Senior Manager Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 75 89
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 22 40 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 2.10% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 2.26% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 24
10th Percentile £397 £571 £433
25th Percentile £500 £613 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £738 £623
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +18.47% +3.75%
75th Percentile £683 £800 £731
90th Percentile £688 £875 £901
England median daily rate £600 £600 £623
% change year-on-year - -3.61% +3.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,642 1,773 1,970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 93.22% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,121 1,345
10th Percentile £235 £225 £225
25th Percentile £381 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -3.03%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £671 £713 £710
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 63 63
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +1.81% +22.78%
75th Percentile £37.50 £33.74 £32.77
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - +73.08%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the West Midlands

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in the West Midlands

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Senior Manager
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Birmingham -12 11 £625 -15.25% 15
Warwickshire -10 4 £655 -11.93% 6
Shropshire - 3 £500 -
Worcestershire - 2 £231 - 2
Coventry -16 1 £500 -16.67%
Staffordshire - 1 £475 - 5
Senior Manager
England

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 September 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Migration
4 6 (27.27%) SAP
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
6 4 (18.18%) Change Management
6 4 (18.18%) Finance
6 4 (18.18%) Project Management
6 4 (18.18%) Project Planning
6 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
6 4 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (18.18%) Data Strategy
6 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.64%) Budget Management
7 3 (13.64%) Azure
7 3 (13.64%) AWS
7 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (13.64%) Web Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.64%) Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
7 3 (13.64%) DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) GCP
7 3 (13.64%) Infographics
7 3 (13.64%) Resource Allocation
7 3 (13.64%) Budgeting and Forecasting

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Maximo
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
1 3 (13.64%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Military
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.55%) MIDP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) FMCG
3 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (31.82%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (18.18%) Change Management
4 4 (18.18%) Data Strategy
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Project Planning
4 4 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 3 (13.64%) Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Budget Management
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Digital Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Infographics
5 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
5 3 (13.64%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 19650
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) SAP
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Cognos
4 1 (4.55%) IBM