Senior Manager Contracts

Senior Manager
UK

The median Senior Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 221 242
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 426 745 1,053
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.26% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.33% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 584 726
10th Percentile £463 £441 £443
25th Percentile £508 £505 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year - +1.05% +13.10%
75th Percentile £698 £700 £683
90th Percentile £787 £775 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +7.80% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 4
10th Percentile £31.60 £29.59 £13.10
25th Percentile £33.65 £38.92 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.87 £46.00 £37.27
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +23.44% -36.95%
75th Percentile £62.19 £62.44 £55.52
90th Percentile £68.35 £64.38 £64.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £48.50 £37.27
% change year-on-year +5.15% +30.15% -36.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Manager in the UK

Senior Manager
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 366 £600 - 522
London -27 197 £600 -4.00% 258
UK excluding London -12 196 £593 +7.80% 263
Work from Home +42 174 £600 - 215
South East -27 58 £600 +15.38% 67
North of England -4 34 £575 -5.15% 71
South West +17 33 £550 -8.33% 40
Midlands +13 27 £625 +13.90% 39
Scotland +21 25 £451 -10.64% 21
West Midlands +17 24 £625 +13.64% 31
North West +9 23 £593 +4.02% 40
Yorkshire +2 11 £563 -10.89% 25
Wales +17 10 £600 +9.09% 5
East of England +1 8 £500 -9.09% 26
East Midlands +13 3 £500 - 8
North East +17 2 £600 -7.69% 7
Northern Ireland +7 2 £435 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior Manager contract 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 contract job ads featuring Senior Manager in the job title.

1 165 (38.73%) Project Management
1 165 (38.73%) Agile
2 130 (30.52%) Finance
3 105 (24.65%) Social Skills
4 100 (23.47%) Security Cleared
5 92 (21.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 84 (19.72%) SC Cleared
6 84 (19.72%) Public Sector
7 79 (18.54%) Project Delivery
8 74 (17.37%) PRINCE2
9 50 (11.74%) Risk Management
10 44 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (10.09%) Scrum
12 42 (9.86%) Migration
13 37 (8.69%) Change Management
13 37 (8.69%) Microsoft
14 36 (8.45%) SAP
15 35 (8.22%) JIRA
15 35 (8.22%) Waterfall
15 35 (8.22%) Decision-Making
16 32 (7.51%) Business Case
17 31 (7.28%) Degree
18 28 (6.57%) PMP
19 27 (6.34%) Programme Management
19 27 (6.34%) Analytics
19 27 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
19 27 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
19 27 (6.34%) Roadmaps
20 26 (6.10%) Local Government
21 24 (5.63%) Marketing

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 23 (5.40%) Confluence
2 20 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.17%) CMS
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Camunda
5 1 (0.23%) Drupal
5 1 (0.23%) Kentico
5 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Acrobat
2 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Primavera
3 2 (0.47%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.47%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.23%) Endur
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (5.63%) Azure
2 15 (3.52%) SaaS
3 13 (3.05%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.11%) AWS
4 9 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (0.94%) GCP
5 4 (0.94%) WhatsApp
6 3 (0.70%) PowerApps
6 3 (0.70%) Slack
6 3 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.47%) BigCommerce
7 2 (0.47%) PaaS
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.23%) Kontent
8 1 (0.23%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.23%) Serverless
8 1 (0.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) SNA
2 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.23%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.23%) Intranet
3 1 (0.23%) LAN
3 1 (0.23%) NFC
3 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.05%) Power BI
2 7 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.47%) MySQL
4 2 (0.47%) Tableau
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.23%) Big Data
5 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.23%) IDMS
5 1 (0.23%) Metadata
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (8.22%) JIRA
2 2 (0.47%) Maven
3 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.23%) Git
3 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 130 (30.52%) Finance
2 105 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 84 (19.72%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
5 26 (6.10%) Local Government
6 24 (5.63%) Legal
6 24 (5.63%) Marketing
7 14 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.82%) Banking
8 12 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.11%) Retail
9 9 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.41%) Military
10 6 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.17%) Front Office
12 4 (0.94%) French Language
12 4 (0.94%) German Language
12 4 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.47%) AngularJS
1 2 (0.47%) CSS
1 2 (0.47%) J2EE
1 2 (0.47%) jQuery
1 2 (0.47%) REST
1 2 (0.47%) Sass
1 2 (0.47%) Spring
1 2 (0.47%) Spring MVC
1 2 (0.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (0.47%) VML
1 2 (0.47%) Web Services
2 1 (0.23%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.23%) JSON
2 1 (0.23%) Middleware
2 1 (0.23%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.23%) SAP PI
2 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.29%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.58%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.35%) NHS
4 9 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.64%) FMCG
6 7 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (1.41%) Social Media
7 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.17%) PMI
9 4 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.70%) Blog
10 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.70%) Housing Association
10 3 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.70%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.47%) IVR
11 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.41%) Windows
2 5 (1.17%) Linux
3 3 (0.70%) Unix
4 2 (0.47%) Android
4 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (38.73%) Agile
1 165 (38.73%) Project Management
2 92 (21.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (18.54%) Project Delivery
4 74 (17.37%) PRINCE2
5 50 (11.74%) Risk Management
6 44 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (10.09%) Scrum
8 42 (9.86%) Migration
9 37 (8.69%) Change Management
10 35 (8.22%) Decision-Making
10 35 (8.22%) Waterfall
11 32 (7.51%) Business Case
12 27 (6.34%) Analytics
12 27 (6.34%) Programme Management
12 27 (6.34%) Roadmaps
13 24 (5.63%) Coaching
13 24 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (5.63%) Project Governance
14 20 (4.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (1.64%) SQL
2 5 (1.17%) Python
3 4 (0.94%) Java
4 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 84 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.28%) Degree
4 28 (6.57%) PMP
5 23 (5.40%) PMI Certification
6 16 (3.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 12 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) CISM
10 2 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CAPM
11 1 (0.23%) CISSP
11 1 (0.23%) CRISC
11 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.40%) PMO
2 9 (2.11%) QA
3 8 (1.88%) GDPR
4 6 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.41%) SLA
5 4 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.23%) COBIT
7 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.47%) Ansible
1 2 (0.47%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (8.69%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.45%) SAP
3 11 (2.58%) Adobe
4 6 (1.41%) Oracle
5 5 (1.17%) Progress
6 4 (0.94%) Cadence
6 4 (0.94%) Google
6 4 (0.94%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.70%) Ariba
7 3 (0.70%) Brandwatch
7 3 (0.70%) Dell
7 3 (0.70%) Workday
8 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.47%) BT
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco
8 2 (0.47%) Databricks
8 2 (0.47%) Intel
8 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.47%) Sitecore