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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 485 551
Rank change year-on-year +126 +66 -29
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 276 62 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 217 48 170
10th Percentile £36,250 - £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,262 £68,568 £71,625
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -4.55%

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 66,794 29,783 70,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 89.39% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 46,262 16,960 50,193
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £35,042
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,221 £64,108
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 9 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 9 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 +44 101 £45,000 +12.50% 5
South East +13 69 £40,000 -33.33% 13
North West +45 60 £45,000 +5.88% 2
Northern Ireland -27 35 - - 1
Midlands -9 34 £50,000 +11.11% 5
West Midlands -3 29 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Yorkshire -12 27 £45,000 +12.50%
South West -48 15 £50,000 -16.41% 6
North East -34 14 £45,249 +6.47% 3
Wales -39 11 £60,000 +50.00% 1
East of England -7 10 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands -28 5 - -
Scotland +7 1 - -
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 9 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 96 (34.78%) Service Delivery
2 92 (33.33%) ITIL
3 87 (31.52%) Service Management
4 61 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (15.58%) Agile
5 43 (15.58%) ITSM
6 41 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 37 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 36 (13.04%) Project Delivery
9 35 (12.68%) Azure
9 35 (12.68%) Information Security
10 34 (12.32%) AWS
11 33 (11.96%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (11.59%) Business Continuity
13 30 (10.87%) SaaS
14 29 (10.51%) Business Continuity Management
14 29 (10.51%) CISM
14 29 (10.51%) CISSP
14 29 (10.51%) Contingency Planning
14 29 (10.51%) Contract Negotiation
14 29 (10.51%) DevOps
14 29 (10.51%) Enterprise Architecture
14 29 (10.51%) Graceful Degradation
14 29 (10.51%) ISO 22301
14 29 (10.51%) Middleware
14 29 (10.51%) NIST
14 29 (10.51%) Programme Delivery
14 29 (10.51%) Runbook
14 29 (10.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (10.51%) Test Automation

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 2 (0.72%) Confluence
1 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.68%) Azure
2 34 (12.32%) AWS
3 30 (10.87%) SaaS
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.36%) IaaS
6 1 (0.36%) OCI
6 1 (0.36%) PaaS
6 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (2.54%) JIRA
General
1 32 (11.59%) Law
2 30 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.78%) Social Skills
4 14 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.99%) Retail
6 10 (3.62%) Finance
7 7 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.51%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (2.54%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.17%) EPoS
3 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.72%) CMDB
5 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.36%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (34.78%) Service Delivery
2 92 (33.33%) ITIL
3 87 (31.52%) Service Management
4 61 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (15.58%) Agile
5 43 (15.58%) ITSM
6 41 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 37 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 36 (13.04%) Project Delivery
9 35 (12.68%) Information Security
10 32 (11.59%) Business Continuity
11 29 (10.51%) Business Continuity Management
11 29 (10.51%) Contract Negotiation
11 29 (10.51%) Enterprise Architecture
11 29 (10.51%) Graceful Degradation
11 29 (10.51%) Programme Delivery
11 29 (10.51%) Runbook
11 29 (10.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 29 (10.51%) Test Automation
11 29 (10.51%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (11.96%) ITIL Certification
2 29 (10.51%) CISM
2 29 (10.51%) CISSP
3 5 (1.81%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.45%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.51%) ISO 22301
1 29 (10.51%) NIST
2 19 (6.88%) SLA
3 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.36%) Autotask
Vendors
1 9 (3.26%) ServiceNow
2 8 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.54%) HP
4 4 (1.45%) OneLogin
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle