IT Manager
UK

The median IT Manager salary in the UK is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 223 243
Rank change year-on-year +100 +20 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 2,306 1,700 2,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.34% 1.64% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 1.79% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,962 1,372 2,086
10th Percentile £34,750 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £40,988 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IT Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Manager.

Salary trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 May 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
England +110 2,120 £51,000 -11.78% 333
UK excluding London +95 1,801 £50,000 -9.09% 270
Work from Home +44 719 £55,000 -7.72% 115
North of England +125 570 £47,500 -9.52% 81
South East +72 426 £51,000 -11.30% 65
London +43 421 £65,000 - 81
Midlands +71 386 £50,000 -9.09% 58
North West +114 297 £46,000 -12.38% 38
Yorkshire +113 210 £49,990 -0.02% 38
West Midlands +31 203 £54,650 -0.64% 42
East Midlands +81 168 £50,000 -9.09% 16
South West +27 168 £49,000 -2.00% 26
East of England +46 147 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Scotland -44 68 £45,000 -16.28% 19
North East +27 63 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Wales +23 33 £50,000 +11.94% 10
Northern Ireland +39 7 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 723 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 582 (25.24%) Project Management
3 465 (20.16%) Finance
4 449 (19.47%) Microsoft
5 397 (17.22%) Microsoft 365
6 386 (16.74%) Agile
7 341 (14.79%) ITIL
8 291 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
9 287 (12.45%) Azure
10 285 (12.36%) Service Delivery
11 277 (12.01%) Windows
11 277 (12.01%) Degree
12 260 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 237 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
14 234 (10.15%) Project Delivery
15 225 (9.76%) Active Directory
16 208 (9.02%) PRINCE2
17 207 (8.98%) ERP
18 206 (8.93%) Risk Management
19 199 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
20 198 (8.59%) Change Management
21 182 (7.89%) Waterfall
22 176 (7.63%) IT Strategy
23 163 (7.07%) Service Management
24 161 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
25 150 (6.50%) Firewall
26 148 (6.42%) Mentoring
27 147 (6.37%) ITSM
27 147 (6.37%) Retail
28 144 (6.24%) Windows Server

