Senior Manager
UK

The median Senior Manager salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 263 264
Rank change year-on-year +76 +1 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 1,537 1,465 2,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.40% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.53% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 929 808 1,246
10th Percentile £43,116 £51,175 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,899 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +77 1,337 £62,500 -19.35% 472
UK excluding London +80 870 £60,000 -7.69% 235
London +60 586 £72,500 -15.69% 246
Work from Home +43 479 £62,500 -15.80% 188
North of England +102 232 £60,000 -1.48% 58
Midlands +88 161 £61,750 -5.00% 33
South West +68 153 £55,000 -15.38% 33
South East -20 133 £62,500 -16.67% 61
West Midlands +81 103 £61,000 -18.67% 27
Yorkshire +89 97 £64,080 +6.80% 20
North West +53 96 £58,982 -15.74% 34
Scotland -13 96 £65,000 -7.14% 23
East of England +9 63 £55,000 -9.69% 21
East Midlands +17 54 £62,500 +2.63% 6
North East +22 39 £59,250 +12.86% 5
Wales +24 21 £52,368 -4.79% 6
Northern Ireland - 11 £67,500 - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 - 1

Senior Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 576 (37.48%) Social Skills
2 550 (35.78%) Project Management
3 522 (33.96%) Finance
4 404 (26.28%) Agile
5 310 (20.17%) Mentoring
6 295 (19.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 277 (18.02%) Coaching
8 256 (16.66%) Degree
9 247 (16.07%) Microsoft
10 202 (13.14%) Law
11 198 (12.88%) Project Delivery
12 191 (12.43%) PRINCE2
13 188 (12.23%) Decision-Making
14 182 (11.84%) Risk Management
15 176 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
16 171 (11.13%) Marketing
17 160 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
18 154 (10.02%) Service Delivery
19 151 (9.82%) SaaS
19 151 (9.82%) Roadmaps
20 142 (9.24%) Change Management
21 133 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
22 129 (8.39%) Analytics
23 126 (8.20%) ServiceNow
24 125 (8.13%) Security Cleared
25 122 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
26 120 (7.81%) Programme Management
27 116 (7.55%) Line Management
28 114 (7.42%) Performance Management
29 110 (7.16%) Contract Negotiation

