Senior Manager Jobs in the City of London

Senior Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Manager salary in the City of London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 138 190
Rank change year-on-year +25 +52 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 24 45 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.24% 1.35% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.40% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 36
10th Percentile £62,275 £51,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £55,000 £76,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £70,845 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +30.57% -22.36% +7.35%
75th Percentile £101,625 £97,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £105,300 £105,000 £125,625
Central London median annual salary £98,000 £64,080 £90,000
% change year-on-year +52.93% -28.80% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,807 3,213 4,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,519 3,610
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,441 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the City of London

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Manager in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior Manager in the City of London

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the City of London

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Senior Manager 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 permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (45.83%) Finance
4 10 (41.67%) Project Management
5 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 8 (33.33%) Agile
5 8 (33.33%) Data Analytics
5 8 (33.33%) Analytics
6 7 (29.17%) Azure
6 7 (29.17%) PMP
6 7 (29.17%) PMI Certification
7 6 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (25.00%) CISA
7 6 (25.00%) DevOps
7 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
7 6 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (25.00%) Coaching
7 6 (25.00%) IT Audit
7 6 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
8 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
9 4 (16.67%) SQL
9 4 (16.67%) ERP
9 4 (16.67%) PMI
9 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (16.67%) Degree
9 4 (16.67%) JIRA
9 4 (16.67%) SaaS
9 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) WordPress
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
1 1 (4.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
1 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Games
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) PMI
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
4 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Project Management
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 6 (25.00%) Coaching
4 6 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
4 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) IT Audit
4 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
6 4 (16.67%) ERP
6 4 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (12.50%) Budget Management
7 3 (12.50%) ITSM
7 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) PMI Certification
1 7 (29.17%) PMP
2 6 (25.00%) CISA
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.33%) MBA
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) CRISC
5 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) COBIT
3 1 (4.17%) GRC
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Informatica
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.33%) Talend
2 2 (8.33%) WooCommerce
3 1 (4.17%) Aderant
3 1 (4.17%) Progress
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow