Senior Manager Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Manager salary in the Thames Valley is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 191 209
Rank change year-on-year +69 +18 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 60 55 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.79% 0.79% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 0.84% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11 24 33
10th Percentile £58,500 £50,000 £51,820
25th Percentile £61,875 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,250 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +8.79% -13.00%
75th Percentile £89,375 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £87,500 £96,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,847 6,551 5,265
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.06% 94.59% 89.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,190 4,515 3,110
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Manager in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Senior Manager in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the Thames Valley

Senior Manager
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +59 54 £86,250 +11.29% 175
Buckinghamshire +29 6 £65,000 - 35
Senior Manager
South East

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 28 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 35 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (56.67%) Change Management
3 33 (55.00%) Legal
3 33 (55.00%) Agile
4 32 (53.33%) Law
5 27 (45.00%) Marketing
5 27 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (45.00%) Finance
6 26 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 24 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (38.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 23 (38.33%) Roadmaps
9 20 (33.33%) Generative AI
9 20 (33.33%) Analytics
9 20 (33.33%) Data Privacy
9 20 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (31.67%) Data Quality
10 19 (31.67%) Line Management
10 19 (31.67%) Data Management
11 17 (28.33%) Project Management
11 17 (28.33%) Data Integration
12 16 (26.67%) Information Security
13 14 (23.33%) Content Management
13 14 (23.33%) Management Information System
13 14 (23.33%) Taxonomies
13 14 (23.33%) Metadata Management
13 14 (23.33%) Business Process Mapping
13 14 (23.33%) Collaborative Culture
13 14 (23.33%) Architectural Patterns

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Salsify
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) AWS
3 6 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) VLAN
1 4 (6.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) Metadata
2 3 (5.00%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) Power BI
3 2 (3.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 35 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (55.00%) Legal
3 32 (53.33%) Law
4 27 (45.00%) Finance
4 27 (45.00%) Marketing
5 24 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (13.33%) Retail
7 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (5.00%) Advertising
9 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Banking
10 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 6 (10.00%) LangChain
1 6 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 6 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Management Information System
1 14 (23.33%) Taxonomies
2 4 (6.67%) CCTV
3 3 (5.00%) Digital Media
3 3 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Change Management
2 33 (55.00%) Agile
3 27 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 23 (38.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (38.33%) Roadmaps
7 20 (33.33%) Analytics
7 20 (33.33%) Data Privacy
7 20 (33.33%) Generative AI
7 20 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (31.67%) Data Management
8 19 (31.67%) Line Management
9 17 (28.33%) Data Integration
9 17 (28.33%) Project Management
10 16 (26.67%) Information Security
11 14 (23.33%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (23.33%) Business Process Mapping
11 14 (23.33%) Content Management
11 14 (23.33%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (31.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Grafana
1 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.67%) HubSpot