Senior IT Manager Jobs in London

Senior IT Manager
England > London

The median Senior IT Manager salary in London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 470 561
Rank change year-on-year +114 +91 +269
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Manager 37 37 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 24
10th Percentile £62,200 £55,750 £52,638
25th Percentile £70,000 £69,563 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £82,500 £82,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +0.30% +4.44%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,188 £99,688
90th Percentile - £133,625 £114,250
England median annual salary £71,250 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.92% -10.82% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,455 22,637 31,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,909 16,798 22,986
10th Percentile £40,971 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Senior IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Manager in London

Senior IT Manager
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Manager in London

Senior IT Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Manager in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Manager in London

Senior IT Manager
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London +22 3 £80,000 +20.75%
Senior IT Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 London region featuring Senior IT Manager in the job title.

1 28 (75.68%) Finance
2 27 (72.97%) Agile
3 25 (67.57%) Mentoring
4 20 (54.05%) CISSP
5 18 (48.65%) Budget Management
6 17 (45.95%) ITGC
6 17 (45.95%) CISA
6 17 (45.95%) Banking
6 17 (45.95%) IT Audit
7 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
8 13 (35.14%) Legal
9 12 (32.43%) Law
9 12 (32.43%) Degree
9 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (27.03%) Information Security
11 10 (27.03%) Marketing
11 10 (27.03%) AWS
12 9 (24.32%) Azure
12 9 (24.32%) Management Information System
12 9 (24.32%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
13 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow
13 7 (18.92%) Python
13 7 (18.92%) ITIL
13 7 (18.92%) Creative Thinking
13 7 (18.92%) Budgeting
14 6 (16.22%) Critical Thinking
14 6 (16.22%) SDLC
14 6 (16.22%) Java

Senior IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Chatbot
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) GCP
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.11%) Serverless
6 2 (5.41%) SaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
General
1 28 (75.68%) Finance
2 17 (45.95%) Banking
3 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
4 13 (35.14%) Legal
5 12 (32.43%) Law
6 10 (27.03%) Marketing
7 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) LangChain
2 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.70%) React
2 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) Agile
2 25 (67.57%) Mentoring
3 18 (48.65%) Budget Management
4 17 (45.95%) IT Audit
5 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (27.03%) Information Security
8 9 (24.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
9 7 (18.92%) Budgeting
9 7 (18.92%) Creative Thinking
9 7 (18.92%) ITIL
10 6 (16.22%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
10 6 (16.22%) SDLC
11 5 (13.51%) API Development
11 5 (13.51%) Generative AI
11 5 (13.51%) LLM
11 5 (13.51%) Service Management
11 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) C
3 4 (10.81%) C++
4 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) CISSP
2 17 (45.95%) CISA
3 12 (32.43%) Degree
4 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.11%) CCSK
5 3 (8.11%) CCSP
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (45.95%) ITGC
2 2 (5.41%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) CASB
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow
2 5 (13.51%) OpenAI
3 4 (10.81%) Remedy
4 3 (8.11%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) Symantec
4 3 (8.11%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.70%) Aderant
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Workday