Senior Manager Job Trends in England

Senior Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Manager salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 111 204
Rank change year-on-year +5 +93 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 1,115 1,241 885
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.04% 2.59% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 2.82% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 659 434 554
10th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £49,650
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £74,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +13.85% -13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 49,796 44,069 53,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.09% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31,642 23,032 42,681
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,262
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,969
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Manager job vacancy trend in England

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in England

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in England over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 23 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -7 399 £75,000 -16.67% 124
North of England -19 227 £63,076 +0.92% 108
South East +105 225 £65,000 -5.45% 186
North West -22 120 £58,932 -5.71% 38
Midlands +1 112 £80,000 +28.00% 86
South West -24 103 £28,500 -44.12% 67
West Midlands +15 92 £77,500 +5.08% 33
Yorkshire -15 70 £63,076 -21.16% 47
North East +5 37 £63,076 +2.98% 23
East of England +4 37 £60,000 -12.56% 67
East Midlands -23 20 £80,000 +45.45% 49
Senior Manager
UK

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 January 2026, Senior Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 203 (18.21%) Agile
2 151 (13.54%) Degree
3 146 (13.09%) Business Development
4 145 (13.00%) Coaching
5 140 (12.56%) Project Management
6 137 (12.29%) Analytics
7 119 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (9.51%) Decision-Making
10 105 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 98 (8.79%) Roadmaps
12 97 (8.70%) B2B
13 86 (7.71%) Microsoft
13 86 (7.71%) Risk Management
14 85 (7.62%) Mentoring
15 81 (7.26%) AI
16 80 (7.17%) Project Delivery
17 77 (6.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 66 (5.92%) Business Strategy
19 64 (5.74%) Strategic Thinking
20 57 (5.11%) ACCA
21 56 (5.02%) SaaS
22 55 (4.93%) Change Management
22 55 (4.93%) Customer Service
23 52 (4.66%) PMI Certification
24 46 (4.13%) Azure
25 45 (4.04%) PMP
26 44 (3.95%) Budget Management
27 43 (3.86%) CRM
27 43 (3.86%) Data Governance

