Systems Manager Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

System Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median System Manager salary for remote or hybrid work is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 461 574
Rank change year-on-year +79 +113 +134
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Manager 38 125 85
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.37% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.39% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19 99 61
10th Percentile £41,200 £45,000 £44,562
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,475 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £79,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £55,800
% change year-on-year +15.38% -6.81% -7.00%

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 14,010 32,437 40,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 96.00% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,891 24,889 28,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,626
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,411
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Systems Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Systems Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Systems Manager
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Systems Manager salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Manager
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Systems Manager over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Systems Manager salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Systems 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Systems Manager in the job title.

1 13 (34.21%) Project Management
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 11 (28.95%) Data Quality
2 11 (28.95%) Decision-Making
2 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (28.95%) CRM
3 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 10 (26.32%) Agile
3 10 (26.32%) Power Platform
4 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 8 (21.05%) Salesforce
4 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 7 (18.42%) Management Information System
5 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
5 7 (18.42%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (18.42%) Project Delivery
5 7 (18.42%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (18.42%) Waterfall
5 7 (18.42%) Analytics
5 7 (18.42%) Project Governance
6 6 (15.79%) Azure
6 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (15.79%) Power BI
6 6 (15.79%) Change Management
6 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
6 6 (15.79%) ERP
7 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (13.16%) Scrum
7 5 (13.16%) Salesforce CRM

Systems Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.26%) ResourceLink
2 2 (5.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.79%) Azure
4 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) Fivetran
4 4 (10.53%) Google Analytics
4 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 4 (10.53%) Zapier
5 2 (5.26%) AWS
5 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) SSH
1 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Power BI
2 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.63%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.53%) Retail
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Publishing
5 2 (5.26%) Law
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Middleware
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.53%) Social Media
3 2 (5.26%) FMCG
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Project Management
2 11 (28.95%) CRM
2 11 (28.95%) Decision-Making
3 10 (26.32%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 7 (18.42%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (18.42%) Analytics
5 7 (18.42%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (18.42%) Project Delivery
5 7 (18.42%) Project Governance
5 7 (18.42%) Waterfall
6 6 (15.79%) Change Management
6 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (15.79%) ERP
7 5 (13.16%) Customer Service
7 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.16%) Scrum
8 4 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (10.53%) Generative AI
8 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) T-SQL
3 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (13.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (10.53%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Salesforce
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) Google
3 4 (10.53%) Xero
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 3 (7.89%) Workday
5 2 (5.26%) Cognos