Technical Manager
UK

The median Technical Manager salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 583 520
Rank change year-on-year +197 -63 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 665 451 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.45% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.49% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 535 349 556
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £84,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +181 625 £55,000 -15.38% 339
UK excluding London +183 481 £50,000 -16.67% 269
London +76 157 £70,000 -2.51% 79
Work from Home +48 150 £57,500 -17.86% 78
South East +75 128 £53,500 -17.69% 68
North of England +95 123 £50,000 -25.10% 60
Midlands +59 96 £55,000 -12.00% 48
North West +36 76 £50,000 -23.08% 34
West Midlands +66 68 £57,500 -8.00% 28
South West +20 67 £50,000 -4.76% 44
East of England +39 47 £50,000 -16.67% 45
Yorkshire +102 40 £51,250 -25.20% 20
East Midlands -7 28 £50,000 -23.08% 20
Scotland -59 9 £45,000 -11.66% 5
North East +2 7 £55,000 -30.16% 7
Wales +8 4 £60,250 +22.96% 8
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +29 3 £57,500 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 162 (24.36%) Project Management
2 158 (23.76%) Social Skills
3 125 (18.80%) Agile
4 106 (15.94%) Degree
5 104 (15.64%) Finance
6 102 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (13.38%) Azure
8 86 (12.93%) Microsoft
9 79 (11.88%) Project Delivery
10 74 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 52 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
13 49 (7.37%) Mentoring
14 47 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
14 47 (7.07%) Legal
15 46 (6.92%) SaaS
16 44 (6.62%) Windows
17 43 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
17 43 (6.47%) Roadmaps
18 41 (6.17%) Time Management
19 38 (5.71%) Service Delivery
19 38 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 36 (5.41%) Decision-Making
21 34 (5.11%) Marketing
21 34 (5.11%) Manufacturing
22 33 (4.96%) Retail
22 33 (4.96%) DevOps
23 32 (4.81%) PRINCE2
24 31 (4.66%) Onboarding
25 29 (4.36%) ITIL

Technical 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 12 (1.80%) Confluence
2 11 (1.65%) WordPress
3 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.20%) CMS
5 6 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.90%) Apache Solr
5 6 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (0.90%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.60%) Drupal
7 3 (0.45%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.56%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.45%) SketchUp
5 1 (0.15%) Revit
5 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.50%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.30%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (13.38%) Azure
2 52 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (6.92%) SaaS
4 28 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (3.46%) AWS
5 23 (3.46%) IaaS
6 22 (3.31%) PaaS
7 13 (1.95%) Entra ID
8 12 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.20%) Power Platform
10 6 (0.90%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 6 (0.90%) GitHub
10 6 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.60%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.45%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.45%) GCP
13 3 (0.45%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.45%) Serverless
14 2 (0.30%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.16%) WAN
2 20 (3.01%) LAN
3 19 (2.86%) Firewall
4 17 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.20%) Network Security
6 7 (1.05%) DNS
7 6 (0.90%) Internet
7 6 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.75%) 4G
8 5 (0.75%) DHCP
8 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.60%) VoIP
9 4 (0.60%) VPN
9 4 (0.60%) Wireless
10 3 (0.45%) SAN
11 2 (0.30%) 5G
12 1 (0.15%) Broadband
12 1 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
12 1 (0.15%) PBX
12 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (1.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.90%) MySQL
3 5 (0.75%) RDBMS
3 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.45%) EDMS
4 3 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.45%) Tableau
5 2 (0.30%) Big Data
5 2 (0.30%) Metadata
5 2 (0.30%) Power BI
5 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.15%) GIS
6 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.15%) Impala
6 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 17 (2.56%) JIRA
2 6 (0.90%) Git
2 6 (0.90%) PHPUnit
3 3 (0.45%) GCC
4 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 104 (15.64%) Finance
3 47 (7.07%) Legal
4 43 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.11%) Manufacturing
6 34 (5.11%) Marketing
7 33 (4.96%) Retail
8 28 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.56%) Local Government
11 15 (2.26%) Electronics
12 14 (2.11%) Banking
13 12 (1.80%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.80%) French Language
14 10 (1.50%) German Language
14 10 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.50%) Italian Language
14 10 (1.50%) Portuguese Language
14 10 (1.50%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.71%) .NET
2 11 (1.65%) RESTful
3 9 (1.35%) CSS
3 9 (1.35%) SOAP
4 7 (1.05%) HTML
5 6 (0.90%) Doctrine
5 6 (0.90%) HTML5
5 6 (0.90%) jQuery
5 6 (0.90%) Laravel
5 6 (0.90%) Lucene
5 6 (0.90%) Symfony
5 6 (0.90%) Vue
6 3 (0.45%) FHIR
6 3 (0.45%) Flash
6 3 (0.45%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.30%) Kafka
7 2 (0.30%) web3js
8 1 (0.15%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.15%) JSON
8 1 (0.15%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.66%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.91%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.56%) Virtual Team
4 14 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.95%) IoT
6 12 (1.80%) NHS
7 11 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.35%) PKI
8 9 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.20%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.90%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.90%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.75%) CCTV
12 5 (0.75%) CMDB
12 5 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
13 4 (0.60%) Derivative
13 4 (0.60%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.62%) Windows
2 20 (3.01%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.11%) Linux
4 6 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.30%) Android
5 2 (0.30%) VMS
5 2 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (24.36%) Project Management
2 125 (18.80%) Agile
3 102 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (11.88%) Project Delivery
5 74 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (7.37%) Mentoring
8 47 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
9 43 (6.47%) Roadmaps
10 41 (6.17%) Time Management
11 38 (5.71%) Service Delivery
12 36 (5.41%) Decision-Making
13 33 (4.96%) DevOps
14 32 (4.81%) PRINCE2
15 29 (4.36%) Coaching
15 29 (4.36%) ITIL
16 24 (3.61%) Customer Requirements
17 23 (3.46%) Change Management
17 23 (3.46%) Customer Service
18 22 (3.31%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 16 (2.41%) SQL
2 11 (1.65%) C#
2 11 (1.65%) JavaScript
3 6 (0.90%) PHP
4 4 (0.60%) Python
5 2 (0.30%) Java
5 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.15%) C++
6 1 (0.15%) Scala
6 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 106 (15.94%) Degree
2 28 (4.21%) HND
3 25 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 24 (3.61%) HNC
5 14 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.95%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.65%) CCNP
7 11 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 9 (1.35%) CCNA
9 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.05%) PMP
12 5 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.45%) RIBA
14 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (3.16%) GDPR
2 21 (3.16%) SLA
3 20 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.41%) QA
5 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.20%) PMO
7 6 (0.90%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.90%) NEBOSH
8 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.60%) GMP
9 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.45%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.15%) Autotask
3 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.15%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.86%) Cisco
3 16 (2.41%) Salesforce
3 16 (2.41%) VMware
4 10 (1.50%) NEC
5 9 (1.35%) Google
6 7 (1.05%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.05%) SAP
6 7 (1.05%) Sitecore
7 6 (0.90%) Adobe
7 6 (0.90%) Facebook
7 6 (0.90%) Marketo
8 5 (0.75%) Apple
8 5 (0.75%) Meraki
8 5 (0.75%) Oracle
9 4 (0.60%) Vectorworks
10 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.45%) Ciena
11 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.30%) Forcepoint