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 £593 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 197 205
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 196 296 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.24% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.31% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 238 279
10th Percentile £435 £419 £434
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £710 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £593
% change year-on-year - +1.27% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 2
10th Percentile £31.60 £26.75 £27.33
25th Percentile £38.17 £34.75 £30.82
Median hourly rate £51.00 £48.50 £37.27
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +30.15% -36.95%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £44.34
90th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £48.20
UK median hourly rate £47.87 £46.00 £37.27
% change year-on-year +4.07% +23.44% -36.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 5 May 2024. 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 -26 58 £600 +17.07% 113
North of England +1 34 £575 -5.15% 83
South West +17 33 £550 -8.33% 44
Midlands +14 27 £625 +13.64% 60
Scotland +23 25 £451 -10.64% 32
West Midlands +16 24 £625 +13.64% 44
North West +17 23 £593 +4.02% 48
Yorkshire +1 11 £563 -10.89% 28
Wales +17 10 £600 +9.09% 8
East of England +8 8 £500 -9.09% 34
East Midlands +9 3 £500 - 16
North East +15 2 £600 -7.69% 8
Northern Ireland +8 2 £435 - 7
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 91 (46.43%) Project Management
2 90 (45.92%) Agile
3 65 (33.16%) Security Cleared
4 61 (31.12%) Social Skills
5 57 (29.08%) Public Sector
6 55 (28.06%) Finance
7 51 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (25.51%) SC Cleared
9 48 (24.49%) PRINCE2
10 39 (19.90%) Project Delivery
11 26 (13.27%) Scrum
11 26 (13.27%) Risk Management
12 22 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (9.18%) Business Case
13 18 (9.18%) JIRA
13 18 (9.18%) Degree
14 17 (8.67%) Change Management
14 17 (8.67%) PMP
15 16 (8.16%) Migration
15 16 (8.16%) Confluence
15 16 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (7.65%) Project Governance
16 15 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
16 15 (7.65%) SAP
17 14 (7.14%) Software Delivery
18 13 (6.63%) Waterfall
18 13 (6.63%) PMI Certification
18 13 (6.63%) Microsoft

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 16 (8.16%) Confluence
2 12 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.02%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (4.59%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.02%) Primavera
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 8 (4.08%) Azure
2 5 (2.55%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.04%) SaaS
4 3 (1.53%) AWS
4 3 (1.53%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.51%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle CX
5 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.55%) Power BI
2 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.53%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.51%) Big Data
4 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.51%) GIS
4 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.51%) IDMS
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (9.18%) JIRA
General
1 61 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 57 (29.08%) Public Sector
3 55 (28.06%) Finance
4 16 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.61%) Marketing
7 10 (5.10%) Local Government
8 9 (4.59%) Legal
9 8 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.53%) Banking
12 3 (1.53%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.53%) Publishing
13 2 (1.02%) Law
13 2 (1.02%) Retail
13 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.51%) Electronics
14 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) Middleware
1 1 (0.51%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.59%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.57%) NHS
3 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.04%) PMI
4 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.02%) Social Media
6 1 (0.51%) Blog
6 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.51%) e-Health
6 1 (0.51%) EMV
6 1 (0.51%) FMCG
6 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (46.43%) Project Management
2 90 (45.92%) Agile
3 51 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (24.49%) PRINCE2
5 39 (19.90%) Project Delivery
6 26 (13.27%) Risk Management
6 26 (13.27%) Scrum
7 22 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.18%) Business Case
9 17 (8.67%) Change Management
10 16 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (8.16%) Migration
11 15 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.65%) Project Governance
12 14 (7.14%) Software Delivery
13 13 (6.63%) Value Proposition
13 13 (6.63%) Waterfall
14 12 (6.12%) Decision-Making
14 12 (6.12%) Roadmaps
15 11 (5.61%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.55%) SQL
2 4 (2.04%) Python
3 1 (0.51%) Java
3 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 65 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 50 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.18%) Degree
4 17 (8.67%) PMP
5 13 (6.63%) PMI Certification
6 11 (5.61%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (2.55%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) CISM
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) CRISC
10 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.59%) PMO
2 5 (2.55%) QA
3 2 (1.02%) GRC
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) COBIT
4 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
Vendors
1 15 (7.65%) SAP
2 13 (6.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.59%) Adobe
4 4 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.51%) Avaya
5 1 (0.51%) Facebook
5 1 (0.51%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.51%) Genesys
5 1 (0.51%) Instagram
5 1 (0.51%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (0.51%) Sage
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce