Senior Manager Contracts in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Manager daily rate in the Thames Valley is £600, 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 110 94 109
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 8 31 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 1.37% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.50% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 27
10th Percentile £532 £481 £275
25th Percentile £574 £550 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +23.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £603
90th Percentile £773 £795 £650
South East median daily rate £625 £605 £550
% change year-on-year +3.35% +9.95% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.06 -
South East median hourly rate - £58.03 £68.61
% change year-on-year - -15.42% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,523 2,064 2,635
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 91.53% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 1,181 1,794
10th Percentile £272 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £613
90th Percentile £686 £688 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 123 91
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.06 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +18.80% +145.06%
75th Percentile £62.37 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £87.49 £74.79
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +124.72%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -12 6 £600 -2.44% 58
Buckinghamshire +3 1 £543 - 7
Oxfordshire -7 1 £800 +52.38% 11
Senior Manager
South East

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Business Case
4 2 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle CX
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Case Management
5 1 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (12.50%) Contract Management
5 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle CX
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Broadband
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DTS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Business Case
4 2 (25.00%) Case Management
4 2 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 1 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) APMP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow