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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 185 245
Rank change year-on-year +15 +60 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 936 1,341 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.92% 1.56% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 1.66% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 450 821 760
10th Percentile - £43,080 £52,500
25th Percentile £7,000 £52,052 £60,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -13.79% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,030 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,350 £103,750 £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 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -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 14 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 14 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 -47 277 £95,000 +31.49% 984
North of England +57 275 £7,000 -88.33% 143
North West +75 238 £7,000 -87.92% 83
South East +100 134 £65,000 +4.00% 211
South West +76 130 £58,393 +6.17% 46
Midlands -20 64 £72,500 +16.00% 66
East of England +32 50 £64,743 +17.71% 51
West Midlands -10 38 £91,250 +49.59% 38
Yorkshire +19 35 £85,000 +32.65% 53
East Midlands +8 25 £68,000 +8.80% 24
North East +7 2 £52,500 -11.39% 7
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 (42.84%) Project Management
2 393 (41.99%) Finance
3 312 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 223 (23.82%) Agile
5 213 (22.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 210 (22.44%) Change Management
7 198 (21.15%) Degree
8 151 (16.13%) Risk Management
9 146 (15.60%) Marketing
10 137 (14.64%) Mentoring
11 116 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
12 110 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
13 105 (11.22%) Driving Licence
14 102 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 100 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence
16 99 (10.58%) Roadmaps
17 92 (9.83%) Scorecard
17 92 (9.83%) Balanced Scorecard
18 90 (9.62%) Project Delivery
19 88 (9.40%) Analytics
20 83 (8.87%) Law
21 81 (8.65%) Information Security
22 79 (8.44%) Strategic Thinking
23 74 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
23 74 (7.91%) Management Information System
24 71 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 70 (7.48%) CISSP
26 67 (7.16%) Microsoft
26 67 (7.16%) Time Management
26 67 (7.16%) Azure

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 23 (2.46%) Confluence
2 9 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.32%) CMS
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (7.16%) Azure
2 35 (3.74%) AWS
3 25 (2.67%) SaaS
4 20 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (1.50%) Power Platform
6 14 (1.50%) Salsify
7 13 (1.39%) GCP
7 13 (1.39%) Serverless
8 12 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (1.07%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (0.53%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.43%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.28%) WAN
2 10 (1.07%) SD-WAN
2 10 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (0.64%) Firewall
4 5 (0.53%) Network Security
5 4 (0.43%) VLAN
5 4 (0.43%) VoIP
6 3 (0.32%) Broadband
7 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.21%) LAN
7 2 (0.21%) WLAN
8 1 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
8 1 (0.11%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.34%) Big Data
2 16 (1.71%) Metadata
3 10 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (0.96%) Power BI
5 6 (0.64%) Tableau
6 5 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.21%) Ataccama
9 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (2.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
General
1 393 (41.99%) Finance
2 312 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 146 (15.60%) Marketing
4 116 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (8.87%) Law
6 71 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (6.84%) Advertising
7 64 (6.84%) Legal
8 49 (5.24%) Banking
9 46 (4.91%) Retail
10 34 (3.63%) Manufacturing
11 26 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (2.03%) Public Sector
14 14 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.28%) Front Office
15 12 (1.28%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.07%) Tech for Good
17 9 (0.96%) Games
17 9 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.96%) .NET
1 9 (0.96%) React
2 8 (0.85%) .NET Core
2 8 (0.85%) AngularJS
3 7 (0.75%) Kafka
4 6 (0.64%) React Native
5 5 (0.53%) LangChain
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.21%) EDI
7 2 (0.21%) MACH
7 2 (0.21%) Middleware
8 1 (0.11%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 105 (11.22%) Driving Licence
2 74 (7.91%) Management Information System
3 52 (5.56%) Digital Media
4 51 (5.45%) Marketing Technology
5 15 (1.60%) Social Media
6 14 (1.50%) PMI
6 14 (1.50%) Taxonomies
7 13 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.75%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.64%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.53%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.53%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.53%) Life Science
13 4 (0.43%) CCTV
14 3 (0.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.39%) Windows
2 6 (0.64%) zOS
3 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.43%) Windows Vista
4 3 (0.32%) Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (42.84%) Project Management
2 223 (23.82%) Agile
3 210 (22.44%) Change Management
4 151 (16.13%) Risk Management
5 137 (14.64%) Mentoring
6 110 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 100 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 99 (10.58%) Roadmaps
10 92 (9.83%) Balanced Scorecard
10 92 (9.83%) Scorecard
11 90 (9.62%) Project Delivery
12 88 (9.40%) Analytics
13 81 (8.65%) Information Security
14 79 (8.44%) Strategic Thinking
15 74 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (7.16%) Time Management
17 64 (6.84%) Collaborative Working
17 64 (6.84%) Process Improvement
18 56 (5.98%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (2.99%) Python
2 19 (2.03%) JavaScript
3 16 (1.71%) Java
4 15 (1.60%) SQL
5 8 (0.85%) C#
6 7 (0.75%) R
7 6 (0.64%) C++
8 4 (0.43%) C
9 3 (0.32%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.21%) Rust
11 1 (0.11%) Go
11 1 (0.11%) PHP
11 1 (0.11%) Scala
11 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 213 (22.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 198 (21.15%) Degree
3 70 (7.48%) CISSP
4 40 (4.27%) PMP
5 34 (3.63%) CISA
6 30 (3.21%) PMI Certification
7 28 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.78%) HNC
9 22 (2.35%) MRICS
10 15 (1.60%) MBA
10 15 (1.60%) Security Cleared
11 13 (1.39%) DBS Check
12 12 (1.28%) HND
13 11 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.07%) SC Cleared
15 7 (0.75%) MAPM
15 7 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 6 (0.64%) CCSP
16 6 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.53%) QA
2 31 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.24%) ITGC
4 18 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (1.82%) NEBOSH
6 14 (1.50%) GDPR
7 12 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.28%) PMO
8 10 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.64%) Good Clinical Practice
10 5 (0.53%) NIST
10 5 (0.53%) SLA
11 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 2 (0.21%) NCSC
12 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) COBIT
13 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (1.18%) Docker
2 8 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.18%) Terraform
3 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.32%) CASB
5 2 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.11%) OPNET
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (7.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.67%) Salesforce
3 17 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 16 (1.71%) SAP
5 15 (1.60%) NEC
6 13 (1.39%) Google
7 12 (1.28%) Oracle
8 11 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.85%) Charles River
10 7 (0.75%) IBM
11 6 (0.64%) BT
12 5 (0.53%) eFront
12 5 (0.53%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.53%) YouTube
13 4 (0.43%) Commvault
13 4 (0.43%) Remedy
14 3 (0.32%) Cisco
14 3 (0.32%) Symantec
14 3 (0.32%) TikTok
14 3 (0.32%) VMware