IT Services Manager Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IT Service Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Service Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 498 496
Rank change year-on-year +158 -2 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 321 54 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.16% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.18% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 237 44 159
10th Percentile £35,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £56,000 £57,878 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £43,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -16.67% -5.37%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 70,658 30,652 59,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 89.58% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 48,894 17,631 40,396
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,759 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

IT Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Services Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

IT Services Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for IT Services Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for IT Services Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services 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 Services Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 July 2026. 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 +48 97 £45,000 +12.50% 6
South East +28 79 £40,000 -31.62% 12
North West +48 57 £45,000 +5.88% 5
Northern Ireland -18 54 - -
Midlands -14 40 £45,000 +9.76%
West Midlands +6 35 £45,000 +2.86%
South West -38 27 £65,000 +36.84% 8
Yorkshire -12 26 £44,447 +11.12%
East of England -4 16 £53,750 - 4
North East -39 14 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Wales -51 8 £60,000 +50.00%
East Midlands -23 5 - -
IT Services Manager
UK

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 July 2026, IT Services Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Services Manager in the job title.

1 116 (36.14%) ITIL
2 110 (34.27%) Service Delivery
3 94 (29.28%) Service Management
4 64 (19.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 63 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (18.69%) Agile
7 56 (17.45%) Azure
8 54 (16.82%) AWS
8 54 (16.82%) Information Security
9 51 (15.89%) Business Continuity
9 51 (15.89%) ITIL Certification
9 51 (15.89%) ITSM
10 50 (15.58%) Disaster Recovery
11 49 (15.26%) SaaS
12 48 (14.95%) CISM
12 48 (14.95%) CISSP
12 48 (14.95%) Contingency Planning
12 48 (14.95%) Contract Negotiation
12 48 (14.95%) DevOps
12 48 (14.95%) Enterprise Architecture
12 48 (14.95%) Graceful Degradation
12 48 (14.95%) ISO 22301
12 48 (14.95%) Middleware
12 48 (14.95%) NIST
12 48 (14.95%) Runbook
12 48 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 48 (14.95%) Test Automation
12 48 (14.95%) Waterfall
13 39 (12.15%) Project Delivery
14 29 (9.03%) Business Continuity Management

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.45%) Azure
2 54 (16.82%) AWS
3 49 (15.26%) SaaS
4 6 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.31%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.31%) IaaS
6 1 (0.31%) OCI
6 1 (0.31%) PaaS
6 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (2.49%) JIRA
General
1 36 (11.21%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.28%) Law
3 27 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (3.43%) Retail
6 10 (3.12%) Finance
7 6 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.62%) Front Office
8 2 (0.62%) Marketing
8 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.31%) Local Government
9 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.95%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (2.18%) Data Centre
3 6 (1.87%) EPoS
4 5 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.62%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.62%) CMDB
6 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.31%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.31%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (36.14%) ITIL
2 110 (34.27%) Service Delivery
3 94 (29.28%) Service Management
4 64 (19.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 63 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (18.69%) Agile
7 54 (16.82%) Information Security
8 51 (15.89%) Business Continuity
8 51 (15.89%) ITSM
9 50 (15.58%) Disaster Recovery
10 48 (14.95%) Contingency Planning
10 48 (14.95%) Contract Negotiation
10 48 (14.95%) DevOps
10 48 (14.95%) Enterprise Architecture
10 48 (14.95%) Graceful Degradation
10 48 (14.95%) Runbook
10 48 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (14.95%) Test Automation
10 48 (14.95%) Waterfall
11 39 (12.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (15.89%) ITIL Certification
2 48 (14.95%) CISM
2 48 (14.95%) CISSP
3 7 (2.18%) DBS Check
4 6 (1.87%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.95%) ISO 22301
1 48 (14.95%) NIST
2 24 (7.48%) SLA
3 2 (0.62%) COBIT
3 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.31%) Autotask
2 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (3.43%) ServiceNow
2 10 (3.12%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.18%) HP
4 2 (0.62%) OneLogin
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle
5 1 (0.31%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.31%) Apple
5 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.31%) Sage
5 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.31%) Splunk