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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 198 171
Rank change year-on-year +96 -27 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 1,919 1,039 1,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.53% 1.84% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 2.07% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,641 836 1,281
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,313 £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 £55,140
% change year-on-year -12.17% +4.28% +3.06%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 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 1 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 +127 602 £47,500 -9.52% 81
South East +67 459 £50,500 -12.17% 64
Midlands +66 405 £50,000 -9.09% 60
North West +113 315 £47,500 -12.71% 31
Yorkshire +98 225 £50,000 - 44
West Midlands +30 214 £54,825 -0.32% 39
East Midlands +75 176 £50,000 -13.04% 21
South West +6 173 £49,000 -8.50% 15
East of England +37 154 £50,000 -9.09% 28
Scotland -39 78 £45,000 -14.29% 24
North East +27 62 £48,750 -7.14% 10
Wales +31 44 £50,000 +11.94% 4
Northern Ireland +25 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 1 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 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 417 (21.73%) Project Management
3 329 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 305 (15.89%) Microsoft 365
5 303 (15.79%) Finance
6 260 (13.55%) ITIL
7 257 (13.39%) Agile
8 239 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (10.79%) Service Delivery
10 199 (10.37%) Azure
11 194 (10.11%) Degree
12 191 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 191 (9.95%) Windows
13 189 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
14 171 (8.91%) Project Delivery
14 171 (8.91%) Active Directory
15 160 (8.34%) ERP
16 158 (8.23%) Change Management
17 157 (8.18%) Risk Management
18 152 (7.92%) PRINCE2
18 152 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 142 (7.40%) Waterfall
20 126 (6.57%) Firewall
21 122 (6.36%) IT Strategy
22 120 (6.25%) Mentoring
23 114 (5.94%) Customer Service
24 110 (5.73%) Windows Server
24 110 (5.73%) Service Management
24 110 (5.73%) SQL
25 105 (5.47%) 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 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.68%) 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 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.42%) Trello
5 2 (0.10%) CATIA
6 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (0.68%) TrackWise
2 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Sage 200
3 7 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.31%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.21%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.052%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.052%) Magento
7 1 (0.052%) Maximo
7 1 (0.052%) Primavera
7 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (15.89%) Microsoft 365
2 199 (10.37%) Azure
3 51 (2.66%) Power Platform
4 50 (2.61%) Entra ID
5 45 (2.34%) AWS
6 40 (2.08%) SaaS
7 22 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 19 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (0.99%) GCP
9 13 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (0.63%) PowerApps
11 8 (0.42%) 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
1 126 (6.57%) Firewall
2 61 (3.18%) Network Security
3 56 (2.92%) WAN
4 45 (2.34%) LAN
5 44 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
6 36 (1.88%) VPN
7 32 (1.67%) Intranet
7 32 (1.67%) Wireless
8 24 (1.25%) SAN
9 23 (1.20%) VLAN
10 22 (1.15%) DNS
11 21 (1.09%) VoIP
12 19 (0.99%) Internet
13 18 (0.94%) DHCP
14 15 (0.78%) TCP/IP
15 13 (0.68%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.57%) NAS
17 9 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.42%) WLAN
19 7 (0.36%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.14%) Power BI
2 32 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.15%) 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 (2.87%) JIRA
2 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 570 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 303 (15.79%) Finance
3 105 (5.47%) Retail
4 102 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.64%) Manufacturing
6 69 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 68 (3.54%) Law
8 57 (2.97%) Legal
9 55 (2.87%) Telecoms
10 52 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.62%) Marketing
14 26 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (0.89%) Aerospace
17 14 (0.73%) Local Government
17 14 (0.73%) Publishing
18 13 (0.68%) 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 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
2 86 (4.48%) Management Information System
3 35 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 32 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 24 (1.25%) 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 (0.68%) LIMS
9 13 (0.68%) NHS
10 12 (0.63%) Product Ownership
11 9 (0.47%) CMDB
12 8 (0.42%) Cyberattack
12 8 (0.42%) Social Media
13 7 (0.36%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.36%) iSeries
13 7 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 191 (9.95%) Windows
2 110 (5.73%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.88%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.30%) Linux
5 21 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (0.68%) 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
1 417 (21.73%) Project Management
2 260 (13.55%) ITIL
3 257 (13.39%) Agile
4 239 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
5 207 (10.79%) Service Delivery
6 191 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
8 171 (8.91%) Project Delivery
9 160 (8.34%) ERP
10 158 (8.23%) Change Management
11 157 (8.18%) Risk Management
12 152 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 152 (7.92%) PRINCE2
13 142 (7.40%) Waterfall
14 122 (6.36%) IT Strategy
15 120 (6.25%) Mentoring
16 114 (5.94%) Customer Service
17 110 (5.73%) Service Management
18 102 (5.32%) ITSM
19 94 (4.90%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.73%) SQL
2 17 (0.89%) PowerShell
3 8 (0.42%) 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 (10.11%) Degree
2 73 (3.80%) PMI Certification
3 71 (3.70%) PMP
4 37 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
5 35 (1.82%) Security Cleared
6 33 (1.72%) CISSP
7 31 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 24 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 21 (1.09%) CCNA
13 21 (1.09%) SC Cleared
14 16 (0.83%) CCNP
15 15 (0.78%) CISM
15 15 (0.78%) MCSE
16 12 (0.63%) CISA
17 10 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 64 (3.34%) SLA
4 57 (2.97%) GDPR
5 38 (1.98%) QA
6 37 (1.93%) PMO
7 22 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.99%) ITGC
9 15 (0.78%) GxP
10 13 (0.68%) GMP
10 13 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
10 13 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.57%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.42%) ISO 22301
13 7 (0.36%) ISO 14000
13 7 (0.36%) NIST
14 6 (0.31%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 171 (8.91%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.29%) Hyper-V
3 43 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.36%) IAG
6 4 (0.21%) pfSense
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 38 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (0.42%) 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%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.052%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.052%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 329 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 76 (3.96%) VMware
3 71 (3.70%) Cisco
4 39 (2.03%) ServiceNow
5 33 (1.72%) Sophos
5 33 (1.72%) Veeam
6 30 (1.56%) SAP
7 23 (1.20%) Google
8 22 (1.15%) Oracle
9 19 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 18 (0.94%) Apple
10 18 (0.94%) Meraki
11 17 (0.89%) Citrix
11 17 (0.89%) Sage
12 16 (0.83%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.68%) Dell
14 10 (0.52%) Aruba
15 8 (0.42%) Anaplan
15 8 (0.42%) BT
15 8 (0.42%) Epicor