Senior Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 207 198
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 114 197 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.95% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.03% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 127 243
10th Percentile £440 £435 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +7.80% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £710 £750
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 7
10th Percentile £69.18 £31.60 £26.75
25th Percentile £70.99 £38.17 £34.75
Median hourly rate £76.61 £51.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.22% +5.15% +30.15%
75th Percentile £79.62 £61.25 £61.25
90th Percentile £79.85 £77.00 £65.00
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +11 33 £543 -9.58% 163
North of England +6 30 £525 -8.70% 109
Scotland +5 19 £529 +17.17% 46
Midlands +9 18 £588 -6.00% 47
North West +5 18 £525 -11.45% 61
West Midlands +5 16 £588 -6.00% 28
South West +7 10 £602 +9.45% 33
Yorkshire +6 10 £543 -3.56% 38
East of England +35 5 £775 +55.00% 36
North East -2 4 £485 -19.17% 10
East Midlands +13 2 £625 +25.00% 18
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 20
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 45 (39.47%) Finance
2 40 (35.09%) Project Management
3 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
4 29 (25.44%) Public Sector
4 29 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (23.68%) Agile
6 23 (20.18%) Security Cleared
7 19 (16.67%) SC Cleared
8 17 (14.91%) Project Delivery
9 16 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (11.40%) Change Management
10 13 (11.40%) PRINCE2
10 13 (11.40%) Contract Management
11 12 (10.53%) Microsoft
11 12 (10.53%) Risk Management
11 12 (10.53%) Migration
11 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (9.65%) Analytics
13 9 (7.89%) Azure
13 9 (7.89%) Degree
13 9 (7.89%) Programme Management
13 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
13 9 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (7.02%) Business Case
14 8 (7.02%) Budget Management
14 8 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (7.02%) Data Protection
15 7 (6.14%) ITIL
15 7 (6.14%) SharePoint
15 7 (6.14%) Law

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.88%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.88%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.89%) Azure
2 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.39%) SaaS
4 4 (3.51%) AWS
5 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.88%) GCP
5 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Firewall
2 5 (4.39%) Internet
2 5 (4.39%) Network Security
2 5 (4.39%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) 4G
3 2 (1.75%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.75%) WAN
3 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.88%) 5G
4 1 (0.88%) Intranet
4 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (4.39%) JIRA
General
1 45 (39.47%) Finance
2 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.44%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.14%) Law
5 7 (6.14%) Military
5 7 (6.14%) Retail
6 6 (5.26%) Marketing
7 5 (4.39%) Banking
7 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Legal
8 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.63%) Local Government
9 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Electronics
10 2 (1.75%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) LDAP
2 2 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) MIDP
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.39%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.88%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.88%) EPoS
3 1 (0.88%) FMCG
3 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.88%) Photography
3 1 (0.88%) PMI
3 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.88%) Robotics
3 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (35.09%) Project Management
2 29 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (23.68%) Agile
4 17 (14.91%) Project Delivery
5 16 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (11.40%) Change Management
6 13 (11.40%) Contract Management
6 13 (11.40%) PRINCE2
7 12 (10.53%) Migration
7 12 (10.53%) Risk Management
8 11 (9.65%) Analytics
9 9 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (7.89%) Programme Management
10 8 (7.02%) Budget Management
10 8 (7.02%) Business Case
10 8 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.02%) Data Protection
11 7 (6.14%) ITIL
11 7 (6.14%) Roadmaps
12 6 (5.26%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.88%) C#
1 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) Degree
4 4 (3.51%) ISEB
4 4 (3.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (2.63%) APMP
5 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) ACCA
6 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) APMG
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MRICS
7 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) PMO
2 3 (2.63%) GDPR
3 2 (1.75%) IFRS
3 2 (1.75%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.88%) SCSM
2 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Oracle
2 5 (4.39%) SAP
3 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.63%) BT
5 2 (1.75%) Adobe
5 2 (1.75%) Snow
6 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.88%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.88%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.88%) Remedy
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.88%) Spotify