Hybrid/Remote IT Manager Job Trends

IT Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Manager salary for remote/hybrid work is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 218 144
Rank change year-on-year +95 -74 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 403 245 722
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.10% 1.65% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.79% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 366 206 604
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £49,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,063 £69,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +18.81% -12.17%

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 18,056 13,657 32,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 91.98% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13,245 8,414 25,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,433 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 82 (20.35%) Project Management
2 77 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 77 (19.11%) Microsoft
3 72 (17.87%) Agile
3 72 (17.87%) Service Delivery
4 69 (17.12%) Service Management
5 68 (16.87%) ITIL
5 68 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 50 (12.41%) CRM
7 50 (12.41%) Project Delivery
8 47 (11.66%) Risk Management
9 45 (11.17%) Azure
10 42 (10.42%) PRINCE2
10 42 (10.42%) Waterfall
11 40 (9.93%) ERP
12 39 (9.68%) ITSM
13 38 (9.43%) Coaching
14 37 (9.18%) Mentoring
15 35 (8.68%) Migration
16 33 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
17 31 (7.69%) User Experience
18 29 (7.20%) Change Management
19 28 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 27 (6.70%) SAP
20 27 (6.70%) ServiceNow
21 25 (6.20%) DevOps
21 25 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
22 24 (5.96%) Security Cleared

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 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
Applications
1 31 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (4.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.17%) Azure
2 25 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 16 (3.97%) Power Automate
5 13 (3.23%) SaaS
6 7 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.99%) AWS
8 4 (0.99%) GCP
9 3 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.25%) CloudFront
11 1 (0.25%) Datadog
11 1 (0.25%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.25%) Serverless
11 1 (0.25%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.23%) Firewall
2 4 (0.99%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.99%) VLAN
2 4 (0.99%) WAN
3 3 (0.74%) DMARC
3 3 (0.74%) Network Security
3 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) 5G
4 2 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.50%) DNS
5 1 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) Intranet
5 1 (0.25%) LAN
5 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.47%) Power BI
2 3 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 97 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.87%) Finance
3 40 (9.93%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.44%) Legal
5 21 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.96%) Telecoms
7 19 (4.71%) Marketing
8 13 (3.23%) Law
9 12 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.73%) Retail
11 10 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.99%) Banking
15 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.50%) French Language
16 2 (0.50%) Police
17 1 (0.25%) General Ledger
17 1 (0.25%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.50%) CSS
1 2 (0.50%) HTML
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.95%) Data Centre
2 27 (6.70%) Driving Licence
3 26 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 18 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.99%) EPoS
9 4 (0.99%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.25%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.25%) Life Science
11 1 (0.25%) NHS
11 1 (0.25%) PMI
11 1 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.99%) Windows
2 3 (0.74%) Unix
2 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.25%) Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (20.35%) Project Management
2 77 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 72 (17.87%) Agile
3 72 (17.87%) Service Delivery
4 69 (17.12%) Service Management
5 68 (16.87%) ITIL
5 68 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 50 (12.41%) CRM
7 50 (12.41%) Project Delivery
8 47 (11.66%) Risk Management
9 42 (10.42%) PRINCE2
9 42 (10.42%) Waterfall
10 40 (9.93%) ERP
11 39 (9.68%) ITSM
12 38 (9.43%) Coaching
13 37 (9.18%) Mentoring
14 35 (8.68%) Migration
15 33 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.98%) SQL
2 3 (0.74%) Python
3 2 (0.50%) C#
3 2 (0.50%) Java
3 2 (0.50%) PHP
3 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (5.96%) Security Cleared
2 22 (5.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.47%) PMP
4 13 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.48%) Degree
6 5 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CISA
9 2 (0.50%) CISM
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (2.73%) SLA
3 9 (2.23%) GDPR
4 8 (1.99%) PMO
5 7 (1.74%) NIST
6 6 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (1.49%) QA
7 5 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.99%) GRC
8 4 (0.99%) SOC 1
9 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.74%) COBIT
9 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.25%) P3O
10 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Firmware
2 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (0.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (0.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.25%) Grafana
3 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.70%) SAP
2 27 (6.70%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.21%) Oracle
4 8 (1.99%) Cisco
5 5 (1.24%) BMC
5 5 (1.24%) Remedy
5 5 (1.24%) Sage
5 5 (1.24%) Veeam
6 3 (0.74%) Dell
6 3 (0.74%) Meraki
6 3 (0.74%) VMware
6 3 (0.74%) Workday
7 2 (0.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.50%) Google
7 2 (0.50%) iManage
7 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.50%) Xero
8 1 (0.25%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.25%) Guidewire