Senior Technical Manager Job Trends

Senior Technical Manager
UK

The median Senior Technical Manager salary in the UK is £50,000 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 622 687 705
Rank change year-on-year +65 +18 +285
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Technical Manager 29 24 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.043% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.047% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 18 19 7
10th Percentile - £48,900 £53,600
25th Percentile - £57,500 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.79% -9.38%
75th Percentile £60,313 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £65,750 £105,000 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Technical Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Technical Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Technical Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Technical Manager job vacancies in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Manager over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Manager within the UK 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
England +77 23 £50,000 -18.37% 20
UK excluding London +73 18 £50,000 -20.00% 12
Work from Home +86 14 £50,000 -27.27% 9
London +27 10 £65,000 +8.33% 13
North of England +25 4 £50,000 -20.00%
Midlands +23 3 £50,000 -50.00%
West Midlands +20 3 £50,000 -50.00%
East of England - 3 - - 3
South East +26 2 £50,000 -9.09% 6
North West +24 2 £50,000 -20.00%
Yorkshire - 2 £50,000 -
Wales - 2 £50,000 -
Scotland - 2 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
South West - 1 £50,000 - 5

Senior Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Senior Technical 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 featuring Senior Technical Manager in the job title.

1 14 (48.28%) SEO
1 14 (48.28%) Shopify
2 13 (44.83%) Screaming Frog
2 13 (44.83%) WordPress
3 10 (34.48%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) AWS
4 8 (27.59%) Project Delivery
4 8 (27.59%) User Experience
5 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (24.14%) Degree
5 7 (24.14%) JIRA
5 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
5 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.69%) B2B
6 6 (20.69%) DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Open Source
7 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
7 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
7 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (17.24%) Azure
7 5 (17.24%) Backlog Refinement
7 5 (17.24%) Bitbucket
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) CloudFront
7 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
7 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Engineering

Senior Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (44.83%) WordPress
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Shopify
2 1 (3.45%) Magento
2 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) CloudFront
2 5 (17.24%) Figma
2 5 (17.24%) Serverless
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) BigCommerce
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Smartsheet
4 1 (3.45%) Stripe
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) Bitbucket
2 5 (17.24%) Cypress.io
2 5 (17.24%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) Vite
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) International Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Jest
1 5 (17.24%) Next.js
1 5 (17.24%) React
1 5 (17.24%) Spring
1 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Virtual Team
3 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) SEO
2 10 (34.48%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) Project Delivery
3 8 (27.59%) User Experience
4 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
4 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
5 6 (20.69%) B2B
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Open Source
6 5 (17.24%) Backlog Refinement
6 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
6 5 (17.24%) Logistics
6 5 (17.24%) Micro Frontends
6 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (17.24%) Strategic Thinking
6 5 (17.24%) Technical Debt
6 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (17.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Java
1 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
1 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Developer
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.90%) PMP
4 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
1 5 (17.24%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Screaming Frog
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) PayPal