IT Manager Job Trends in Lancashire

IT Manager
North West > Lancashire

The median IT Manager salary in Lancashire is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 59 35
Rank change year-on-year -14 -24 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 21 30 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.86% 2.50% 4.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 2.60% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 21 24 21
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,500 £33,750
25th Percentile - £35,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,867 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -35.59% +8.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,400 -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,674 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.44% -6.05% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 969 1,154 417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.90% 96.01% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 313 758 303
10th Percentile £24,100 £28,000 £24,350
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -4.63% +11.11%
75th Percentile £54,793 £60,741 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £73,900
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in Lancashire

IT Manager
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in Lancashire.

Salary distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in Lancashire

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in Lancashire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in Lancashire

IT Manager
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Blackpool +4 11 £45,000 +52.54% 4
Blackburn -2 5 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Lancaster +6 3 £45,000 -25.00%
Burnley - 1 £65,000 -
IT Manager
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, 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 Lancashire region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 7 (33.33%) VLAN
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
1 7 (33.33%) LAN
1 7 (33.33%) WAN
1 7 (33.33%) VPN
2 6 (28.57%) Project Management
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
3 4 (19.05%) SD-WAN
3 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
3 4 (19.05%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (19.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (19.05%) Network Security
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Network Management
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 4 (19.05%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (19.05%) DNS
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) CCIE
3 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (19.05%) CISSP
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (19.05%) Sage

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Magento
1 1 (4.76%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
1 7 (33.33%) LAN
1 7 (33.33%) VLAN
1 7 (33.33%) VPN
1 7 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (19.05%) BGP
2 4 (19.05%) DHCP
2 4 (19.05%) DNS
2 4 (19.05%) Network Security
2 4 (19.05%) OSPF
2 4 (19.05%) SD-WAN
2 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (19.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (19.05%) ITIL
2 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
2 4 (19.05%) Network Management
2 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (19.05%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
2 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
3 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Server Management
3 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.76%) Data Security
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (4.76%) ERP
5 1 (4.76%) Internal Audit
5 1 (4.76%) IT Audit
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) CCIE
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (19.05%) CISSP
1 4 (19.05%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CISA
3 1 (4.76%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) COBIT
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) ITGC
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) Sage
2 3 (14.29%) VMware