IT Manager Jobs in Lancashire

IT Manager
North West > Lancashire

The median IT Manager salary in Lancashire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 21 52
Rank change year-on-year -120 +31 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 14 92 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.63% 6.03% 3.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 6.31% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 13 84 22
10th Percentile - £32,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,774 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.66% -42.38% +61.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £54,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £61,950 -
North West median annual salary £55,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.84% -13.64% -

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 2,079 1,457 563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 95.48% 80.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 1,150 395
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £25,970
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,438 £60,400
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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

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

Salary trend for IT Manager in Lancashire

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in Lancashire over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -30 9 £45,000 +7.72% 1
Preston -19 2 £55,000 +57.14% 5
Blackburn -31 2 £60,000 +50.00% 3
IT Manager
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 (21.43%) Project Management
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
2 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
2 2 (14.29%) Network Management
2 2 (14.29%) PMO
2 2 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (14.29%) VLAN
2 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) OSPF
2 2 (14.29%) BGP

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 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
1 1 (7.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) BGP
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
1 2 (14.29%) OSPF
1 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (14.29%) VLAN
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 2 (14.29%) Network Management
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
2 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
2 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (7.14%) ERP
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (14.29%) CCIE
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (14.29%) CISSP
1 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 2 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Sage