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 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 256 251
Rank change year-on-year +64 -5 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Manager 1,536 1,446 2,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.43% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.56% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 932 813 1,255
10th Percentile £43,080 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,800 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £106,275 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 9 May 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 1,330 £62,500 -16.67% 497
UK excluding London +72 863 £60,000 -1.48% 272
London +68 588 £72,250 -15.98% 237
Work from Home +45 474 £62,500 -14.91% 193
North of England +82 227 £60,000 -1.48% 71
Midlands +75 159 £62,500 -3.85% 39
South West +46 155 £55,000 -9.69% 33
South East -61 129 £62,500 -3.85% 74
West Midlands +71 105 £61,000 -12.86% 30
Scotland -12 99 £67,500 -3.57% 26
Yorkshire +82 94 £64,080 +5.39% 24
North West +45 94 £57,965 -4.82% 38
East of England +21 62 £55,000 -9.69% 27
East Midlands +12 50 £62,500 +2.80% 9
North East +17 39 £59,250 -2.55% 10
Wales +12 21 £52,368 -4.79% 8
Northern Ireland - 11 £67,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 579 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 547 (35.61%) Project Management
3 520 (33.85%) Finance
4 404 (26.30%) Agile
5 311 (20.25%) Mentoring
6 300 (19.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 282 (18.36%) Coaching
8 250 (16.28%) Degree
9 241 (15.69%) Microsoft
10 206 (13.41%) Law
11 201 (13.09%) Project Delivery
12 192 (12.50%) Decision-Making
13 190 (12.37%) PRINCE2
14 185 (12.04%) Risk Management
15 179 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
16 171 (11.13%) Marketing
17 159 (10.35%) Stakeholder Management
18 155 (10.09%) Service Delivery
19 149 (9.70%) SaaS
20 148 (9.64%) Roadmaps
21 143 (9.31%) Change Management
22 132 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
23 130 (8.46%) Analytics
24 125 (8.14%) ServiceNow
24 125 (8.14%) Security Cleared
25 124 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
26 119 (7.75%) Line Management
27 118 (7.68%) Programme Management
28 113 (7.36%) Performance Management
29 111 (7.23%) 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 28 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.91%) Confluence
4 11 (0.72%) SAS
5 10 (0.65%) 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%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2010
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 64 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.78%) 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
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
9 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (1.82%) Endur
2 8 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Shopify
4 6 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.26%) Primavera
5 4 (0.26%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.13%) Magento
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
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 PLM
8 1 (0.065%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 149 (9.70%) SaaS
2 76 (4.95%) Azure
3 44 (2.86%) AWS
4 40 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (2.47%) Power Platform
6 26 (1.69%) GCP
7 18 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (0.65%) Entra ID
8 10 (0.65%) OCI
8 10 (0.65%) PaaS
9 9 (0.59%) Amazon S3
10 8 (0.52%) GitHub
10 8 (0.52%) PowerApps
11 7 (0.46%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.46%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (0.46%) Serverless
12 6 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.37%) WAN
2 20 (1.30%) 5G
2 20 (1.30%) LAN
3 10 (0.65%) DNS
4 9 (0.59%) Broadband
4 9 (0.59%) Network Security
5 8 (0.52%) 4G
6 7 (0.46%) SAN
6 7 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.39%) Firewall
8 4 (0.26%) DHCP
8 4 (0.26%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
8 4 (0.26%) WLAN
9 2 (0.13%) PPP
9 2 (0.13%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.13%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.13%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.13%) VLAN
9 2 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 30 (1.95%) Relational Database
3 25 (1.63%) Power BI
4 22 (1.43%) RDBMS
5 18 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.85%) Tableau
7 10 (0.65%) Big Data
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%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.46%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.39%) MySQL
12 5 (0.33%) Data Lake
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 29 (1.89%) JIRA
2 9 (0.59%) Git
3 6 (0.39%) PHPUnit
4 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.13%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.065%) Ant
6 1 (0.065%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.065%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.065%) JUnit
6 1 (0.065%) Maven
6 1 (0.065%) Subversion
