Wanted: It Manager For Uk Government Agency – £60k

How much is an IT manager worth?  Well, if you’re working for a government agency, the answer seems to be about £60k (about $81k), according to a new vacancy being advertised.

The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is an Executive Agency of Britain’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), tasked with protecting public health and ensuring high standards of animal welfare.

That’s a pretty serious responsibility, and like all modern government departments, it needs IT infrastructure to make sure its dedicated staff can carry out their duties effectively.

The VMD is now advertising a vacancy for an IT Service and Operations Manager, someone to oversee all that infrastructure and lead the team in charge of maintaining it. The salary on offer for such a responsible role? £59,900, which doesn’t sound like much to us, when the average wage for workers in the UK is said to be £37,430 (about $50k) for full-time employees. In fact it is £7k less than a senior manager at a UK McDonalds, according to Indeed.co.uk listings.

According to IT Jobs Watch, £60k represents the median IT Manager salary in the UK, gauged by vacancies posted during the previous six months. Recruitment agency Morgan McKinley puts the average remuneration for IT Managers working in London at £70k to £80k ($94k to $108k).

Admittedly, as a government employee, you will also benefit from a Civil Service Pension, with an employer contribution of 28.97 percent – not to be sniffed at.

The position is based at the VMD site in Addlestone, Surrey, to the southwest of London, and the successful applicant will be expected to spend at least 60 percent of their time in the workplace, with the option to work the remaining time flexibly from home.

The role calls for a “highly motivated and organized individual” with “significant IT Service provision experience.” It will involve leading the team responsible for provisioning and maintaining services across the agency’s IT estate, including legacy systems, networks, software, Microsoft 365, the IT Service Desk and more.

The chosen candidate will also take on the service management relationship between VMD and a managed service provider for the agency’s public facing digital services.

According to the vacancy notice, the VMD has kicked off a program to replace legacy systems and migrate workloads to the cloud, with the delivery pipeline for this project extending over the next 2 to 3 years.

That sounds like quite a lot of responsibility to us, however, if it appeals, interested parties can apply here on the Civil Service Jobs website, by June 24. ®

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