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 £51,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 238 288
Rank change year-on-year +84 +50 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 813 865 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 1.22% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 1.29% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 358 572 437
10th Percentile - £42,558 £50,000
25th Percentile £7,000 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £77,530
90th Percentile £98,175 £86,125 £92,321
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 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -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 14 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 14 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 +57 275 £7,000 -88.33% 187
North West +75 238 £7,000 -87.92% 107
South East +100 134 £65,000 +4.00% 242
South West +76 130 £58,393 +6.17% 53
Wales +79 76 £59,857 +14.30% 10
Scotland +88 74 £95,000 +40.74% 78
Midlands -20 64 £72,500 +16.00% 80
East of England +32 50 £64,743 +17.71% 67
West Midlands -10 38 £91,250 +49.59% 44
Yorkshire +19 35 £85,000 +32.65% 71
East Midlands +8 25 £68,000 +8.80% 32
Northern Ireland +43 10 - - 22
North East +7 2 £52,500 -11.39% 9
Senior Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 414 (50.92%) Finance
2 408 (50.18%) Project Management
3 290 (35.67%) Social Skills
4 226 (27.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 200 (24.60%) Change Management
6 197 (24.23%) Risk Management
7 170 (20.91%) Driving Licence
8 165 (20.30%) Agile
9 157 (19.31%) Balanced Scorecard
9 157 (19.31%) Scorecard
10 150 (18.45%) Degree
11 102 (12.55%) Mentoring
12 79 (9.72%) Management Information System
12 79 (9.72%) Information Security
13 74 (9.10%) Coaching
13 74 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
13 74 (9.10%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (8.61%) Marketing
15 67 (8.24%) Project Delivery
16 61 (7.50%) Microsoft
17 60 (7.38%) CISSP
18 59 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 56 (6.89%) Public Sector
20 55 (6.77%) Artificial Intelligence
21 54 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
21 54 (6.64%) Roadmaps
22 50 (6.15%) Strategic Thinking
23 49 (6.03%) Analytics
23 49 (6.03%) Retail
24 46 (5.66%) Time Management

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 21 (2.58%) Confluence
2 6 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (3.44%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 40 (4.92%) Azure
2 20 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (1.72%) Salsify
4 12 (1.48%) SaaS
5 11 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (1.11%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.37%) AWS
9 2 (0.25%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.25%) Collibra
9 2 (0.25%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.25%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.12%) Contentsquare
10 1 (0.12%) GitHub
10 1 (0.12%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.12%) Serverless
10 1 (0.12%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.48%) WAN
2 10 (1.23%) SD-WAN
2 10 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (0.49%) Firewall
3 4 (0.49%) VLAN
3 4 (0.49%) VoIP
4 3 (0.37%) Broadband
5 2 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.25%) LAN
5 2 (0.25%) SSH
5 2 (0.25%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) WLAN
6 1 (0.12%) Mobile Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.69%) Big Data
2 16 (1.97%) Metadata
3 8 (0.98%) Tableau
4 6 (0.74%) Power BI
5 2 (0.25%) Ataccama
5 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
General
1 414 (50.92%) Finance
2 290 (35.67%) Social Skills
3 74 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (8.61%) Marketing
5 56 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 49 (6.03%) Retail
7 42 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (5.17%) Law
8 40 (4.92%) Advertising
9 37 (4.55%) Manufacturing
10 33 (4.06%) Local Government
11 29 (3.57%) Legal
12 24 (2.95%) Banking
13 19 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.23%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.74%) Games
15 6 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.49%) Back Office
16 4 (0.49%) Billing
17 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.23%) .NET
2 9 (1.11%) .NET Core
2 9 (1.11%) React
3 8 (0.98%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.12%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.12%) CSS
5 1 (0.12%) CSS3
5 1 (0.12%) HTML
5 1 (0.12%) HTML5
5 1 (0.12%) Middleware
5 1 (0.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 170 (20.91%) Driving Licence
2 79 (9.72%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.69%) Digital Media
3 30 (3.69%) Marketing Technology
4 14 (1.72%) Taxonomies
5 10 (1.23%) PMI
5 10 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.11%) Virtual Team
7 8 (0.98%) Social Media
8 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.62%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.49%) CCTV
10 4 (0.49%) Life Science
10 4 (0.49%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.37%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.25%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.25%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.25%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.23%) Windows
2 6 (0.74%) zOS
3 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.49%) Windows Vista
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (50.18%) Project Management
2 200 (24.60%) Change Management
3 197 (24.23%) Risk Management
4 165 (20.30%) Agile
5 157 (19.31%) Balanced Scorecard
5 157 (19.31%) Scorecard
6 102 (12.55%) Mentoring
7 79 (9.72%) Information Security
8 74 (9.10%) Coaching
8 74 (9.10%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (8.24%) Project Delivery
10 59 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (6.77%) Artificial Intelligence
12 54 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (6.64%) Roadmaps
13 50 (6.15%) Strategic Thinking
14 49 (6.03%) Analytics
15 46 (5.66%) Time Management
16 41 (5.04%) Line Management
17 39 (4.80%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 11 (1.35%) JavaScript
2 9 (1.11%) C#
3 5 (0.62%) SQL
4 4 (0.49%) Java
5 3 (0.37%) Python
6 1 (0.12%) Go
6 1 (0.12%) PHP
6 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 226 (27.80%) BPSS Clearance
2 150 (18.45%) Degree
3 60 (7.38%) CISSP
4 34 (4.18%) ACCA
5 33 (4.06%) PMP
6 24 (2.95%) HNC
7 22 (2.71%) PMI Certification
8 15 (1.85%) MRICS
9 12 (1.48%) HND
10 10 (1.23%) CISA
11 9 (1.11%) Security Cleared
12 7 (0.86%) MAPM
12 7 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.74%) SC Cleared
14 5 (0.62%) MBA
14 5 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.49%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (0.37%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.06%) GAAP
1 33 (4.06%) IFRS
2 23 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 16 (1.97%) QA
5 15 (1.85%) NEBOSH
6 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.74%) GDPR
8 5 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.62%) PMO
9 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.25%) ITGC
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.25%) Ansible
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.12%) Puppet
2 1 (0.12%) Terraform
2 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.34%) NEC
3 17 (2.09%) Atlassian
3 17 (2.09%) Salesforce
4 11 (1.35%) SAP
5 8 (0.98%) Oracle
6 7 (0.86%) IBM
7 4 (0.49%) Commvault
8 3 (0.37%) Cisco
9 2 (0.25%) Adobe
9 2 (0.25%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.25%) Aruba
9 2 (0.25%) Charles River
9 2 (0.25%) Google
9 2 (0.25%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (0.25%) Sage
9 2 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.12%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.12%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.12%) Twitter