Senior Manager Contracts in London

Senior Manager
England > London

The median Senior Manager daily rate in London 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 199 205 181
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 158 196 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.26% 1.10% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.18% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 140 307
10th Percentile £442 £463 £463
25th Percentile £506 £500 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £750 £738 £725
90th Percentile £822 £800 £788
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - - £31.17
25th Percentile - £33.65 -
Median hourly rate - £35.96 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.27% +18.12%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - £65.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £80.00 £44.74 £46.00
% change year-on-year +78.81% -2.74% -7.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in London

Senior Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Manager in London

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in London

Senior Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Manager in London

Senior Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London 0 22 £600 -17.24% 29
North London - 1 £650 -
Senior Manager
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 64 (40.51%) Finance
2 53 (33.54%) Agile
3 50 (31.65%) Social Skills
4 49 (31.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 41 (25.95%) Project Management
6 24 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (15.19%) Project Delivery
7 20 (12.66%) Azure
7 20 (12.66%) Product Management
8 19 (12.03%) Risk Management
9 17 (10.76%) Degree
9 17 (10.76%) Public Sector
10 16 (10.13%) Roadmaps
10 16 (10.13%) Waterfall
10 16 (10.13%) Migration
10 16 (10.13%) Banking
10 16 (10.13%) Retail
11 15 (9.49%) Microsoft
11 15 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (8.86%) DevOps
12 14 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (8.23%) PRINCE2
13 13 (8.23%) Change Management
13 13 (8.23%) Scrum
13 13 (8.23%) JIRA
14 12 (7.59%) AWS
14 12 (7.59%) Decision-Making
14 12 (7.59%) Business Case
15 11 (6.96%) Marketing
15 11 (6.96%) SAP

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) CMS
3 3 (1.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.27%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.27%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.63%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.66%) Azure
2 12 (7.59%) AWS
3 8 (5.06%) SaaS
4 6 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.16%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.16%) Serverless
6 4 (2.53%) Asana
6 4 (2.53%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.90%) Slack
8 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.63%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) Metadata
4 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (8.23%) JIRA
General
1 64 (40.51%) Finance
2 50 (31.65%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.13%) Banking
4 16 (10.13%) Retail
5 11 (6.96%) Marketing
6 9 (5.70%) Legal
7 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.06%) Front Office
8 7 (4.43%) Local Government
9 6 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.53%) Advertising
11 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.53%) Music Industry
12 3 (1.90%) Electronics
12 3 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.27%) Law
13 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.63%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.63%) EDI
1 1 (0.63%) Flash
1 1 (0.63%) LDAP
1 1 (0.63%) Middleware
1 1 (0.63%) OAuth
1 1 (0.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.06%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.16%) Housing Association
2 5 (3.16%) Social Media
3 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.90%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.27%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.27%) FMCG
5 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.27%) PMI
6 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Equities
6 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.63%) IoT
6 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Windows
2 3 (1.90%) Android
2 3 (1.90%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.54%) Agile
2 49 (31.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (25.95%) Project Management
4 24 (15.19%) Project Delivery
4 24 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (12.66%) Product Management
6 19 (12.03%) Risk Management
7 16 (10.13%) Migration
7 16 (10.13%) Roadmaps
7 16 (10.13%) Waterfall
8 15 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (8.86%) DevOps
9 14 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.23%) Change Management
10 13 (8.23%) PRINCE2
10 13 (8.23%) Scrum
11 12 (7.59%) Business Case
11 12 (7.59%) Decision-Making
12 11 (6.96%) ITIL
13 10 (6.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.80%) Python
2 5 (3.16%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.53%) SQL
4 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (10.76%) Degree
2 10 (6.33%) SC Cleared
2 10 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.06%) PMI Certification
3 8 (5.06%) PMP
4 3 (1.90%) CISSP
4 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.90%) MRICS
4 3 (1.90%) RIBA
5 2 (1.27%) CISM
5 2 (1.27%) CRISC
5 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) GDPR
1 7 (4.43%) QA
2 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (1.90%) SLA
3 2 (1.27%) IFRS
3 2 (1.27%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) MiFID
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) PMO
4 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.16%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.16%) Terraform
3 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.63%) CASB
Vendors
1 15 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.96%) SAP
3 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.16%) Adobe
5 4 (2.53%) Civica
5 4 (2.53%) NEC
5 4 (2.53%) Northgate
5 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.53%) TikTok
6 2 (1.27%) Aareon
6 2 (1.27%) Ariba
6 2 (1.27%) Capita
6 2 (1.27%) Planview
6 2 (1.27%) Workday
7 1 (0.63%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.63%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.63%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.63%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.63%) Liquidlogic