IT Manager Jobs in the South East

IT Manager
England > South East

The median IT Manager salary in the South East is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 165 188
Rank change year-on-year +74 +23 +27
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 410 225 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.72% 1.94% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 2.12% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 362 161 370
10th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,813 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% +8.57%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £69,875 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +3.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the South East

IT Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for IT Manager in the South East

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the South East

IT Manager
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Thames Valley +35 99 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Kent +38 86 £36,000 -28.00% 7
Hampshire +26 85 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Surrey -2 57 £55,000 -8.33% 6
West Sussex +40 44 £52,500 -4.55%
Berkshire +23 35 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Oxfordshire -1 34 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Buckinghamshire +7 30 £54,000 -1.82% 6
East Sussex +18 23 £55,000 -8.33%
Sussex - 16 £60,000 -
Middlesex -15 2 £65,000 +68.83%
IT Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 South East region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 105 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.49%) Finance
3 81 (19.76%) Project Management
4 68 (16.59%) Microsoft
5 52 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (10.49%) PRINCE2
7 42 (10.24%) ITIL
8 41 (10.00%) Agile
9 39 (9.51%) Azure
10 38 (9.27%) Degree
10 38 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (8.78%) SQL
13 35 (8.54%) Risk Management
14 33 (8.05%) Customer Service
15 31 (7.56%) Validation
15 31 (7.56%) Windows
16 30 (7.32%) Firewall
17 29 (7.07%) Service Delivery
18 28 (6.83%) Waterfall
19 27 (6.59%) Asset Management
19 27 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
19 27 (6.59%) ERP
20 25 (6.10%) Business Continuity
21 24 (5.85%) Project Delivery
21 24 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 24 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
21 24 (5.85%) Active Directory
22 23 (5.61%) Budgeting
23 22 (5.37%) Cost Optimisation

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (2.93%) Documentum
2 6 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.73%) IIS
5 2 (0.49%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.73%) Trello
4 2 (0.49%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 12 (2.93%) TrackWise
2 4 (0.98%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (9.51%) Azure
3 14 (3.41%) Entra ID
4 7 (1.71%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.98%) AWS
6 4 (0.98%) WhatsApp
7 3 (0.73%) Asana
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.49%) CloudFront
8 2 (0.49%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.49%) Veeva
9 1 (0.24%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.24%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.24%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.32%) Firewall
2 11 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.95%) Network Security
3 8 (1.95%) VPN
4 7 (1.71%) Wireless
5 5 (1.22%) DNS
5 5 (1.22%) LAN
5 5 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.22%) WAN
6 3 (0.73%) Internet
6 3 (0.73%) SAN
6 3 (0.73%) VLAN
7 2 (0.49%) DHCP
7 2 (0.49%) Intranet
7 2 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.49%) SSL
7 2 (0.49%) WLAN
8 1 (0.24%) MPLS
8 1 (0.24%) SNMP
8 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.12%) Crystal Reports
2 9 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.71%) Power BI
4 3 (0.73%) GIS
4 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.73%) Tableau
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 105 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.49%) Finance
3 20 (4.88%) Legal
3 20 (4.88%) Manufacturing
4 17 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 15 (3.66%) Law
7 11 (2.68%) Retail
8 8 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.71%) Electronics
10 6 (1.46%) Marketing
10 6 (1.46%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.22%) Aviation
12 4 (0.98%) Advertising
13 3 (0.73%) Banking
13 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.49%) CSS
1 2 (0.49%) EDI
1 2 (0.49%) HTML
1 2 (0.49%) JSON
1 2 (0.49%) LDAP
1 2 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (0.49%) Web Services
1 2 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.93%) Life Science
3 12 (2.93%) LIMS
4 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (1.71%) PMI
5 6 (1.46%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.46%) FMCG
6 5 (1.22%) IPTV
6 5 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.73%) NHS
8 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.49%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.49%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.49%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.24%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.56%) Windows
2 16 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.46%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.73%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.49%) Linux
5 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (19.76%) Project Management
2 43 (10.49%) PRINCE2
3 42 (10.24%) ITIL
4 41 (10.00%) Agile
5 38 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (8.54%) Risk Management
8 33 (8.05%) Customer Service
9 31 (7.56%) Validation
10 29 (7.07%) Service Delivery
11 28 (6.83%) Waterfall
12 27 (6.59%) Asset Management
12 27 (6.59%) ERP
12 27 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (6.10%) Business Continuity
14 24 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (5.85%) Project Delivery
15 23 (5.61%) Budgeting
16 22 (5.37%) Cost Optimisation
16 22 (5.37%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.78%) SQL
2 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (9.27%) Degree
2 22 (5.37%) PMI Certification
3 16 (3.90%) CISSP
3 16 (3.90%) PMP
4 15 (3.66%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.46%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.22%) CISM
6 5 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (0.98%) CRISC
7 4 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.73%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.73%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.49%) CCNA
9 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) MCSE
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.37%) QA
3 16 (3.90%) GDPR
4 14 (3.41%) GxP
5 13 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (2.93%) GMP
6 12 (2.93%) Good Clinical Practice
6 12 (2.93%) SLA
7 5 (1.22%) GRC
7 5 (1.22%) NCSC
8 4 (0.98%) ISO 22301
8 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.24%) COBIT
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) NIST
11 1 (0.24%) PMO
11 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (5.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.95%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.73%) SmoothWall
3 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.24%) Nessus
4 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.37%) ServiceNow
3 20 (4.88%) VMware
4 7 (1.71%) Cisco
4 7 (1.71%) Workday
5 6 (1.46%) SAP
6 5 (1.22%) Anaplan
6 5 (1.22%) Apple
7 4 (0.98%) Aruba
7 4 (0.98%) Meraki
8 3 (0.73%) Acronis
8 3 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.73%) iManage
9 2 (0.49%) Civica
9 2 (0.49%) IFS
9 2 (0.49%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.49%) Sage
9 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.49%) Veeam
9 2 (0.49%) WatchGuard