Senior Manager Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Manager daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 225 225
Rank change year-on-year -54 0 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 262 369 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.13% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.21% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 201 370
10th Percentile £427 £450 £450
25th Percentile £500 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £623
Median % change year-on-year - -3.61% +3.75%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £713
90th Percentile £793 £775 £815
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 8
10th Percentile - £36.08 £43.25
25th Percentile - £38.78 £44.00
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -22.60%
75th Percentile - £63.78 £68.65
90th Percentile - £71.90 £71.00
UK median hourly rate - £58.03 £56.50
% change year-on-year - +2.71% -19.29%

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 25,481 30,404 39,875
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 92.98% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,420 18,695 27,834
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,402 1,401 1,383
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.99 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% - +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies 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 27 September 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 -23 142 £600 +2.13% 389
North of England -17 39 £500 -9.09% 81
Midlands -37 27 £550 -25.42% 36
South East -4 26 £620 -1.39% 209
West Midlands -28 22 £550 -25.42% 25
North West +2 18 £550 - 49
Yorkshire -7 18 £500 -4.71% 27
East of England -2 8 £700 +65.68% 22
South West +2 7 £550 -8.33% 44
East Midlands -2 5 £550 - 11
North East -10 5 £475 -34.48% 5
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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.

1 119 (45.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 104 (39.69%) Social Skills
3 97 (37.02%) Agile
4 70 (26.72%) Project Management
5 61 (23.28%) Finance
6 41 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 41 (15.65%) Project Delivery
7 37 (14.12%) Microsoft
8 35 (13.36%) Migration
9 33 (12.60%) Waterfall
10 31 (11.83%) Azure
10 31 (11.83%) Roadmaps
11 29 (11.07%) Change Management
12 28 (10.69%) Retail
13 27 (10.31%) Risk Management
13 27 (10.31%) PRINCE2
14 26 (9.92%) Scrum
15 25 (9.54%) PMI Certification
15 25 (9.54%) Public Sector
16 24 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (8.78%) Degree
17 23 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (8.40%) PMP
19 21 (8.02%) Analytics
19 21 (8.02%) Product Management
20 20 (7.63%) Business Case
20 20 (7.63%) Security Cleared
21 19 (7.25%) JIRA
22 18 (6.87%) Project Planning
22 18 (6.87%) AWS

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 9 (3.44%) Confluence
2 6 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.34%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Endur
2 2 (0.76%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.76%) OPENHousing
2 2 (0.76%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Maximo
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.38%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.83%) Azure
2 18 (6.87%) AWS
3 13 (4.96%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.58%) GCP
5 11 (4.20%) SaaS
6 9 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.53%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.15%) Asana
9 3 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.76%) Boomi
10 2 (0.76%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.76%) IaaS
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.76%) Miro
10 2 (0.76%) OCI
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle CX
10 2 (0.76%) Slack
10 2 (0.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Broadband
1 1 (0.38%) Network Security
1 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.58%) Power BI
2 10 (3.82%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.15%) Metadata
5 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.76%) Looker
5 2 (0.76%) Tableau
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) DB2
6 1 (0.38%) DTS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 104 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.28%) Finance
3 28 (10.69%) Retail
4 25 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.34%) Legal
6 14 (5.34%) Marketing
7 12 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.82%) Banking
8 10 (3.82%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.91%) Front Office
10 5 (1.91%) Local Government
10 5 (1.91%) Military
11 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.15%) Aviation
12 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.15%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.76%) React
3 1 (0.38%) .NET
3 1 (0.38%) ATL
3 1 (0.38%) Flash
3 1 (0.38%) Kafka
3 1 (0.38%) MIDP
3 1 (0.38%) Next.js
3 1 (0.38%) OAuth
3 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.38%) OpenID
3 1 (0.38%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.38%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.73%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.05%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.67%) PMI
4 7 (2.67%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (1.91%) FMCG
5 5 (1.91%) Housing Association
6 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.53%) NHS
7 3 (1.15%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.76%) CMDB
8 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.76%) Derivative
8 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.76%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Robotics
9 1 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.05%) Windows
2 2 (0.76%) Android
2 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (45.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 97 (37.02%) Agile
3 70 (26.72%) Project Management
4 41 (15.65%) Project Delivery
4 41 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 35 (13.36%) Migration
6 33 (12.60%) Waterfall
7 31 (11.83%) Roadmaps
8 29 (11.07%) Change Management
9 27 (10.31%) PRINCE2
9 27 (10.31%) Risk Management
10 26 (9.92%) Scrum
11 24 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (8.02%) Analytics
13 21 (8.02%) Product Management
14 20 (7.63%) Business Case
15 18 (6.87%) Project Planning
16 17 (6.49%) Budget Management
16 17 (6.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.67%) SQL
2 5 (1.91%) Python
3 2 (0.76%) Java
4 1 (0.38%) ABAP
4 1 (0.38%) Bash
4 1 (0.38%) C++
4 1 (0.38%) COBOL
4 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.38%) R
4 1 (0.38%) RPG
4 1 (0.38%) Scala
4 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (9.54%) PMI Certification
2 23 (8.78%) Degree
3 22 (8.40%) PMP
4 20 (7.63%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.34%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.15%) CISSP
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.76%) APMG
9 2 (0.76%) CAPM
9 2 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.38%) APMP
10 1 (0.38%) CFA
10 1 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.38%) CRISC
10 1 (0.38%) MAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.44%) QA
2 7 (2.67%) PMO
3 5 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) Basel III
5 1 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.38%) EMIR
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) MiFID
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (2.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.76%) SCCM
3 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.34%) Salesforce
2 14 (5.34%) SAP
3 10 (3.82%) Oracle
4 9 (3.44%) Google
5 8 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.91%) Adobe
7 4 (1.53%) Civica
7 4 (1.53%) NEC
7 4 (1.53%) Northgate
8 3 (1.15%) Databricks
9 2 (0.76%) Aareon
9 2 (0.76%) Capita
9 2 (0.76%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.76%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.76%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.76%) IBM
10 1 (0.38%) FNZ
10 1 (0.38%) IFS
10 1 (0.38%) Sitecore