Senior Manager Jobs in the South East

Senior Manager
England > South East

The median Senior Manager salary in the South East is £65,000 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 177 262 221
Rank change year-on-year +85 -41 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 144 132 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.49% 0.75% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 0.80% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 26 95 85
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,406 £57,500
25th Percentile £58,500 £53,125 £60,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,425 16,577 12,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.99% 94.08% 90.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,513 11,781 7,967
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the South East

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Manager in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Manager in the South East

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the South East

Senior Manager
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the South East 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
Thames Valley +73 66 £68,750 - 39
Berkshire +59 60 £87,500 +2.94% 26
Surrey +49 19 £65,000 - 11
Middlesex - 19 - -
Hampshire +70 16 £76,250 +27.08% 19
Kent +21 8 £47,500 -24.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +29 6 £65,000 - 6
Isle of Wight - 6 - -
West Sussex +36 4 £60,000 +9.09% 3
East Sussex +21 2 - - 7
Senior Manager
England

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 80 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 74 (51.39%) Finance
3 53 (36.81%) Project Management
4 52 (36.11%) Degree
5 50 (34.72%) Change Management
6 48 (33.33%) Law
6 48 (33.33%) Marketing
7 44 (30.56%) Agile
7 44 (30.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 44 (30.56%) Strategic Thinking
8 43 (29.86%) Roadmaps
8 43 (29.86%) Legal
9 41 (28.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
10 37 (25.69%) Management Information System
10 37 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (22.92%) Mentoring
12 31 (21.53%) Information Security
13 29 (20.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (19.44%) Analytics
15 27 (18.75%) Data Privacy
15 27 (18.75%) Service Delivery
15 27 (18.75%) Generative AI
16 25 (17.36%) Advertising
16 25 (17.36%) Problem Management
16 25 (17.36%) Incident Management
17 21 (14.58%) Computer Science
17 21 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
18 20 (13.89%) Azure
19 19 (13.19%) Data Integration

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.39%) Maximo
3 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.89%) Azure
2 14 (9.72%) Salsify
3 13 (9.03%) AWS
3 13 (9.03%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (9.03%) GCP
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.78%) SaaS
5 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.94%) Broadband
2 4 (2.78%) VLAN
2 4 (2.78%) VoIP
3 2 (1.39%) Firewall
3 2 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.39%) LAN
3 2 (1.39%) WAN
3 2 (1.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.42%) Big Data
2 14 (9.72%) Metadata
3 4 (2.78%) Tableau
4 2 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
General
1 80 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 74 (51.39%) Finance
3 48 (33.33%) Law
3 48 (33.33%) Marketing
4 43 (29.86%) Legal
5 41 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (17.36%) Advertising
7 10 (6.94%) Games
8 8 (5.56%) Retail
9 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Front Office
10 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.03%) Hugging Face
1 13 (9.03%) LangChain
1 13 (9.03%) PyTorch
1 13 (9.03%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.69%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.42%) Digital Media
2 15 (10.42%) Marketing Technology
3 14 (9.72%) Taxonomies
4 10 (6.94%) Video\Live Streaming
5 8 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.78%) CCTV
7 3 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.39%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.39%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.39%) Social Media
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.78%) Mac OS
1 4 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.81%) Project Management
2 50 (34.72%) Change Management
3 44 (30.56%) Agile
3 44 (30.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 44 (30.56%) Strategic Thinking
4 43 (29.86%) Roadmaps
5 41 (28.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (22.92%) Mentoring
8 31 (21.53%) Information Security
9 29 (20.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 28 (19.44%) Analytics
11 27 (18.75%) Data Privacy
11 27 (18.75%) Generative AI
11 27 (18.75%) Service Delivery
12 25 (17.36%) Incident Management
12 25 (17.36%) Problem Management
13 21 (14.58%) Computer Science
14 19 (13.19%) Data Integration
14 19 (13.19%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.39%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (36.11%) Degree
2 21 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (11.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (10.42%) CISSP
5 13 (9.03%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.78%) CISA
7 3 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.08%) PMP
8 2 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (9.03%) Grafana
1 13 (9.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (9.03%) OpenAI
1 13 (9.03%) Salesforce
2 8 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.78%) Oracle
5 2 (1.39%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.39%) Aruba
5 2 (1.39%) Cisco
5 2 (1.39%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.39%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (1.39%) SAP
6 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.69%) Sage