IT Manager
UK

The median IT Manager salary in the UK is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 225 247
Rank change year-on-year +108 +22 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 2,325 1,665 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 1.64% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 1.80% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,981 1,350 2,060
10th Percentile £34,017 £41,250 £40,225
25th Percentile £40,988 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £55,124
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +4.31% +4.01%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,575 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Top 18 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 9 May 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 +108 2,136 £51,000 -11.30% 326
UK excluding London +98 1,815 £50,000 -9.09% 273
Work from Home +40 718 £55,000 -7.72% 107
North of England +124 576 £47,500 -9.52% 85
South East +64 430 £50,913 -11.46% 70
London +47 424 £65,000 - 74
Midlands +62 389 £50,000 -9.09% 50
North West +121 300 £46,500 -14.68% 40
Yorkshire +109 213 £49,990 -0.02% 39
West Midlands +27 204 £54,000 -1.82% 31
East Midlands +81 170 £50,000 -9.09% 19
South West +26 168 £49,250 -1.50% 23
East of England +53 146 £50,000 -9.91% 23
Scotland -51 69 £45,000 -14.29% 21
North East +29 63 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Wales +14 34 £50,000 +6.20% 12
Northern Ireland +31 7 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 714 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 572 (24.60%) Project Management
3 462 (19.87%) Finance
4 447 (19.23%) Microsoft
5 396 (17.03%) Microsoft 365
6 378 (16.26%) Agile
7 342 (14.71%) ITIL
8 293 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
9 290 (12.47%) Azure
10 285 (12.26%) Service Delivery
11 277 (11.91%) Degree
12 275 (11.83%) Windows
13 256 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 238 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
15 228 (9.81%) Project Delivery
16 225 (9.68%) Active Directory
17 207 (8.90%) ERP
18 206 (8.86%) PRINCE2
19 205 (8.82%) Risk Management
20 199 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
21 197 (8.47%) Change Management
22 177 (7.61%) Waterfall
22 177 (7.61%) IT Strategy
23 164 (7.05%) Service Management
24 158 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
25 150 (6.45%) Mentoring
26 149 (6.41%) Retail
26 149 (6.41%) Firewall
27 147 (6.32%) ITSM
28 143 (6.15%) Windows Server

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 99 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.73%) Confluence
4 13 (0.56%) Documentum
5 12 (0.52%) WordPress
6 7 (0.30%) CMS
7 5 (0.22%) Site Server
8 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.17%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.043%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.043%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.043%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.043%) IIS
10 1 (0.043%) Moodle
10 1 (0.043%) Totara
Applications
1 77 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.34%) Trello
5 2 (0.086%) CATIA
6 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.043%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.56%) TrackWise
2 13 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
3 8 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.30%) Sage 200
4 7 (0.30%) SAP Business One
4 7 (0.30%) Shopify
5 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.17%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.043%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.043%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.043%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.043%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.043%) Magento
8 1 (0.043%) Primavera
8 1 (0.043%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.043%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 396 (17.03%) Microsoft 365
2 290 (12.47%) Azure
3 69 (2.97%) Power Platform
4 68 (2.92%) AWS
4 68 (2.92%) Entra ID
5 56 (2.41%) SaaS
6 31 (1.33%) GCP
7 27 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (0.86%) OneDrive
9 17 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (0.73%) IaaS
9 17 (0.73%) WhatsApp
10 16 (0.69%) PaaS
11 14 (0.60%) PowerApps
12 11 (0.47%) Google Workspace
13 8 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.26%) Dropbox
14 6 (0.26%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.22%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 149 (6.41%) Firewall
2 73 (3.14%) WAN
3 62 (2.67%) LAN
3 62 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
4 55 (2.37%) Network Security
5 40 (1.72%) DNS
5 40 (1.72%) VPN
6 36 (1.55%) Wireless
7 34 (1.46%) Intranet
8 32 (1.38%) VLAN
9 31 (1.33%) DHCP
10 30 (1.29%) SAN
11 29 (1.25%) TCP/IP
12 28 (1.20%) VoIP
13 27 (1.16%) Internet
14 17 (0.73%) NAS
15 14 (0.60%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
16 10 (0.43%) WLAN
17 7 (0.30%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (2.41%) Power BI
2 50 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 21 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
4 13 (0.56%) DB2
5 8 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.26%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.086%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.086%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.043%) GIS
9 1 (0.043%) MySQL
9 1 (0.043%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.043%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 61 (2.62%) JIRA
2 3 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.086%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.086%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.043%) Git
General
1 714 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 462 (19.87%) Finance
