Senior Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 238 299
Rank change year-on-year +77 +61 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 806 892 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.05% 1.20% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.27% 1.26% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 319 593 430
10th Percentile - £42,500 £49,975
25th Percentile £7,000 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -1.48% -2.56%
75th Percentile £68,375 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,950 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £59,857 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% -10.71% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Manager 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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
North of England +47 268 £7,000 -88.33% 446
North West +78 234 £7,000 -87.92% 215
South East +96 142 £65,000 +4.00% 631
South West +74 129 £62,245 +13.17% 209
Scotland +86 77 £95,000 +35.71% 96
Wales +84 76 £59,857 +13.50% 42
East of England +36 55 £75,000 +36.36% 258
Midlands -13 54 £72,500 +16.00% 329
West Midlands -16 32 £88,750 +45.49% 180
Yorkshire +1 31 £85,000 +32.65% 178
East Midlands +17 21 £72,500 +16.00% 129
Northern Ireland +36 5 - - 30
North East +10 3 £45,000 -23.47% 53
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 403 (50.00%) Finance
2 372 (46.15%) Project Management
3 310 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 228 (28.29%) Change Management
5 227 (28.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 185 (22.95%) Risk Management
7 167 (20.72%) Degree
8 161 (19.98%) Driving Licence
9 159 (19.73%) Agile
10 153 (18.98%) Balanced Scorecard
10 153 (18.98%) Scorecard
11 102 (12.66%) Mentoring
12 101 (12.53%) Management Information System
13 82 (10.17%) Roadmaps
14 80 (9.93%) Coaching
15 78 (9.68%) Information Security
16 74 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
17 73 (9.06%) Marketing
18 68 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
19 66 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
19 66 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
20 61 (7.57%) Strategic Thinking
21 60 (7.44%) CISSP
22 59 (7.32%) Project Delivery
23 55 (6.82%) Law
23 55 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
24 52 (6.45%) Public Sector
25 51 (6.33%) Analytics
26 48 (5.96%) Service Delivery
27 46 (5.71%) Microsoft

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 23 (2.85%) Confluence
2 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Revit
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 46 (5.71%) Azure
2 17 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (1.74%) AWS
3 14 (1.74%) Salsify
4 12 (1.49%) GCP
5 11 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (1.36%) SaaS
6 9 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (0.99%) Power Platform
8 6 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.37%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.25%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.25%) Contentsquare
10 2 (0.25%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.25%) GitHub
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.25%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.12%) Serverless
11 1 (0.12%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.85%) Broadband
2 9 (1.12%) WAN
3 7 (0.87%) SD-WAN
3 7 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.62%) SSH
4 5 (0.62%) SSL
5 4 (0.50%) Firewall
5 4 (0.50%) VLAN
5 4 (0.50%) VoIP
6 2 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.25%) LAN
6 2 (0.25%) PPP
6 2 (0.25%) WLAN
7 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.72%) Big Data
2 14 (1.74%) Metadata
3 8 (0.99%) Tableau
4 6 (0.74%) Power BI
5 5 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (1.12%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
General
1 403 (50.00%) Finance
2 310 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 74 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.06%) Marketing
5 55 (6.82%) Law
6 52 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 44 (5.46%) Legal
8 40 (4.96%) Advertising
8 40 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (4.96%) Retail
9 37 (4.59%) Local Government
10 30 (3.72%) Manufacturing
11 27 (3.35%) Games
12 24 (2.98%) Banking
13 14 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.87%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.62%) Front Office
17 4 (0.50%) Back Office
17 4 (0.50%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.36%) Hugging Face
1 11 (1.36%) LangChain
1 11 (1.36%) PyTorch
1 11 (1.36%) TensorFlow
2 9 (1.12%) .NET
3 8 (0.99%) .NET Core
3 8 (0.99%) React
4 7 (0.87%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.12%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.12%) CSS
6 1 (0.12%) CSS3
6 1 (0.12%) HTML
6 1 (0.12%) HTML5
6 1 (0.12%) Middleware
6 1 (0.12%) Next.js
6 1 (0.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 161 (19.98%) Driving Licence
2 101 (12.53%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.72%) Digital Media
3 30 (3.72%) Marketing Technology
4 25 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.85%) Video\Live Streaming
6 14 (1.74%) Taxonomies
7 13 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 7 (0.87%) PMI
10 6 (0.74%) Social Media
11 5 (0.62%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.62%) Tandem
12 4 (0.50%) CCTV
13 3 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.37%) Educational Technology
13 3 (0.37%) Life Science
13 3 (0.37%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.25%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.87%) Windows
2 6 (0.74%) zOS
3 4 (0.50%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (46.15%) Project Management
2 228 (28.29%) Change Management
3 185 (22.95%) Risk Management
4 159 (19.73%) Agile
5 153 (18.98%) Balanced Scorecard
5 153 (18.98%) Scorecard
6 102 (12.66%) Mentoring
7 82 (10.17%) Roadmaps
8 80 (9.93%) Coaching
9 78 (9.68%) Information Security
10 68 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
11 66 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (7.57%) Strategic Thinking
13 59 (7.32%) Project Delivery
14 55 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 51 (6.33%) Analytics
16 48 (5.96%) Service Delivery
17 43 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 42 (5.21%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (1.24%) JavaScript
2 9 (1.12%) SQL
3 8 (0.99%) C#
4 7 (0.87%) Java
5 2 (0.25%) Python
6 1 (0.12%) Go
6 1 (0.12%) PHP
6 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 227 (28.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 167 (20.72%) Degree
3 60 (7.44%) CISSP
4 38 (4.71%) ACCA
5 34 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.23%) PMP
7 24 (2.98%) HNC
8 14 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.49%) HND
11 10 (1.24%) CISA
12 8 (0.99%) Security Cleared
13 7 (0.87%) MRICS
14 5 (0.62%) SC Cleared
15 4 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 3 (0.37%) CSPO
16 3 (0.37%) MBA
17 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
17 2 (0.25%) CITP
17 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.59%) GAAP
1 37 (4.59%) IFRS
2 20 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (1.86%) NEBOSH
5 14 (1.74%) QA
6 7 (0.87%) GDPR
6 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.50%) PMO
8 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 6 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (1.36%) Grafana
1 11 (1.36%) Prometheus
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.12%) SCOM
4 1 (0.12%) Terraform
4 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.85%) ServiceNow
3 18 (2.23%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.11%) Atlassian
5 16 (1.99%) NEC
6 11 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.12%) SAP
8 8 (0.99%) IBM
8 8 (0.99%) Oracle
9 4 (0.50%) Cisco
9 4 (0.50%) Commvault
9 4 (0.50%) Google
10 2 (0.25%) Adobe
10 2 (0.25%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.25%) Aruba
10 2 (0.25%) Charles River
10 2 (0.25%) HP
10 2 (0.25%) Instagram
10 2 (0.25%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (0.25%) Twitter