Senior IT Manager Jobs in England

Senior IT Manager
UK > England

The median Senior IT Manager salary in England is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 602 683 827
Rank change year-on-year +81 +144 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Manager 71 149 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26 114 72
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,988 £46,375
25th Percentile £54,688 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -10.82% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,188 £78,713
90th Percentile £93,750 £112,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £57,965 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.39% -14.13% +5.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,811 81,137 82,278
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,794 60,555 52,271
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,280 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

Senior IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Manager in England

Senior IT Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Manager in England

Senior IT Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Manager in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Manager in England

Senior 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 Senior IT Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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 +104 36 £82,500 - 18
North of England +24 16 £56,000 -3.39%
South East +93 9 £77,500 +19.23% 9
North West -14 8 £56,000 -3.39%
Yorkshire +58 7 £80,000 +91.51%
Midlands +56 7 £55,500 -1.33% 4
East Midlands - 5 £55,500 - 1
South West +103 3 £45,000 -5.57% 2
West Midlands +46 2 £50,000 -11.11% 3
North East +37 1 £45,000 -22.37%
Senior IT Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Senior IT Manager in the job title.

1 55 (77.46%) Finance
2 41 (57.75%) Agile
3 37 (52.11%) Mentoring
4 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
5 25 (35.21%) Budget Management
6 22 (30.99%) Project Management
6 22 (30.99%) CISSP
7 21 (29.58%) Banking
8 20 (28.17%) IT Audit
9 19 (26.76%) ITGC
9 19 (26.76%) CISA
10 18 (25.35%) Management Information System
10 18 (25.35%) Azure
11 17 (23.94%) PRINCE2
11 17 (23.94%) Degree
12 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
13 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (16.90%) Law
14 12 (16.90%) Legal
14 12 (16.90%) Marketing
15 11 (15.49%) Service Delivery
15 11 (15.49%) Creative Thinking
15 11 (15.49%) Coaching
16 10 (14.08%) AWS
16 10 (14.08%) Budgeting
16 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
17 9 (12.68%) Project Delivery
17 9 (12.68%) ITIL
17 9 (12.68%) Information Security

Senior IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (8.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (5.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) Azure
2 10 (14.08%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.45%) GCP
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (5.63%) SaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.23%) Serverless
7 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) VLAN
1 4 (5.63%) VoIP
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 55 (77.46%) Finance
2 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
3 21 (29.58%) Banking
4 12 (16.90%) Law
4 12 (16.90%) Legal
4 12 (16.90%) Marketing
5 7 (9.86%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Billing
7 2 (2.82%) Games
7 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) LangChain
2 1 (1.41%) .NET
2 1 (1.41%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.41%) React
2 1 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.04%) PMI
3 4 (5.63%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.63%) CCTV
3 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (4.23%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.23%) PKI
4 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.41%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (57.75%) Agile
2 37 (52.11%) Mentoring
3 25 (35.21%) Budget Management
4 22 (30.99%) Project Management
5 20 (28.17%) IT Audit
6 17 (23.94%) PRINCE2
7 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (15.49%) Coaching
8 11 (15.49%) Creative Thinking
8 11 (15.49%) Service Delivery
9 10 (14.08%) Budgeting
9 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
10 9 (12.68%) Information Security
10 9 (12.68%) ITIL
10 9 (12.68%) Project Delivery
11 8 (11.27%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (11.27%) Line Management
11 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
12 7 (9.86%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.86%) Python
2 6 (8.45%) Java
3 4 (5.63%) C
3 4 (5.63%) C++
4 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) CISSP
2 19 (26.76%) CISA
3 17 (23.94%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) PMI Certification
5 5 (7.04%) Master's Degree
5 5 (7.04%) MBA
6 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.23%) CCSK
7 3 (4.23%) CCSP
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.76%) ITGC
2 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.23%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) PMO
4 2 (2.82%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.23%) CASB
3 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) OpenAI
2 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.63%) Remedy
3 4 (5.63%) SAP
4 3 (4.23%) Google
4 3 (4.23%) Symantec
4 3 (4.23%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.82%) Commvault
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.41%) Workday