IT Operations Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Operations Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 732 699
Rank change year-on-year +170 -33 +137
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Operations Manager 9 33 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.045% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.047% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 40
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,500 £47,375
25th Percentile £50,750 £52,250 £50,301
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,905
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.86% -9.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £71,000 £73,750 £78,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -13.79% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Operations 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 Operations Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +29 5 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Yorkshire +58 4 £62,500 +25.03% 2
South East +87 2 £35,000 -36.94% 2
West Midlands +57 2 £67,500 +19.47% 3
Midlands +52 2 £67,500 +13.45% 3
North East - 1 £51,500 -
IT Operations Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, IT Operations 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 Operations Manager in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) FMCG
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Web Development
3 2 (22.22%) Supplier Management
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Facebook
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (22.22%) Android
3 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
3 2 (22.22%) Social Media
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 2 (22.22%) BT
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Line Management
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working

IT Operations 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) FMCG
1 3 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Android
1 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
1 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 3 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (22.22%) Line Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Supplier Management
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (22.22%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) Budgeting
3 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) BT
1 2 (22.22%) Facebook
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft