IT Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 201 169
Rank change year-on-year +95 -32 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 1,821 1,044 1,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.54% 1.77% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% 1.98% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,560 833 1,269
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £37,978
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,949
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £64,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,162
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.24% +4.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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 +114 579 £47,500 -9.52% 91
South East +85 431 £50,663 -11.89% 100
Midlands +61 386 £50,000 -9.09% 68
North West +106 301 £46,000 -14.81% 41
Yorkshire +97 216 £49,990 -2.46% 44
West Midlands +35 204 £54,000 -1.82% 48
South West +16 168 £49,000 -2.00% 27
East Midlands +79 167 £50,000 -11.11% 20
East of England +35 146 £50,000 -9.50% 13
Scotland -47 71 £45,000 -14.29% 19
North East +33 62 £52,500 +5.00% 11
Wales +21 36 £50,000 +11.94% 13
Northern Ireland +35 7 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
IT Manager
UK

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 561 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 428 (23.50%) Project Management
3 324 (17.79%) Microsoft
4 307 (16.86%) Microsoft 365
5 294 (16.14%) Finance
6 264 (14.50%) Agile
7 256 (14.06%) ITIL
8 238 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
9 208 (11.42%) Service Delivery
10 198 (10.87%) Azure
11 196 (10.76%) Degree
12 195 (10.71%) Windows
13 190 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 185 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
15 175 (9.61%) Active Directory
16 173 (9.50%) Project Delivery
17 162 (8.90%) ERP
18 158 (8.68%) Change Management
19 157 (8.62%) PRINCE2
20 152 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
21 149 (8.18%) Risk Management
22 146 (8.02%) Waterfall
23 130 (7.14%) Firewall
24 125 (6.86%) Mentoring
25 121 (6.64%) IT Strategy
26 114 (6.26%) SQL
27 113 (6.21%) Windows Server
28 110 (6.04%) Customer Service
29 104 (5.71%) Service Management
30 103 (5.66%) Retail

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 85 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.71%) Documentum
4 12 (0.66%) Confluence
5 10 (0.55%) WordPress
6 8 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.27%) Site Server
8 4 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.055%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.055%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.055%) IIS
11 1 (0.055%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) Totara
Applications
1 64 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.44%) Trello
5 2 (0.11%) CATIA
6 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (0.71%) TrackWise
2 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.38%) Sage 200
3 7 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.33%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.22%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.055%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.055%) Magento
7 1 (0.055%) Primavera
7 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 307 (16.86%) Microsoft 365
2 198 (10.87%) Azure
3 52 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 51 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 45 (2.47%) AWS
6 41 (2.25%) SaaS
7 21 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 20 (1.10%) GCP
9 18 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (0.71%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (0.44%) IaaS
13 7 (0.38%) Google Workspace
13 7 (0.38%) PaaS
13 7 (0.38%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.22%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.16%) Dropbox
16 3 (0.16%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 130 (7.14%) Firewall
2 59 (3.24%) WAN
3 55 (3.02%) Network Security
4 48 (2.64%) LAN
5 44 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
6 39 (2.14%) VPN
7 34 (1.87%) Wireless
8 32 (1.76%) Intranet
9 24 (1.32%) DNS
9 24 (1.32%) SAN
9 24 (1.32%) VLAN
9 24 (1.32%) VoIP
10 22 (1.21%) Internet
11 20 (1.10%) DHCP
12 17 (0.93%) TCP/IP
13 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.60%) NAS
15 10 (0.55%) WLAN
16 9 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (0.38%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.20%) Power BI
2 35 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.15%) Crystal Reports
4 7 (0.38%) DB2
5 5 (0.27%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.11%) GIS
8 1 (0.055%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.055%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (3.02%) JIRA
2 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 561 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 294 (16.14%) Finance
3 103 (5.66%) Retail
4 99 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.89%) Manufacturing
6 71 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 65 (3.57%) Law
8 57 (3.13%) Legal
9 55 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 39 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.76%) Marketing
13 24 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 14 (0.77%) Publishing
17 13 (0.71%) Billing
17 13 (0.71%) Local Government
18 10 (0.55%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.49%) HTML
2 6 (0.33%) CSS
2 6 (0.33%) EDI
3 4 (0.22%) .NET
3 4 (0.22%) .NET Core
3 4 (0.22%) XML
4 3 (0.16%) Flash
4 3 (0.16%) SAML
4 3 (0.16%) Web Services
5 2 (0.11%) JSON
5 2 (0.11%) LDAP
5 2 (0.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.11%) REST
6 1 (0.055%) Laravel
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.055%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.055%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.055%) Truffle
6 1 (0.055%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.055%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
2 87 (4.78%) Management Information System
3 36 (1.98%) Data Centre
4 32 (1.76%) Driving Licence
5 24 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.15%) PMI
7 16 (0.88%) FMCG
8 15 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (0.82%) Life Science
9 14 (0.77%) CCTV
9 14 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
10 13 (0.71%) LIMS
10 13 (0.71%) NHS
11 12 (0.66%) Product Ownership
12 9 (0.49%) Cyberattack
13 8 (0.44%) Social Media
14 7 (0.38%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.38%) CMDB
14 7 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 195 (10.71%) Windows
2 113 (6.21%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.98%) Windows 10
4 27 (1.48%) Linux
5 21 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.71%) Unix
8 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (0.33%) Android
10 6 (0.33%) VMS
11 4 (0.22%) CentOS
11 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (23.50%) Project Management
2 264 (14.50%) Agile
3 256 (14.06%) ITIL
4 238 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (11.42%) Service Delivery
6 190 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 185 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
8 173 (9.50%) Project Delivery
9 162 (8.90%) ERP
10 158 (8.68%) Change Management
11 157 (8.62%) PRINCE2
12 152 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 149 (8.18%) Risk Management
14 146 (8.02%) Waterfall
15 125 (6.86%) Mentoring
16 121 (6.64%) IT Strategy
17 110 (6.04%) Customer Service
18 104 (5.71%) Service Management
19 97 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
20 92 (5.05%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (6.26%) SQL
2 19 (1.04%) PowerShell
3 9 (0.49%) Bash
4 8 (0.44%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.16%) VBA
6 2 (0.11%) C#
7 1 (0.055%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.055%) Delphi
7 1 (0.055%) Python
7 1 (0.055%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 196 (10.76%) Degree
2 76 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 73 (4.01%) PMP
4 33 (1.81%) CISSP
4 33 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
4 33 (1.81%) Security Cleared
5 32 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 30 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 29 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 24 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 20 (1.10%) CCNA
11 19 (1.04%) SC Cleared
12 16 (0.88%) CISM
13 15 (0.82%) CCNP
13 15 (0.82%) MCSE
14 12 (0.66%) CISA
15 10 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (3.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 64 (3.51%) SLA
4 57 (3.13%) GDPR
5 40 (2.20%) PMO
6 38 (2.09%) QA
7 22 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.04%) ITGC
9 14 (0.77%) GxP
10 13 (0.71%) GMP
10 13 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
11 12 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.60%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.44%) ISO 22301
13 8 (0.44%) NIST
14 7 (0.38%) ISO 14000
15 6 (0.33%) GRC
15 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 175 (9.61%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.47%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.38%) IAG
6 4 (0.22%) pfSense
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.55%) Terraform
3 7 (0.38%) ZABBIX
4 6 (0.33%) SmoothWall
4 6 (0.33%) WSUS
5 5 (0.27%) Ansible
5 5 (0.27%) SCCM
5 5 (0.27%) SCOM
6 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.16%) Nessus
8 2 (0.11%) CASB
8 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.055%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.055%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 324 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 78 (4.28%) VMware
3 71 (3.90%) Cisco
4 34 (1.87%) ServiceNow
5 33 (1.81%) Sophos
5 33 (1.81%) Veeam
6 31 (1.70%) SAP
7 24 (1.32%) Google
7 24 (1.32%) Oracle
8 20 (1.10%) Meraki
9 18 (0.99%) Apple
9 18 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 17 (0.93%) Citrix
10 17 (0.93%) Sage
11 16 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.71%) Dell
13 10 (0.55%) Aruba
14 9 (0.49%) Anaplan
15 8 (0.44%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.44%) BT