Senior Manager Job Trends in the Midlands

Senior Manager
England > Midlands

The median Senior Manager salary in the Midlands is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 116 154
Rank change year-on-year +30 +38 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 199 101 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.89% 2.12% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 2.34% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 124 53 107
10th Percentile £50,375 £51,100 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,511 £52,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £79,418
England median annual salary £66,771 £75,000 £64,080
% change year-on-year -10.97% +17.04% -14.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 9,687 4,316 9,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 90.48% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,044 2,691 7,728
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,995 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Senior Manager job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the Midlands

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the Midlands

Senior Manager
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
West Midlands +46 165 £75,000 +1.69% 13
East Midlands -44 34 £80,000 +45.45% 11
Senior Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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 Midlands region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 40 (20.10%) Business Development
2 34 (17.09%) Agile
3 26 (13.07%) Mentoring
4 24 (12.06%) Coaching
5 23 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (10.55%) Analytics
7 17 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (8.04%) Project Delivery
9 15 (7.54%) Project Management
10 14 (7.04%) Budget Management
10 14 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.53%) Business Transformation
11 13 (6.53%) SaaS
12 12 (6.03%) Business Strategy
13 10 (5.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (4.52%) Creative Thinking
14 9 (4.52%) Customer Retention
14 9 (4.52%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (4.52%) Internal Audit
15 8 (4.02%) Degree
15 8 (4.02%) ERP
16 7 (3.52%) Data Analytics
16 7 (3.52%) IT Governance
16 7 (3.52%) ITGC
16 7 (3.52%) Microsoft
16 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
16 7 (3.52%) Order to Cash
16 7 (3.52%) PMI Certification
16 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
16 7 (3.52%) Procure-to-Pay

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (1.01%) WordPress
2 1 (0.50%) CMS
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.53%) SaaS
2 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.01%) Azure
4 3 (1.51%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.50%) Asana
6 1 (0.50%) AWS
6 1 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.51%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.01%) Power BI
2 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.51%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) Appium
2 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 27 (13.57%) Finance
2 24 (12.06%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.06%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.53%) Legal
5 10 (5.03%) Law
6 8 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.02%) Marketing
6 8 (4.02%) Retail
7 6 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.51%) Automotive
9 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.51%) Banking
10 3 (1.51%) Games
10 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Billing
11 1 (0.50%) iGaming
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (2.01%) Low-Code
2 3 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (1.51%) Social Media
3 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (1.01%) Life Science
3 2 (1.01%) PMI
4 1 (0.50%) Linked Data
4 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (20.10%) Business Development
2 34 (17.09%) Agile
3 26 (13.07%) Mentoring
4 24 (12.06%) Coaching
5 23 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (10.55%) Analytics
7 17 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (8.04%) Project Delivery
9 15 (7.54%) Project Management
10 14 (7.04%) Budget Management
10 14 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.53%) Business Transformation
12 12 (6.03%) Business Strategy
13 10 (5.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (4.52%) Creative Thinking
14 9 (4.52%) Customer Retention
14 9 (4.52%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (4.52%) Internal Audit
15 8 (4.02%) ERP
16 7 (3.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.51%) VBA
2 1 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (4.02%) Degree
2 7 (3.52%) PMI Certification
3 5 (2.51%) PMP
3 5 (2.51%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.51%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.01%) CCSP
4 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.01%) CISM
4 2 (1.01%) CISSP
4 2 (1.01%) CRISC
4 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.50%) CISA
5 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.52%) ITGC
2 5 (2.51%) QA
3 4 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.51%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.01%) P3O
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 7 (3.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.01%) Screaming Frog
2 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.50%) Anaplan
3 1 (0.50%) Databricks
3 1 (0.50%) Genesys
3 1 (0.50%) Verint