Senior IT Manager Jobs

Senior IT Manager
UK

The median Senior IT Manager salary in the UK is £57,965 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 753 831 976
Rank change year-on-year +78 +145 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Manager 169 114 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 119 82 186
10th Percentile - £47,625 £49,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £51,313 £53,616
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,125 £75,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Senior IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Manager in the UK

Senior IT Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +77 151 £57,965 -10.82% 18
UK excluding London +2 124 £55,000 -4.35% 20
Work from Home +85 77 £57,965 -12.51% 8
North of England +69 60 £57,965 +10.41% 3
London +58 35 £82,500 +0.61% 4
North West - 29 £57,965 - 3
South East +9 19 £65,000 +34.08% 2
Midlands -28 18 £56,250 -19.64% 6
Yorkshire +73 16 £41,774 -24.05%
West Midlands -3 16 £56,250 -13.46% 5
North East -9 15 £57,965 +10.41%
East of England -14 12 £55,000 -15.38% 1
South West -27 7 £47,657 -9.23% 1
Scotland -62 6 £72,500 +11.54% 7
Wales +14 2 - -
East Midlands -37 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior IT Manager in the job title.

1 52 (30.77%) Finance
2 48 (28.40%) Agile
3 46 (27.22%) Mentoring
4 45 (26.63%) Social Skills
5 44 (26.04%) ITIL
6 41 (24.26%) Project Management
7 40 (23.67%) Risk Management
8 37 (21.89%) Coaching
9 34 (20.12%) Degree
10 33 (19.53%) Project Delivery
11 29 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (15.98%) Service Management
13 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
14 25 (14.79%) ITSM
14 25 (14.79%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (14.20%) Waterfall
16 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
16 22 (13.02%) Change Management
17 20 (11.83%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
18 19 (11.24%) Service Delivery
18 19 (11.24%) Scrum
19 18 (10.65%) PRINCE2
19 18 (10.65%) Line Management
20 17 (10.06%) Budget Management
21 16 (9.47%) Azure
21 16 (9.47%) CRM
22 15 (8.88%) Computer Science
22 15 (8.88%) Strategic Thinking

Senior 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 4 (2.37%) Site Server
2 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.78%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.47%) Azure
2 12 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (7.10%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.33%) AWS
4 6 (3.55%) SaaS
5 5 (2.96%) Azure Pipelines
5 5 (2.96%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.37%) GCP
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.18%) Veeva
9 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) Firewall
2 2 (1.18%) LAN
2 2 (1.18%) Wireless
2 2 (1.18%) WLAN
3 1 (0.59%) Extranet
3 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.55%) Power BI
1 6 (3.55%) SAP HANA
1 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
General
1 52 (30.77%) Finance
2 45 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.83%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (7.10%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (7.10%) Publishing
6 10 (5.92%) Legal
7 9 (5.33%) Billing
7 9 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (5.33%) Retail
8 8 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.55%) Law
9 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.96%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.96%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.96%) Military
11 2 (1.18%) Games
11 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.14%) PMI
4 5 (2.96%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.78%) PKI
5 3 (1.78%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.18%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.18%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.59%) IoT
7 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.96%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.40%) Agile
2 46 (27.22%) Mentoring
3 44 (26.04%) ITIL
4 41 (24.26%) Project Management
5 40 (23.67%) Risk Management
6 37 (21.89%) Coaching
7 33 (19.53%) Project Delivery
8 29 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (15.98%) Service Management
10 25 (14.79%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (14.79%) ITSM
10 25 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (14.20%) Waterfall
12 22 (13.02%) Change Management
13 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
14 19 (11.24%) Scrum
14 19 (11.24%) Service Delivery
15 18 (10.65%) Line Management
15 18 (10.65%) PRINCE2
16 17 (10.06%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (20.12%) Degree
2 12 (7.10%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.55%) PMP
4 5 (2.96%) CISSP
4 5 (2.96%) Postgraduate
4 5 (2.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 5 (2.96%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.37%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.78%) CCSK
6 3 (1.78%) CCSP
6 3 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.18%) CISA
7 2 (1.18%) CISM
7 2 (1.18%) ISACA
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) MBA
8 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) GDPR
2 6 (3.55%) NIST
3 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.78%) COBIT
4 3 (1.78%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.78%) PMO
4 3 (1.78%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) GxP
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 11 (6.51%) IAG
2 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.78%) CASB
2 2 (1.18%) SmoothWall
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.10%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.73%) SAP
4 5 (2.96%) Automation Anywhere
4 5 (2.96%) CheckPoint
4 5 (2.96%) iManage
5 4 (2.37%) Apple
6 3 (1.78%) Netskope
6 3 (1.78%) Symantec
6 3 (1.78%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.18%) Aruba
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle
7 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.18%) VMware
8 1 (0.59%) JDA