Technical Manager Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Manager salary in the West Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 189 245
Rank change year-on-year +3 +56 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 11 68 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.92% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.98% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9 60 13
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,925
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile - £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,125 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,981 6,945 5,756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.14% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,810 5,217 3,269
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,485 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Birmingham +13 8 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Warwickshire -27 1 - - 3
Wolverhampton - 1 £65,000 -
Herefordshire - 1 £67,500 -
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) Work Breakdown Structure
3 3 (27.27%) Tech Ops
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (27.27%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (27.27%) Business Case
3 3 (27.27%) Data Security
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) SLA
3 3 (27.27%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) Veeam
3 3 (27.27%) SolarWinds
3 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 3 (27.27%) Change Control
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Escalation Management
3 3 (27.27%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
5 1 (9.09%) Security Posture

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Bluetooth
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
1 1 (9.09%) FlexRay
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Agriculture
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Electronics
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Infotainment
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
1 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Business Case
2 3 (27.27%) Change Control
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 3 (27.27%) Data Security
2 3 (27.27%) Escalation Management
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Tech Ops
2 3 (27.27%) Work Breakdown Structure
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
4 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) IBM
1 3 (27.27%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
1 3 (27.27%) SolarWinds
1 3 (27.27%) Veeam
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft