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 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 173 126 190
Rank change year-on-year -47 +64 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 277 597 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.14% 2.53% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.37% 2.69% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 103 298 352
10th Percentile £62,100 £44,550 £60,800
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £72,250 £85,995
Median % change year-on-year +31.49% -15.98% +7.49%
75th Percentile £115,000 £99,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,000 £117,875 £112,500
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 11,673 22,210 32,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.15% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,263 16,626 24,091
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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -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 14 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 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
Central London -15 31 £113,750 +77.51% 33
South London -15 11 £80,000 -4.76% 4
West London -3 3 - - 10
North London -7 3 - -
Senior Manager
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 113 (40.79%) Finance
2 104 (37.55%) Social Skills
3 98 (35.38%) Agile
4 89 (32.13%) Project Management
5 77 (27.80%) Marketing
6 67 (24.19%) Degree
7 55 (19.86%) Mentoring
8 51 (18.41%) Analytics
9 49 (17.69%) Roadmaps
10 47 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
11 46 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (16.61%) Artificial Intelligence
12 43 (15.52%) Law
12 43 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (13.72%) Product Management
14 35 (12.64%) Legal
14 35 (12.64%) Business Development
15 32 (11.55%) Banking
15 32 (11.55%) AWS
15 32 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 31 (11.19%) Project Delivery
16 31 (11.19%) Process Improvement
17 30 (10.83%) Strategic Thinking
17 30 (10.83%) CI/CD
18 29 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
18 29 (10.47%) B2B
19 28 (10.11%) CISA
19 28 (10.11%) IT Audit
20 27 (9.75%) Time Management
21 26 (9.39%) Product Marketing

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 (1.08%) CMS
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.44%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.89%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.72%) 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 32 (11.55%) AWS
2 26 (9.39%) Azure
3 13 (4.69%) GCP
3 13 (4.69%) SaaS
4 12 (4.33%) Serverless
5 10 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (3.61%) Amazon S3
5 10 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (3.25%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.44%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.44%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.72%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.72%) Contentful
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.81%) Network Security
2 2 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.22%) Big Data
2 10 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.53%) Power BI
4 4 (1.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.72%) Tableau
7 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (3.97%) JIRA
General
1 113 (40.79%) Finance
2 104 (37.55%) Social Skills
3 77 (27.80%) Marketing
4 47 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (15.52%) Law
6 35 (12.64%) Legal
7 32 (11.55%) Banking
7 32 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (8.66%) Advertising
9 16 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.25%) Front Office
11 9 (3.25%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.89%) Retail
13 7 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (2.17%) Publishing
15 4 (1.44%) Back Office
16 3 (1.08%) Games
17 2 (0.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.53%) Kafka
2 6 (2.17%) React Native
3 5 (1.81%) LangChain
4 2 (0.72%) EDI
4 2 (0.72%) 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 (7.94%) Digital Media
2 21 (7.58%) Marketing Technology
3 12 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.89%) Social Media
6 6 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.81%) PMI
8 3 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.08%) PKI
8 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Windows
2 2 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.38%) Agile
2 89 (32.13%) Project Management
3 55 (19.86%) Mentoring
4 51 (18.41%) Analytics
5 49 (17.69%) Roadmaps
6 46 (16.61%) Artificial Intelligence
6 46 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (13.72%) Product Management
9 35 (12.64%) Business Development
10 31 (11.19%) Process Improvement
10 31 (11.19%) Project Delivery
11 30 (10.83%) CI/CD
11 30 (10.83%) Strategic Thinking
12 29 (10.47%) B2B
12 29 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (10.11%) IT Audit
14 27 (9.75%) Time Management
15 26 (9.39%) Budget Management
15 26 (9.39%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.03%) Python
2 15 (5.42%) Java
3 12 (4.33%) SQL
4 9 (3.25%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.53%) R
6 6 (2.17%) C++
7 4 (1.44%) C
8 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.72%) Rust
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (24.19%) Degree
2 28 (10.11%) CISA
3 25 (9.03%) CISSP
4 21 (7.58%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.61%) MBA
6 9 (3.25%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.89%) MRICS
7 8 (2.89%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.53%) PMP
9 6 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.17%) CCSK
9 6 (2.17%) CCSP
9 6 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.17%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.44%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.08%) CISM
11 3 (1.08%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.08%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.58%) QA
2 19 (6.86%) ITGC
3 8 (2.89%) GDPR
4 7 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.53%) PMO
5 6 (2.17%) Good Clinical Practice
5 6 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.81%) NIST
7 4 (1.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.72%) NCSC
8 2 (0.72%) NEBOSH
8 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (3.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (6.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.61%) Terraform
3 3 (1.08%) CASB
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) OPNET
Vendors
1 17 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.97%) Google
3 9 (3.25%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.89%) Charles River
4 8 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.17%) BT
5 6 (2.17%) SAP
6 5 (1.81%) eFront
6 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.81%) YouTube
7 4 (1.44%) Remedy
8 3 (1.08%) Databricks
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle
8 3 (1.08%) Symantec
8 3 (1.08%) TikTok
8 3 (1.08%) VMware
8 3 (1.08%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.72%) Alibaba
9 2 (0.72%) Snapchat
9 2 (0.72%) Workday