IT Manager Jobs in the West Midlands

IT Manager
England > West Midlands

The median IT Manager salary in the West Midlands is £54,825 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 124 129
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 -29
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 199 170 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.75% 2.52% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.93% 2.80% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 170 136 154
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,288
25th Percentile £40,072 £46,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,825 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +10.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £64,219 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,625 £74,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £51,000 £58,000 £55,162
% change year-on-year -12.07% +5.14% +5.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,800 6,065 6,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.05% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,148 3,375 4,753
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,313 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the West Midlands

IT Manager
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for IT Manager in the West Midlands

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the West Midlands

IT Manager
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Birmingham +38 89 £54,000 +2.86% 11
Warwickshire +43 21 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Worcestershire -10 19 £45,000 -20.00% 1
Solihull +8 18 £53,750 +19.44% 1
Wolverhampton +13 8 £60,000 +9.09%
Staffordshire -22 6 £47,500 -24.00% 2
Shropshire - 5 £39,750 - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £40,000 -
Halesowen - 2 £42,500 - 1
Walsall - 1 £68,500 -
IT Manager
England

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 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 West Midlands region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 75 (37.69%) Finance
2 66 (33.17%) Social Skills
3 52 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (22.11%) Microsoft
5 43 (21.61%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (21.11%) Project Management
7 41 (20.60%) ITIL
8 34 (17.09%) Risk Management
9 33 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (16.08%) Service Delivery
11 31 (15.58%) Agile
12 26 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (13.07%) Line Management
13 25 (12.56%) Retail
13 25 (12.56%) Sophos
14 24 (12.06%) ERP
14 24 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (11.56%) Azure
15 23 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (11.06%) Active Directory
16 22 (11.06%) SharePoint
16 22 (11.06%) IT Audit
17 21 (10.55%) IT Strategy
17 21 (10.55%) Windows
17 21 (10.55%) Data Governance
18 20 (10.05%) Process Improvement
18 20 (10.05%) Power Platform
18 20 (10.05%) Power BI
19 19 (9.55%) GDPR
19 19 (9.55%) Analytical Skills

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 22 (11.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (8.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.01%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.61%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (11.56%) Azure
3 20 (10.05%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.53%) AWS
5 6 (3.02%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.02%) GCP
6 5 (2.51%) SaaS
7 4 (2.01%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.01%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.50%) Discord
9 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.05%) Intranet
2 12 (6.03%) Firewall
3 8 (4.02%) DHCP
3 8 (4.02%) DNS
3 8 (4.02%) Network Security
3 8 (4.02%) WAN
4 6 (3.02%) VPN
4 6 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.51%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.01%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (2.01%) iSCSI
6 4 (2.01%) LAN
6 4 (2.01%) SNMP
6 4 (2.01%) VLAN
7 3 (1.51%) Internet
7 3 (1.51%) VoIP
8 2 (1.01%) MPLS
8 2 (1.01%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.01%) Wireless
9 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.05%) Power BI
2 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.51%) JIRA
General
1 75 (37.69%) Finance
2 66 (33.17%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.56%) Retail
4 19 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.55%) Law
5 13 (6.53%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.52%) Legal
7 8 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.51%) Marketing
10 5 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.01%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.01%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.51%) Banking
12 3 (1.51%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.01%) Billing
13 2 (1.01%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.01%) .NET
1 4 (2.01%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.50%) EDI
2 1 (0.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.03%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.03%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.01%) CCTV
5 4 (2.01%) FMCG
5 4 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.51%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.01%) EPoS
7 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.50%) IoT
8 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) PMI
8 1 (0.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.55%) Windows
2 15 (7.54%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.01%) VMS
3 4 (2.01%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.01%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (21.11%) Project Management
3 41 (20.60%) ITIL
4 34 (17.09%) Risk Management
5 33 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (16.08%) Service Delivery
7 31 (15.58%) Agile
8 26 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (13.07%) Line Management
9 24 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (12.06%) ERP
10 23 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (11.06%) IT Audit
12 21 (10.55%) Data Governance
12 21 (10.55%) IT Strategy
13 20 (10.05%) Process Improvement
14 19 (9.55%) Change Management
14 19 (9.55%) Supplier Management
15 18 (9.05%) ITSM
16 17 (8.54%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.03%) Degree
2 8 (4.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.01%) CCIE
5 2 (1.01%) CCNA
5 2 (1.01%) CCNP
5 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.01%) MCSE
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.50%) APMP
6 1 (0.50%) CISSP
6 1 (0.50%) PMP
6 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.55%) GDPR
2 16 (8.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (7.04%) SLA
4 12 (6.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (5.53%) ITGC
6 5 (2.51%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.51%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.01%) QA
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (11.06%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.03%) Hyper-V
3 8 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.01%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.56%) Sophos
3 12 (6.03%) Cisco
4 11 (5.53%) VMware
5 6 (3.02%) Dell
5 6 (3.02%) Veeam
6 5 (2.51%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.51%) SAP
7 4 (2.01%) Avaya
7 4 (2.01%) BroadSoft
7 4 (2.01%) Brocade
7 4 (2.01%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (2.01%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.01%) QNAP
7 4 (2.01%) Sage
7 4 (2.01%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (2.01%) WatchGuard
7 4 (2.01%) Zerto
8 2 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.01%) Kaspersky