IT Manager Jobs

IT Manager
UK

The median IT Manager salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 165 241
Rank change year-on-year +35 +76 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 1,499 1,283 2,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.98% 2.16% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 2.25% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 969 1,104 1,824
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,825 £41,026
25th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,188 £71,386
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,625 £83,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 72,320 56,918 134,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.59% 95.73% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 38,227 41,225 77,796
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,094 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.66% - +5.00%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Manager.

Salary trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 2024. 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
England +14 1,331 £55,000 -8.33% 307
UK excluding London +36 1,125 £55,000 - 248
Work from Home -42 399 £60,000 +1.27% 187
North of England +53 343 £54,000 +2.86% 66
London -46 324 £70,000 - 84
South East +23 247 £57,500 - 41
Midlands +20 230 £54,000 -0.14% 64
North West +45 182 £55,000 - 39
Yorkshire +40 136 £50,000 -4.76% 21
West Midlands +3 125 £55,000 - 31
East Midlands +16 103 £52,500 -2.78% 33
South West -44 92 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Scotland +39 87 £65,000 +13.04% 15
East of England -19 87 £60,000 +11.11% 29
Wales +62 36 £50,000 -23.08% 11
North East -20 25 £45,000 -13.88% 7
Northern Ireland +23 3 - - 3

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 October 2024, 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 featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 452 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 334 (22.28%) Project Management
3 287 (19.15%) Finance
4 286 (19.08%) Microsoft
5 243 (16.21%) ITIL
6 202 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (13.48%) Microsoft 365
7 187 (12.47%) Agile
8 184 (12.27%) Degree
9 168 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 158 (10.54%) Azure
11 157 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
12 147 (9.81%) Service Delivery
13 143 (9.54%) Project Delivery
14 141 (9.41%) Service Management
15 138 (9.21%) Windows
16 137 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
17 129 (8.61%) Risk Management
18 128 (8.54%) PRINCE2
19 126 (8.41%) Change Management
20 124 (8.27%) Budget Management
21 122 (8.14%) Legal
22 113 (7.54%) ITSM
23 111 (7.40%) Customer Service
24 106 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
25 102 (6.80%) Management Information System
26 100 (6.67%) ERP
27 94 (6.27%) Business Continuity
28 92 (6.14%) Asset Management
29 91 (6.07%) Self-Motivation

