Senior Manager Jobs in London

Senior Manager
England > London

The median Senior Manager salary in London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 122 190
Rank change year-on-year -42 +68 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 274 602 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.13% 2.55% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 2.70% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 104 296 338
10th Percentile £62,150 £44,250 £60,800
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £72,250 £85,498
Median % change year-on-year +31.49% -15.49% +6.87%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £121,750 £116,250 £113,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% -13.79% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,624 22,265 32,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 16,628 23,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in London

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Manager in London

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in London

Senior Manager
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London -12 30 £107,500 +67.76% 33
South London -16 11 £80,000 -4.76% 4
West London +8 3 - - 7
North London -9 3 - -
Senior Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 London region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 111 (40.51%) Finance
2 106 (38.69%) Social Skills
3 98 (35.77%) Agile
4 88 (32.12%) Project Management
5 77 (28.10%) Marketing
6 66 (24.09%) Degree
7 54 (19.71%) Mentoring
8 52 (18.98%) Analytics
9 49 (17.88%) Roadmaps
10 48 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
11 47 (17.15%) Artificial Intelligence
12 44 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 43 (15.69%) Law
14 38 (13.87%) Product Management
15 35 (12.77%) Business Development
15 35 (12.77%) Legal
16 32 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 31 (11.31%) Project Delivery
17 31 (11.31%) Process Improvement
17 31 (11.31%) Collaborative Working
17 31 (11.31%) Strategic Thinking
18 30 (10.95%) AWS
18 30 (10.95%) Banking
19 29 (10.58%) B2B
20 28 (10.22%) CISA
20 28 (10.22%) IT Audit
20 28 (10.22%) CI/CD
21 27 (9.85%) Budget Management
21 27 (9.85%) Azure

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (1.09%) CMS
1 3 (1.09%) Confluence
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.92%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.73%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.95%) AWS
2 27 (9.85%) Azure
3 14 (5.11%) GCP
4 13 (4.74%) SaaS
5 9 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.28%) Serverless
6 8 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.55%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.82%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.46%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.73%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.73%) Contentful
12 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Network Security
2 2 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.66%) Big Data
2 8 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.55%) Power BI
4 5 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.38%) JIRA
General
1 111 (40.51%) Finance
2 106 (38.69%) Social Skills
3 77 (28.10%) Marketing
4 47 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (15.69%) Law
6 35 (12.77%) Legal
7 32 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (10.95%) Banking
9 24 (8.76%) Advertising
10 16 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (3.28%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.92%) Retail
14 6 (2.19%) Front Office
14 6 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (2.19%) Publishing
15 5 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.46%) Back Office
17 3 (1.09%) Games
18 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.92%) Kafka
2 6 (2.19%) React Native
3 5 (1.82%) LangChain
4 2 (0.73%) EDI
4 2 (0.73%) MACH
5 1 (0.36%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.36%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.36%) React
5 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.03%) Digital Media
2 21 (7.66%) Marketing Technology
3 12 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.92%) Social Media
6 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.82%) PMI
8 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.09%) PKI
8 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.46%) Windows
2 2 (0.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.77%) Agile
2 88 (32.12%) Project Management
3 54 (19.71%) Mentoring
4 52 (18.98%) Analytics
5 49 (17.88%) Roadmaps
6 48 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (17.15%) Artificial Intelligence
8 44 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (13.87%) Product Management
10 35 (12.77%) Business Development
11 31 (11.31%) Collaborative Working
11 31 (11.31%) Process Improvement
11 31 (11.31%) Project Delivery
11 31 (11.31%) Strategic Thinking
12 29 (10.58%) B2B
13 28 (10.22%) CI/CD
13 28 (10.22%) IT Audit
14 27 (9.85%) Budget Management
14 27 (9.85%) Time Management
15 26 (9.49%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.39%) Python
2 16 (5.84%) Java
3 13 (4.74%) SQL
4 7 (2.55%) R
5 6 (2.19%) C++
5 6 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.46%) C
7 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.73%) Rust
8 2 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (24.09%) Degree
2 28 (10.22%) CISA
3 25 (9.12%) CISSP
4 20 (7.30%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.28%) DBS Check
5 9 (3.28%) MBA
6 8 (2.92%) MRICS
6 8 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.55%) PMP
8 6 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (2.19%) CCSK
8 6 (2.19%) CCSP
8 6 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.19%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.46%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.09%) CCSAS
10 3 (1.09%) CISM
10 3 (1.09%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.09%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.93%) ITGC
1 19 (6.93%) QA
2 9 (3.28%) GDPR
3 7 (2.55%) PMO
4 6 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.82%) NIST
6 4 (1.46%) Good Clinical Practice
6 4 (1.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (0.73%) NCSC
7 2 (0.73%) NEBOSH
7 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 8 (2.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.92%) Terraform
3 3 (1.09%) CASB
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) OPNET
Vendors
1 18 (6.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.38%) Google
3 10 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.92%) Charles River
4 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.19%) BT
5 6 (2.19%) SAP
6 5 (1.82%) eFront
6 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.82%) YouTube
7 4 (1.46%) Databricks
7 4 (1.46%) Remedy
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle
8 3 (1.09%) Symantec
8 3 (1.09%) TikTok
8 3 (1.09%) VMware
8 3 (1.09%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.73%) Informatica
9 2 (0.73%) Siebel
9 2 (0.73%) Snapchat