Technical Manager Jobs in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Technical Manager salary in the Thames Valley is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 192 250
Rank change year-on-year +42 +58 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 29 48 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 0.71% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.75% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 35 7
10th Percentile £60,500 £49,500 £46,700
25th Percentile £66,250 £50,000 £58,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -22.22% -6.90%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £75,000 £79,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -18.46% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,800 6,392 5,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.16% 94.72% 89.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 4,520 3,208
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,954
25th Percentile £38,813 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £86,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire +31 17 £62,500 +19.05% 12
Oxfordshire +40 10 £70,000 +24.44% 11
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £85,000 +41.67% 6
Technical Manager
South East

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 Thames Valley region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 23 (79.31%) Problem-Solving
1 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (68.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (68.97%) Service Delivery
2 20 (68.97%) Manufacturing
3 19 (65.52%) Service Management
3 19 (65.52%) NVQ Level 3
3 19 (65.52%) NVQ Level 4
3 19 (65.52%) Process Improvement
3 19 (65.52%) Coaching
4 7 (24.14%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.79%) PRINCE2
5 4 (13.79%) Project Management
5 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 4 (13.79%) Marketing
6 3 (10.34%) Product Management
6 3 (10.34%) Kentico
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.34%) CMS
6 3 (10.34%) Agile
6 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (10.34%) SEO
6 3 (10.34%) Web Development
6 3 (10.34%) JIRA
6 3 (10.34%) Scrum
6 3 (10.34%) CRM
6 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.34%) SDLC
6 3 (10.34%) Project Governance

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.34%) CMS
1 3 (10.34%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) BigCommerce
1 3 (10.34%) ClickUp
1 3 (10.34%) Kontent
1 3 (10.34%) Storyblok
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.45%) Broadband
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
General
1 23 (79.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (68.97%) Manufacturing
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Marketing
4 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Spring
1 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) FMCG
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (68.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (68.97%) Service Delivery
3 19 (65.52%) Coaching
3 19 (65.52%) Process Improvement
3 19 (65.52%) Service Management
4 7 (24.14%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.79%) PRINCE2
5 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 3 (10.34%) Agile
6 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (10.34%) CRM
6 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.34%) Product Management
6 3 (10.34%) Project Governance
6 3 (10.34%) Scrum
6 3 (10.34%) SDLC
6 3 (10.34%) SEO
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.34%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) C#
1 1 (3.45%) Java
1 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) NVQ Level 3
1 19 (65.52%) NVQ Level 4
2 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.45%) IBM
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (3.45%) VMware