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 61 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.40%) Documentum
4 4 (0.27%) Apache
4 4 (0.27%) CMS
4 4 (0.27%) nginx
5 3 (0.20%) IBM Notes
5 3 (0.20%) IIS
5 3 (0.20%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.13%) Confluence
6 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.13%) WordPress
7 1 (0.067%) Moodle
7 1 (0.067%) Umbraco
Applications
1 74 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Revit
7 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.73%) SAP ERP
3 10 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.60%) SAP SD
5 7 (0.47%) Elite 3E
6 6 (0.40%) HFM
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.40%) TrackWise
6 6 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
7 5 (0.33%) Magento
7 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.067%) assyst
9 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.067%) iTrent
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 202 (13.48%) Microsoft 365
2 158 (10.54%) Azure
3 41 (2.74%) AWS
4 33 (2.20%) Entra ID
5 26 (1.73%) Power Platform
6 19 (1.27%) SaaS
7 18 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (1.13%) WhatsApp
9 8 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (0.53%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.47%) Google Workspace
11 5 (0.33%) GCP
12 4 (0.27%) IaaS
12 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.27%) Slack
13 3 (0.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.20%) ClickUp
13 3 (0.20%) Datadog
13 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.07%) Network Security
2 39 (2.60%) Firewall
3 36 (2.40%) WAN
4 35 (2.33%) LAN
5 23 (1.53%) Wireless
6 22 (1.47%) DNS
7 19 (1.27%) Internet
7 19 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (1.13%) VPN
9 16 (1.07%) DHCP
10 13 (0.87%) SAN
10 13 (0.87%) VLAN
11 8 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.40%) MPLS
13 6 (0.40%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.33%) VPLS
14 5 (0.33%) WLAN
15 4 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (0.27%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.53%) Power BI
1 23 (1.53%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.73%) DB2
3 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.47%) MySQL
5 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.27%) GIS
6 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.27%) Tableau
7 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (0.20%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.13%) Big Data
8 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (2.33%) JIRA
2 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.13%) Git
General
1 452 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 287 (19.15%) Finance
3 137 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (8.14%) Legal
5 82 (5.47%) Law
6 80 (5.34%) Manufacturing
7 74 (4.94%) Retail
8 39 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.47%) Banking
10 36 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 35 (2.33%) Public Sector
12 31 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.53%) Marketing
15 22 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (0.87%) Electronics
17 11 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.60%) Automotive
19 8 (0.53%) Advertising
20 7 (0.47%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.13%) HTML
2 11 (0.73%) CSS
3 10 (0.67%) Web Services
4 9 (0.60%) Middleware
5 7 (0.47%) Node.js
6 4 (0.27%) Node-RED
7 3 (0.20%) .NET
7 3 (0.20%) LangChain
7 3 (0.20%) React
7 3 (0.20%) Vue
8 2 (0.13%) ADO
8 2 (0.13%) LAMP
8 2 (0.13%) Laravel
8 2 (0.13%) LDAP
8 2 (0.13%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.067%) EDI
9 1 (0.067%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.067%) RESTful
9 1 (0.067%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.067%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 102 (6.80%) Management Information System
2 91 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 24 (1.60%) FMCG
5 22 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 16 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.00%) Driving Licence
8 15 (1.00%) iSeries
9 13 (0.87%) Life Science
9 13 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 12 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (0.80%) CMDB
11 10 (0.67%) AS400
11 10 (0.67%) Cloud Native
11 10 (0.67%) Operational Technology
12 9 (0.60%) IoT
13 8 (0.53%) PMI
13 8 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
14 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 138 (9.21%) Windows
2 67 (4.47%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.20%) Linux
4 13 (0.87%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.47%) Android
7 6 (0.40%) Unix
8 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (22.28%) Project Management
2 243 (16.21%) ITIL
3 202 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
4 187 (12.47%) Agile
5 168 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 157 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
7 147 (9.81%) Service Delivery
8 143 (9.54%) Project Delivery
9 141 (9.41%) Service Management
10 129 (8.61%) Risk Management
11 128 (8.54%) PRINCE2
12 126 (8.41%) Change Management
13 124 (8.27%) Budget Management
14 113 (7.54%) ITSM
15 111 (7.40%) Customer Service
16 106 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
17 100 (6.67%) ERP
18 94 (6.27%) Business Continuity
19 92 (6.14%) Asset Management
20 91 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 43 (2.87%) SQL
2 18 (1.20%) JavaScript
3 12 (0.80%) PowerShell
4 10 (0.67%) Python
5 9 (0.60%) PHP
6 6 (0.40%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.33%) RPG
7 5 (0.33%) RPG IV
8 3 (0.20%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.13%) Perl
10 1 (0.067%) C#
10 1 (0.067%) VBA
10 1 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 184 (12.27%) Degree
2 53 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
2 53 (3.54%) PMP
3 51 (3.40%) PMI Certification
4 44 (2.94%) CISSP
5 42 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.33%) CISA
7 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 25 (1.67%) DBS Check
10 23 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.53%) Security Cleared
11 20 (1.33%) CISM
12 17 (1.13%) SC Cleared
13 16 (1.07%) CCNA
14 12 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 11 (0.73%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.73%) CCNP
16 9 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (4.47%) SLA
3 55 (3.67%) GDPR
4 51 (3.40%) PMO
5 40 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 32 (2.13%) QA
7 30 (2.00%) ISO 22301
8 21 (1.40%) NIST
9 17 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 16 (1.07%) ISO 9001
11 13 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.87%) ITGC
11 13 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.80%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.60%) GxP
14 8 (0.53%) COBIT
15 6 (0.40%) GMP
15 6 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
15 6 (0.40%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.33%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 62 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) Docker
6 3 (0.20%) KVM
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.47%) SCCM
3 5 (0.33%) FortiGate
3 5 (0.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.27%) Autotask
4 4 (0.27%) Grafana
4 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.27%) Netcool
4 4 (0.27%) Terraform
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (0.20%) Nessus
5 3 (0.20%) WSUS
6 1 (0.067%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.067%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.067%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 286 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 50 (3.34%) ServiceNow
3 40 (2.67%) VMware
4 37 (2.47%) SAP
5 34 (2.27%) Cisco
6 25 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.40%) Planview
8 15 (1.00%) Oracle
9 14 (0.93%) Citrix
10 13 (0.87%) Google
11 11 (0.73%) IBM
11 11 (0.73%) iManage
11 11 (0.73%) Sage
11 11 (0.73%) SolarWinds
12 9 (0.60%) Meraki
12 9 (0.60%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.60%) Veeam
13 7 (0.47%) Apple
13 7 (0.47%) Workday
14 6 (0.40%) Adobe