Senior IT Manager
UK

The median Senior IT Manager salary in the UK is £57,965 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 842 948
Rank change year-on-year +118 +106 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Manager 160 117 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 121 83 161
10th Percentile £40,988 £47,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,045 £53,616
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Manager over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +139 145 £57,965 -10.82% 22
UK excluding London +39 112 £57,500 - 12
Work from Home +102 81 £57,965 -15.69% 9
North of England +87 56 £57,965 +10.41% 4
London +111 38 £82,500 +0.61% 12
North West - 25 £57,965 - 4
Yorkshire +81 16 £41,774 -25.74%
West Midlands +21 16 £56,250 -16.67% 2
South East +10 16 £65,000 +34.08% 4
Midlands -6 16 £56,250 -19.64% 2
North East +4 15 £57,965 +10.41%
East of England +12 12 £55,000 -15.38%
South West -15 7 £47,657 -9.23%
Wales +15 2 - -
Scotland -59 2 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior IT Manager in the job title.

1 48 (30.00%) Finance
1 48 (30.00%) Agile
2 46 (28.75%) Mentoring
3 44 (27.50%) Social Skills
4 42 (26.25%) Project Management
4 42 (26.25%) ITIL
5 37 (23.13%) Risk Management
5 37 (23.13%) Coaching
6 34 (21.25%) Project Delivery
7 32 (20.00%) Degree
8 30 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (16.25%) Microsoft
10 25 (15.63%) Service Management
10 25 (15.63%) ITSM
10 25 (15.63%) Waterfall
11 24 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
14 21 (13.13%) PRINCE2
15 20 (12.50%) Change Management
15 20 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (11.88%) Service Delivery
16 19 (11.88%) Line Management
17 18 (11.25%) Scrum
17 18 (11.25%) Roadmaps
18 17 (10.63%) Budget Management
19 16 (10.00%) CRM
19 16 (10.00%) Azure
20 15 (9.38%) Programme Management
21 14 (8.75%) Strategic Thinking

Senior IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.50%) Site Server
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.00%) Azure
2 14 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.63%) AWS
5 6 (3.75%) SaaS
6 5 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.50%) GCP
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) Firewall
2 3 (1.88%) LAN
3 2 (1.25%) DNS
3 2 (1.25%) VLAN
3 2 (1.25%) WAN
3 2 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.25%) Wireless
3 2 (1.25%) WLAN
4 1 (0.63%) DHCP
4 1 (0.63%) Extranet
4 1 (0.63%) MPLS
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.63%) SAN
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.75%) Power BI
1 6 (3.75%) SAP HANA
1 6 (3.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.38%) JIRA
2 2 (1.25%) Eclipse
General
1 48 (30.00%) Finance
2 44 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (7.50%) Publishing
6 11 (6.88%) Legal
7 9 (5.63%) Billing
7 9 (5.63%) Retail
8 8 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.38%) Law
9 7 (4.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.13%) Aerospace
11 5 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
11 5 (3.13%) Military
12 2 (1.25%) Games
12 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.00%) PMI
3 6 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.88%) PKI
5 3 (1.88%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.63%) IoT
6 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.50%) Windows
3 3 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.00%) Agile
2 46 (28.75%) Mentoring
3 42 (26.25%) ITIL
3 42 (26.25%) Project Management
4 37 (23.13%) Coaching
4 37 (23.13%) Risk Management
5 34 (21.25%) Project Delivery
6 30 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (15.63%) ITSM
7 25 (15.63%) Service Management
7 25 (15.63%) Waterfall
8 24 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (13.13%) PRINCE2
11 20 (12.50%) Change Management
12 19 (11.88%) Line Management
12 19 (11.88%) Service Delivery
13 18 (11.25%) Roadmaps
13 18 (11.25%) Scrum
14 17 (10.63%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (20.00%) Degree
2 13 (8.13%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.38%) PMP
4 5 (3.13%) CISSP
4 5 (3.13%) Postgraduate
4 5 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 5 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.88%) CCSK
6 3 (1.88%) CCSP
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.25%) CISA
7 2 (1.25%) CISM
7 2 (1.25%) ISACA
7 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) MBA
8 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.13%) GDPR
2 6 (3.75%) NIST
3 5 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.88%) COBIT
4 3 (1.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.88%) PMO
5 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 11 (6.88%) IAG
2 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.88%) CASB
2 2 (1.25%) SmoothWall
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.50%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.00%) SAP
4 5 (3.13%) Automation Anywhere
4 5 (3.13%) CheckPoint
4 5 (3.13%) iManage
5 4 (2.50%) Apple
5 4 (2.50%) VMware
6 3 (1.88%) Netskope
6 3 (1.88%) Symantec
6 3 (1.88%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.25%) Aruba
7 2 (1.25%) Oracle
7 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) JDA
8 1 (0.63%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (0.63%) Veeam