Technical Manager
UK

The median Technical Manager salary in the UK is £57,500 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 393 545 517
Rank change year-on-year +152 -28 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 641 508 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.48% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 516 394 555
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,250 £47,350
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £68,007 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +0.75% +12.50%
75th Percentile £68,938 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,125 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +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 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%

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 24 April 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 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 +177 601 £57,500 -14.81% 331
UK excluding London +169 461 £52,500 -19.23% 243
London +74 153 £70,000 - 108
Work from Home +27 146 £57,500 -17.20% 89
South East +85 125 £54,000 -16.92% 72
North of England +98 121 £52,500 -24.40% 44
Midlands +65 91 £55,000 -15.06% 44
North West +40 76 £50,000 -28.00% 28
West Midlands +83 63 £57,500 -8.00% 29
South West +23 61 £50,000 -4.76% 36
East of England +45 43 £50,000 +3.04% 38
Yorkshire +101 38 £52,500 -24.40% 14
East Midlands -7 28 £50,000 -23.08% 15
Scotland -66 8 £45,000 -29.83% 8
North East +10 7 £55,000 -30.16% 3
Wales +10 5 £60,000 +22.45% 11
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +26 3 £57,500 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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.

1 157 (24.49%) Project Management
1 157 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 124 (19.34%) Agile
3 105 (16.38%) Degree
4 104 (16.22%) Finance
5 96 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (14.04%) Azure
7 85 (13.26%) Microsoft
8 81 (12.64%) Project Delivery
9 74 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 54 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
12 51 (7.96%) Mentoring
13 47 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
14 46 (7.18%) SaaS
15 45 (7.02%) Legal
16 44 (6.86%) Roadmaps
17 43 (6.71%) Windows
18 41 (6.40%) Time Management
19 39 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
19 39 (6.08%) Service Delivery
20 37 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 35 (5.46%) Decision-Making
22 34 (5.30%) Manufacturing
22 34 (5.30%) PRINCE2
22 34 (5.30%) DevOps
23 33 (5.15%) Marketing
24 32 (4.99%) Retail
25 30 (4.68%) ITIL
26 29 (4.52%) Security Cleared

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 12 (1.87%) Confluence
2 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.56%) WordPress
3 7 (1.09%) CMS
4 6 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.94%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.62%) Drupal
6 3 (0.47%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.31%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (2.65%) AutoCAD
1 17 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.47%) SketchUp
4 1 (0.16%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.56%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.31%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (14.04%) Azure
2 54 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (7.18%) SaaS
4 28 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
5 24 (3.74%) AWS
6 23 (3.59%) IaaS
7 21 (3.28%) PaaS
8 14 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.25%) Power Platform
11 6 (0.94%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 6 (0.94%) GitHub
11 6 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.47%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.47%) GCP
13 3 (0.47%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.47%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.47%) Serverless
14 2 (0.31%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.59%) WAN
2 21 (3.28%) LAN
3 18 (2.81%) Firewall
4 17 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.25%) Network Security
6 7 (1.09%) DNS
6 7 (1.09%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.94%) Internet
8 5 (0.78%) 4G
8 5 (0.78%) DHCP
8 5 (0.78%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.62%) VoIP
9 4 (0.62%) VPN
9 4 (0.62%) Wireless
10 3 (0.47%) SAN
11 2 (0.31%) 5G
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (0.94%) MySQL
3 5 (0.78%) RDBMS
3 5 (0.78%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.47%) EDMS
4 3 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.47%) Tableau
5 2 (0.31%) Big Data
5 2 (0.31%) Metadata
5 2 (0.31%) Power BI
5 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.16%) GIS
6 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.16%) Impala
6 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.16%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 17 (2.65%) JIRA
2 6 (0.94%) Git
2 6 (0.94%) PHPUnit
3 3 (0.47%) GCC
4 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 157 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 104 (16.22%) Finance
3 45 (7.02%) Legal
4 39 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.30%) Manufacturing
7 33 (5.15%) Marketing
8 32 (4.99%) Retail
9 27 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (3.43%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.65%) Local Government
12 15 (2.34%) Electronics
13 12 (1.87%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.87%) Banking
13 12 (1.87%) French Language
14 10 (1.56%) German Language
14 10 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.56%) Italian Language
14 10 (1.56%) Portuguese Language
14 10 (1.56%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.12%) .NET
2 13 (2.03%) RESTful
3 11 (1.72%) SOAP
4 9 (1.40%) CSS
5 7 (1.09%) HTML
6 6 (0.94%) Doctrine
6 6 (0.94%) HTML5
6 6 (0.94%) jQuery
6 6 (0.94%) Laravel
6 6 (0.94%) Lucene
6 6 (0.94%) Symfony
6 6 (0.94%) Vue
7 3 (0.47%) FHIR
8 2 (0.31%) Kafka
8 2 (0.31%) web3js
9 1 (0.16%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.16%) Flash
9 1 (0.16%) JSON
9 1 (0.16%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.21%) Onboarding
2 24 (3.74%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.81%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.03%) IoT
5 12 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.87%) NHS
6 11 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.40%) PKI
7 9 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 6 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.94%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.78%) CCTV
10 5 (0.78%) CMDB
10 5 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.78%) Housing Association
11 4 (0.62%) Derivative
11 4 (0.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.71%) Windows
2 19 (2.96%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.18%) Linux
4 6 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (24.49%) Project Management
2 124 (19.34%) Agile
3 96 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (12.64%) Project Delivery
5 74 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (7.96%) Mentoring
8 47 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
9 44 (6.86%) Roadmaps
10 41 (6.40%) Time Management
11 39 (6.08%) Service Delivery
12 35 (5.46%) Decision-Making
13 34 (5.30%) DevOps
13 34 (5.30%) PRINCE2
14 30 (4.68%) ITIL
15 29 (4.52%) Coaching
16 26 (4.06%) Customer Requirements
17 23 (3.59%) Line Management
18 22 (3.43%) Collaborative Working
18 22 (3.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.65%) SQL
2 13 (2.03%) JavaScript
3 11 (1.72%) C#
4 6 (0.94%) PHP
5 4 (0.62%) Python
6 1 (0.16%) C++
6 1 (0.16%) Java
6 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.16%) Scala
6 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (16.38%) Degree
2 29 (4.52%) Security Cleared
3 28 (4.37%) HND
4 24 (3.74%) HNC
5 18 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.72%) CCNP
7 11 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.72%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 9 (1.40%) CCNA
9 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.09%) PMP
12 6 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.62%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.47%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (3.28%) GDPR
2 21 (3.28%) SLA
3 20 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.50%) QA
5 9 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.25%) PMO
7 6 (0.94%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.94%) NEBOSH
8 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.62%) GMP
9 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.47%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.31%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.16%) Autotask
3 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.16%) SCCM
3 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.43%) Cisco
3 15 (2.34%) VMware
4 14 (2.18%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.56%) NEC
6 9 (1.40%) Google
7 8 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.09%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.94%) Adobe
9 6 (0.94%) Facebook
9 6 (0.94%) Marketo
9 6 (0.94%) Meraki
9 6 (0.94%) SAP
10 5 (0.78%) Apple
10 5 (0.78%) Oracle
11 4 (0.62%) Aruba
11 4 (0.62%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.62%) Vectorworks
12 3 (0.47%) Ciena
12 3 (0.47%) Infoblox