Support Manager Jobs in England

Support Manager
UK > England

The median Support Manager salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 605 772
Rank change year-on-year +169 +167 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Manager 273 229 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 159 183 136
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,184 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,375 £46,065
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.50% +2.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £75,313
90th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

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 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Support Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Manager in England

Support Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Support Manager in England

Support Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Manager in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Manager in England

Support 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 Support Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +107 113 £50,000 +25.00% 12
Yorkshire +139 89 £50,000 +33.33% 5
London +105 82 £65,000 - 23
South East +83 28 £45,000 -10.00% 8
East of England +71 27 £48,750 -2.50% 6
North West -10 24 £48,750 +14.71% 7
Midlands +48 18 £57,500 +15.00% 9
West Midlands +51 14 £57,500 +15.00% 6
East Midlands +12 4 £47,500 +7.96% 3
Support Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Support 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 Support Manager in the job title.

1 165 (60.44%) Social Skills
2 97 (35.53%) Manufacturing
3 95 (34.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 92 (33.70%) Degree
5 87 (31.87%) Electronics
5 87 (31.87%) Marketing
6 74 (27.11%) Mathematics
6 74 (27.11%) Physics
6 74 (27.11%) Presentation Skills
7 73 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (18.68%) Microsoft
9 47 (17.22%) ITIL
10 46 (16.85%) Service Delivery
10 46 (16.85%) Finance
11 45 (16.48%) Microsoft 365
12 36 (13.19%) Change Management
13 33 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (11.72%) Service Management
15 31 (11.36%) Customer Service
16 30 (10.99%) Agile
16 30 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
17 29 (10.62%) Azure
17 29 (10.62%) SLA
18 28 (10.26%) Project Management
18 28 (10.26%) Mentoring
19 27 (9.89%) Telecoms
19 27 (9.89%) ITSM
20 26 (9.52%) Windows
20 26 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
21 25 (9.16%) Incident Management

Support 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 8 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.48%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (10.62%) Azure
3 10 (3.66%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.30%) AWS
5 8 (2.93%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.20%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.20%) SaaS
8 5 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.83%) GCP
9 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.37%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.76%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (2.56%) Network Security
3 5 (1.83%) HTTP
3 5 (1.83%) Wireless
4 4 (1.47%) WAN
5 3 (1.10%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.73%) DHCP
6 2 (0.73%) DNS
6 2 (0.73%) MPLS
6 2 (0.73%) VPN
7 1 (0.37%) Firewall
7 1 (0.37%) IPv4
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
7 1 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.83%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 165 (60.44%) Social Skills
2 97 (35.53%) Manufacturing
3 87 (31.87%) Electronics
3 87 (31.87%) Marketing
4 74 (27.11%) Presentation Skills
5 46 (16.85%) Finance
6 30 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (9.89%) Telecoms
8 15 (5.49%) Legal
8 15 (5.49%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.40%) Law
9 12 (4.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.10%) Advertising
10 3 (1.10%) Back Office
10 3 (1.10%) Publishing
11 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.20%) JSON
2 5 (1.83%) Pandas
2 5 (1.83%) Puppeteer
2 5 (1.83%) Scrapy
3 4 (1.47%) .NET
4 3 (1.10%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.37%) HTML
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.20%) Driving Licence
2 6 (2.20%) Reinsurance
3 5 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.37%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.37%) EPoS
5 1 (0.37%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.37%) NHS
5 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.52%) Windows
2 9 (3.30%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.56%) Linux
4 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (34.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 74 (27.11%) Mathematics
2 74 (27.11%) Physics
3 73 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (17.22%) ITIL
5 46 (16.85%) Service Delivery
6 36 (13.19%) Change Management
7 33 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (11.72%) Service Management
9 31 (11.36%) Customer Service
10 30 (10.99%) Agile
11 28 (10.26%) Mentoring
11 28 (10.26%) Project Management
12 27 (9.89%) ITSM
13 26 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
14 25 (9.16%) Incident Management
15 23 (8.42%) Coaching
16 22 (8.06%) ERP
17 19 (6.96%) CRM
18 17 (6.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.03%) Python
2 10 (3.66%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.30%) SQL
4 6 (2.20%) Java
5 5 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 92 (33.70%) Degree
2 22 (8.06%) CISSP
2 22 (8.06%) PMI Certification
2 22 (8.06%) PMP
3 12 (4.40%) CISA
4 11 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.83%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.47%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.62%) SLA
2 22 (8.06%) QA
3 19 (6.96%) GDPR
4 15 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (4.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.83%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 21 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.76%) SAP
3 10 (3.66%) Facebook
4 6 (2.20%) Citrix
4 6 (2.20%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.83%) Liquidlogic
5 5 (1.83%) VMware
6 4 (1.47%) Siebel
7 3 (1.10%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.10%) Cisco
7 3 (1.10%) iManage
7 3 (1.10%) Intapp
7 3 (1.10%) Meraki
7 3 (1.10%) Riverbed
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.37%) Commvault
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle
8 1 (0.37%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.37%) Sun