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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 217 243
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Manager 449 702 1,036
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.23% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.30% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 553 722
10th Percentile £450 £450 £443
25th Percentile £505 £506 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £584 £550 £555
% change year-on-year +6.17% -0.90% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 4
10th Percentile £31.60 £28.95 £13.10
25th Percentile £33.65 £33.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £46.00 £37.27
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +23.44% -36.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.31 £55.52
90th Percentile £80.00 £64.63 £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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +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 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -24 390 £600 - 491
London -4 216 £600 -4.00% 233
UK excluding London -8 198 £584 +6.17% 282
Work from Home +53 188 £600 - 226
South East -27 61 £600 +18.81% 71
North of England +3 36 £575 -6.12% 74
South West +5 32 £550 -8.33% 31
Midlands +16 28 £613 +11.62% 44
West Midlands +21 25 £625 +13.64% 34
North West +15 24 £593 +1.35% 38
Scotland +14 22 £424 -16.09% 33
Yorkshire -2 12 £550 -15.38% 26
Wales +21 11 £600 +9.09% 6
East of England +1 7 £500 -9.09% 25
East Midlands +5 3 £500 - 10
North East +9 2 £600 -7.69% 11
Northern Ireland +6 2 £435 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 168 (37.42%) Project Management
2 167 (37.19%) Agile
3 139 (30.96%) Finance
4 120 (26.73%) Social Skills
5 102 (22.72%) Security Cleared
6 93 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 85 (18.93%) SC Cleared
8 81 (18.04%) Public Sector
9 78 (17.37%) Project Delivery
10 69 (15.37%) PRINCE2
11 53 (11.80%) Risk Management
12 45 (10.02%) Migration
13 42 (9.35%) Scrum
13 42 (9.35%) Change Management
14 41 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (8.91%) SAP
16 37 (8.24%) Waterfall
17 36 (8.02%) Microsoft
18 35 (7.80%) JIRA
19 33 (7.35%) Decision-Making
20 29 (6.46%) Degree
20 29 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
21 28 (6.24%) Business Case
21 28 (6.24%) Roadmaps
22 27 (6.01%) Local Government
23 26 (5.79%) Marketing
23 26 (5.79%) Coaching
24 25 (5.57%) Analytics
25 24 (5.35%) PMP
25 24 (5.35%) Legal

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 21 (4.68%) Confluence
2 17 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.11%) CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Camunda
5 1 (0.22%) Drupal
5 1 (0.22%) Kentico
5 1 (0.22%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (2.00%) Acrobat
2 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.67%) Shopify
4 2 (0.45%) Primavera
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (4.90%) Azure
2 15 (3.34%) SaaS
3 13 (2.90%) Power Platform
4 11 (2.45%) AWS
5 9 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (0.89%) GCP
6 4 (0.89%) PaaS
6 4 (0.89%) WhatsApp
7 3 (0.67%) BigCommerce
7 3 (0.67%) PowerApps
7 3 (0.67%) Slack
7 3 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.45%) IaaS
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.22%) Matillion
9 1 (0.22%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.67%) Firewall
1 3 (0.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) SNA
2 2 (0.45%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.22%) Broadband
3 1 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.22%) Intranet
3 1 (0.22%) LAN
3 1 (0.22%) NFC
3 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.90%) Power BI
2 6 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.45%) MySQL
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (0.45%) Tableau
5 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.22%) Big Data
5 1 (0.22%) GIS
5 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.22%) IDMS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (7.80%) JIRA
2 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
2 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.67%) Git
2 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 139 (30.96%) Finance
2 120 (26.73%) Social Skills
3 81 (18.04%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.01%) Local Government
5 26 (5.79%) Marketing
6 24 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
6 24 (5.35%) Legal
7 14 (3.12%) Banking
7 14 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.45%) Retail
10 10 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.11%) Front Office
13 4 (0.89%) French Language
13 4 (0.89%) German Language
13 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.89%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.67%) VML
2 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.45%) CSS
2 2 (0.45%) J2EE
2 2 (0.45%) jQuery
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (0.45%) REST
2 2 (0.45%) Sass
2 2 (0.45%) Spring
2 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
2 2 (0.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (0.45%) Web Services
3 1 (0.22%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.22%) JSON
3 1 (0.22%) Middleware
3 1 (0.22%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.22%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.12%) Management Information System
1 14 (3.12%) NHS
2 13 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.45%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.56%) FMCG
5 7 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
6 5 (1.11%) PMI
6 5 (1.11%) Social Media
7 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.67%) Blog
8 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.67%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.45%) IVR
9 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.78%) Windows
2 7 (1.56%) Linux
3 5 (1.11%) Unix
4 4 (0.89%) Android
4 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (37.42%) Project Management
2 167 (37.19%) Agile
3 93 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (17.37%) Project Delivery
5 69 (15.37%) PRINCE2
6 53 (11.80%) Risk Management
7 45 (10.02%) Migration
8 42 (9.35%) Change Management
8 42 (9.35%) Scrum
9 41 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (8.24%) Waterfall
11 33 (7.35%) Decision-Making
12 29 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (6.24%) Business Case
13 28 (6.24%) Roadmaps
14 26 (5.79%) Coaching
15 25 (5.57%) Analytics
16 23 (5.12%) Programme Management
16 23 (5.12%) Project Governance
17 20 (4.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.78%) SQL
2 7 (1.56%) Python
3 4 (0.89%) Java
4 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (22.72%) Security Cleared
2 85 (18.93%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.46%) Degree
4 24 (5.35%) PMP
5 21 (4.68%) PMI Certification
6 16 (3.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 14 (3.12%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) CIPD
10 2 (0.45%) CISM
10 2 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CAPM
11 1 (0.22%) CCIP
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) CRISC
11 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.68%) PMO
2 8 (1.78%) GDPR
2 8 (1.78%) QA
3 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.34%) SLA
5 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) COBIT
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) P3O
7 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.89%) Ansible
1 4 (0.89%) Terraform
2 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (8.91%) SAP
2 36 (8.02%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.67%) Adobe
4 10 (2.23%) Oracle
5 7 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.11%) Progress
7 4 (0.89%) Cadence
7 4 (0.89%) Google
7 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.89%) Workday
8 3 (0.67%) Ariba
8 3 (0.67%) BT
8 3 (0.67%) Cisco
8 3 (0.67%) Dell
8 3 (0.67%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.45%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.45%) Brandwatch
9 2 (0.45%) Fujitsu
9 2 (0.45%) Intel
9 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto