IT Director Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Director of IT
UK > Work from Home

The median Director of IT salary for remote or hybrid work is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 572 650
Rank change year-on-year +147 +78 +155
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Director 2 24 22
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.012% 0.071% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.074% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 1 21 20
10th Percentile - £57,500 £75,000
25th Percentile - £87,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile - £145,000 £146,875
90th Percentile - - £156,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £88,560 £98,750
% change year-on-year +18.56% -10.32% +1.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,931 32,439 40,397
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 96.00% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9,881 24,904 28,685
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,127 £36,668
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,359 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -9.83% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,175 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

IT Director
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured IT Director in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Director trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IT Director
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Director.

IT Director salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, IT Director 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring IT Director in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection

IT Director Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) VMware