IT Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 205 170
Rank change year-on-year +95 -35 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 1,792 1,040 1,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.56% 1.69% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 1.90% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,538 826 1,247
10th Percentile £33,500 £38,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £55,124
% change year-on-year -11.30% +4.31% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
North of England +126 571 £47,500 -9.52% 74
South East +73 423 £51,000 -11.30% 65
Midlands +67 382 £50,000 -9.09% 51
North West +130 294 £45,750 -12.86% 36
Yorkshire +114 213 £50,000 - 29
West Midlands +37 199 £54,825 -0.32% 35
East Midlands +80 168 £50,000 -9.09% 16
South West +20 165 £49,500 -1.00% 26
East of England +49 147 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Scotland -46 68 £45,000 -16.28% 13
North East +30 64 £51,250 +2.50% 11
Wales +24 33 £50,000 +11.94% 13
Northern Ireland +31 7 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
IT Manager
UK

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 561 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 454 (25.33%) Project Management
3 331 (18.47%) Microsoft
4 314 (17.52%) Microsoft 365
5 298 (16.63%) Finance
6 281 (15.68%) Agile
7 250 (13.95%) ITIL
8 235 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 205 (11.44%) Windows
10 203 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 203 (11.33%) Service Delivery
11 201 (11.22%) Azure
12 192 (10.71%) Degree
13 187 (10.44%) Project Delivery
14 186 (10.38%) Cybersecurity
15 182 (10.16%) Active Directory
16 167 (9.32%) PRINCE2
17 166 (9.26%) ERP
18 163 (9.10%) Change Management
19 156 (8.71%) Waterfall
20 150 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
21 149 (8.31%) Risk Management
22 129 (7.20%) Firewall
23 124 (6.92%) IT Strategy
24 122 (6.81%) Windows Server
24 122 (6.81%) Mentoring
25 116 (6.47%) SQL
26 106 (5.92%) Customer Service
27 103 (5.75%) Retail
28 102 (5.69%) Analytical Skills

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 84 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.73%) Confluence
4 11 (0.61%) WordPress
5 10 (0.56%) Documentum
6 6 (0.33%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) Site Server
8 4 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.17%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.056%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.056%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.056%) IIS
11 1 (0.056%) Moodle
11 1 (0.056%) Totara
Applications
1 65 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.45%) Trello
5 2 (0.11%) CATIA
6 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.56%) TrackWise
2 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.39%) Sage 200
3 7 (0.39%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.22%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.056%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.056%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.056%) Epicor Tropos
6 1 (0.056%) Magento
6 1 (0.056%) Primavera
6 1 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 314 (17.52%) Microsoft 365
2 201 (11.22%) Azure
3 56 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 54 (3.01%) Entra ID
5 48 (2.68%) AWS
6 43 (2.40%) SaaS
7 22 (1.23%) GCP
8 20 (1.12%) OneDrive
9 17 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (0.78%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (0.45%) IaaS
13 7 (0.39%) Google Workspace
13 7 (0.39%) PaaS
13 7 (0.39%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.22%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.17%) Dropbox
16 3 (0.17%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 129 (7.20%) Firewall
2 58 (3.24%) WAN
3 49 (2.73%) LAN
4 48 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
5 46 (2.57%) Network Security
6 40 (2.23%) VPN
7 34 (1.90%) Wireless
8 32 (1.79%) Intranet
9 28 (1.56%) VoIP
10 27 (1.51%) VLAN
11 26 (1.45%) DNS
12 24 (1.34%) SAN
13 22 (1.23%) DHCP
13 22 (1.23%) Internet
14 19 (1.06%) TCP/IP
15 13 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.61%) NAS
16 11 (0.61%) WLAN
17 9 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
18 7 (0.39%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (2.46%) Power BI
2 36 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.17%) Crystal Reports
4 8 (0.45%) DB2
5 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.056%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.056%) MySQL
7 1 (0.056%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.056%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (3.07%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.056%) Git
General
1 561 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 298 (16.63%) Finance
3 103 (5.75%) Retail
4 102 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (4.63%) Manufacturing
6 76 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 68 (3.79%) Law
8 63 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (3.01%) Legal
9 54 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (1.73%) Marketing
