Senior Manager Contracts in London

Senior Manager
England > London

The median Senior Manager daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 205 185
Rank change year-on-year -9 -20 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 143 211 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.12% 1.20% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.28% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 138 285
10th Percentile £430 £450 £500
25th Percentile £518 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £741 £700 £725
90th Percentile £820 £793 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - - £31.17
25th Percentile - £33.65 £40.79
Median hourly rate - £49.48 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.57% -
75th Percentile - £65.38 £52.63
90th Percentile - £66.05 £58.78
England median hourly rate - £44.74 £46.00
% change year-on-year - -2.74% -32.45%

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 11,910 16,481 23,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,060 11,827 17,380
10th Percentile £336 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 314 273
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.10
25th Percentile £23.53 £20.22 £22.63
Median hourly rate £32.70 £27.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -25.68% +5.71%
75th Percentile £50.50 £44.50 £64.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.45
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +12 23 £600 -14.29% 141
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 27 June 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 55 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 54 (37.76%) Agile
3 52 (36.36%) Finance
4 47 (32.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (29.37%) Project Management
6 22 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
7 21 (14.69%) Azure
8 19 (13.29%) Migration
9 18 (12.59%) Product Management
9 18 (12.59%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.89%) Degree
10 17 (11.89%) Retail
10 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
11 16 (11.19%) Risk Management
12 15 (10.49%) Waterfall
12 15 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (9.09%) JIRA
13 13 (9.09%) Change Management
14 12 (8.39%) Salesforce
14 12 (8.39%) Banking
14 12 (8.39%) Decision-Making
15 11 (7.69%) Analytics
15 11 (7.69%) SaaS
16 10 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (6.99%) Marketing
16 10 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence
16 10 (6.99%) Legal
16 10 (6.99%) Scrum
16 10 (6.99%) ITIL

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 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.80%) Confluence
2 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.40%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.40%) OPENHousing
2 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.70%) Endur
3 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.70%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.69%) Azure
2 11 (7.69%) SaaS
3 9 (6.29%) AWS
4 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.50%) Asana
6 4 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.80%) GCP
6 4 (2.80%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.10%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.10%) Slack
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.70%) Miro
8 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.70%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.80%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.40%) Metadata
2 2 (1.40%) Power BI
3 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.70%) DB2
3 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (0.70%) Postman
General
1 55 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 52 (36.36%) Finance
3 17 (11.89%) Retail
4 12 (8.39%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Legal
5 10 (6.99%) Marketing
6 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.20%) Local Government
7 6 (4.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.50%) Advertising
9 4 (2.80%) Front Office
9 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Music Industry
10 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.40%) Law
10 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.70%) .NET
1 1 (0.70%) EDI
1 1 (0.70%) Flash
1 1 (0.70%) Middleware
1 1 (0.70%) Regular Expression
1 1 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.90%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.50%) Housing Association
3 5 (3.50%) Social Media
4 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.10%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.10%) PMI
5 3 (2.10%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.40%) Derivative
6 2 (1.40%) FMCG
6 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.70%) iSeries
7 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.50%) Windows
2 3 (2.10%) Android
2 3 (2.10%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.76%) Agile
2 47 (32.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (29.37%) Project Management
4 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 22 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (13.29%) Migration
6 18 (12.59%) Product Management
6 18 (12.59%) Roadmaps
7 16 (11.19%) Risk Management
8 15 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (10.49%) Waterfall
9 13 (9.09%) Change Management
10 12 (8.39%) Decision-Making
11 11 (7.69%) Analytics
12 10 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (6.99%) ITIL
12 10 (6.99%) Scrum
13 9 (6.29%) DevOps
13 9 (6.29%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.50%) SQL
2 2 (1.40%) Python
3 1 (0.70%) C++
3 1 (0.70%) COBOL
3 1 (0.70%) RPG
Qualifications
1 17 (11.89%) Degree
2 9 (6.29%) PMI Certification
3 8 (5.59%) PMP
4 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.90%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) CISSP
5 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) CISM
6 2 (1.40%) CRISC
6 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CFA
7 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) GDPR
2 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (2.10%) QA
3 2 (1.40%) MiFID
3 2 (1.40%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) Basel III
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.70%) EMIR
4 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.70%) IFRS
4 1 (0.70%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.70%) PMO
4 1 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.70%) CASB
2 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.39%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.90%) Adobe
4 6 (4.20%) SAP
5 4 (2.80%) Civica
5 4 (2.80%) Northgate
5 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.80%) TikTok
6 2 (1.40%) Aareon
6 2 (1.40%) Ariba
6 2 (1.40%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.40%) Capita
6 2 (1.40%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.40%) Google
6 2 (1.40%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.40%) NEC
6 2 (1.40%) Workday
7 1 (0.70%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) PeopleSoft