Senior IT Manager
UK

The median Senior IT Manager salary in the UK is £57,965 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 874 948
Rank change year-on-year +152 +74 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Manager 172 111 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 129 81 154
10th Percentile £40,988 £47,500 £50,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £53,616
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +4.00% +8.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Manager over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +182 155 £57,965 -10.82% 14
UK excluding London +82 117 £57,500 -4.17% 7
Work from Home +138 85 £57,965 -17.19% 4
North of England +92 57 £57,965 +10.41%
London +162 45 £82,500 +17.86% 7
North West - 24 £57,965 -
Yorkshire +99 18 £55,000 -4.35%
South East +35 18 £65,000 +13.04% 4
West Midlands +37 16 £56,250 -16.67%
Midlands +3 16 £56,250 -19.64% 1
North East +11 15 £57,965 +10.41%
East of England +30 12 £55,000 -15.38% 1
South West -8 7 £47,657 -8.79%
Scotland -60 4 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Wales +10 2 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior IT Manager in the job title.

1 56 (32.56%) Finance
2 52 (30.23%) Agile
3 50 (29.07%) Project Management
4 48 (27.91%) Social Skills
5 46 (26.74%) Mentoring
6 42 (24.42%) ITIL
7 38 (22.09%) Coaching
7 38 (22.09%) Degree
8 37 (21.51%) Risk Management
9 35 (20.35%) Project Delivery
10 32 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (16.28%) Microsoft
12 27 (15.70%) Waterfall
12 27 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (14.53%) Service Management
13 25 (14.53%) ITSM
13 25 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
15 23 (13.37%) PRINCE2
16 21 (12.21%) Service Delivery
17 20 (11.63%) Change Management
17 20 (11.63%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (11.05%) Line Management
19 18 (10.47%) Scrum
19 18 (10.47%) Roadmaps
20 17 (9.88%) Budget Management
20 17 (9.88%) Programme Management
20 17 (9.88%) CRM
20 17 (9.88%) Azure
21 15 (8.72%) Microsoft 365

Senior IT 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 4 (2.33%) Site Server
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.74%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.88%) Azure
2 15 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.23%) AWS
5 7 (4.07%) SaaS
6 5 (2.91%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (2.91%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.33%) GCP
8 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.91%) Firewall
2 3 (1.74%) LAN
3 2 (1.16%) 5G
3 2 (1.16%) Broadband
3 2 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (1.16%) VLAN
3 2 (1.16%) WAN
3 2 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.16%) Wireless
3 2 (1.16%) WLAN
4 1 (0.58%) DHCP
4 1 (0.58%) Extranet
4 1 (0.58%) MPLS
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.58%) SAN
4 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.49%) Power BI
1 6 (3.49%) SAP HANA
1 6 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.16%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (4.07%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) Eclipse
General
1 56 (32.56%) Finance
2 48 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.63%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (8.72%) Legal
6 12 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (6.98%) Publishing
7 11 (6.40%) Law
8 10 (5.81%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.23%) Billing
9 9 (5.23%) Retail
10 8 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.91%) Aerospace
13 5 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
13 5 (2.91%) Military
14 3 (1.74%) Marketing
14 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.40%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.81%) PMI
3 6 (3.49%) Security Posture
3 6 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.91%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.74%) PKI
5 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.58%) IoT
7 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.49%) Windows
2 5 (2.91%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.16%) Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Unix
3 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.23%) Agile
2 50 (29.07%) Project Management
3 46 (26.74%) Mentoring
4 42 (24.42%) ITIL
5 38 (22.09%) Coaching
6 37 (21.51%) Risk Management
7 35 (20.35%) Project Delivery
8 32 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (15.70%) Waterfall
10 25 (14.53%) ITSM
10 25 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.53%) Service Management
11 23 (13.37%) PRINCE2
12 21 (12.21%) Service Delivery
13 20 (11.63%) Change Management
14 19 (11.05%) Line Management
15 18 (10.47%) Roadmaps
15 18 (10.47%) Scrum
16 17 (9.88%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.07%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (22.09%) Degree
2 15 (8.72%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.07%) CISSP
3 7 (4.07%) PMP
4 6 (3.49%) CISA
5 5 (2.91%) Postgraduate
5 5 (2.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 5 (2.91%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.33%) CISM
6 4 (2.33%) ISACA
6 4 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.74%) CCSK
7 3 (1.74%) CCSP
7 3 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.58%) MBA
9 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.56%) GDPR
2 8 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.49%) NIST
4 5 (2.91%) COBIT
4 5 (2.91%) PMO
5 3 (1.74%) GRC
5 3 (1.74%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.16%) COSO
6 2 (1.16%) ITGC
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 11 (6.40%) IAG
2 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.74%) CASB
2 2 (1.16%) SmoothWall
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.98%) ServiceNow
3 10 (5.81%) SAP
4 6 (3.49%) iManage
5 5 (2.91%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (2.91%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.33%) Apple
6 4 (2.33%) Oracle
6 4 (2.33%) VMware
7 3 (1.74%) Netskope
7 3 (1.74%) Symantec
7 3 (1.74%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.16%) Aruba
8 2 (1.16%) Sage
8 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.16%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) Intapp
9 1 (0.58%) JDA
9 1 (0.58%) Veeam