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (1.43%) Confluence
2 12 (1.08%) WordPress
3 6 (0.54%) CMS
4 5 (0.45%) IIS
5 2 (0.18%) SAS
5 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.090%) Drupal
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.27%) Sketch
7 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) Stata
7 2 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.090%) Maya
8 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.90%) Shopify
3 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.090%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.090%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.090%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.090%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.090%) Primavera
6 1 (0.090%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.090%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.090%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 56 (5.02%) SaaS
2 46 (4.13%) Azure
3 38 (3.41%) AWS
4 35 (3.14%) Power Platform
5 17 (1.52%) Figma
6 16 (1.43%) Collibra
7 14 (1.26%) GCP
8 11 (0.99%) PowerApps
9 10 (0.90%) Adobe Analytics
10 7 (0.63%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.54%) Miro
11 6 (0.54%) Serverless
12 5 (0.45%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.45%) CloudFront
12 5 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.45%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.45%) Smartsheet
13 4 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.36%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (1.35%) LAN
2 15 (1.35%) WAN
3 14 (1.26%) Unified Communications
3 14 (1.26%) WebEx
4 10 (0.90%) Broadband
5 5 (0.45%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.090%) 5G
6 1 (0.090%) DHCP
6 1 (0.090%) DNS
6 1 (0.090%) Firewall
6 1 (0.090%) Internet
6 1 (0.090%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.090%) Network Security
6 1 (0.090%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.06%) Power BI
1 23 (2.06%) Tableau
2 14 (1.26%) Metadata
3 10 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (0.54%) Hadoop
4 6 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.45%) Big Data
5 5 (0.45%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (0.27%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.18%) Redis
9 1 (0.090%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.090%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.090%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.090%) GIS
9 1 (0.090%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (2.24%) JIRA
2 6 (0.54%) Git
3 5 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
3 5 (0.45%) Vite
4 3 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 283 (25.38%) Finance
2 260 (23.32%) Social Skills
3 136 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 102 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (9.15%) Marketing
6 94 (8.43%) Retail
7 77 (6.91%) Legal
8 72 (6.46%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (6.19%) Law
10 58 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
11 54 (4.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 42 (3.77%) Banking
13 37 (3.32%) Telecoms
14 27 (2.42%) Games
15 26 (2.33%) Automotive
16 23 (2.06%) Advertising
17 14 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.72%) Brand Awareness
19 7 (0.63%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.81%) REST
2 6 (0.54%) GraphQL
2 6 (0.54%) React
3 5 (0.45%) .NET
3 5 (0.45%) Jest
3 5 (0.45%) Next.js
3 5 (0.45%) Play Framework
3 5 (0.45%) Spring
3 5 (0.45%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.27%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.27%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (0.27%) gRPC
4 3 (0.27%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (0.27%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.18%) EDI
5 2 (0.18%) JSON
5 2 (0.18%) Middleware
5 2 (0.18%) XML
6 1 (0.090%) OAuth
6 1 (0.090%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 25 (2.24%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.06%) Social Media
4 21 (1.88%) Life Science
5 20 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.52%) FMCG
6 17 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.17%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 11 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
9 11 (0.99%) Low-Code
9 11 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (0.81%) PMI
12 8 (0.72%) Blog
13 7 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.63%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.54%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.26%) Windows
2 5 (0.45%) Android
3 4 (0.36%) Linux
3 4 (0.36%) Unix
4 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (18.21%) Agile
2 146 (13.09%) Business Development
3 145 (13.00%) Coaching
4 140 (12.56%) Project Management
5 137 (12.29%) Analytics
6 119 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 107 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (9.51%) Decision-Making
9 105 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 98 (8.79%) Roadmaps
11 97 (8.70%) B2B
12 86 (7.71%) Risk Management
13 85 (7.62%) Mentoring
14 81 (7.26%) AI
15 80 (7.17%) Project Delivery
16 77 (6.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 66 (5.92%) Business Strategy
18 64 (5.74%) Strategic Thinking
19 55 (4.93%) Change Management
19 55 (4.93%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 23 (2.06%) SQL
2 17 (1.52%) Python
3 13 (1.17%) Java
3 13 (1.17%) JavaScript
3 13 (1.17%) VBA
4 7 (0.63%) R
5 6 (0.54%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.45%) Scala
7 4 (0.36%) C#
8 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.18%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.090%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (13.54%) Degree
2 57 (5.11%) ACCA
3 52 (4.66%) PMI Certification
4 45 (4.04%) PMP
5 28 (2.51%) CIMA
5 28 (2.51%) Security Cleared
6 24 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.88%) CISSP
8 20 (1.79%) CISM
9 18 (1.61%) SC Cleared
10 17 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.52%) CISA
11 13 (1.17%) MBA
12 12 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (0.90%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.81%) CRISC
14 9 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.81%) DV Cleared
15 8 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 29 (2.60%) QA
3 25 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 22 (1.97%) GDPR
4 22 (1.97%) IFRS
5 17 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.72%) GAAP
7 7 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.63%) GRC
7 7 (0.63%) P3O
8 6 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.45%) NIST
9 5 (0.45%) PMO
10 2 (0.18%) DO-254
10 2 (0.18%) GxP
10 2 (0.18%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.18%) PERC
11 1 (0.090%) Section 508
11 1 (0.090%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (0.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.27%) Ansible
2 2 (0.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.090%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (7.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.42%) SAP
3 26 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 16 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.26%) Adobe
5 14 (1.26%) Oracle
6 13 (1.17%) Cisco
6 13 (1.17%) Google
6 13 (1.17%) Meraki
6 13 (1.17%) Ruckus Wireless
7 12 (1.08%) Anaplan
7 12 (1.08%) Genesys
7 12 (1.08%) Verint
8 9 (0.81%) HubSpot
8 9 (0.81%) Qualtrics
8 9 (0.81%) Screaming Frog
9 7 (0.63%) BT
9 7 (0.63%) Databricks
10 6 (0.54%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.54%) Workday