ITIL Manager Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ITIL Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median ITIL Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £45,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 569 536
Rank change year-on-year +57 -33 +206
Permanent jobs requiring an ITIL Manager 5 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.030% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.032% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 13
10th Percentile £40,525 £44,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £41,313 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% -9.84% +39.43%
75th Percentile £51,625 £60,000 £64,000
90th Percentile £58,150 £61,500 £66,512
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,617 £61,000
% change year-on-year +12.81% -5.55% +6.09%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 37,897 34,703 29,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 93.14% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22,949 17,250 22,189
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

ITIL Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'ITIL Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ITIL Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ITIL Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for ITIL Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for ITIL Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

ITIL Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITIL Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Manager in the UK excluding London

ITIL 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 ITIL Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +26 3 £50,000 -9.09%
Yorkshire - 2 £50,000 -
North West +26 1 - -
Midlands +20 1 £48,000 -
West Midlands +17 1 £48,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £43,500 -
ITIL Manager
UK

ITIL Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, ITIL Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring ITIL Manager in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery

ITIL Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy