Hybrid/Remote IT Manager Job Trends

IT Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Manager salary for remote/hybrid work is £50,001 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 180 154
Rank change year-on-year +79 -26 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 623 291 523
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.73% 1.75% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.90% 1.90% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 519 247 412
10th Percentile £39,651 £40,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £48,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,000 £66,655 £67,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,800 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +5.19% -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 21,464 15,318 23,715
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.23% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,349 9,339 17,219
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,350 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% - -8.33%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Manager' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IT Manager job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

IT Manager
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote IT Manager job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote IT Manager job vacancies

IT Manager
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

IT Manager salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 17 August 2026, IT 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 157 (25.20%) ITIL
2 138 (22.15%) Agile
3 122 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 116 (18.62%) Project Management
5 114 (18.30%) Service Delivery
6 107 (17.17%) Azure
7 105 (16.85%) Waterfall
8 102 (16.37%) Microsoft
8 102 (16.37%) Project Delivery
9 96 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 91 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 87 (13.96%) Cybersecurity
12 85 (13.64%) DevOps
13 81 (13.00%) Service Management
14 73 (11.72%) Business Continuity
14 73 (11.72%) Disaster Recovery
15 69 (11.08%) ITSM
16 68 (10.91%) Information Security
17 67 (10.75%) CRM
18 66 (10.59%) Contract Negotiation
19 65 (10.43%) PRINCE2
20 64 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
21 59 (9.47%) SaaS
22 57 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
23 55 (8.83%) ServiceNow
24 52 (8.35%) ITIL Certification
25 51 (8.19%) AWS
25 51 (8.19%) Risk Management
26 50 (8.03%) NIST
26 50 (8.03%) Runbook

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 10 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.48%) IIS
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 46 (7.38%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.48%) Trello
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 29 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (3.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.16%) Primavera
5 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 107 (17.17%) Azure
2 59 (9.47%) SaaS
3 57 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (8.19%) AWS
5 24 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 22 (3.53%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (2.25%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.48%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.32%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.32%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.16%) Datadog
11 1 (0.16%) GCP
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.16%) Serverless
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.57%) Firewall
2 9 (1.44%) WAN
3 7 (1.12%) LAN
4 6 (0.96%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.96%) VLAN
4 6 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.64%) Network Security
6 3 (0.48%) DNS
6 3 (0.48%) Intranet
6 3 (0.48%) VoIP
6 3 (0.48%) VPN
7 2 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.16%) 5G
8 1 (0.16%) Internet
8 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.57%) Power BI
2 3 (0.48%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (5.94%) JIRA
General
1 153 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.34%) Finance
3 48 (7.70%) Law
4 39 (6.26%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.33%) Banking
5 27 (4.33%) Legal
6 24 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.73%) Marketing
7 17 (2.73%) Retail
8 16 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.48%) Local Government
13 2 (0.32%) Advertising
13 2 (0.32%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.16%) French Language
14 1 (0.16%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.70%) Middleware
2 1 (0.16%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.67%) Cyber Threat
2 38 (6.10%) Driving Licence
3 30 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 25 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.96%) EPoS
8 5 (0.80%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.64%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.32%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.32%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.32%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.16%) Housing Association
12 1 (0.16%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.73%) Windows
2 5 (0.80%) Linux
3 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (25.20%) ITIL
2 138 (22.15%) Agile
3 122 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 116 (18.62%) Project Management
5 114 (18.30%) Service Delivery
6 105 (16.85%) Waterfall
7 102 (16.37%) Project Delivery
8 96 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 87 (13.96%) Cybersecurity
11 85 (13.64%) DevOps
12 81 (13.00%) Service Management
13 73 (11.72%) Business Continuity
13 73 (11.72%) Disaster Recovery
14 69 (11.08%) ITSM
15 68 (10.91%) Information Security
16 67 (10.75%) CRM
17 66 (10.59%) Contract Negotiation
18 65 (10.43%) PRINCE2
19 64 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (1.44%) SQL
2 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
3 2 (0.32%) Bash
3 2 (0.32%) PHP
3 2 (0.32%) Python
4 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (8.35%) ITIL Certification
2 48 (7.70%) CISM
2 48 (7.70%) CISSP
3 29 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.33%) Degree
4 27 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.21%) PMP
6 19 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 12 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 8 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.16%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.03%) NIST
2 48 (7.70%) ISO 22301
3 23 (3.69%) SLA
4 20 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.28%) GDPR
6 8 (1.28%) PMO
7 6 (0.96%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.80%) GRC
9 4 (0.64%) QA
10 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.32%) COBIT
11 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (4.01%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.16%) Grafana
3 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 102 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.83%) ServiceNow
3 31 (4.98%) SAP
4 27 (4.33%) Oracle
5 20 (3.21%) BMC
5 20 (3.21%) Remedy
6 12 (1.93%) Cisco
7 7 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.12%) VMware
8 5 (0.80%) Sage
9 4 (0.64%) Dell
10 3 (0.48%) Meraki
10 3 (0.48%) Veeam
11 2 (0.32%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.32%) Freshdesk
11 2 (0.32%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.32%) IFS
12 1 (0.16%) Adaptive Insights
12 1 (0.16%) Aderant
12 1 (0.16%) Intapp