Technical Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 365 525
Rank change year-on-year +40 +160 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 280 482 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.68% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.72% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 71 390 177
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £73,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -3.70%

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 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
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 £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +82 169 £55,000 +10.00% 37
Yorkshire +136 144 £65,000 +23.81% 19
South East +34 63 £55,000 +3.77% 100
North West -48 23 £55,000 +10.00% 17
South West +58 16 £57,500 +15.00% 25
Midlands -15 16 £65,000 +18.18% 36
East of England +10 13 £32,500 -35.00% 39
West Midlands -1 9 £65,000 +13.04% 23
East Midlands +10 6 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Scotland +105 3 £95,000 +111.11% 13
North East +39 1 - - 2
Wales +36 1 £71,500 +19.17% 1
Isle of Man +12 1 £54,000 -
Technical Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 200 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 186 (66.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 181 (64.64%) Manufacturing
4 162 (57.86%) Degree
5 150 (53.57%) Mathematics
5 150 (53.57%) Physics
6 141 (50.36%) Marketing
7 140 (50.00%) Electronics
8 137 (48.93%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (18.21%) Service Delivery
11 48 (17.14%) Coaching
12 45 (16.07%) Service Management
13 43 (15.36%) NVQ Level 3
13 43 (15.36%) NVQ Level 4
13 43 (15.36%) Process Improvement
14 33 (11.79%) Finance
15 25 (8.93%) Project Management
16 22 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 18 (6.43%) Agile
18 16 (5.71%) Microsoft
18 16 (5.71%) Project Delivery
19 14 (5.00%) Mentoring
19 14 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
19 14 (5.00%) Product Strategy
19 14 (5.00%) Systems Engineering
20 13 (4.64%) Project Planning
21 12 (4.29%) Azure
21 12 (4.29%) PMP
22 11 (3.93%) Banking

Technical 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 3 (1.07%) CMS
1 3 (1.07%) Confluence
1 3 (1.07%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.29%) Azure
2 6 (2.14%) AWS
2 6 (2.14%) SaaS
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.07%) BigCommerce
4 3 (1.07%) ClickUp
4 3 (1.07%) GitHub
4 3 (1.07%) Kontent
4 3 (1.07%) Storyblok
5 2 (0.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.71%) GCP
5 2 (0.71%) OCI
6 1 (0.36%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.36%) IaaS
6 1 (0.36%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (0.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) Firewall
2 4 (1.43%) Network Security
3 3 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.71%) VLAN
4 2 (0.71%) Wireless
5 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.36%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.36%) VoIP
5 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.79%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 200 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 181 (64.64%) Manufacturing
3 141 (50.36%) Marketing
4 140 (50.00%) Electronics
5 137 (48.93%) Presentation Skills
6 33 (11.79%) Finance
7 11 (3.93%) Banking
7 11 (3.93%) Legal
8 9 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.86%) Automotive
9 8 (2.86%) Retail
10 5 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.71%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.71%) Local Government
13 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.71%) Spring
1 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.36%) ADO
2 1 (0.36%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.14%) Digital Signage
2 5 (1.79%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.36%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.36%) EPoS
5 1 (0.36%) FMCG
5 1 (0.36%) Infotainment
5 1 (0.36%) IoT
5 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.36%) NHS
5 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.36%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.21%) Windows
2 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (66.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 150 (53.57%) Mathematics
2 150 (53.57%) Physics
3 67 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (18.21%) Service Delivery
5 48 (17.14%) Coaching
6 45 (16.07%) Service Management
7 43 (15.36%) Process Improvement
8 25 (8.93%) Project Management
9 22 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (6.43%) Agile
11 16 (5.71%) Project Delivery
12 14 (5.00%) Mentoring
12 14 (5.00%) Product Strategy
12 14 (5.00%) Systems Engineering
13 13 (4.64%) Project Planning
14 11 (3.93%) Data Management
15 10 (3.57%) Commercial Awareness
15 10 (3.57%) Programme Management
16 9 (3.21%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.86%) Java
1 8 (2.86%) Python
2 1 (0.36%) C#
2 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 162 (57.86%) Degree
2 43 (15.36%) NVQ Level 3
2 43 (15.36%) NVQ Level 4
3 14 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (4.29%) PMP
5 7 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.14%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.71%) CCNA
8 2 (0.71%) CCNP
8 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.79%) QA
2 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.71%) NIST
3 2 (0.71%) SLA
4 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) JTAG
4 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) Docker
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.07%) Terraform
2 2 (0.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 16 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.21%) Cisco
3 6 (2.14%) Meraki
4 5 (1.79%) Oracle
4 5 (1.79%) VMware
5 4 (1.43%) IBM
6 3 (1.07%) Autodesk
6 3 (1.07%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.71%) BMC
7 2 (0.71%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.71%) HP
7 2 (0.71%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.71%) Sage
8 1 (0.36%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.36%) NetIQ
8 1 (0.36%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.36%) Planview
8 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow