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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 497 473
Rank change year-on-year +138 -24 -29
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 368 43 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 281 36 81
10th Percentile £30,750 - £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,813 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.62% -6.36% -2.20%

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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,602 30,608 47,448
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 89.75% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,718 17,467 26,033
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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
South East +44 113 £40,000 -27.27% 17
North of England +26 109 £41,500 +3.75% 10
North West +22 62 £45,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 54 - - 2
Midlands -15 45 £45,000 -5.26% 8
West Midlands -18 38 £45,000 -13.46% 2
South West -38 32 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Yorkshire -9 28 £40,000 - 6
North East -55 19 £40,000 - 3
East of England -40 9 £65,000 +36.84% 4
East Midlands -32 7 £50,000 +21.95% 6
Wales - 3 £45,000 -
Scotland - 3 £45,000 - 2
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 16 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1ITIL35.9%132
2Service Management35.3%130
3Service Delivery34.2%126
4Continuous Improvement20.1%74
5Stakeholder Engagement18.2%67
6Agile17.7%65
7Azure15.8%58
8AWS15.2%56
9ITSM14.9%55
10Information Security14.7%54
11ITIL Certification14.1%52
12Disaster Recovery13.9%51
13Business Continuity13.6%50
14DevOps13.3%49
14SaaS13.3%49
16CISM13.0%48
16CISSP13.0%48
16Contingency Planning13.0%48
16Contract Negotiation13.0%48
16Enterprise Architecture13.0%48
16Graceful Degradation13.0%48
16ISO 2230113.0%48
16Middleware13.0%48
16NIST13.0%48
16Runbook13.0%48
16Site Reliability Engineering13.0%48
16Test Automation13.0%48
16Waterfall13.0%48
29Project Delivery11.1%41
30Coaching10.3%38

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Service Manager88.3%325
2IT Services Delivery Manager15.5%57
2Service Delivery Manager15.5%57
4Senior IT Manager15.2%56
4Senior Service Manager15.2%56
6Resilience Manager14.7%54
7Service Transition Manager7.3%27
8Service Desk Manager4.9%18
9Business Development Manager3.8%14
9IT Development Manager3.8%14
11Account Manager3.3%12
12Sales Manager3.0%11
13IT Infrastructure Manager2.7%10
13IT Project Manager2.7%10
15Senior Service Delivery Manager2.4%9
16Infrastructure Services Manager2.2%8
16Service Design Manager2.2%8
18Problem Manager1.9%7
19IT Governance Manager1.6%6
19Sales Account Manager1.6%6
43 IT Services Manager jobs in the UK excluding London