Technical Manager Jobs in the Midlands

Technical Manager
England > Midlands

The median Technical Manager salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 229 283
Rank change year-on-year -15 +54 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 18 96 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.25% 0.81% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.86% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 12 69 32
10th Percentile £46,500 £39,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £45,000 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile - £63,750 £70,313
90th Percentile £68,375 £65,000 £71,475
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -7.14%

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 6,509 11,196 8,307
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.29% 89.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,841 8,341 4,661
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the Midlands

Technical Manager
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the Midlands

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the Midlands

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands +2 11 £65,000 +13.04% 20
East Midlands +23 6 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Technical Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Midlands region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 6 (33.33%) Project Management
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
1 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Project Planning
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 4 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (16.67%) Business Case
4 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
4 3 (16.67%) Escalation Management
4 3 (16.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 3 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
4 3 (16.67%) Tech Ops
4 3 (16.67%) Autodesk
4 3 (16.67%) SLA
4 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Data Security
4 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 3 (16.67%) Change Control
4 3 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Veeam

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.56%) FlexRay
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
1 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 2 (11.11%) Agriculture
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Electronics
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Automotive
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Health
5 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 3 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Infotainment
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Project Planning
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 3 (16.67%) Business Case
4 3 (16.67%) Change Control
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) Data Security
4 3 (16.67%) Escalation Management
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Tech Ops
4 3 (16.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
5 2 (11.11%) Data Management
5 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Autodesk
1 3 (16.67%) IBM
1 3 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 3 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 3 (16.67%) Veeam
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce