The Datum Report

Occupation 2132 · Professional occupations

IT managers

Half of full-time it managers in the UK earn more than £56,438 a year, and half earn less.

IT managers plan, organise, manage and coordinate the provision of IT and telecommunications services and functions in an organisation.

How people enter it

Entrants usually possess a degree or equivalent qualification, although entry with other academic qualifications and/or significant relevant experience is possible. There is a variety of vocational, professional and postgraduate qualifications available.

What the work involves

• plans, coordinates and manages the organisation’s IT and telecommunications provision or a specialist area of IT activity
• liaises with users, senior staff and internal/external clients to clarify IT and telecommunications requirements and development needs
• takes responsibility for managing the development of an aspect of IT and telecommunications provision such as user support, network operations, service delivery or quality control
• supervises the technical team and coordinates training
• plans and monitors work and maintenance schedules to ensure agreed service levels are achieved
• reports on IT and telecommunications activities to senior management

Also called

Data centre manager · Data visualisation manager · IT manager · Network operations manager (computer services) · Product manager · Service delivery manager · Telecoms manager · UX manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for it managers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 11 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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