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 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 194 168
Rank change year-on-year +93 -26 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 1,928 1,048 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.52% 1.86% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 2.09% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,652 843 1,292
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,400 £38,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,750 £44,750
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £55,185
% change year-on-year -12.17% +4.19% +1.26%

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 72,584 50,145 71,219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.91% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,010 29,573 42,922
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +113 603 £47,500 -9.52% 82
South East +78 460 £50,500 -12.17% 69
Midlands +68 405 £50,000 -9.09% 62
North West +105 316 £47,500 -12.58% 33
Yorkshire +102 225 £50,000 - 43
West Midlands +33 214 £55,000 - 39
East Midlands +76 176 £50,000 -13.04% 23
South West +2 174 £49,000 -10.26% 17
East of England +32 157 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Scotland -47 80 £45,000 -14.29% 23
North East +24 62 £48,750 -7.14% 10
Wales +32 45 £50,000 +11.94% 4
Northern Ireland +23 7 £37,500 -6.25%
Channel Islands - 1 - -
IT Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 570 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 420 (21.78%) Project Management
3 328 (17.01%) Microsoft
4 305 (15.82%) Finance
5 304 (15.77%) Microsoft 365
6 259 (13.43%) Agile
7 257 (13.33%) ITIL
8 238 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
9 203 (10.53%) Service Delivery
10 198 (10.27%) Azure
11 194 (10.06%) Degree
12 193 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
13 191 (9.91%) Windows
14 187 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
15 174 (9.02%) Project Delivery
16 170 (8.82%) Active Directory
17 160 (8.30%) Change Management
18 159 (8.25%) ERP
19 158 (8.20%) Risk Management
20 153 (7.94%) PRINCE2
21 150 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
22 144 (7.47%) Waterfall
23 125 (6.48%) Firewall
24 122 (6.33%) IT Strategy
25 118 (6.12%) Mentoring
26 114 (5.91%) Customer Service
27 111 (5.76%) Service Management
28 110 (5.71%) SQL
28 110 (5.71%) Windows Server
29 105 (5.45%) 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 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.67%) Documentum
4 11 (0.57%) Confluence
5 10 (0.52%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) CMS
7 5 (0.26%) Site Server
8 4 (0.21%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.052%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.052%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.052%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.052%) IIS
11 1 (0.052%) Moodle
11 1 (0.052%) Totara
Applications
1 66 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.41%) Trello
5 2 (0.10%) CATIA
6 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (0.67%) TrackWise
2 9 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 7 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.31%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.21%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.16%) Shopify
8 1 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.052%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.052%) Magento
8 1 (0.052%) Maximo
8 1 (0.052%) Primavera
8 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 304 (15.77%) Microsoft 365
2 198 (10.27%) Azure
3 51 (2.65%) Power Platform
4 50 (2.59%) Entra ID
5 45 (2.33%) AWS
6 40 (2.07%) SaaS
7 22 (1.14%) OneDrive
8 19 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (0.99%) GCP
9 13 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (0.62%) PowerApps
11 8 (0.41%) IaaS
12 7 (0.36%) Google Workspace
13 6 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (0.31%) PaaS
13 6 (0.31%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.21%) Mimecast
15 3 (0.16%) Asana
15 3 (0.16%) Dropbox
15 3 (0.16%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 125 (6.48%) Firewall
2 61 (3.16%) Network Security
3 54 (2.80%) WAN
4 45 (2.33%) LAN
5 43 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
6 36 (1.87%) VPN
7 32 (1.66%) Intranet
7 32 (1.66%) Wireless
8 23 (1.19%) SAN
8 23 (1.19%) VLAN
9 22 (1.14%) DNS
10 21 (1.09%) VoIP
11 19 (0.99%) Internet
12 18 (0.93%) DHCP
13 14 (0.73%) TCP/IP
14 12 (0.62%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.57%) NAS
16 9 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
17 8 (0.41%) WLAN
18 7 (0.36%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.13%) Power BI
2 32 (1.66%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
4 7 (0.36%) DB2
5 6 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.10%) GIS
7 1 (0.052%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.052%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.052%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (2.85%) JIRA
2 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 570 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 305 (15.82%) Finance
3 105 (5.45%) Retail
4 102 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (4.56%) Manufacturing
6 70 (3.63%) Law
7 68 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 59 (3.06%) Legal
9 55 (2.85%) Telecoms
10 52 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.61%) Marketing
14 26 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 14 (0.73%) Local Government
17 14 (0.73%) Publishing
18 13 (0.67%) Billing
19 10 (0.52%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.47%) HTML
2 6 (0.31%) CSS
3 5 (0.26%) EDI
4 4 (0.21%) .NET
4 4 (0.21%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.21%) XML
5 3 (0.16%) Flash
5 3 (0.16%) SAML
5 3 (0.16%) Web Services
6 2 (0.10%) JSON
6 2 (0.10%) LDAP
6 2 (0.10%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.10%) REST
7 1 (0.052%) ADO
7 1 (0.052%) ERC20
7 1 (0.052%) Laravel
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.052%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.052%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.052%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
2 87 (4.51%) Management Information System
3 35 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 32 (1.66%) Driving Licence
5 24 (1.24%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.04%) PMI
7 19 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (0.99%) FMCG
8 14 (0.73%) CCTV
8 14 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
8 14 (0.73%) Life Science
9 13 (0.67%) LIMS
9 13 (0.67%) NHS
10 12 (0.62%) Product Ownership
11 9 (0.47%) CMDB
12 8 (0.41%) AS400
12 8 (0.41%) Cyberattack
12 8 (0.41%) iSeries
12 8 (0.41%) Social Media
13 7 (0.36%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 191 (9.91%) Windows
2 110 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.87%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.30%) Linux
5 21 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.67%) Unix
8 9 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (0.31%) Android
10 6 (0.31%) VMS
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (21.78%) Project Management
2 259 (13.43%) Agile
3 257 (13.33%) ITIL
4 238 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
5 203 (10.53%) Service Delivery
6 193 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 187 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
8 174 (9.02%) Project Delivery
9 160 (8.30%) Change Management
10 159 (8.25%) ERP
11 158 (8.20%) Risk Management
12 153 (7.94%) PRINCE2
13 150 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 144 (7.47%) Waterfall
15 122 (6.33%) IT Strategy
16 118 (6.12%) Mentoring
17 114 (5.91%) Customer Service
18 111 (5.76%) Service Management
19 102 (5.29%) ITSM
20 94 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.71%) SQL
2 17 (0.88%) PowerShell
3 8 (0.41%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.36%) Bash
5 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.16%) VBA
6 1 (0.052%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.052%) C#
6 1 (0.052%) Python
6 1 (0.052%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 194 (10.06%) Degree
2 73 (3.79%) PMI Certification
3 71 (3.68%) PMP
4 36 (1.87%) Security Cleared
5 34 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
6 33 (1.71%) CISSP
7 31 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 24 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 22 (1.14%) SC Cleared
14 21 (1.09%) CCNA
15 16 (0.83%) CCNP
16 15 (0.78%) CISM
16 15 (0.78%) MCSE
17 12 (0.62%) CISA
18 10 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 63 (3.27%) SLA
4 57 (2.96%) GDPR
5 38 (1.97%) PMO
5 38 (1.97%) QA
6 22 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.99%) ITGC
8 15 (0.78%) GxP
9 13 (0.67%) GMP
9 13 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
9 13 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.57%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.41%) ISO 22301
12 7 (0.36%) ISO 14000
12 7 (0.36%) NIST
13 6 (0.31%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 170 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.23%) Hyper-V
2 43 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.36%) IAG
5 4 (0.21%) pfSense
6 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 38 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (0.41%) Terraform
3 7 (0.36%) ZABBIX
4 5 (0.26%) SCCM
4 5 (0.26%) SCOM
4 5 (0.26%) SmoothWall
4 5 (0.26%) WSUS
5 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.16%) Ansible
6 3 (0.16%) Nessus
7 2 (0.10%) CASB
7 2 (0.10%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.052%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.052%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.052%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 328 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 75 (3.89%) VMware
3 71 (3.68%) Cisco
4 39 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 33 (1.71%) Sophos
5 33 (1.71%) Veeam
6 30 (1.56%) SAP
7 23 (1.19%) Google
8 22 (1.14%) Oracle
9 20 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 18 (0.93%) Apple
10 18 (0.93%) Meraki
11 17 (0.88%) Citrix
11 17 (0.88%) Sage
12 16 (0.83%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.67%) Dell
14 10 (0.52%) Aruba
15 8 (0.41%) Anaplan
15 8 (0.41%) BT
15 8 (0.41%) Epicor