IT Manager Job Trends in England

IT Manager
UK > England

The median IT Manager salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 227 102
Rank change year-on-year +137 -125 +87
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 1,582 571 2,321
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.91% 1.45% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.61% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 450 1,957
10th Percentile £38,984 £40,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +18.81% -12.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £62,457
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 77,803 35,497 89,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.90% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 54,705 20,597 65,984
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,341
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -13.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

IT Manager job vacancy trend in England

IT Manager
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in England

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in England

IT Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
London +67 402 £68,250 +3.41% 55
North of England +122 355 £50,000 -9.09% 42
South East +97 304 £55,000 -2.22% 65
Midlands +103 297 £55,000 - 40
North West +132 208 £50,000 -18.03% 20
West Midlands +62 165 £55,000 -3.17% 24
East Midlands +59 128 £55,000 +10.00% 15
Yorkshire +12 120 £45,249 -17.73% 20
South West +22 118 £60,000 +5.74% 20
East of England +23 89 £55,000 +15.79% 17
North East -25 27 £55,000 +5.26% 3
IT Manager
UK

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 June 2026, IT Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 258 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 232 (14.66%) Microsoft
3 196 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
4 183 (11.57%) Service Delivery
5 174 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 165 (10.43%) ITIL
7 163 (10.30%) Project Management
8 160 (10.11%) Service Management
9 153 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
10 127 (8.03%) Agile
11 123 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (7.65%) Azure
13 118 (7.46%) ERP
14 110 (6.95%) Project Delivery
15 105 (6.64%) ITSM
16 92 (5.82%) Risk Management
17 88 (5.56%) CRM
18 83 (5.25%) IT Strategy
19 78 (4.93%) Change Management
19 78 (4.93%) PRINCE2
20 77 (4.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 69 (4.36%) Roadmaps
22 68 (4.30%) Business Development
23 67 (4.24%) Waterfall
24 66 (4.17%) Mentoring
25 65 (4.11%) Windows
26 62 (3.92%) ServiceNow
27 60 (3.79%) Disaster Recovery
28 58 (3.67%) Decision-Making
28 58 (3.67%) SAP

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 41 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.44%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.19%) WordPress
5 2 (0.13%) Confluence
5 2 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.063%) Apache
Applications
1 42 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) PrintSoft PReS
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.32%) Magento
4 5 (0.32%) Shopify
5 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.25%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.063%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.063%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 153 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
2 121 (7.65%) Azure
3 40 (2.53%) Entra ID
4 39 (2.47%) Power Platform
5 30 (1.90%) SaaS
6 24 (1.52%) Power Automate
7 23 (1.45%) AWS
8 21 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (0.70%) OneDrive
11 9 (0.57%) GCP
12 7 (0.44%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (0.32%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (0.19%) Google Workspace
16 3 (0.19%) PaaS
17 2 (0.13%) Cloud Computing
17 2 (0.13%) IaaS
17 2 (0.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.15%) Firewall
2 17 (1.07%) VPN
2 17 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (0.88%) VLAN
3 14 (0.88%) WAN
4 13 (0.82%) LAN
5 12 (0.76%) DNS
5 12 (0.76%) VoIP
6 9 (0.57%) Network Security
7 7 (0.44%) DHCP
7 7 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.32%) DMARC
9 4 (0.25%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.25%) Wireless
10 3 (0.19%) 5G
10 3 (0.19%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.13%) DKIM
11 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.13%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (1.77%) Power BI
2 7 (0.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.25%) MySQL
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.063%) Metadata
6 1 (0.063%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.063%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (2.15%) JIRA
2 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
2 3 (0.19%) Yeoman
General
1 301 (19.03%) Social Skills
2 221 (13.97%) Finance
3 97 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (5.18%) Law
4 82 (5.18%) Public Sector
5 79 (4.99%) Telecoms
6 69 (4.36%) Legal
7 57 (3.60%) Retail
8 53 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 53 (3.35%) Marketing
9 37 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (0.88%) Banking
13 14 (0.88%) Electronics
14 12 (0.76%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.51%) Advertising
16 7 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.38%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.38%) CSS
1 6 (0.38%) HTML
2 4 (0.25%) BREW
3 3 (0.19%) .NET
3 3 (0.19%) RESTful
4 1 (0.063%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.063%) OpenID
4 1 (0.063%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (2.97%) Onboarding
2 44 (2.78%) Driving Licence
3 40 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 36 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.07%) EPoS
8 16 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 14 (0.88%) CMDB
10 13 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 11 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (0.70%) PMI
12 10 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (0.57%) FMCG
13 9 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
15 7 (0.44%) CSOC
16 6 (0.38%) PropTech
17 5 (0.32%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 65 (4.11%) Windows
2 29 (1.83%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.88%) Linux
4 10 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.13%) Unix
7 1 (0.063%) Android
7 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.063%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 196 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
3 183 (11.57%) Service Delivery
4 174 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 165 (10.43%) ITIL
6 163 (10.30%) Project Management
7 160 (10.11%) Service Management
8 127 (8.03%) Agile
9 123 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (7.46%) ERP
11 110 (6.95%) Project Delivery
12 105 (6.64%) ITSM
13 92 (5.82%) Risk Management
14 88 (5.56%) CRM
15 83 (5.25%) IT Strategy
16 78 (4.93%) Change Management
16 78 (4.93%) PRINCE2
17 77 (4.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 69 (4.36%) Roadmaps
19 68 (4.30%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (2.28%) SQL
2 11 (0.70%) PowerShell
3 10 (0.63%) Python
4 6 (0.38%) C#
5 3 (0.19%) Java
6 2 (0.13%) Bash
6 2 (0.13%) PHP
6 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.063%) C++
7 1 (0.063%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.063%) XAML
Qualifications
1 54 (3.41%) Security Cleared
2 45 (2.84%) PMP
3 43 (2.72%) PMI Certification
4 42 (2.65%) Degree
5 37 (2.34%) SC Cleared
6 35 (2.21%) CISSP
7 27 (1.71%) CISA
8 22 (1.39%) CISM
9 21 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.82%) CRISC
11 13 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 5 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.25%) HNC
17 4 (0.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 42 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (2.28%) SLA
4 35 (2.21%) GDPR
5 34 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 34 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 27 (1.71%) ITGC
7 26 (1.64%) NIST
8 20 (1.26%) COBIT
8 20 (1.26%) PMO
9 18 (1.14%) QA
10 9 (0.57%) Data Quality
11 7 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.38%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.32%) GRC
14 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
16 1 (0.063%) P3O
System Software
1 48 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.063%) Docker
5 1 (0.063%) Firmware
5 1 (0.063%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.063%) vSphere
5 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (0.32%) Terraform
5 3 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.13%) cPanel
6 2 (0.13%) Plesk
7 1 (0.063%) Ansible
7 1 (0.063%) Autotask
7 1 (0.063%) Grafana
7 1 (0.063%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.063%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 232 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 62 (3.92%) ServiceNow
3 58 (3.67%) SAP
4 46 (2.91%) Oracle
5 26 (1.64%) VMware
6 17 (1.07%) Cisco
7 15 (0.95%) IFS
8 14 (0.88%) HP
9 12 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.63%) Google
11 8 (0.51%) Apple
11 8 (0.51%) BMC
11 8 (0.51%) Remedy
11 8 (0.51%) Sage
12 7 (0.44%) iManage
12 7 (0.44%) Veeam
13 5 (0.32%) Adobe
13 5 (0.32%) Dell
14 4 (0.25%) Meraki
14 4 (0.25%) OneLogin