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 98 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.74%) Confluence
4 13 (0.56%) Documentum
5 12 (0.52%) WordPress
6 7 (0.30%) CMS
7 5 (0.22%) Site Server
8 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.17%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.043%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.043%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.043%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.043%) IIS
10 1 (0.043%) Moodle
10 1 (0.043%) Totara
Applications
1 79 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.35%) Trello
5 2 (0.087%) CATIA
6 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.043%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
3 13 (0.56%) TrackWise
4 8 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 7 (0.30%) SAP Business One
5 7 (0.30%) Shopify
6 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.17%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.043%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.043%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.043%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.043%) Epicor Tropos
9 1 (0.043%) Magento
9 1 (0.043%) Primavera
9 1 (0.043%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.043%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 397 (17.22%) Microsoft 365
2 287 (12.45%) Azure
3 70 (3.04%) Power Platform
4 68 (2.95%) AWS
5 67 (2.91%) Entra ID
6 56 (2.43%) SaaS
7 32 (1.39%) GCP
8 26 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (0.87%) OneDrive
10 17 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (0.74%) IaaS
11 16 (0.69%) PaaS
12 15 (0.65%) PowerApps
12 15 (0.65%) WhatsApp
13 11 (0.48%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (0.26%) Dropbox
15 6 (0.26%) Mimecast
16 5 (0.22%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 150 (6.50%) Firewall
2 71 (3.08%) WAN
3 64 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
4 62 (2.69%) LAN
5 52 (2.25%) Network Security
6 40 (1.73%) DNS
6 40 (1.73%) VPN
7 37 (1.60%) Wireless
8 34 (1.47%) Intranet
8 34 (1.47%) VLAN
9 32 (1.39%) DHCP
10 30 (1.30%) SAN
10 30 (1.30%) TCP/IP
11 29 (1.26%) VoIP
12 27 (1.17%) Internet
13 17 (0.74%) NAS
14 13 (0.56%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
15 10 (0.43%) WLAN
16 7 (0.30%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (2.43%) Power BI
2 50 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 21 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
4 14 (0.61%) DB2
5 8 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.26%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.087%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.087%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.043%) GIS
10 1 (0.043%) MySQL
10 1 (0.043%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.043%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 62 (2.69%) JIRA
2 3 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.087%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.043%) Git
General
1 723 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 465 (20.16%) Finance
3 161 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (6.37%) Retail
5 107 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 102 (4.42%) Legal
7 101 (4.38%) Law
8 90 (3.90%) Manufacturing
9 75 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 75 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 50 (2.17%) Marketing
11 47 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 46 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (1.91%) Banking
14 40 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.82%) Billing
18 18 (0.78%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.65%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (0.48%) EDI
2 10 (0.43%) .NET
2 10 (0.43%) HTML
3 6 (0.26%) CSS
4 4 (0.17%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.17%) LDAP
4 4 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.17%) REST
4 4 (0.17%) XML
5 3 (0.13%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.13%) Flash
5 3 (0.13%) SAML
5 3 (0.13%) Web Services
6 2 (0.087%) ADO
6 2 (0.087%) Express.js
6 2 (0.087%) JSON
6 2 (0.087%) MERN Stack
6 2 (0.087%) Node.js
6 2 (0.087%) React
7 1 (0.043%) ERC20
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
2 108 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 65 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 38 (1.65%) Driving Licence
5 36 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.13%) FMCG
7 24 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
8 23 (1.00%) PMI
9 19 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (0.78%) Security Posture
11 15 (0.65%) CCTV
11 15 (0.65%) Life Science
12 14 (0.61%) Product Ownership
13 13 (0.56%) LIMS
13 13 (0.56%) NHS
14 11 (0.48%) EPoS
15 10 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 9 (0.39%) Cyberattack
16 9 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
17 8 (0.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 277 (12.01%) Windows
2 144 (6.24%) Windows Server
3 43 (1.86%) Windows 10
4 39 (1.69%) Linux
5 22 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 21 (0.91%) Unix
7 19 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.30%) Windows Vista
11 6 (0.26%) Android
11 6 (0.26%) VMS
12 5 (0.22%) CentOS
13 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.043%) AIX
14 1 (0.043%) Debian
14 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (25.24%) Project Management
2 386 (16.74%) Agile
3 341 (14.79%) ITIL
4 291 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
5 285 (12.36%) Service Delivery
6 260 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 237 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
8 234 (10.15%) Project Delivery
9 208 (9.02%) PRINCE2
10 207 (8.98%) ERP
11 206 (8.93%) Risk Management
12 199 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 198 (8.59%) Change Management
14 182 (7.89%) Waterfall
15 176 (7.63%) IT Strategy
16 163 (7.07%) Service Management
17 148 (6.42%) Mentoring
18 147 (6.37%) ITSM
19 135 (5.85%) Customer Service
20 133 (5.77%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (5.85%) SQL
2 30 (1.30%) PowerShell
3 10 (0.43%) Bash
4 9 (0.39%) JavaScript
5 7 (0.30%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.17%) Java
7 3 (0.13%) Python
7 3 (0.13%) VBA
8 2 (0.087%) C#
9 1 (0.043%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.043%) Delphi
9 1 (0.043%) Go
9 1 (0.043%) Solidity
9 1 (0.043%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.043%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 277 (12.01%) Degree
2 88 (3.82%) PMI Certification
3 85 (3.69%) PMP
4 53 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
5 52 (2.25%) CISSP
6 45 (1.95%) Security Cleared
7 44 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 39 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 31 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 29 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (1.21%) CISA
14 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
15 26 (1.13%) CISM
15 26 (1.13%) SC Cleared
16 21 (0.91%) MCSE
17 20 (0.87%) CCNA
18 16 (0.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 84 (3.64%) GDPR
3 77 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 73 (3.17%) SLA
5 62 (2.69%) PMO
6 48 (2.08%) QA
7 34 (1.47%) ITGC
8 24 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 24 (1.04%) GRC
9 21 (0.91%) NIST
10 14 (0.61%) GxP
11 13 (0.56%) GMP
11 13 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
11 13 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.52%) Data Quality
13 11 (0.48%) ISO 14000
13 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.43%) COBIT
14 10 (0.43%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 225 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (2.52%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.48%) IAG
4 11 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.17%) pfSense
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.13%) vSphere
8 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 58 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.43%) Terraform
3 9 (0.39%) WSUS
4 8 (0.35%) SmoothWall
5 7 (0.30%) SCCM
5 7 (0.30%) ZABBIX
6 6 (0.26%) Ansible
6 6 (0.26%) PaperCut
7 5 (0.22%) CASB
7 5 (0.22%) SCOM
8 4 (0.17%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.17%) Nessus
8 4 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.043%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.043%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.043%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.043%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 449 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 106 (4.60%) VMware
3 80 (3.47%) Cisco
4 55 (2.39%) SAP
5 36 (1.56%) Oracle
6 35 (1.52%) Google
6 35 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 35 (1.52%) Veeam
7 34 (1.47%) Sophos
8 29 (1.26%) Sage
9 28 (1.21%) Salesforce
10 27 (1.17%) Meraki
11 26 (1.13%) Apple
12 23 (1.00%) Citrix
13 16 (0.69%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.52%) Dell
16 10 (0.43%) iManage
17 9 (0.39%) Aruba
17 9 (0.39%) HubSpot