Senior Technical Manager Jobs

Senior Technical Manager
UK

The median Senior Technical Manager salary in the UK is £67,500 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 694 825 940
Rank change year-on-year +131 +115 +217
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Technical Manager 17 70 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.071% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.075% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 12 48 31
10th Percentile £49,938 £45,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,199 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £74,445 £63,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,569 £76,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% -30.00%

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 50,303 93,916 91,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.69% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,096 67,168 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £80,559
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

Senior Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Manager over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Top 8 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 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
England +97 14 £67,500 +12.50% 60
London +92 10 £69,373 +26.13% 49
UK excluding London +147 4 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Work from Home +108 2 £125,000 +138.10% 16
South East +82 2 £55,000 -12.00% 5
North of England +44 2 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire +68 1 - - 1
North West -1 1 £60,000 +20.00% 1

Senior Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Project Management
2 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
4 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (23.53%) Product Management
5 4 (23.53%) SDLC
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Law
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
6 3 (17.65%) SLA
6 3 (17.65%) CAFM
6 3 (17.65%) Facilities Management
6 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
6 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
6 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
6 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (17.65%) Tech Ops
6 3 (17.65%) Community of Practice
6 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap

Senior Technical 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Google Sheets
1 2 (11.76%) Lucidchart
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
1 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Law
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Project Management
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (23.53%) Product Management
4 4 (23.53%) SDLC
5 3 (17.65%) CAFM
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
5 3 (17.65%) Energy Management
5 3 (17.65%) Facilities Management
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) HNC
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
2 2 (11.76%) NEBOSH
2 2 (11.76%) PMO
2 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Sage
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
1 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) BMC
2 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) HP
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat