Technical Manager Jobs in Manchester

Technical Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Technical Manager salary in Manchester is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 186 206
Rank change year-on-year +30 +20 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 7 34 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.31% 0.65% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.69% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5 34 26
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,200 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £48,750 £58,413
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -16.54% -3.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,375 £70,000
90th Percentile - £76,250 £75,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,064 4,911 4,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.37% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 3,789 2,654
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,954
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,960 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,150 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in Manchester

Technical Manager
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in Manchester.

Salary trend for Technical Manager in Manchester

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in Manchester

Technical Manager
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Altrincham - 1 £50,000 -
Technical Manager
North West

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Technical 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 Manchester region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Law
2 3 (42.86%) Release Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Business Development
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) ERP
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (42.86%) Business Transformation
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Presales
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 3 (42.86%) OCI
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (14.29%) e-Learning

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) OCI
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Business Development
2 3 (42.86%) Business Transformation
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 3 (42.86%) ERP
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Presales
2 3 (42.86%) Release Management
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle