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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 486 505
Rank change year-on-year +118 +19 -46
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 355 53 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 270 46 84
10th Percentile £35,000 - £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -9.76% -6.82%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -1.79%

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 78,906 30,717 52,808
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.30% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 54,746 17,484 30,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +22 107 £44,447 +11.12% 9
South East +43 99 £45,000 -18.18% 13
North West +36 61 £45,000 +5.88% 6
Northern Ireland -31 54 - - 1
Midlands -10 49 £45,497 -4.22% 9
West Midlands -14 41 £45,000 -13.46% 3
Yorkshire -19 32 £43,000 +7.50% 2
South West -57 31 £65,000 +36.84% 3
North East -57 14 £44,500 +11.25% 1
East of England -18 12 £62,500 - 6
East Midlands -38 8 £50,000 +19.76% 6
Wales -68 2 £47,500 +18.75% 1
Scotland +4 1 - - 3
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 18 September 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.

1 133 (37.46%) ITIL
2 120 (33.80%) Service Delivery
2 120 (33.80%) Service Management
3 77 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 66 (18.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 62 (17.46%) Agile
6 57 (16.06%) Azure
7 55 (15.49%) AWS
7 55 (15.49%) ITSM
8 54 (15.21%) Information Security
9 53 (14.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 52 (14.65%) Business Continuity
10 52 (14.65%) ITIL Certification
11 49 (13.80%) SaaS
12 48 (13.52%) CISM
12 48 (13.52%) CISSP
12 48 (13.52%) Contingency Planning
12 48 (13.52%) Contract Negotiation
12 48 (13.52%) DevOps
12 48 (13.52%) Enterprise Architecture
12 48 (13.52%) Graceful Degradation
12 48 (13.52%) ISO 22301
12 48 (13.52%) Middleware
12 48 (13.52%) NIST
12 48 (13.52%) Runbook
12 48 (13.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 48 (13.52%) Test Automation
12 48 (13.52%) Waterfall
13 41 (11.55%) Project Delivery
14 38 (10.70%) Stakeholder 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 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 57 (16.06%) Azure
2 55 (15.49%) AWS
3 49 (13.80%) SaaS
4 12 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.28%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.28%) IaaS
7 1 (0.28%) OCI
7 1 (0.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) Firewall
1 2 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.10%) Power BI
2 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (2.82%) JIRA
General
1 47 (13.24%) Social Skills
2 37 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 33 (9.30%) Law
4 16 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (3.66%) Finance
6 11 (3.10%) Retail
7 7 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Front Office
10 2 (0.56%) Local Government
10 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.52%) Middleware
2 1 (0.28%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.52%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (1.97%) Data Centre
3 6 (1.69%) EPoS
3 6 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.13%) CMDB
6 3 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.56%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.56%) IoT
7 2 (0.56%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.28%) Life Science
8 1 (0.28%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.28%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (37.46%) ITIL
2 120 (33.80%) Service Delivery
2 120 (33.80%) Service Management
3 77 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 66 (18.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 62 (17.46%) Agile
6 55 (15.49%) ITSM
7 54 (15.21%) Information Security
8 53 (14.93%) Disaster Recovery
9 52 (14.65%) Business Continuity
10 48 (13.52%) Contingency Planning
10 48 (13.52%) Contract Negotiation
10 48 (13.52%) DevOps
10 48 (13.52%) Enterprise Architecture
10 48 (13.52%) Graceful Degradation
10 48 (13.52%) Runbook
10 48 (13.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (13.52%) Test Automation
10 48 (13.52%) Waterfall
11 41 (11.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (14.65%) ITIL Certification
2 48 (13.52%) CISM
2 48 (13.52%) CISSP
3 11 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.25%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.85%) Degree
5 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.52%) ISO 22301
1 48 (13.52%) NIST
2 27 (7.61%) SLA
3 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.56%) COBIT
4 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.28%) PMO
5 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 22 (6.20%) ServiceNow
2 16 (4.51%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.97%) HP
4 2 (0.56%) OneLogin
4 2 (0.56%) Planon
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.56%) YouTube
5 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.28%) Apple
5 1 (0.28%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle
5 1 (0.28%) Sage
5 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.28%) Splunk
5 1 (0.28%) Webroot