IT Manager Jobs in England

IT Manager
UK > England

The median IT Manager salary in England is £50,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 218 230
Rank change year-on-year +108 +12 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 2,126 1,513 2,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.46% 1.72% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 1.87% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,819 1,225 1,919
10th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +3.60% +4.72%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £55,140
% change year-on-year -12.17% +4.28% +4.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in England

IT Manager
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in England.

Salary trend for IT Manager in England

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in England

IT Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
North of England +120 579 £47,500 -9.52% 85
South East +80 429 £50,500 -12.17% 86
London +45 411 £63,132 -2.87% 99
Midlands +71 390 £50,000 -9.09% 59
North West +117 300 £46,000 -12.38% 38
Yorkshire +104 217 £49,990 -4.78% 42
West Midlands +36 205 £54,000 -1.82% 42
East Midlands +85 170 £50,000 -13.04% 17
South West +13 168 £49,500 -1.00% 22
East of England +36 146 £50,000 -9.91% 14
North East +28 62 £52,500 +5.00% 10
IT Manager
UK

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, IT 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 England region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 632 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 510 (23.99%) Project Management
3 413 (19.43%) Microsoft
4 407 (19.14%) Finance
5 347 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
6 332 (15.62%) Agile
7 320 (15.05%) ITIL
8 263 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
9 262 (12.32%) Azure
10 241 (11.34%) Service Delivery
11 240 (11.29%) Degree
12 229 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 228 (10.72%) Windows
14 212 (9.97%) Project Delivery
15 211 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
16 194 (9.13%) ERP
16 194 (9.13%) Active Directory
17 192 (9.03%) Risk Management
18 187 (8.80%) PRINCE2
19 186 (8.75%) Change Management
20 169 (7.95%) Waterfall
21 161 (7.57%) Service Management
22 155 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
23 139 (6.54%) Mentoring
24 138 (6.49%) Firewall
25 136 (6.40%) IT Strategy
26 135 (6.35%) ITSM
27 134 (6.30%) Retail
28 132 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
29 127 (5.97%) Line Management

