Senior Manager Jobs in England

Senior Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Manager salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 180 255
Rank change year-on-year +17 +75 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 988 1,374 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.00% 1.53% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 1.62% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 412 830 722
10th Percentile - £42,721 £52,500
25th Percentile £7,000 £51,250 £60,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £59,857 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% -10.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Manager in England.

Salary trend for Senior Manager in England

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -24 299 £95,000 +31.03% 806
North of England +45 269 £7,000 -88.33% 153
North West +72 235 £7,000 -87.92% 86
South East +85 144 £65,000 +4.00% 90
South West +80 129 £62,245 +13.17% 56
East of England +39 55 £75,000 +36.36% 46
Midlands -36 54 £72,500 +16.00% 74
West Midlands -17 32 £88,750 +45.49% 46
Yorkshire -5 31 £85,000 +32.65% 55
East Midlands +14 21 £72,500 +16.00% 28
North East +13 3 £45,000 -23.47% 12
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 England region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 401 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 384 (38.87%) Finance
3 375 (37.96%) Project Management
4 301 (30.47%) Change Management
5 276 (27.94%) Degree
6 215 (21.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 214 (21.66%) Agile
8 186 (18.83%) Roadmaps
9 157 (15.89%) Management Information System
10 151 (15.28%) Marketing
11 147 (14.88%) Risk Management
12 131 (13.26%) Mentoring
13 122 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
14 117 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
15 113 (11.44%) Software Engineering
16 111 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
17 107 (10.83%) Service Delivery
18 106 (10.73%) Law
19 104 (10.53%) Computer Science
20 103 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
21 102 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
22 98 (9.92%) Driving Licence
23 97 (9.82%) Incident Management
24 95 (9.62%) Problem Management
25 93 (9.41%) Strategic Thinking
26 92 (9.31%) Analytics
27 91 (9.21%) ServiceNow
28 90 (9.11%) Balanced Scorecard
28 90 (9.11%) Scorecard
28 90 (9.11%) Product Ownership

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (2.63%) Confluence
2 11 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.30%) CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.20%) Revit
8 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Aladdin
1 7 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Maximo
5 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (7.79%) Azure
2 40 (4.05%) AWS
3 28 (2.83%) GCP
4 23 (2.33%) SaaS
5 18 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (1.42%) Salsify
7 13 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (1.21%) Power Platform
9 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (0.40%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.40%) Serverless
11 3 (0.30%) Contentsquare
11 3 (0.30%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.30%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.20%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.20%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 80 (8.10%) Broadband
2 9 (0.91%) WAN
3 7 (0.71%) SD-WAN
3 7 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.61%) Firewall
5 5 (0.51%) Network Security
5 5 (0.51%) VoIP
6 4 (0.40%) VLAN
7 2 (0.20%) Intranet
7 2 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) PPP
7 2 (0.20%) WLAN
8 1 (0.10%) Internet
8 1 (0.10%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.10%) PBX
8 1 (0.10%) SWIFTNet
8 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.10%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.16%) Big Data
2 14 (1.42%) Metadata
3 7 (0.71%) Power BI
4 5 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.40%) Tableau
6 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.20%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (2.23%) JIRA
2 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
General
1 401 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 384 (38.87%) Finance
3 151 (15.28%) Marketing
4 122 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (10.73%) Law
6 87 (8.81%) Games
7 82 (8.30%) Legal
8 71 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 62 (6.28%) Advertising
10 43 (4.35%) Banking
11 41 (4.15%) Retail
12 26 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 24 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.92%) Public Sector
16 14 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 9 (0.91%) Front Office
19 8 (0.81%) Back Office
20 7 (0.71%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.82%) LangChain
2 13 (1.32%) Hugging Face
2 13 (1.32%) PyTorch
2 13 (1.32%) TensorFlow
3 8 (0.81%) .NET
3 8 (0.81%) Kafka
3 8 (0.81%) React
4 7 (0.71%) .NET Core
4 7 (0.71%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.61%) React Native
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.30%) REST
8 2 (0.20%) EDI
8 2 (0.20%) MACH
8 2 (0.20%) Middleware
9 1 (0.10%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 157 (15.89%) Management Information System
2 98 (9.92%) Driving Licence
3 90 (9.11%) Product Ownership
4 80 (8.10%) Video\Live Streaming
5 52 (5.26%) Digital Media
5 52 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
6 14 (1.42%) Taxonomies
7 12 (1.21%) Social Media
8 11 (1.11%) PMI
8 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.81%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.61%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.51%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.51%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.40%) Life Science
13 4 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.32%) Windows
2 6 (0.61%) zOS
3 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.20%) Linux
4 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (37.96%) Project Management
2 301 (30.47%) Change Management
3 214 (21.66%) Agile
4 186 (18.83%) Roadmaps
5 147 (14.88%) Risk Management
6 131 (13.26%) Mentoring
7 117 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
8 113 (11.44%) Software Engineering
9 111 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (10.83%) Service Delivery
11 104 (10.53%) Computer Science
12 102 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 97 (9.82%) Incident Management
14 95 (9.62%) Problem Management
15 93 (9.41%) Strategic Thinking
16 92 (9.31%) Analytics
17 90 (9.11%) Balanced Scorecard
17 90 (9.11%) Scorecard
18 89 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 87 (8.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (2.33%) Java
2 21 (2.13%) Python
3 14 (1.42%) SQL
4 11 (1.11%) C#
5 9 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.81%) R
7 6 (0.61%) C++
8 4 (0.40%) C
9 3 (0.30%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.20%) Rust
10 2 (0.20%) Scala
11 1 (0.10%) Go
11 1 (0.10%) PHP
11 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 276 (27.94%) Degree
2 215 (21.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 103 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (6.88%) CISSP
5 35 (3.54%) Master's Degree
6 34 (3.44%) PMP
7 32 (3.24%) CISA
8 24 (2.43%) HNC
9 22 (2.23%) PMI Certification
10 15 (1.52%) Security Cleared
11 12 (1.21%) HND
11 12 (1.21%) MRICS
12 11 (1.11%) MBA
13 10 (1.01%) SC Cleared
14 9 (0.91%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) CCSK
15 6 (0.61%) CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 26 (2.63%) QA
2 19 (1.92%) ITGC
2 19 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 16 (1.62%) GDPR
4 15 (1.52%) NEBOSH
5 12 (1.21%) PMO
6 11 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.51%) NIST
9 4 (0.40%) GAAP
9 4 (0.40%) IFRS
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.30%) SLA
11 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.20%) Docker
3 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (1.32%) Grafana
1 13 (1.32%) Prometheus
2 8 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.30%) CASB
4 3 (0.30%) Terraform
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.10%) OPNET
6 1 (0.10%) SCOM
6 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (9.21%) ServiceNow
2 61 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 29 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 18 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 18 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 15 (1.52%) Google
5 15 (1.52%) NEC
6 14 (1.42%) SAP
7 13 (1.32%) Oracle
8 8 (0.81%) IBM
9 7 (0.71%) Charles River
10 6 (0.61%) BT
11 4 (0.40%) Cisco
11 4 (0.40%) Commvault
11 4 (0.40%) eFront
11 4 (0.40%) Remedy
12 3 (0.30%) Symantec
12 3 (0.30%) VMware
12 3 (0.30%) YouTube
12 3 (0.30%) Zscaler