Technical Manager
UK

The median Technical Manager salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 579 529
Rank change year-on-year +206 -50 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 730 417 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.47% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 581 323 556
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,617
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,853 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £99,500 £108,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +214 680 £55,000 -15.38% 360
UK excluding London +215 541 £50,000 -16.67% 286
London +118 164 £69,733 -6.40% 95
Work from Home +54 158 £57,500 -17.86% 79
South East +83 141 £52,500 -17.65% 74
North of England +123 140 £50,000 -23.08% 66
Midlands +72 108 £55,000 -12.00% 53
North West +47 86 £50,000 -20.00% 34
West Midlands +76 78 £57,500 -8.00% 27
South West +27 73 £50,000 -4.76% 38
East of England +16 48 £50,000 -28.57% 37
Yorkshire +110 46 £47,500 -36.67% 24
East Midlands -2 30 £50,000 -23.08% 26
Wales +12 11 £61,250 +25.00% 11
Scotland -53 11 £45,000 -11.66% 15
North East +1 8 £55,000 -30.16% 8
Northern Ireland +24 5 £57,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 4 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 164 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 159 (21.78%) Project Management
3 133 (18.22%) Agile
4 119 (16.30%) Finance
5 114 (15.62%) Degree
6 106 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (12.88%) Azure
8 87 (11.92%) Microsoft
9 82 (11.23%) Project Delivery
10 75 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 69 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 52 (7.12%) Mentoring
13 49 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
13 49 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 48 (6.58%) Legal
15 47 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
16 46 (6.30%) Windows
17 45 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
17 45 (6.16%) Security Cleared
18 42 (5.75%) SaaS
18 42 (5.75%) Roadmaps
19 41 (5.62%) Time Management
20 38 (5.21%) Service Delivery
20 38 (5.21%) Retail
21 37 (5.07%) Manufacturing
22 36 (4.93%) ITIL
22 36 (4.93%) Decision-Making
23 34 (4.66%) Onboarding
24 33 (4.52%) DevOps
25 32 (4.38%) PRINCE2

Technical 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 11 (1.51%) Confluence
1 11 (1.51%) WordPress
2 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.10%) CMS
4 6 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.82%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.82%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.55%) Drupal
6 3 (0.41%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Moodle
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.33%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) SketchUp
5 1 (0.14%) Revit
5 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.37%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (12.88%) Azure
2 49 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (5.75%) SaaS
4 28 (3.84%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (3.15%) AWS
5 23 (3.15%) PaaS
6 22 (3.01%) IaaS
7 12 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.51%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.10%) Power Platform
10 7 (0.96%) dbt
11 6 (0.82%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 6 (0.82%) GitHub
11 6 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.68%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.41%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.41%) GCP
13 3 (0.41%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.74%) WAN
2 19 (2.60%) Firewall
2 19 (2.60%) LAN
3 17 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.10%) Network Security
5 7 (0.96%) DNS
6 6 (0.82%) Internet
6 6 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.68%) DHCP
8 4 (0.55%) 4G
8 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.55%) VoIP
8 4 (0.55%) Wireless
9 3 (0.41%) SAN
9 3 (0.41%) VPN
10 2 (0.27%) 5G
11 1 (0.14%) Broadband
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.14%) PBX
11 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (0.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.82%) MySQL
3 5 (0.68%) RDBMS
3 5 (0.68%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.41%) EDMS
4 3 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.41%) Tableau
5 2 (0.27%) Big Data
5 2 (0.27%) GIS
5 2 (0.27%) Metadata
5 2 (0.27%) Power BI
5 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.14%) Impala
6 1 (0.14%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 17 (2.33%) JIRA
2 6 (0.82%) Git
2 6 (0.82%) PHPUnit
3 3 (0.41%) GCC
4 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.27%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 164 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 119 (16.30%) Finance
3 49 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (6.58%) Legal
5 45 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (5.21%) Retail
7 37 (5.07%) Manufacturing
8 32 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (4.25%) Marketing
10 19 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.19%) Banking
11 16 (2.19%) Local Government
12 15 (2.05%) Electronics
13 13 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.64%) French Language
15 11 (1.51%) German Language
15 11 (1.51%) Spanish Language
16 10 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.37%) Italian Language
16 10 (1.37%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.47%) .NET
2 11 (1.51%) RESTful
3 9 (1.23%) CSS
3 9 (1.23%) SOAP
4 7 (0.96%) HTML
5 6 (0.82%) Doctrine
5 6 (0.82%) HTML5
5 6 (0.82%) jQuery
5 6 (0.82%) Laravel
5 6 (0.82%) Lucene
5 6 (0.82%) Symfony
5 6 (0.82%) Vue
6 5 (0.68%) Flash
6 5 (0.68%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (0.41%) FHIR
8 2 (0.27%) Kafka
8 2 (0.27%) web3js
9 1 (0.14%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.14%) JSON
9 1 (0.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.66%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.56%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.88%) Virtual Team
4 13 (1.78%) Data Centre
4 13 (1.78%) IoT
5 12 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 12 (1.64%) NHS
6 11 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.23%) PKI
7 9 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.10%) Driving Licence
9 6 (0.82%) Private Cloud
9 6 (0.82%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.68%) CCTV
10 5 (0.68%) CMDB
10 5 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.68%) Digital Media
10 5 (0.68%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.55%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.30%) Windows
2 23 (3.15%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.78%) Linux
4 6 (0.82%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (21.78%) Project Management
2 133 (18.22%) Agile
3 106 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (11.23%) Project Delivery
5 75 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (7.12%) Mentoring
8 47 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (5.75%) Roadmaps
10 41 (5.62%) Time Management
11 38 (5.21%) Service Delivery
12 36 (4.93%) Decision-Making
12 36 (4.93%) ITIL
13 33 (4.52%) DevOps
14 32 (4.38%) PRINCE2
15 28 (3.84%) Tech Ops
16 27 (3.70%) Coaching
17 25 (3.42%) Change Management
18 24 (3.29%) Customer Requirements
18 24 (3.29%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 12 (1.64%) SQL
2 11 (1.51%) JavaScript
3 9 (1.23%) C#
4 6 (0.82%) PHP
5 4 (0.55%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.27%) C++
6 2 (0.27%) Java
6 2 (0.27%) Python
7 1 (0.14%) C
7 1 (0.14%) Scala
7 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 114 (15.62%) Degree
2 45 (6.16%) Security Cleared
3 28 (3.84%) HND
4 24 (3.29%) HNC
5 21 (2.88%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.78%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.51%) CCNP
8 11 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 9 (1.23%) CCNA
10 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.23%) PMP
11 6 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (3.01%) SLA
3 21 (2.88%) GDPR
4 18 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.19%) QA
6 9 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.10%) PMO
8 6 (0.82%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.82%) NEBOSH
9 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.55%) GMP
9 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.14%) Autotask
3 1 (0.14%) FTK
3 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 87 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.88%) Salesforce
3 20 (2.74%) Cisco
4 16 (2.19%) VMware
5 12 (1.64%) Sitecore
6 10 (1.37%) NEC
7 9 (1.23%) Google
8 8 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.96%) Adobe
9 7 (0.96%) Fortinet
9 7 (0.96%) SAP
10 6 (0.82%) Facebook
10 6 (0.82%) Marketo
11 5 (0.68%) Apple
11 5 (0.68%) Oracle
12 4 (0.55%) Meraki
12 4 (0.55%) Vectorworks
13 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.41%) Ciena
14 2 (0.27%) Bloomberg