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 92 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.71%) Confluence
4 13 (0.61%) Documentum
5 12 (0.56%) WordPress
6 9 (0.42%) CMS
7 5 (0.24%) Site Server
8 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.19%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.047%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.047%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.047%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.047%) IIS
10 1 (0.047%) Moodle
10 1 (0.047%) Totara
Applications
1 73 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.38%) Trello
5 2 (0.094%) CATIA
6 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 13 (0.61%) TrackWise
2 8 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.33%) Sage 200
3 7 (0.33%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.33%) Shopify
4 6 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.19%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.047%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.047%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.047%) Magento
7 1 (0.047%) Primavera
7 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.047%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 347 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
2 262 (12.32%) Azure
3 65 (3.06%) AWS
4 63 (2.96%) Power Platform
5 52 (2.45%) Entra ID
6 48 (2.26%) SaaS
7 31 (1.46%) GCP
8 27 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (0.99%) OneDrive
10 16 (0.75%) IaaS
10 16 (0.75%) WhatsApp
11 15 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (0.71%) PaaS
12 13 (0.61%) PowerApps
13 11 (0.52%) Google Workspace
14 6 (0.28%) Dropbox
14 6 (0.28%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.24%) Azure Pipelines
16 4 (0.19%) CloudFront
16 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.49%) Firewall
2 71 (3.34%) WAN
3 60 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
4 59 (2.78%) LAN
5 51 (2.40%) Network Security
6 39 (1.83%) DNS
7 37 (1.74%) VPN
8 33 (1.55%) Intranet
9 32 (1.51%) VLAN
10 31 (1.46%) DHCP
11 30 (1.41%) Wireless
12 27 (1.27%) TCP/IP
13 24 (1.13%) SAN
14 20 (0.94%) Internet
15 19 (0.89%) VoIP
16 13 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 10 (0.47%) NAS
17 10 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
17 10 (0.47%) WLAN
18 7 (0.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.35%) Power BI
2 45 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 21 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.28%) DB2
4 6 (0.28%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.28%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.094%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.047%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.047%) GIS
8 1 (0.047%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 61 (2.87%) JIRA
2 3 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.094%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 632 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 407 (19.14%) Finance
3 134 (6.30%) Retail
4 132 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (4.47%) Law
6 93 (4.37%) Legal
7 85 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 83 (3.90%) Manufacturing
9 62 (2.92%) Telecoms
10 58 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.07%) Banking
12 44 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 42 (1.98%) Marketing
14 38 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.03%) Aerospace
17 17 (0.80%) Billing
17 17 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.66%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.47%) EDI
1 10 (0.47%) HTML
2 9 (0.42%) .NET
3 6 (0.28%) CSS
4 4 (0.19%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.19%) LDAP
4 4 (0.19%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.19%) REST
4 4 (0.19%) XML
5 3 (0.14%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.14%) Flash
5 3 (0.14%) Web Services
6 2 (0.094%) ADO
6 2 (0.094%) Express.js
6 2 (0.094%) JSON
6 2 (0.094%) MERN Stack
6 2 (0.094%) Node.js
6 2 (0.094%) React
7 1 (0.047%) Laravel
7 1 (0.047%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 109 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
2 101 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 60 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 31 (1.46%) Driving Licence
4 31 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 28 (1.32%) FMCG
6 20 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
7 16 (0.75%) PMI
8 15 (0.71%) CCTV
8 15 (0.71%) Life Science
8 15 (0.71%) Security Posture
9 14 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (0.61%) LIMS
10 13 (0.61%) NHS
11 12 (0.56%) Product Ownership
12 11 (0.52%) EPoS
13 9 (0.42%) CMDB
13 9 (0.42%) Cyberattack
14 8 (0.38%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 228 (10.72%) Windows
2 113 (5.32%) Windows Server
3 43 (2.02%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.18%) Linux
5 19 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 19 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (0.56%) Unix
7 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.28%) Android
10 6 (0.28%) VMS
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (23.99%) Project Management
2 332 (15.62%) Agile
3 320 (15.05%) ITIL
4 263 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
5 241 (11.34%) Service Delivery
6 229 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 212 (9.97%) Project Delivery
8 211 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
9 194 (9.13%) ERP
10 192 (9.03%) Risk Management
11 187 (8.80%) PRINCE2
12 186 (8.75%) Change Management
13 169 (7.95%) Waterfall
14 161 (7.57%) Service Management
15 155 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 139 (6.54%) Mentoring
17 136 (6.40%) IT Strategy
18 135 (6.35%) ITSM
19 127 (5.97%) Line Management
20 123 (5.79%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 122 (5.74%) SQL
2 24 (1.13%) PowerShell
3 8 (0.38%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
5 5 (0.24%) Bash
6 3 (0.14%) Java
6 3 (0.14%) Python
6 3 (0.14%) VBA
7 2 (0.094%) C#
8 1 (0.047%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.047%) Delphi
8 1 (0.047%) Solidity
8 1 (0.047%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 240 (11.29%) Degree
2 76 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 75 (3.53%) PMP
4 48 (2.26%) CISSP
4 48 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
5 44 (2.07%) Security Cleared
6 42 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (1.98%) DBS Check
7 38 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 32 (1.51%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 25 (1.18%) SC Cleared
12 21 (0.99%) CCNA
12 21 (0.99%) MCSE
13 20 (0.94%) CISM
14 15 (0.71%) CCNP
15 14 (0.66%) CISA
16 13 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (3.86%) GDPR
1 82 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (3.29%) SLA
3 69 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 50 (2.35%) PMO
4 50 (2.35%) QA
5 24 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.13%) ITGC
6 20 (0.94%) GRC
7 18 (0.85%) NIST
8 14 (0.66%) GxP
9 13 (0.61%) GMP
9 13 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
9 13 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.52%) ISO 14000
10 11 (0.52%) ISO 22301
11 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 194 (9.13%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.33%) IAG
5 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.19%) pfSense
7 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.14%) vSphere
9 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 56 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (0.38%) WSUS
3 7 (0.33%) SmoothWall
4 6 (0.28%) SCCM
5 5 (0.24%) CASB
5 5 (0.24%) PaperCut
5 5 (0.24%) SCOM
5 5 (0.24%) Terraform
6 4 (0.19%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.047%) Ansible
8 1 (0.047%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.047%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.047%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.047%) SafeCom
8 1 (0.047%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 413 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 98 (4.61%) VMware
3 70 (3.29%) Cisco
4 44 (2.07%) SAP
5 39 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 35 (1.65%) Veeam
7 34 (1.60%) Google
8 33 (1.55%) Sophos
9 26 (1.22%) Apple
10 24 (1.13%) Meraki
11 23 (1.08%) Citrix
11 23 (1.08%) Oracle
11 23 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 21 (0.99%) Sage
13 14 (0.66%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.56%) Dell
16 9 (0.42%) iManage
17 8 (0.38%) Anaplan
17 8 (0.38%) AppDynamics