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IT director jobs
Technology at board level: the strategy, the spend, the risk and the leaders reporting into it.
£91,671 median full-time pay, UK, ONS 2025
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What it director jobs pay
Median full-time pay for information technology directors was £91,671 across the UK in 2025. Full-time work of every kind had a median of £39,039, so this occupation sits about 2.3 times that. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it describes the occupation nationally rather than any advert on this page.
That figure is the reason this role is on the board. Every role here has a published ONS median full-time salary at or above £50,000, and it is checked against the ONS table each time the site is built rather than asserted in the copy. A role that stopped clearing it would stop the build.
Pay varies more by region than most people expect. ONS publishes it for groups of related occupations rather than single job titles, so the table beside this covers finance, marketing, human resources, purchasing and IT directors, and functional directors generally, not it director jobs alone.
Median full-time pay by region, 2025
| Region | Median full-time pay |
|---|---|
| London | £100,000 |
| South East | £75,583 |
| East of England | £69,109 |
| South West | £64,004 |
| West Midlands | £63,647 |
| East Midlands | £60,708 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £63,655 |
| North West | £69,738 |
| North East | £57,675 |
| Wales | £52,760 |
| Scotland | £63,374 |
Why there are no area pages for this role
The census is the only source that publishes occupation down to local authority level, and it publishes it in groups of related jobs rather than one job at a time. IT director jobs sit in group 113, alongside sales and marketing director jobs, procurement manager jobs, finance manager jobs, hr manager jobs.
So there is one number for all of them in any given area. Building a page per role per area would mean the same figure appearing under several different headings, in 175 places each, which is the doorway pattern this site is built to avoid. One role carries the local pages for the group and the rest say so plainly.
For local figures on this group, see finance manager jobs. The pay figures above are specific to it director jobs and are not shared with the rest of the group.
IT director: the full picture
What the board actually wants
Three answers, repeatedly. Is our technology a risk to the business, and what are you doing about the parts that are. Is the money we spend proportionate and visible. And can we do the thing the strategy depends on, in the time the strategy assumes.
Security and resilience have moved from an operational concern to a board one, and a technology director who cannot speak plainly about both will spend a lot of energy translating.
Build or run, and why the distinction sets the job
If the company sells software, the senior technology job is product engineering and the pressure is delivery. If the company sells something else, the senior technology job is enabling everybody else, and the pressure is reliability and cost.
Read which one an advert describes before anything else. The titles will not tell you and the responsibilities will.
Before you apply
- A long technology career with senior leadership behind it
- Right to work in the UK
IT director jobs: common questions
Does it director work pay more than £50,000 a year?
On the national figures, yes, and that is why the role is on this board at all. Median full-time pay for information technology directors was £91,671 across the UK in 2025, against £39,039 for full-time work of every kind. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it says nothing about what any individual advert pays.
What qualifications do I need to work as a IT director?
A long technology career with senior leadership behind it. Right to work in the UK.
Where does AboveMedian have local figures for it director jobs?
Nowhere, and the reason is worth stating. The census publishes occupation in groups of related jobs, and it director jobs share a group with sales and marketing director jobs, procurement manager jobs, finance manager jobs, hr manager jobs. Local pages for each of them would show the same figure under different headings, so only one role carries them. For local figures on this group, see finance manager jobs. Adverts themselves are UK wide.
Do you decide who gets sent to an employer?
No. You read the adverts, you choose one, and you apply to that employer yourself. Nothing on this site forwards a person to a job they did not apply to, and no employer is given a list of people.
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