Support Manager Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 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 379 435 497
Rank change year-on-year +56 +62 +207
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Manager 139 145 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.42% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 131 62 48
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,720 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £55,780
Median % change year-on-year - -14.84% +17.16%
75th Percentile £54,375 £55,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £78,063
UK median annual salary £48,999 £52,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% -16.33% +14.09%

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% - -

Support Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Support Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Support Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Support Manager in the UK excluding London

Support 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 Support 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
South East +46 36 £52,500 +16.67% 5
North of England 0 36 £30,000 -27.24% 4
Midlands +26 32 £44,000 -7.37% 3
Yorkshire -12 23 £30,000 -18.92% 1
West Midlands +22 20 £55,000 - 1
East of England +22 20 £49,500 +1.54% 3
East Midlands -6 12 £40,000 -15.79% 2
North West +8 7 £45,000 -25.00% 2
North East +10 6 £30,000 -35.14% 1
South West +3 6 £42,500 -12.82% 1
Scotland +8 5 £50,000 +4.17%
Wales +9 4 £44,336 +47.79%
Support Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Support 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 Support Manager in the job title.

1 39 (28.06%) Service Delivery
2 34 (24.46%) Customer Service
3 31 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (22.30%) ITIL
4 30 (21.58%) Microsoft
5 28 (20.14%) Service Management
6 23 (16.55%) CRM
7 22 (15.83%) Customer Experience
7 22 (15.83%) ITSM
8 21 (15.11%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (13.67%) Windows
10 15 (10.79%) SaaS
11 14 (10.07%) ERP
11 14 (10.07%) SharePoint
12 13 (9.35%) Mentoring
12 13 (9.35%) Power Platform
12 13 (9.35%) SLA
13 12 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (7.91%) Active Directory
14 11 (7.91%) B2B
14 11 (7.91%) PowerApps
14 11 (7.91%) Windows Server
15 10 (7.19%) Agile
15 10 (7.19%) Coaching
16 9 (6.47%) Asset Management
16 9 (6.47%) IT Strategy
16 9 (6.47%) Server Management
16 9 (6.47%) ServiceNow
17 8 (5.76%) Azure
17 8 (5.76%) Business Intelligence

Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (10.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Sage 200
1 5 (3.60%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.11%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (10.79%) SaaS
3 13 (9.35%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.91%) PowerApps
5 8 (5.76%) Azure
6 7 (5.04%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.60%) Intacct
8 2 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.72%) AWS
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.72%) Serverless
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.04%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) LAN
2 3 (2.16%) VLAN
2 3 (2.16%) VPN
2 3 (2.16%) WAN
3 2 (1.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.16%) Power BI
2 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.72%) DB2
3 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.04%) JIRA
2 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.72%) Gradle
2 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (6.47%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.47%) Retail
4 8 (5.76%) Electronics
4 8 (5.76%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.04%) Finance
6 6 (4.32%) Law
7 5 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.60%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.60%) Qt
2 1 (0.72%) Drools
2 1 (0.72%) RESTful
2 1 (0.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.04%) Educational Technology
2 5 (3.60%) Arduino
2 5 (3.60%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (3.60%) Raspberry Pi
3 3 (2.16%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.44%) Culture of Ownership
4 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.67%) Windows
2 11 (7.91%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.76%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.32%) Linux
5 2 (1.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.06%) Service Delivery
2 34 (24.46%) Customer Service
3 31 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (22.30%) ITIL
4 28 (20.14%) Service Management
5 23 (16.55%) CRM
6 22 (15.83%) Customer Experience
6 22 (15.83%) ITSM
7 14 (10.07%) ERP
8 13 (9.35%) Mentoring
9 12 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (7.91%) B2B
11 10 (7.19%) Agile
11 10 (7.19%) Coaching
12 9 (6.47%) Asset Management
12 9 (6.47%) IT Strategy
12 9 (6.47%) Server Management
13 8 (5.76%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (5.76%) Software Deployment
13 8 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.88%) VBA
2 2 (1.44%) SQL
3 1 (0.72%) Java
3 1 (0.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (2.88%) Degree
2 2 (1.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) SLA
2 4 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.72%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.76%) SCCM
2 1 (0.72%) Ansible
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.47%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.76%) Sage
3 8 (5.76%) SolarWinds
4 5 (3.60%) Epicor
4 5 (3.60%) Infor
5 4 (2.88%) Citrix
6 3 (2.16%) VMware
7 2 (1.44%) Adobe
8 1 (0.72%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) UiPath