9.88% 307
North of England +13 29 £525 -8.70% 255
Midlands +13 18 £588 -6.00% 166
North West +11 17 £525 -11.45% 131
West Midlands +6 16 £588 -6.00% 92
Yorkshire +6 10 £543 -3.56% 100
South West +22 9 £602 +9.45% 107
East of England +27 5 £775 +55.00% 136
North East +2 4 £485 -19.17% 25
East Midlands +9 2 £625 +25.00% 65
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 100 (38.91%) Finance
2 78 (30.35%) Social Skills
3 76 (29.57%) Agile
4 73 (28.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 72 (28.02%) Project Management
6 42 (16.34%) Public Sector
7 36 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 34 (13.23%) Security Cleared
9 33 (12.84%) Project Delivery
10 31 (12.06%) SC Cleared
11 30 (11.67%) Azure
11 30 (11.67%) Risk Management
12 28 (10.89%) Microsoft
13 27 (10.51%) Degree
14 26 (10.12%) PRINCE2
14 26 (10.12%) Migration
15 24 (9.34%) Product Management
16 23 (8.95%) Change Management
17 22 (8.56%) Retail
18 21 (8.17%) Analytics
18 21 (8.17%) Roadmaps
18 21 (8.17%) Problem-Solving
19 20 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
19 20 (7.78%) Waterfall
19 20 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
20 18 (7.00%) Banking
21 17 (6.61%) Scrum
21 17 (6.61%) SAP
21 17 (6.61%) Marketing
21 17 (6.61%) JIRA

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.95%) Confluence
4 3 (1.17%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (5.84%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.78%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.67%) Azure
2 14 (5.45%) AWS
3 13 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (5.06%) SaaS
4 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.72%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.95%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.95%) Serverless
8 4 (1.56%) Asana
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.17%) GCP
9 3 (1.17%) Slack
10 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.50%) Firewall
2 5 (1.95%) Internet
2 5 (1.95%) Network Security
2 5 (1.95%) VPN
3 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.39%) 5G
4 1 (0.39%) Intranet
4 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.39%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.72%) Power BI
2 5 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.39%) Metadata
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (6.61%) JIRA
General
1 100 (38.91%) Finance
2 78 (30.35%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.34%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.56%) Retail
5 20 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.00%) Banking
7 17 (6.61%) Marketing
8 16 (6.23%) Legal
9 12 (4.67%) Local Government
10 9 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.50%) Law
10 9 (3.50%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.11%) Front Office
11 8 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (2.72%) Military
13 6 (2.33%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.95%) Electronics
15 4 (1.56%) Advertising
15 4 (1.56%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.56%) LDAP
2 2 (0.78%) OAuth
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.78%) SAML
3 1 (0.39%) .NET
3 1 (0.39%) EDI
3 1 (0.39%) Flash
3 1 (0.39%) Middleware
3 1 (0.39%) MIDP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (1.95%) Housing Association
2 5 (1.95%) Social Media
2 5 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.17%) FMCG
4 3 (1.17%) PMI
4 3 (1.17%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.78%) Digital Media
5 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.39%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) Windows
2 3 (1.17%) Android
2 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (29.57%) Agile
2 73 (28.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 72 (28.02%) Project Management
4 36 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 33 (12.84%) Project Delivery
6 30 (11.67%) Risk Management
7 26 (10.12%) Migration
7 26 (10.12%) PRINCE2
8 24 (9.34%) Product Management
9 23 (8.95%) Change Management
10 21 (8.17%) Analytics
10 21 (8.17%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (8.17%) Roadmaps
11 20 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (7.78%) Waterfall
12 17 (6.61%) DevOps
12 17 (6.61%) Scrum
13 16 (6.23%) Business Case
13 16 (6.23%) Contract Management
13 16 (6.23%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.33%) Python
2 5 (1.95%) JavaScript
2 5 (1.95%) SQL
3 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.39%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.51%) Degree
4 11 (4.28%) PMI Certification
4 11 (4.28%) PMP
5 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.56%) MRICS
7 3 (1.17%) APMP
7 3 (1.17%) CISSP
7 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.17%) ISEB
7 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.17%) RIBA
8 2 (0.78%) ACCA
8 2 (0.78%) CISM
8 2 (0.78%) CRISC
8 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.39%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.89%) GDPR
2 9 (3.50%) QA
3 7 (2.72%) PMO
4 4 (1.56%) IFRS
4 4 (1.56%) SLA
5 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.39%) CASB
3 1 (0.39%) SCSM
Vendors
1 28 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.61%) SAP
3 8 (3.11%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.72%) Adobe
5 6 (2.33%) Oracle
6 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.56%) Civica
7 4 (1.56%) NEC
7 4 (1.56%) Northgate
7 4 (1.56%) TikTok
8 2 (0.78%) Aareon
8 2 (0.78%) Ariba
8 2 (0.78%) Capita
8 2 (0.78%) Databricks
8 2 (0.78%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.78%) Planview
8 2 (0.78%) Workday
9 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.39%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.39%) Snow