IT Manager Jobs in Birmingham

IT Manager
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median IT Manager salary in Birmingham is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 101 110
Rank change year-on-year +37 +9 -19
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 89 44 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.30% 2.16% 2.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.51% 2.30% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 77 36 70
10th Percentile - £40,875 £36,963
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,733 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,313
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,125 £70,000
West Midlands median annual salary £54,825 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.32% +10.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,536 1,909 3,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 93.67% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 1,449 2,410
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.12%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in Birmingham

IT Manager
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for IT Manager in Birmingham

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in Birmingham

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, IT 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 across the Birmingham region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 43 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 38 (42.70%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (34.83%) ITIL
4 29 (32.58%) Finance
5 25 (28.09%) Microsoft
6 21 (23.60%) SharePoint
6 21 (23.60%) Service Delivery
6 21 (23.60%) Data Governance
6 21 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (23.60%) Line Management
7 18 (20.22%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (20.22%) Agile
7 18 (20.22%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (19.10%) GDPR
8 17 (19.10%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (17.98%) Power BI
9 16 (17.98%) Information Governance
9 16 (17.98%) IT Strategy
9 16 (17.98%) Power Platform
9 16 (17.98%) Digital Strategy
9 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Excel
9 16 (17.98%) Intranet
9 16 (17.98%) Sophos
9 16 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (16.85%) Project Management
10 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (15.73%) ITSM
12 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (12.36%) Service Management
13 11 (12.36%) Waterfall

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (23.60%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (17.98%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.87%) Azure
4 5 (5.62%) AWS
4 5 (5.62%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.49%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.98%) Intranet
2 4 (4.49%) DHCP
2 4 (4.49%) DNS
2 4 (4.49%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (4.49%) Firewall
2 4 (4.49%) iSCSI
2 4 (4.49%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.49%) SNMP
2 4 (4.49%) WAN
3 2 (2.25%) Network Security
4 1 (1.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.98%) Power BI
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
General
1 43 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 29 (32.58%) Finance
3 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Legal
4 6 (6.74%) Retail
5 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Advertising
9 1 (1.12%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) .NET
1 4 (4.49%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.12%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) VMS
1 4 (4.49%) Windows
1 4 (4.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.70%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (34.83%) ITIL
3 21 (23.60%) Data Governance
3 21 (23.60%) Line Management
3 21 (23.60%) Service Delivery
4 18 (20.22%) Agile
4 18 (20.22%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (20.22%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (17.98%) Digital Strategy
5 16 (17.98%) Information Governance
5 16 (17.98%) IT Strategy
6 15 (16.85%) Project Management
6 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (15.73%) ITSM
8 11 (12.36%) Service Management
8 11 (12.36%) Waterfall
9 10 (11.24%) PRINCE2
9 10 (11.24%) Project Delivery
10 9 (10.11%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.12%) APMP
5 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.12%) PMP
5 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.10%) Cyber Essentials
1 17 (19.10%) GDPR
2 7 (7.87%) SLA
3 5 (5.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.62%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.49%) QA
5 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.49%) pfSense
2 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.98%) Sophos
3 5 (5.62%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.49%) BroadSoft
4 4 (4.49%) Brocade
4 4 (4.49%) Cisco
4 4 (4.49%) Dell
4 4 (4.49%) Dell Compellent
4 4 (4.49%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.49%) QNAP
4 4 (4.49%) SAP
4 4 (4.49%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (4.49%) Veeam
4 4 (4.49%) VMware
4 4 (4.49%) Zerto
5 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce