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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 215 245
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 469 682 1,025
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.22% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.29% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 546 738
10th Percentile £450 £453 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.62%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £550 £569
% change year-on-year +7.27% -3.30% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 4
10th Percentile £31.60 £31.17 £13.10
25th Percentile £33.65 £41.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £48.00 £37.27
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +28.81% -36.95%
75th Percentile £64.06 £63.75 £55.52
90th Percentile £78.65 £64.75 £64.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £45.75 £37.27
% change year-on-year +11.48% +22.77% -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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -13 399 £600 - 668
UK excluding London -1 215 £590 +7.27% 369
London 0 213 £600 -4.00% 323
Work from Home +57 193 £594 -1.04% 235
South East -26 62 £605 +19.75% 100
North of England +12 43 £575 -11.54% 93
South West +2 35 £550 -8.33% 45
Midlands +10 28 £600 +10.60% 48
North West +24 27 £584 -6.57% 40
Scotland +23 27 £450 -10.54% 39
West Midlands +6 25 £613 +11.36% 35
Yorkshire +6 15 £550 -15.38% 30
Wales +20 11 £600 +9.09% 5
East of England -5 8 £500 -13.04% 44
North East +11 3 £663 +1.92% 23
East Midlands +5 3 £500 - 13
Northern Ireland - 2 £435 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 178 (37.95%) Agile
2 172 (36.67%) Project Management
3 147 (31.34%) Finance
4 127 (27.08%) Social Skills
5 108 (23.03%) Security Cleared
6 97 (20.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 90 (19.19%) Project Delivery
8 87 (18.55%) SC Cleared
9 83 (17.70%) Public Sector
10 67 (14.29%) PRINCE2
11 56 (11.94%) Risk Management
12 49 (10.45%) Change Management
13 43 (9.17%) Migration
13 43 (9.17%) SAP
13 43 (9.17%) Waterfall
14 40 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (8.32%) Scrum
16 35 (7.46%) Microsoft
17 34 (7.25%) JIRA
17 34 (7.25%) Decision-Making
18 32 (6.82%) Degree
19 31 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 31 (6.61%) Roadmaps
20 28 (5.97%) Coaching
21 26 (5.54%) Azure
21 26 (5.54%) Marketing
21 26 (5.54%) Legal
22 25 (5.33%) PMP
23 24 (5.12%) ERP
23 24 (5.12%) Business Case

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 19 (4.05%) Confluence
2 16 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.07%) CMS
4 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.43%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
5 1 (0.21%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Acrobat
2 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.64%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.64%) Shopify
4 2 (0.43%) Primavera
4 2 (0.43%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Endur
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 26 (5.54%) Azure
2 14 (2.99%) SaaS
3 13 (2.77%) AWS
3 13 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.28%) GCP
6 5 (1.07%) PaaS
7 4 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (0.64%) BigCommerce
8 3 (0.64%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.64%) Slack
8 3 (0.64%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.43%) IaaS
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.21%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.21%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle CX
10 1 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.85%) Firewall
2 3 (0.64%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.43%) Internet
3 2 (0.43%) SNA
3 2 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.21%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) LAN
4 1 (0.21%) NFC
4 1 (0.21%) WAN
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.56%) Power BI
2 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (0.64%) Hadoop
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (0.64%) Tableau
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.43%) GIS
4 2 (0.43%) MySQL
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.21%) Big Data
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (7.25%) JIRA
2 6 (1.28%) Git
3 4 (0.85%) Artifactory
3 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.85%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 147 (31.34%) Finance
2 127 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 83 (17.70%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.54%) Legal
4 26 (5.54%) Marketing
5 23 (4.90%) Local Government
6 22 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.62%) Banking
9 15 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.77%) Retail
12 10 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.85%) French Language
15 4 (0.85%) Front Office
15 4 (0.85%) Military
15 4 (0.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.64%) VML
2 2 (0.43%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.43%) CSS
2 2 (0.43%) J2EE
2 2 (0.43%) jQuery
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (0.43%) REST
2 2 (0.43%) Sass
2 2 (0.43%) Spring
2 2 (0.43%) Spring MVC
2 2 (0.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (0.43%) Web Services
3 1 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.21%) JSON
3 1 (0.21%) Middleware
3 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.21%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.05%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.41%) NHS
3 12 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.71%) FMCG
6 7 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.07%) PMI
8 4 (0.85%) Social Media
9 3 (0.64%) Blog
9 3 (0.64%) CMDB
9 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.64%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.64%) Replication
9 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Linux
2 7 (1.49%) Windows
3 6 (1.28%) Unix
4 4 (0.85%) Android
4 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (37.95%) Agile
2 172 (36.67%) Project Management
3 97 (20.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (19.19%) Project Delivery
5 67 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 56 (11.94%) Risk Management
7 49 (10.45%) Change Management
8 43 (9.17%) Migration
8 43 (9.17%) Waterfall
9 40 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (8.32%) Scrum
11 34 (7.25%) Decision-Making
12 31 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (6.61%) Roadmaps
13 28 (5.97%) Coaching
14 24 (5.12%) Business Case
14 24 (5.12%) ERP
15 23 (4.90%) Analytics
15 23 (4.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 21 (4.48%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.13%) Python
1 10 (2.13%) SQL
2 3 (0.64%) Java
2 3 (0.64%) R
3 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 108 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 87 (18.55%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.82%) Degree
4 25 (5.33%) PMP
5 22 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.85%) CIPD
9 4 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.43%) CISM
11 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.21%) CCIP
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.05%) PMO
2 8 (1.71%) QA
3 7 (1.49%) GDPR
3 7 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.21%) COBIT
6 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.21%) IFRS
6 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.21%) NIST
6 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.43%) HDFS
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.07%) Ansible
1 5 (1.07%) Terraform
2 4 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (9.17%) SAP
2 35 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.56%) Adobe
4 10 (2.13%) Oracle
4 10 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.07%) Progress
7 4 (0.85%) Cadence
7 4 (0.85%) Google
7 4 (0.85%) Workday
8 3 (0.64%) Ariba
8 3 (0.64%) BT
8 3 (0.64%) Dell
8 3 (0.64%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.43%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.43%) Cisco
9 2 (0.43%) Fujitsu
9 2 (0.43%) Intel
10 1 (0.21%) NetCracker