Senior Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.98%) Confluence
4 11 (0.72%) SAS
5 9 (0.59%) CMS
6 6 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.39%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.33%) WordPress
8 4 (0.26%) Apache
8 4 (0.26%) Site Server
9 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.13%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.065%) GlassFish
11 1 (0.065%) JCAPS
11 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.065%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 65 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.91%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.20%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.20%) SPSS
7 3 (0.20%) Stata
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 31 (2.02%) Endur
2 8 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Shopify
4 6 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.26%) Primavera
6 3 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.20%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.13%) Magento
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.065%) Adaptiv
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.065%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 151 (9.82%) SaaS
2 82 (5.34%) Azure
3 41 (2.67%) AWS
3 41 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (2.60%) Power Platform
5 27 (1.76%) GCP
6 18 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (0.72%) OCI
7 11 (0.72%) PaaS
8 10 (0.65%) Entra ID
9 9 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (0.59%) GitHub
10 8 (0.52%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.39%) Azure Pipelines
11 6 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.33%) Google Ads
12 5 (0.33%) Google Analytics
12 5 (0.33%) IaaS
13 4 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.43%) 5G
1 22 (1.43%) WAN
2 21 (1.37%) LAN
3 12 (0.78%) DNS
4 10 (0.65%) Broadband
5 9 (0.59%) Network Security
6 8 (0.52%) 4G
6 8 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.46%) Firewall
7 7 (0.46%) SAN
7 7 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.33%) DHCP
9 4 (0.26%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 4 (0.26%) WLAN
10 3 (0.20%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.20%) VLAN
11 2 (0.13%) MPLS
11 2 (0.13%) PPP
11 2 (0.13%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.34%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 27 (1.76%) Power BI
4 24 (1.56%) RDBMS
5 16 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.72%) Tableau
7 10 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (0.52%) Big Data
10 7 (0.46%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.39%) MySQL
12 5 (0.33%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.26%) GIS
14 3 (0.20%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.20%) Star Schema
15 2 (0.13%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 30 (1.95%) JIRA
2 8 (0.52%) Git
3 6 (0.39%) PHPUnit
4 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.13%) JUnit
5 2 (0.13%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.065%) Ant
6 1 (0.065%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.065%) Gatling
6 1 (0.065%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.065%) Maven
6 1 (0.065%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.065%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.065%) Subversion
6 1 (0.065%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 576 (37.48%) Social Skills
2 522 (33.96%) Finance
3 295 (19.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 202 (13.14%) Law
5 171 (11.13%) Marketing
6 133 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
7 88 (5.73%) Legal
8 84 (5.47%) Banking
9 83 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
10 82 (5.34%) Retail
11 62 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.90%) Public Sector
13 51 (3.32%) Manufacturing
14 47 (3.06%) Games
15 40 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
16 39 (2.54%) Investment Banking
17 35 (2.28%) Telecoms
18 32 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (1.37%) Front Office
20 19 (1.24%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.65%) .NET
1 10 (0.65%) HTML
2 9 (0.59%) XML
3 7 (0.46%) CSS
4 6 (0.39%) Apache Beam
4 6 (0.39%) Doctrine
4 6 (0.39%) HTML5
4 6 (0.39%) jQuery
4 6 (0.39%) Laravel
4 6 (0.39%) Symfony
4 6 (0.39%) Vue
5 5 (0.33%) LDAP
5 5 (0.33%) Middleware
5 5 (0.33%) React
6 4 (0.26%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.26%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.26%) Kafka
6 4 (0.26%) PySpark
6 4 (0.26%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.26%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 81 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
2 56 (3.64%) PMI
3 45 (2.93%) Cloud Native
3 45 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 29 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 25 (1.63%) Driving Licence
5 25 (1.63%) Social Media
6 24 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.43%) Blog
8 22 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.24%) Life Science
9 19 (1.24%) Swaptions
10 17 (1.11%) NHS
10 17 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 16 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 15 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
13 14 (0.91%) Derivative
14 13 (0.85%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.50%) Windows
2 14 (0.91%) Linux
3 10 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.13%) Unix
8 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (35.78%) Project Management
2 404 (26.28%) Agile
3 310 (20.17%) Mentoring
4 277 (18.02%) Coaching
5 198 (12.88%) Project Delivery
6 191 (12.43%) PRINCE2
7 188 (12.23%) Decision-Making
8 182 (11.84%) Risk Management
9 176 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
10 160 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 154 (10.02%) Service Delivery
12 151 (9.82%) Roadmaps
13 142 (9.24%) Change Management
14 129 (8.39%) Analytics
15 122 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 120 (7.81%) Programme Management
17 116 (7.55%) Line Management
18 114 (7.42%) Performance Management
19 110 (7.16%) Contract Negotiation
20 102 (6.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (3.58%) Java
2 46 (2.99%) SQL
3 36 (2.34%) Python
4 19 (1.24%) VB
5 11 (0.72%) R
6 10 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.39%) C#
7 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (0.39%) PHP
8 4 (0.26%) Scala
8 4 (0.26%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.20%) Bash
9 3 (0.20%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.065%) Bicep
10 1 (0.065%) C
10 1 (0.065%) Go
10 1 (0.065%) Groovy
10 1 (0.065%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.065%) XPath
Qualifications
1 256 (16.66%) Degree
2 125 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.34%) PMI Certification
4 77 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 36 (2.34%) APMP
7 34 (2.21%) PMP
8 29 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.37%) ACCA
10 18 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
10 18 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 16 (1.04%) CISM
12 15 (0.98%) CISSP
13 13 (0.85%) MBA
14 12 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.72%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.65%) CISA
16 10 (0.65%) CSPO
17 9 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.77%) SLA
2 49 (3.19%) QA
3 42 (2.73%) PMO
4 31 (2.02%) IFRS
5 29 (1.89%) GDPR
6 16 (1.04%) IFRS 9
7 14 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.72%) COBIT
10 10 (0.65%) GRC
11 9 (0.59%) NIST
12 8 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.52%) CDISC
13 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.20%) ITGC
14 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (1.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.72%) IAG
3 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.33%) Firmware
4 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.26%) Docker
6 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.065%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (0.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (0.33%) Rancher
2 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (0.26%) Terraform
3 3 (0.20%) CASB
4 2 (0.13%) SmoothWall
4 2 (0.13%) WSUS
5 1 (0.065%) Control-M
5 1 (0.065%) Core Impact
5 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.065%) Istio
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.065%) Nmap
Vendors
1 247 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 126 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 96 (6.25%) Dell
4 42 (2.73%) Oracle
5 38 (2.47%) SAP
6 30 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.24%) CA
7 19 (1.24%) OpenLink
7 19 (1.24%) Sybase
7 19 (1.24%) TIBCO
8 14 (0.91%) Google
9 12 (0.78%) iManage
10 10 (0.65%) Apple
10 10 (0.65%) Cisco
10 10 (0.65%) Virgin Media
11 7 (0.46%) CheckPoint
11 7 (0.46%) VMware
12 6 (0.39%) Databricks
13 5 (0.33%) Facebook
13 5 (0.33%) Openreach