3 158 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (6.41%) Retail
5 104 (4.47%) Legal
6 103 (4.43%) Public Sector
7 101 (4.34%) Law
8 93 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 75 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 70 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (2.19%) Marketing
12 47 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 45 (1.94%) Banking
15 42 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (0.95%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.82%) Billing
19 18 (0.77%) Financial Institution
20 16 (0.69%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.43%) .NET
1 10 (0.43%) EDI
1 10 (0.43%) HTML
2 6 (0.26%) CSS
3 4 (0.17%) .NET Core
3 4 (0.17%) LDAP
3 4 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (0.17%) REST
3 4 (0.17%) XML
4 3 (0.13%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.13%) Flash
4 3 (0.13%) SAML
4 3 (0.13%) Web Services
5 2 (0.086%) ADO
5 2 (0.086%) Express.js
5 2 (0.086%) JSON
5 2 (0.086%) MERN Stack
5 2 (0.086%) Node.js
5 2 (0.086%) React
6 1 (0.043%) ERC20
Miscellaneous
1 112 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
2 108 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 64 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 36 (1.55%) Driving Licence
5 35 (1.51%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.20%) FMCG
7 24 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
8 23 (0.99%) PMI
9 19 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (0.73%) Security Posture
11 15 (0.65%) CCTV
11 15 (0.65%) Life Science
12 14 (0.60%) Product Ownership
13 13 (0.56%) LIMS
13 13 (0.56%) NHS
14 11 (0.47%) EPoS
15 9 (0.39%) Cyberattack
16 8 (0.34%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.34%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 275 (11.83%) Windows
2 143 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 43 (1.85%) Windows 10
4 38 (1.63%) Linux
5 22 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 20 (0.86%) Unix
7 19 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.30%) Windows Vista
11 6 (0.26%) Android
11 6 (0.26%) VMS
12 5 (0.22%) CentOS
13 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.043%) AIX
14 1 (0.043%) Debian
14 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (24.60%) Project Management
2 378 (16.26%) Agile
3 342 (14.71%) ITIL
4 293 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
5 285 (12.26%) Service Delivery
6 256 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 238 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
8 228 (9.81%) Project Delivery
9 207 (8.90%) ERP
10 206 (8.86%) PRINCE2
11 205 (8.82%) Risk Management
12 199 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 197 (8.47%) Change Management
14 177 (7.61%) IT Strategy
14 177 (7.61%) Waterfall
15 164 (7.05%) Service Management
16 150 (6.45%) Mentoring
17 147 (6.32%) ITSM
18 134 (5.76%) Customer Service
19 133 (5.72%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (5.76%) SQL
2 30 (1.29%) PowerShell
3 10 (0.43%) Bash
4 9 (0.39%) JavaScript
5 7 (0.30%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.17%) Java
7 3 (0.13%) Python
7 3 (0.13%) VBA
8 2 (0.086%) C#
9 1 (0.043%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.043%) Delphi
9 1 (0.043%) Go
9 1 (0.043%) Solidity
9 1 (0.043%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.043%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 277 (11.91%) Degree
2 87 (3.74%) PMI Certification
3 84 (3.61%) PMP
4 53 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
5 51 (2.19%) CISSP
6 47 (2.02%) Security Cleared
7 42 (1.81%) DBS Check
8 41 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 32 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 30 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.20%) Master's Degree
15 26 (1.12%) CISA
15 26 (1.12%) SC Cleared
16 25 (1.08%) CISM
17 21 (0.90%) CCNA
17 21 (0.90%) MCSE
18 16 (0.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 86 (3.70%) GDPR
3 79 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 72 (3.10%) SLA
5 63 (2.71%) PMO
6 49 (2.11%) QA
7 33 (1.42%) ITGC
8 24 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 23 (0.99%) GRC
10 21 (0.90%) NIST
11 14 (0.60%) GxP
12 13 (0.56%) GMP
12 13 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
12 13 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.52%) Data Quality
14 11 (0.47%) ISO 14000
14 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.43%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.39%) COBIT
System Software
1 225 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (2.45%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.47%) IAG
4 11 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.17%) pfSense
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) vSphere
8 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.43%) Terraform
3 8 (0.34%) WSUS
4 7 (0.30%) SCCM
4 7 (0.30%) SmoothWall
4 7 (0.30%) ZABBIX
5 6 (0.26%) Ansible
6 5 (0.22%) CASB
6 5 (0.22%) PaperCut
6 5 (0.22%) SCOM
7 4 (0.17%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.17%) Nessus
7 4 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.043%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.043%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.043%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.043%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 447 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 105 (4.52%) VMware
3 81 (3.48%) Cisco
4 54 (2.32%) SAP
5 37 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 35 (1.51%) Oracle
6 35 (1.51%) Veeam
7 34 (1.46%) Google
7 34 (1.46%) Sophos
8 28 (1.20%) Sage
8 28 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.12%) Apple
9 26 (1.12%) Meraki
10 23 (0.99%) Citrix
11 17 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 12 (0.52%) Dell
14 10 (0.43%) iManage
15 9 (0.39%) Anaplan
15 9 (0.39%) HubSpot