Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 435 801
Rank change year-on-year -32 +366 -165
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 514 702 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.72% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.78% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 415 244 413
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,186
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 96,364 89,509 157,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.47% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,829 56,547 84,640
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,609
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 25 May 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 -23 485 £60,000 -4.00% 89
UK excluding London -121 325 £55,000 - 73
Work from Home +99 178 £62,500 - 37
London +151 171 £80,000 -5.88% 27
South East -49 96 £60,000 - 26
North of England +11 86 £56,743 +3.17% 24
Midlands -57 74 £57,500 +9.52% 14
West Midlands -11 44 £57,500 +9.52% 7
North West +5 41 £62,500 +13.64% 9
East of England -24 40 £50,000 -7.41% 4
Yorkshire +58 32 £57,500 +4.55% 15
East Midlands -50 30 £60,000 +9.09% 7
South West -71 16 £49,500 -10.00% 4
North East -13 13 £45,000 -11.33%
Scotland -64 8 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Wales +13 6 £50,000 -29.58% 1

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, Infrastructure Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 161 (31.32%) Azure
2 131 (25.49%) Microsoft
3 129 (25.10%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (22.57%) Social Skills
5 115 (22.37%) Finance
6 107 (20.82%) Project Management
7 104 (20.23%) Active Directory
8 91 (17.70%) Windows
9 87 (16.93%) VMware
10 64 (12.45%) Firewall
10 64 (12.45%) ITIL
10 64 (12.45%) Line Management
11 63 (12.26%) Project Delivery
12 61 (11.87%) Degree
13 57 (11.09%) Windows Server
14 54 (10.51%) Data Centre
15 53 (10.31%) Entra ID
15 53 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
16 51 (9.92%) WAN
17 50 (9.73%) Agile
18 48 (9.34%) AWS
18 48 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 43 (8.37%) Linux
19 43 (8.37%) Cisco
20 42 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 42 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
21 40 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
21 40 (7.78%) DHCP
22 39 (7.59%) PRINCE2

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
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 30 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.92%) IIS
4 4 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 161 (31.32%) Azure
2 129 (25.10%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (10.31%) Entra ID
4 48 (9.34%) AWS
5 24 (4.67%) GCP
6 12 (2.33%) SaaS
7 11 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (1.95%) IaaS
9 8 (1.56%) PaaS
10 7 (1.36%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.36%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.78%) CloudFront
12 3 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.58%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (0.58%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.58%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (12.45%) Firewall
2 51 (9.92%) WAN
3 40 (7.78%) DHCP
4 39 (7.59%) DNS
5 33 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
6 31 (6.03%) LAN
7 27 (5.25%) SD-WAN
8 19 (3.70%) SAN
9 16 (3.11%) iSCSI
9 16 (3.11%) Network Security
9 16 (3.11%) VoIP
10 12 (2.33%) Wireless
11 9 (1.75%) TCP/IP
11 9 (1.75%) VLAN
11 9 (1.75%) VPN
12 8 (1.56%) MPLS
13 7 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (0.97%) HTTP
14 5 (0.97%) WLAN
15 4 (0.78%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.36%) Power BI
3 4 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 116 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 115 (22.37%) Finance
3 32 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.45%) Banking
5 23 (4.47%) Marketing
5 23 (4.47%) Retail
6 18 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.31%) Law
8 13 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.56%) Billing
10 8 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.56%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.17%) Automotive
11 6 (1.17%) Legal
12 5 (0.97%) Local Government
12 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.78%) Flash
1 4 (0.78%) LDAP
1 4 (0.78%) Middleware
1 4 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (0.78%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (0.39%) TAPI
3 1 (0.19%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.51%) Data Centre
2 16 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.72%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.53%) PMI
5 11 (2.14%) Clustering
6 7 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (1.36%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.17%) Blog
7 6 (1.17%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.97%) CCTV
8 5 (0.97%) CMDB
8 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (0.97%) EPoS
9 4 (0.78%) IPTV
9 4 (0.78%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.58%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 91 (17.70%) Windows
2 57 (11.09%) Windows Server
3 43 (8.37%) Linux
4 16 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.17%) Android
6 5 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.78%) VMS
8 3 (0.58%) Unix
9 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (20.82%) Project Management
2 64 (12.45%) ITIL
2 64 (12.45%) Line Management
3 63 (12.26%) Project Delivery
4 50 (9.73%) Agile
5 48 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 48 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (7.59%) PRINCE2
9 36 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (6.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (6.03%) Risk Management
12 29 (5.64%) Migration
13 26 (5.06%) Infrastructure Management
13 26 (5.06%) Mentoring
14 25 (4.86%) Information Security
15 24 (4.67%) Coaching
15 24 (4.67%) IT Strategy
15 24 (4.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.06%) PowerShell
2 7 (1.36%) SQL
3 1 (0.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 61 (11.87%) Degree
2 20 (3.89%) PMI Certification
2 20 (3.89%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.33%) CCNA
5 12 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 11 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.75%) MCSE
8 9 (1.75%) PMP
9 8 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (1.17%) CCNP
10 6 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.78%) APMP
12 4 (0.78%) CISSP
12 4 (0.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.17%) GDPR
3 5 (0.97%) GRC
4 4 (0.78%) NCSC
5 3 (0.58%) NIST
6 2 (0.39%) GAAP
6 2 (0.39%) IFRS
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.39%) PMO
6 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.19%) QA
7 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (20.23%) Active Directory
2 53 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (7.39%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.75%) Docker
6 4 (0.78%) pfSense
7 3 (0.58%) KVM
7 3 (0.58%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.39%) Firmware
8 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (2.33%) Opsgenie
4 12 (2.33%) VxRail
4 12 (2.33%) ZABBIX
5 9 (1.75%) Ansible
5 9 (1.75%) Terraform
6 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.36%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.97%) Puppet
8 4 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.78%) WSUS
9 3 (0.58%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 131 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 87 (16.93%) VMware
3 43 (8.37%) Cisco
4 19 (3.70%) Dell
5 17 (3.31%) Veeam
6 16 (3.11%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.53%) SolarWinds
8 12 (2.33%) NetApp
9 11 (2.14%) Apple
10 8 (1.56%) Sun
11 7 (1.36%) Citrix
11 7 (1.36%) Commvault
11 7 (1.36%) Meraki
11 7 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.36%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (0.97%) Aruba
13 4 (0.78%) BroadSoft
13 4 (0.78%) QNAP
13 4 (0.78%) Ruckus Wireless
13 4 (0.78%) Zerto