Systems Development Manager Jobs

System Development Manager
UK

The median System Development Manager salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 899 958 1217
Rank change year-on-year +59 +259 -321
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Development Manager 15 6 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.006% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.006% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 14
10th Percentile £53,875 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - +10.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £77,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 -
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
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%

Systems Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Development Manager in the UK

Systems Development Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systems Development Manager in the UK

Systems Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Development Manager over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Development Manager in the UK

Systems Development Manager
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Development Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +113 14 £72,500 +3.57% 2
Work from Home +83 11 £75,000 +13.21%
UK excluding London -4 11 £75,000 +15.38%
South East - 8 £75,000 -
London - 4 £56,250 - 2
South West - 2 £65,000 -
Scotland -63 1 - -

Systems Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Systems Development 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 Systems Development Manager in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) SDLC
2 4 (26.67%) Business Case
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) ERP
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (13.33%) Visualfiles
3 2 (13.33%) FTP
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) MS Access
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Sage
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Data Collection
3 2 (13.33%) Agriculture
3 2 (13.33%) FileZilla
3 2 (13.33%) WhatsApp
3 2 (13.33%) LexisNexis
3 2 (13.33%) WinSCP

Systems Development 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 2 (13.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) FileZilla
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (13.33%) WhatsApp
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) FTP
1 2 (13.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MS Access
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Agriculture
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) Blazor
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Business Case
2 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (26.67%) ERP
2 4 (26.67%) SDLC
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Data Collection
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) People Management
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Coaching
4 1 (6.67%) Business Process Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Coaching
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (6.67%) Kanban
4 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.67%) User Experience
4 1 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) LexisNexis
2 2 (13.33%) Sage