IT Manager Jobs in the Midlands

IT Manager
England > Midlands

The median IT Manager salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 August 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 83 133
Rank change year-on-year -86 +50 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 82 303 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.20% 2.77% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 2.93% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 71 234 139
10th Percentile £40,500 £35,000 £38,325
25th Percentile £44,107 £41,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.58%
75th Percentile £68,125 £59,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £73,300
England median annual salary £60,000 £53,528 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.09% -10.79% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,308 10,334 6,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 94.43% 90.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,411 6,663 4,289
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,150 £62,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the Midlands

IT Manager
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the Midlands.

Salary trend for IT Manager in the Midlands

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the Midlands

IT Manager
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
West Midlands -38 61 £55,000 - 35
East Midlands -64 21 £54,500 +9.00% 17
IT Manager
England

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 19 (23.17%) Project Management
2 17 (20.73%) Finance
2 17 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (20.73%) Project Delivery
2 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.51%) Agile
4 12 (14.63%) Service Delivery
4 12 (14.63%) Microsoft
5 11 (13.41%) ITIL
5 11 (13.41%) Change Management
5 11 (13.41%) Degree
5 11 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (12.20%) Retail
6 10 (12.20%) Risk Management
6 10 (12.20%) ERP
7 9 (10.98%) Manufacturing
7 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
7 9 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (10.98%) DevOps
7 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
8 8 (9.76%) Waterfall
8 8 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.54%) SDLC
9 7 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
9 7 (8.54%) SharePoint
9 7 (8.54%) Strategic Planning
10 6 (7.32%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (7.32%) PowerApps

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.44%) Infor M3
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.22%) Relativity
2 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.32%) Azure
3 6 (7.32%) PowerApps
4 5 (6.10%) SaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.44%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.22%) AWS
6 1 (1.22%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) LAN
2 3 (3.66%) WAN
3 2 (2.44%) Firewall
3 2 (2.44%) Network Security
3 2 (2.44%) SAN
3 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.22%) Internet
4 1 (1.22%) NAS
4 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.22%) MySQL
3 1 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) JIRA
General
1 17 (20.73%) Finance
1 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Retail
3 9 (10.98%) Manufacturing
4 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.10%) Games
5 5 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.10%) Law
6 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.44%) Billing
8 2 (2.44%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Automotive
9 1 (1.22%) Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) CodeIgniter
1 3 (3.66%) Laravel
1 3 (3.66%) Node.js
2 1 (1.22%) .NET
2 1 (1.22%) EDI
2 1 (1.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.10%) Replication
2 3 (3.66%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.66%) FMCG
2 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.66%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.44%) Clustering
3 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.22%) NHS
4 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Android
1 3 (3.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.17%) Project Management
2 17 (20.73%) Project Delivery
2 17 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (19.51%) Agile
4 12 (14.63%) Service Delivery
5 11 (13.41%) Change Management
5 11 (13.41%) ITIL
5 11 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (12.20%) ERP
6 10 (12.20%) Risk Management
7 9 (10.98%) DevOps
7 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
7 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
8 8 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.76%) Waterfall
9 7 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.54%) SDLC
9 7 (8.54%) Strategic Planning
10 6 (7.32%) Business Case
10 6 (7.32%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.88%) PHP
1 4 (4.88%) SQL
2 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.22%) C#
3 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Degree
2 6 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.22%) CBAP
4 1 (1.22%) CISA
4 1 (1.22%) CISM
4 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.22%) CRISC
4 1 (1.22%) HND
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.22%) PMP
4 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) GDPR
1 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.44%) PMO
2 2 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) GRC
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.22%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 12 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) VMware
3 3 (3.66%) Commvault
3 3 (3.66%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.44%) Cisco
4 2 (2.44%) Infor
5 1 (1.22%) BMC
5 1 (1.22%) Google
5 1 (1.22%) QAD
5 1 (1.22%) Remedy
5 1 (1.22%) SAP
5 1 (1.22%) Snow
5 1 (1.22%) Ubiquiti