The Datum Report

Occupation 2139 · Professional occupations

Information technology professionals n.e.c.

Half of full-time information technology professionals n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £54,107 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of tasks not elsewhere classified in minor group 213: Information technology professionals.

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 relevant vocational, professional and postgraduate qualifications available.

What the work involves

• provides support to organisations in the operation of their IT software, hardware and networks
• meets with clients to determine their requirements and designs, tests and installs new systems to meet client's needs
• organises training for users and prepares documentation on IT systems
• manages and develops the content and operation of websites, monitors traffic, and ensures the functionality of websites and web servers

Also called

Account manager (computing/IT) · Internet engineer (professional) · IT planner · IT consultant · Technical evangelist · Webmaster · Web manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for information technology professionals n.e.c., 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. 6 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

Classified alongside this

Cyber security professionals · IT business analysts, architects and systems designers · IT managers · IT network professionals · IT project managers · IT quality and testing professionals · Programmers and software development professionals