Senior IT Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 645 696
Rank change year-on-year +84 +51 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Manager 30 112 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.16% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 19 97 47
10th Percentile £44,500 - £45,512
25th Percentile £51,692 £40,988 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,050 £105,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.14% -10.82% -

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 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
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% -

Senior IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior IT Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior IT Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +84 11 £65,000 - 8
Midlands +50 7 £55,500 -1.33% 4
North of England -1 6 £71,750 +23.78% 1
Yorkshire +60 5 £80,000 +91.51%
East Midlands - 5 £55,500 -
Scotland +127 3 £70,000 -12.50% 3
South West +99 3 £45,000 -5.57%
West Midlands +46 2 £50,000 -11.11% 4
North East +27 1 £45,000 -22.37%
Senior IT Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior IT Manager in the job title.

1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (43.33%) Mentoring
4 12 (40.00%) Coaching
4 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (36.67%) Project Management
6 10 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 10 (33.33%) Azure
7 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (26.67%) Line Management
7 8 (26.67%) Project Delivery
8 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
8 7 (23.33%) Windows
9 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
9 6 (20.00%) PRINCE2
10 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (16.67%) Degree
10 5 (16.67%) Problem Management
10 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
10 5 (16.67%) GDPR
10 5 (16.67%) Agile
10 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
10 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 5 (16.67%) Business Strategy
10 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (13.33%) Budget Management
11 4 (13.33%) PMI
11 4 (13.33%) Risk Management

Senior 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 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (13.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) VLAN
1 4 (13.33%) VoIP
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Billing
3 2 (6.67%) Games
3 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) CCTV
1 4 (13.33%) PMI
1 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.67%) Educational Technology
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Housing Association
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Mac OS
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Mentoring
2 12 (40.00%) Coaching
3 11 (36.67%) Project Management
4 10 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 8 (26.67%) Line Management
5 8 (26.67%) Project Delivery
6 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
7 6 (20.00%) PRINCE2
8 5 (16.67%) Agile
8 5 (16.67%) Business Strategy
8 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 5 (16.67%) Problem Management
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 4 (13.33%) Budget Management
9 4 (13.33%) Business Transformation
9 4 (13.33%) ITIL
9 4 (13.33%) Planning and Forecasting
9 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
1 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.00%) MBA
3 2 (6.67%) PMP
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Commvault
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce