Infrastructure Management Jobs

Infrastructure Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 275 835
Rank change year-on-year -250 +560 -81
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 433 1,211 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 1.28% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.34% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 289 104 192
10th Percentile £34,860 £31,419 £41,134
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £58,875
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.91% +2.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -259 358 £62,500 +4.17% 94
UK excluding London -288 290 £50,000 -13.04% 56
Work from Home +169 176 £57,500 -4.17% 31
London +46 128 £75,000 +15.38% 37
North of England -175 95 £50,000 -13.04% 25
North West -156 56 £55,000 -4.35% 11
South East -19 53 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Midlands -159 52 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Scotland -94 46 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Yorkshire -42 33 £50,000 - 11
East Midlands -54 30 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands -145 22 £46,750 -22.08% 7
East of England -46 18 £56,250 +93.97% 8
Northern Ireland +26 10 £42,500 -
South West -54 9 £62,500 +6.38% 4
Wales +10 7 £45,000 +5.88%
North East - 6 £50,000 - 3

Infrastructure Management
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 63 (14.55%) Apache
2 33 (7.62%) SharePoint
3 23 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.54%) Confluence
5 8 (1.85%) nginx
5 8 (1.85%) Skype for Business
6 5 (1.15%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.92%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.62%) Magento
3 2 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 174 (40.18%) Azure
2 93 (21.48%) AWS
3 90 (20.79%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (15.70%) Amazon S3
5 25 (5.77%) GCP
6 21 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 18 (4.16%) GitHub
9 17 (3.93%) SaaS
10 15 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.00%) Entra ID
12 12 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.31%) Serverless
15 9 (2.08%) Route 53
16 8 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (1.39%) Azure Pipelines
17 6 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 152 (35.10%) Firewall
2 91 (21.02%) VPN
3 85 (19.63%) Internet
4 66 (15.24%) LAN
5 64 (14.78%) WAN
6 55 (12.70%) SNMP
7 54 (12.47%) IPsec
8 36 (8.31%) DNS
9 26 (6.00%) Network Security
10 24 (5.54%) SAN
10 24 (5.54%) TCP/IP
11 20 (4.62%) DHCP
12 19 (4.39%) NAS
13 18 (4.16%) Wireless
14 17 (3.93%) SD-WAN
14 17 (3.93%) VLAN
14 17 (3.93%) VoIP
15 12 (2.77%) MPLS
16 10 (2.31%) BGP
16 10 (2.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (13.63%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (12.47%) MongoDB
3 20 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (3.46%) MySQL
5 8 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.62%) Crystal Reports
6 7 (1.62%) Redis
7 6 (1.39%) DB2
8 5 (1.15%) Power BI
8 5 (1.15%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.92%) Tableau
10 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.23%) Big Data
11 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (5.54%) Jenkins
2 20 (4.62%) Git
3 14 (3.23%) GitLab
4 11 (2.54%) Bitbucket
4 11 (2.54%) JIRA
5 8 (1.85%) Subversion
6 7 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.69%) git-flow
8 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.23%) GDB
8 1 (0.23%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.23%) Valgrind
General
1 108 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 107 (24.71%) Finance
3 39 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.85%) Manufacturing
5 26 (6.00%) Telecoms
6 23 (5.31%) Law
7 19 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.77%) Marketing
10 8 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.62%) Retail
12 6 (1.39%) Banking
13 5 (1.15%) Games
14 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.92%) Legal
15 3 (0.69%) Billing
15 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (16.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (13.16%) Consultant
3 54 (12.47%) NetApp Consultant
4 36 (8.31%) IT Manager
4 36 (8.31%) Network Engineer
5 35 (8.08%) IT Engineer
6 29 (6.70%) Principal Engineer
7 28 (6.47%) Lead
8 26 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
9 25 (5.77%) Architect
10 22 (5.08%) Senior
11 18 (4.16%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.16%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (3.70%) Analyst
13 15 (3.46%) Principal Network Engineer
14 14 (3.23%) IT Support
14 14 (3.23%) Manufacturing Engineer
14 14 (3.23%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (12.93%) YAML
2 54 (12.47%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (2.77%) SAML
4 8 (1.85%) .NET
4 8 (1.85%) 802.1X
4 8 (1.85%) EDI
4 8 (1.85%) Middleware
5 6 (1.39%) .NET Framework
5 6 (1.39%) ATL
5 6 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (1.39%) Node.js
6 5 (1.15%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.69%) JSON
8 3 (0.69%) Kafka
8 3 (0.69%) LAMP
8 3 (0.69%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (0.46%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (26.56%) Data Centre
2 45 (10.39%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.70%) Client/Server
4 12 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.54%) PKI
5 11 (2.54%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.31%) NHS
7 9 (2.08%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.85%) IoT
8 8 (1.85%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (1.62%) Clustering
9 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 162 (37.41%) Windows
2 128 (29.56%) Linux
3 64 (14.78%) Windows Server
4 54 (12.47%) Data ONTAP
5 14 (3.23%) Android
5 14 (3.23%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.31%) Unix
7 6 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.15%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.92%) CentOS
10 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.46%) VMS
11 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.23%) Solaris
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (42.96%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (21.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 86 (19.86%) Project Management
4 76 (17.55%) Cybersecurity
5 70 (16.17%) DevOps
6 64 (14.78%) Roadmaps
7 61 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (13.63%) CI/CD
8 59 (13.63%) Storage Management
9 58 (13.39%) Project Planning
10 56 (12.93%) Release Management
11 54 (12.47%) Actionable Insight
11 54 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 54 (12.47%) Migration
12 52 (12.01%) Computer Science
13 51 (11.78%) ITIL
14 49 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (10.85%) Customer Experience
16 41 (9.47%) IT Strategy
17 40 (9.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (21.25%) Python
2 32 (7.39%) SQL
3 19 (4.39%) Bash
3 19 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.00%) Java
5 10 (2.31%) Swift
6 4 (0.92%) Go
6 4 (0.92%) PHP
6 4 (0.92%) X++
7 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.46%) C#
8 2 (0.46%) Korn
8 2 (0.46%) Ruby
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 101 (23.33%) Degree
2 39 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (3.23%) HNC
6 13 (3.00%) Security Cleared
7 12 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.77%) MCSE
8 11 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.31%) CCNA
9 10 (2.31%) DBS Check
9 10 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.08%) CISSP
11 8 (1.85%) CCNP
11 8 (1.85%) SC Cleared
12 6 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (1.15%) RHCA
14 4 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.47%) GDPR
2 23 (5.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (3.23%) QA
4 11 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.31%) SLA
6 7 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.15%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.92%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.69%) NIST
10 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.23%) GRC
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 110 (25.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 105 (24.25%) Docker
3 74 (17.09%) Active Directory
4 32 (7.39%) Hyper-V
5 16 (3.70%) vSphere
6 11 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.15%) Firmware
8 5 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.69%) KVM
11 1 (0.23%) etcd
11 1 (0.23%) PowerHA
11 1 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 110 (25.40%) Kubernetes
2 105 (24.25%) Ansible
3 60 (13.86%) Prometheus
4 55 (12.70%) vCenter Server
5 36 (8.31%) Terraform
6 21 (4.85%) Docker Swarm
7 17 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (2.54%) ZABBIX
9 10 (2.31%) Nagios
10 9 (2.08%) Puppet
11 8 (1.85%) Grafana
11 8 (1.85%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.85%) SCOM
12 7 (1.62%) Packer
13 6 (1.39%) FortiGate
14 5 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.69%) Graphite
16 2 (0.46%) Salt
16 2 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 168 (38.80%) Microsoft
2 121 (27.94%) VMware
3 63 (14.55%) Red Hat
4 59 (13.63%) NetApp
5 55 (12.70%) Palo Alto
6 54 (12.47%) SolidFire
7 37 (8.55%) Cisco
8 28 (6.47%) Fortinet
8 28 (6.47%) Juniper
9 22 (5.08%) Oracle
10 21 (4.85%) Sandvine
11 16 (3.70%) Citrix
11 16 (3.70%) Epicor
12 14 (3.23%) CheckPoint
13 11 (2.54%) Atlassian
13 11 (2.54%) IBM
14 9 (2.08%) Google
14 9 (2.08%) IFS
14 9 (2.08%) JD Edwards
15 8 (1.85%) HP