6 1 (0.065%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 579 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 520 (33.85%) Finance
3 300 (19.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 206 (13.41%) Law
5 171 (11.13%) Marketing
6 132 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
7 87 (5.66%) Legal
8 86 (5.60%) Banking
9 82 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
9 82 (5.34%) Retail
10 62 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (3.71%) Public Sector
12 52 (3.39%) Manufacturing
13 45 (2.93%) Games
14 42 (2.73%) Investment Banking
15 41 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 32 (2.08%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.69%) Front Office
19 19 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (0.78%) .NET
2 10 (0.65%) HTML
3 9 (0.59%) XML
4 8 (0.52%) React
5 7 (0.46%) .NET Core
5 7 (0.46%) .NET Framework
5 7 (0.46%) CSS
5 7 (0.46%) Unity DI Container
6 6 (0.39%) Apache Beam
6 6 (0.39%) Doctrine
6 6 (0.39%) HTML5
6 6 (0.39%) jQuery
6 6 (0.39%) Laravel
6 6 (0.39%) Symfony
6 6 (0.39%) Vue
7 5 (0.33%) LDAP
7 5 (0.33%) Middleware
8 4 (0.26%) Kafka
8 4 (0.26%) PySpark
8 4 (0.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
2 55 (3.58%) PMI
3 45 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 29 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 28 (1.82%) Social Media
7 26 (1.69%) Blog
7 26 (1.69%) Driving Licence
8 24 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 23 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.30%) Life Science
12 18 (1.17%) Derivative
13 17 (1.11%) NHS
13 17 (1.11%) Swaptions
13 17 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.98%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
15 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.30%) Windows
2 12 (0.78%) Linux
3 7 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (35.61%) Project Management
2 404 (26.30%) Agile
3 311 (20.25%) Mentoring
4 282 (18.36%) Coaching
5 201 (13.09%) Project Delivery
6 192 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 190 (12.37%) PRINCE2
8 185 (12.04%) Risk Management
9 179 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
10 159 (10.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 155 (10.09%) Service Delivery
12 148 (9.64%) Roadmaps
13 143 (9.31%) Change Management
14 130 (8.46%) Analytics
15 124 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 119 (7.75%) Line Management
17 118 (7.68%) Programme Management
18 113 (7.36%) Performance Management
19 111 (7.23%) Contract Negotiation
20 107 (6.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (3.71%) Java
2 48 (3.13%) SQL
3 39 (2.54%) Python
4 17 (1.11%) VB
5 13 (0.85%) R
6 11 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.59%) C#
8 7 (0.46%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.39%) PHP
10 3 (0.20%) Scala
10 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.065%) Bash
11 1 (0.065%) C
11 1 (0.065%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.065%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.065%) XPath
Qualifications
1 250 (16.28%) Degree
2 125 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 81 (5.27%) PMI Certification
4 77 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 36 (2.34%) APMP
7 34 (2.21%) PMP
8 27 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.24%) ACCA
9 19 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 18 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.91%) CISM
12 13 (0.85%) CISSP
13 12 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.78%) MBA
14 10 (0.65%) CSPO
14 10 (0.65%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.59%) RIBA
16 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.71%) SLA
2 51 (3.32%) QA
3 42 (2.73%) PMO
4 30 (1.95%) IFRS
5 29 (1.89%) GDPR
6 16 (1.04%) IFRS 9
7 14 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.59%) COBIT
9 9 (0.59%) NIST
10 8 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.52%) CDISC
10 8 (0.52%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.13%) GAAP
13 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.72%) IAG
3 5 (0.33%) Firmware
3 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) Docker
5 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.065%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (0.33%) Rancher
2 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.20%) CASB
3 3 (0.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.20%) Terraform
4 2 (0.13%) SmoothWall
5 1 (0.065%) Control-M
5 1 (0.065%) Core Impact
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.065%) Nmap
5 1 (0.065%) WSUS
Vendors
1 241 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.14%) ServiceNow
3 95 (6.18%) Dell
4 39 (2.54%) Oracle
4 39 (2.54%) SAP
5 30 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.11%) CA
6 17 (1.11%) OpenLink
6 17 (1.11%) Sybase
6 17 (1.11%) TIBCO
7 15 (0.98%) Google
8 12 (0.78%) iManage
9 10 (0.65%) Apple
10 9 (0.59%) Cisco
10 9 (0.59%) Virgin Media
11 7 (0.46%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.39%) Adobe
12 6 (0.39%) Databricks
12 6 (0.39%) VMware
13 5 (0.33%) Automation Anywhere