Support Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 612 659
Rank change year-on-year +213 +47 -146
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Manager 187 151 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 86 124 83
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,590 £31,021
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £77,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

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 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Support Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Manager in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Support Manager 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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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 +113 110 £47,500 +14.25% 13
Yorkshire +146 87 £45,000 +16.13% 5
South East +103 28 £45,000 -10.00% 13
East of England +69 26 £47,500 -5.00% 8
North West -4 23 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Midlands +49 18 £57,500 +15.00% 10
West Midlands +50 14 £57,500 +15.00% 6
Scotland +112 4 - - 8
East Midlands +25 4 £47,500 +7.96% 4
Wales +41 1 £30,000 -45.45% 1
Support Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Support 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 Support Manager in the job title.

1 127 (67.91%) Social Skills
2 89 (47.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 84 (44.92%) Manufacturing
4 81 (43.32%) Degree
5 74 (39.57%) Mathematics
5 74 (39.57%) Physics
5 74 (39.57%) Marketing
5 74 (39.57%) Electronics
5 74 (39.57%) Presentation Skills
6 45 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.11%) Microsoft
8 28 (14.97%) Customer Service
9 26 (13.90%) Mentoring
10 24 (12.83%) Service Delivery
11 23 (12.30%) Finance
12 22 (11.76%) ERP
13 21 (11.23%) Coaching
13 21 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (10.70%) Agile
15 19 (10.16%) Change Management
16 15 (8.02%) ITIL
16 15 (8.02%) Analytics
17 14 (7.49%) Telecoms
18 12 (6.42%) CRM
18 12 (6.42%) SLA
19 11 (5.88%) Incident Management
19 11 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
19 11 (5.88%) Project Management
19 11 (5.88%) Legal
20 10 (5.35%) CISA

Support 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 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (5.35%) Azure
3 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.60%) AWS
5 1 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.53%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.53%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) Wireless
2 2 (1.07%) MPLS
2 2 (1.07%) VPN
3 1 (0.53%) DHCP
3 1 (0.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) IPv4
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
3 1 (0.53%) VLAN
3 1 (0.53%) VoIP
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.60%) JIRA
General
1 127 (67.91%) Social Skills
2 84 (44.92%) Manufacturing
3 74 (39.57%) Electronics
3 74 (39.57%) Marketing
3 74 (39.57%) Presentation Skills
4 23 (12.30%) Finance
5 14 (7.49%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.88%) Legal
7 10 (5.35%) Retail
8 8 (4.28%) Law
9 5 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Advertising
11 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.07%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
3 1 (0.53%) e-Learning
3 1 (0.53%) EPoS
3 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Windows
2 4 (2.14%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.07%) Linux
3 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 74 (39.57%) Mathematics
2 74 (39.57%) Physics
3 45 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (14.97%) Customer Service
5 26 (13.90%) Mentoring
6 24 (12.83%) Service Delivery
7 22 (11.76%) ERP
8 21 (11.23%) Coaching
9 20 (10.70%) Agile
10 19 (10.16%) Change Management
11 15 (8.02%) Analytics
11 15 (8.02%) ITIL
12 12 (6.42%) CRM
13 11 (5.88%) Incident Management
13 11 (5.88%) Project Management
13 11 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (5.35%) Case Management
14 10 (5.35%) Data Analytics
14 10 (5.35%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.21%) Java
1 6 (3.21%) Python
2 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 81 (43.32%) Degree
2 10 (5.35%) CISA
3 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.42%) SLA
2 10 (5.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.67%) GDPR
4 5 (2.67%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.81%) Facebook
3 5 (2.67%) Liquidlogic
4 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) Commvault
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle
5 1 (0.53%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.53%) VMware