12 23 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 15 (0.84%) Publishing
16 13 (0.73%) Billing
17 12 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.67%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.56%) HTML
2 7 (0.39%) EDI
3 6 (0.33%) CSS
4 4 (0.22%) .NET
4 4 (0.22%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.22%) XML
5 3 (0.17%) Flash
5 3 (0.17%) SAML
5 3 (0.17%) Web Services
6 2 (0.11%) JSON
6 2 (0.11%) LDAP
6 2 (0.11%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.11%) REST
7 1 (0.056%) ERC20
7 1 (0.056%) Laravel
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.056%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.056%) Truffle
7 1 (0.056%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.056%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 86 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 42 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 35 (1.95%) Driving Licence
5 25 (1.40%) Onboarding
6 24 (1.34%) PMI
7 15 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
7 15 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (0.78%) CCTV
9 13 (0.73%) NHS
10 12 (0.67%) FMCG
10 12 (0.67%) Life Science
10 12 (0.67%) Product Ownership
11 10 (0.56%) LIMS
12 9 (0.50%) Cyberattack
12 9 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (0.45%) Social Media
13 8 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 7 (0.39%) EPoS
14 7 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 205 (11.44%) Windows
2 122 (6.81%) Windows Server
3 36 (2.01%) Windows 10
4 29 (1.62%) Linux
5 21 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (0.84%) Unix
8 10 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (0.33%) Android
10 6 (0.33%) VMS
11 5 (0.28%) CentOS
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.056%) Debian
14 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (25.33%) Project Management
2 281 (15.68%) Agile
3 250 (13.95%) ITIL
4 235 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
5 203 (11.33%) Service Delivery
5 203 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 187 (10.44%) Project Delivery
7 186 (10.38%) Cybersecurity
8 167 (9.32%) PRINCE2
9 166 (9.26%) ERP
10 163 (9.10%) Change Management
11 156 (8.71%) Waterfall
12 150 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 149 (8.31%) Risk Management
14 124 (6.92%) IT Strategy
15 122 (6.81%) Mentoring
16 106 (5.92%) Customer Service
17 99 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
18 96 (5.36%) Service Management
19 94 (5.25%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 116 (6.47%) SQL
2 19 (1.06%) PowerShell
3 9 (0.50%) Bash
3 9 (0.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.17%) T-SQL
4 3 (0.17%) VBA
5 2 (0.11%) C#
6 1 (0.056%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.056%) Delphi
6 1 (0.056%) Go
6 1 (0.056%) Python
6 1 (0.056%) Solidity
6 1 (0.056%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 192 (10.71%) Degree
2 80 (4.46%) PMI Certification
3 74 (4.13%) PMP
4 33 (1.84%) CISSP
4 33 (1.84%) DBS Check
5 32 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 31 (1.73%) Security Cleared
7 30 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 29 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 23 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.06%) SC Cleared
12 18 (1.00%) CCNA
13 17 (0.95%) CISM
14 15 (0.84%) MCSE
15 14 (0.78%) CISA
16 13 (0.73%) CCNP
17 8 (0.45%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 63 (3.52%) SLA
4 57 (3.18%) GDPR
5 40 (2.23%) PMO
6 34 (1.90%) QA
7 22 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.12%) ITGC
9 12 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.61%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.61%) GxP
11 10 (0.56%) GMP
11 10 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
11 10 (0.56%) NIST
12 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.39%) ISO 14000
14 6 (0.33%) GRC
14 6 (0.33%) ISO 22301
14 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 182 (10.16%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.62%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.39%) IAG
6 4 (0.22%) pfSense
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.56%) Terraform
3 8 (0.45%) SmoothWall
3 8 (0.45%) WSUS
4 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
5 6 (0.33%) SCCM
6 5 (0.28%) Ansible
6 5 (0.28%) SCOM
7 4 (0.22%) PaperCut
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.17%) Nessus
9 2 (0.11%) CASB
9 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.056%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.056%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.056%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 331 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 83 (4.63%) VMware
3 70 (3.91%) Cisco
4 34 (1.90%) SAP
5 33 (1.84%) Sophos
5 33 (1.84%) Veeam
6 28 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.45%) Google
8 25 (1.40%) Oracle
9 22 (1.23%) Meraki
10 18 (1.00%) Apple
10 18 (1.00%) Sage
10 18 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 17 (0.95%) Citrix
12 16 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.67%) Dell
14 9 (0.50%) Aruba
15 8 (0.45%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.45%) BT
15 8 (0.45%) Epicor