Senior Manager Contracts

Senior Manager
UK

The median Senior Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 213 247
Rank change year-on-year -40 +34 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 424 761 1,066
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.27% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.34% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 590 732
10th Percentile £463 £449 £439
25th Percentile £511 £501 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year - +1.48% +12.62%
75th Percentile £700 £697 £675
90th Percentile £789 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +7.80% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 4
10th Percentile £31.60 £29.90 £13.10
25th Percentile £33.65 £41.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £48.00 £37.27
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% +28.81% -21.08%
75th Percentile £63.13 £63.75 £55.52
90th Percentile £70.20 £65.00 £64.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.87 £48.50 £37.27
% change year-on-year -1.30% +30.15% -21.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -34 365 £600 - 467
London -29 198 £600 -4.00% 246
UK excluding London -12 193 £593 +7.80% 232
Work from Home +21 170 £600 +0.84% 189
South East -28 55 £600 +15.27% 60
North of England +4 36 £575 -4.17% 56
South West +16 33 £550 -8.33% 33
Midlands +6 26 £625 +14.16% 33
West Midlands +22 24 £625 +13.64% 26
Scotland +13 24 £465 -7.92% 23
North West +8 23 £593 +7.80% 34
Yorkshire +2 13 £550 -10.20% 18
Wales +18 10 £600 +9.09% 7
East of England +3 8 £500 -9.09% 19
North East +18 2 £600 -7.69% 5
Northern Ireland +9 2 £435 - 4
East Midlands +7 2 £500 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 168 (39.62%) Project Management
2 166 (39.15%) Agile
3 129 (30.42%) Finance
4 102 (24.06%) Social Skills
5 101 (23.82%) Security Cleared
6 94 (22.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 85 (20.05%) SC Cleared
8 83 (19.58%) Public Sector
9 79 (18.63%) Project Delivery
10 76 (17.92%) PRINCE2
11 50 (11.79%) Risk Management
12 44 (10.38%) Scrum
12 44 (10.38%) Migration
13 43 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (8.96%) Microsoft
15 37 (8.73%) Change Management
16 36 (8.49%) JIRA
17 35 (8.25%) SAP
18 34 (8.02%) Waterfall
18 34 (8.02%) Decision-Making
19 33 (7.78%) Business Case
20 31 (7.31%) Degree
21 29 (6.84%) PMP
22 28 (6.60%) Analytics
23 27 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
23 27 (6.37%) Programme Management
23 27 (6.37%) Influencing Skills
24 25 (5.90%) Roadmaps
24 25 (5.90%) Local Government
24 25 (5.90%) Legal

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (5.66%) Confluence
2 21 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) CMS
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) Camunda
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.24%) Kentico
5 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (2.12%) Acrobat
2 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Primavera
3 2 (0.47%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.47%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 25 (5.90%) Azure
2 16 (3.77%) SaaS
3 13 (3.07%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.89%) AWS
6 5 (1.18%) GCP
7 4 (0.94%) WhatsApp
8 3 (0.71%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.71%) Slack
9 2 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.47%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.24%) Kontent
10 1 (0.24%) Matillion
10 1 (0.24%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.24%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) SNA
2 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) LAN
3 1 (0.24%) NFC
3 1 (0.24%) VPN
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.07%) Power BI
2 7 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.47%) MySQL
4 2 (0.47%) Tableau
5 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.24%) GIS
5 1 (0.24%) IDMS
5 1 (0.24%) Metadata
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (8.49%) JIRA
2 2 (0.47%) Maven
General
1 129 (30.42%) Finance
2 102 (24.06%) Social Skills
3 83 (19.58%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.37%) Influencing Skills
5 25 (5.90%) Legal
5 25 (5.90%) Local Government
6 24 (5.66%) Marketing
7 12 (2.83%) Banking
7 12 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.12%) Retail
10 7 (1.65%) Military
11 6 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.18%) Front Office
13 4 (0.94%) French Language
13 4 (0.94%) German Language
13 4 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.47%) AngularJS
1 2 (0.47%) CSS
1 2 (0.47%) J2EE
1 2 (0.47%) jQuery
1 2 (0.47%) REST
1 2 (0.47%) Sass
1 2 (0.47%) Spring
1 2 (0.47%) Spring MVC
1 2 (0.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (0.47%) VML
1 2 (0.47%) Web Services
2 1 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.24%) JSON
2 1 (0.24%) Middleware
2 1 (0.24%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.24%) SAP PI
2 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.07%) Data Centre
1 13 (3.07%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.36%) NHS
3 8 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 7 (1.65%) FMCG
4 7 (1.65%) Freedom of Information
4 7 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.18%) PMI
6 5 (1.18%) Social Media
7 4 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.71%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.71%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.47%) Blog
9 2 (0.47%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.47%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.18%) Windows
2 4 (0.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (39.62%) Project Management
2 166 (39.15%) Agile
3 94 (22.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 79 (18.63%) Project Delivery
5 76 (17.92%) PRINCE2
6 50 (11.79%) Risk Management
7 44 (10.38%) Migration
7 44 (10.38%) Scrum
8 43 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (8.73%) Change Management
10 34 (8.02%) Decision-Making
10 34 (8.02%) Waterfall
11 33 (7.78%) Business Case
12 28 (6.60%) Analytics
13 27 (6.37%) Programme Management
14 25 (5.90%) Project Governance
14 25 (5.90%) Roadmaps
15 24 (5.66%) Coaching
15 24 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (4.72%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.42%) SQL
2 4 (0.94%) Java
3 3 (0.71%) Python
4 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (23.82%) Security Cleared
2 85 (20.05%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.31%) Degree
4 29 (6.84%) PMP
5 24 (5.66%) PMI Certification
6 16 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 12 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) CISM
10 2 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CAPM
11 1 (0.24%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) CRISC
11 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.66%) PMO
2 9 (2.12%) QA
3 8 (1.89%) GDPR
4 6 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.42%) SLA
5 4 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) COBIT
7 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.24%) Ansible
1 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.25%) SAP
3 11 (2.59%) Adobe
4 6 (1.42%) Oracle
5 5 (1.18%) Progress
6 4 (0.94%) Cadence
6 4 (0.94%) Google
6 4 (0.94%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.71%) Ariba
7 3 (0.71%) Brandwatch
7 3 (0.71%) Dell
7 3 (0.71%) Workday
8 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.47%) BT
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco
8 2 (0.47%) Databricks
8 2 (0.47%) Intel
8 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.47%) Sitecore