Senior Manager Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 128 237
Rank change year-on-year +30 +109 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 1,091 583 822
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.71% 2.19% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 2.48% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 692 201 580
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,112
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,063 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £103,750 £90,822
UK median annual salary £68,076 £77,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.16% +24.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 59,210 23,547 63,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 88.51% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 37,623 14,624 46,632
10th Percentile £29,120 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Senior Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
North of England +77 350 £65,000 -7.14% 61
South East +50 249 £75,000 +3.45% 105
Midlands +71 224 £75,000 +7.14% 33
West Midlands +67 185 £75,000 -3.23% 22
North West +41 172 £65,000 - 34
Yorkshire +26 120 £63,076 -25.79% 23
Scotland +7 90 £70,000 -19.80% 8
South West -72 88 £60,000 +17.65% 13
North East +13 58 £65,000 +23.81% 4
East of England -22 55 £60,000 -18.23% 24
East Midlands -39 39 £67,500 +21.62% 11
Wales -49 31 £56,258 -6.01%
Northern Ireland -50 4 - - 11
Senior Manager
UK

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 191 (17.51%) Business Development
2 182 (16.68%) Agile
3 144 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 130 (11.92%) Coaching
5 115 (10.54%) Decision-Making
6 106 (9.72%) Mentoring
7 101 (9.26%) Project Management
8 96 (8.80%) Degree
9 94 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 73 (6.69%) Cybersecurity
10 73 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (6.51%) Microsoft
12 70 (6.42%) Project Delivery
13 66 (6.05%) Analytics
13 66 (6.05%) PMI Certification
14 65 (5.96%) Risk Management
15 64 (5.87%) PMP
16 63 (5.77%) SaaS
17 61 (5.59%) Roadmaps
18 52 (4.77%) Budget Management
19 51 (4.67%) Business Intelligence
20 45 (4.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 43 (3.94%) Power Platform
21 43 (3.94%) Strategic Thinking
22 42 (3.85%) Biotechnology
23 41 (3.76%) B2B
23 41 (3.76%) Migration
24 40 (3.67%) Hematology
24 40 (3.67%) Immunology
25 39 (3.57%) Service Delivery

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (0.82%) Confluence
2 5 (0.46%) IIS
3 4 (0.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.27%) CMS
4 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 35 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (5.77%) SaaS
2 43 (3.94%) Power Platform
3 19 (1.74%) Azure
4 14 (1.28%) PowerApps
5 13 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (0.92%) AWS
8 7 (0.64%) Snowflake
9 6 (0.55%) Miro
10 4 (0.37%) Figma
10 4 (0.37%) GCP
11 3 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.27%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (0.18%) Veeva
13 1 (0.092%) Asana
13 1 (0.092%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.092%) dbt
13 1 (0.092%) Fivetran
13 1 (0.092%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.56%) Unified Communications
2 10 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (0.73%) Broadband
4 5 (0.46%) WAN
5 4 (0.37%) Firewall
5 4 (0.37%) LAN
6 3 (0.27%) DHCP
6 3 (0.27%) DNS
7 2 (0.18%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.092%) LTE
8 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.092%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (2.66%) Power BI
2 25 (2.29%) Tableau
3 11 (1.01%) Metadata
4 5 (0.46%) Big Data
4 5 (0.46%) Data Mining
4 5 (0.46%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.18%) Redis
6 2 (0.18%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.092%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.092%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.092%) GIS
7 1 (0.092%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 21 (1.92%) JIRA
2 2 (0.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.092%) Appium
3 1 (0.092%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.092%) Selenium
General
1 169 (15.49%) Social Skills
2 153 (14.02%) Public Sector
3 150 (13.75%) Finance
4 71 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (6.42%) Pharmaceutical
6 66 (6.05%) Retail
7 58 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (4.31%) Legal
9 46 (4.22%) Marketing
10 40 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (3.02%) Law
12 28 (2.57%) Electronics
13 23 (2.11%) Games
14 21 (1.92%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.47%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.73%) Banking
17 6 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.46%) Health Technology
19 3 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.46%) Play Framework
2 3 (0.27%) .NET
3 2 (0.18%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.18%) JSON
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.18%) REST
4 1 (0.092%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.02%) Onboarding
2 27 (2.47%) Life Science
3 24 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 20 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
7 15 (1.37%) FMCG
7 15 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 14 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.10%) PMI
11 11 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.92%) NHS
12 10 (0.92%) Social Media
13 8 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.46%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.46%) Marketing Technology
14 5 (0.46%) Over-the-Top Content
14 5 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.27%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.55%) Windows
1 6 (0.55%) Windows Server
2 3 (0.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (17.51%) Business Development
2 182 (16.68%) Agile
3 144 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 130 (11.92%) Coaching
5 115 (10.54%) Decision-Making
6 106 (9.72%) Mentoring
7 101 (9.26%) Project Management
8 94 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 73 (6.69%) Cybersecurity
9 73 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (6.42%) Project Delivery
11 66 (6.05%) Analytics
12 65 (5.96%) Risk Management
13 61 (5.59%) Roadmaps
14 52 (4.77%) Budget Management
15 51 (4.67%) Business Intelligence
16 45 (4.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 43 (3.94%) Strategic Thinking
18 42 (3.85%) Biotechnology
19 41 (3.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (1.47%) SQL
2 14 (1.28%) VBA
3 7 (0.64%) Java
3 7 (0.64%) Python
4 5 (0.46%) R
4 5 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (8.80%) Degree
2 66 (6.05%) PMI Certification
3 64 (5.87%) PMP
4 33 (3.02%) Security Cleared
5 27 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.01%) CISM
7 11 (1.01%) CISSP
7 11 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.82%) ACCA
8 9 (0.82%) CRISC
9 7 (0.64%) MBA
10 6 (0.55%) CIMA
10 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.29%) QA
2 23 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.10%) PMO
5 10 (0.92%) P3O
6 9 (0.82%) NIST
7 7 (0.64%) ITGC
8 6 (0.55%) GDPR
9 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.46%) GMP
10 4 (0.37%) COBIT
10 4 (0.37%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) GAAP
11 2 (0.18%) IFRS
11 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.092%) ARP4761
12 1 (0.092%) DO-160
12 1 (0.092%) DO-254
12 1 (0.092%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (0.55%) Active Directory
1 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.18%) Docker
3 1 (0.092%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 71 (6.51%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.11%) ServiceNow
3 18 (1.65%) Anaplan
3 18 (1.65%) Genesys
3 18 (1.65%) Verint
4 9 (0.82%) VMware
5 8 (0.73%) BT
6 7 (0.64%) Adobe
6 7 (0.64%) Databricks
6 7 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 6 (0.55%) Oracle
8 5 (0.46%) Mitel
9 4 (0.37%) OneLogin
10 3 (0.27%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.27%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.27%) Google
10 3 (0.27%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.18%) Infor
11 2 (0.18%) NEC
11 2 (0.18%) SAP