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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 298 805
Rank change year-on-year -211 +507 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 428 1,225 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 1.18% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.23% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 288 110 217
10th Percentile £33,550 £31,277 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,156 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +1.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,750 £82,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 84,682 99,385 149,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.98% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,837 58,365 83,204
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -209 351 £62,500 +4.17% 92
UK excluding London -275 275 £50,000 -4.76% 52
Work from Home +192 171 £62,500 +19.05% 35
London +68 135 £77,500 +19.23% 40
North of England -172 87 £50,000 -4.76% 16
South East +3 53 £55,000 -2.65% 17
North West -149 51 £48,750 -7.14% 8
Midlands -156 51 £55,000 -2.22% 11
Scotland -88 46 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Yorkshire -25 30 £50,000 - 7
East Midlands -55 29 £55,000 - 8
West Midlands -121 22 £46,750 -16.89% 3
East of England -38 13 £45,000 +55.17% 3
Northern Ireland +31 10 £42,500 -
South West -35 8 £62,500 -8.09% 5
Wales +11 7 £45,000 - 2
North East - 6 £50,000 - 1

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 62 (14.49%) Apache
2 33 (7.71%) SharePoint
3 24 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.34%) Confluence
5 8 (1.87%) nginx
5 8 (1.87%) Skype for Business
6 5 (1.17%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.10%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.64%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 170 (39.72%) Azure
2 92 (21.50%) AWS
3 84 (19.63%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (17.52%) Amazon S3
5 23 (5.37%) GCP
6 22 (5.14%) Cloud Computing
7 21 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (4.67%) GitHub
8 20 (4.67%) Power Platform
9 19 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (3.97%) Serverless
12 14 (3.27%) Route 53
13 13 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.04%) SaaS
14 12 (2.80%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.40%) Azure Pipelines
16 6 (1.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (34.81%) Firewall
2 90 (21.03%) VPN
3 87 (20.33%) Internet
4 66 (15.42%) LAN
5 65 (15.19%) WAN
6 55 (12.85%) SNMP
7 54 (12.62%) IPsec
8 36 (8.41%) DNS
9 26 (6.07%) Network Security
10 24 (5.61%) SAN
10 24 (5.61%) TCP/IP
11 19 (4.44%) DHCP
11 19 (4.44%) NAS
11 19 (4.44%) Wireless
12 18 (4.21%) VLAN
13 17 (3.97%) SD-WAN
13 17 (3.97%) VoIP
14 12 (2.80%) MPLS
15 10 (2.34%) BGP
15 10 (2.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (12.62%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (3.27%) MySQL
5 7 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
5 7 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.64%) Redis
6 6 (1.40%) Power BI
7 5 (1.17%) DB2
8 4 (0.93%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.70%) Tableau
10 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (6.31%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.97%) Git
3 12 (2.80%) GitLab
4 11 (2.57%) Bitbucket
4 11 (2.57%) JIRA
4 11 (2.57%) Subversion
5 10 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.70%) git-flow
7 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 102 (23.83%) Finance
3 39 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.94%) Manufacturing
5 27 (6.31%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.91%) Law
7 17 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.04%) Marketing
10 8 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.40%) Banking
11 6 (1.40%) Retail
12 5 (1.17%) Games
13 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.93%) Legal
14 3 (0.70%) Billing
14 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (16.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (13.32%) Consultant
3 54 (12.62%) NetApp Consultant
4 39 (9.11%) Network Engineer
5 35 (8.18%) IT Engineer
5 35 (8.18%) IT Manager
6 30 (7.01%) Principal Engineer
7 27 (6.31%) Infrastructure Manager
7 27 (6.31%) Lead
8 26 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (5.14%) Architect
10 21 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (4.67%) Senior
12 19 (4.44%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.74%) Analyst
13 16 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.74%) Principal Network Engineer
14 14 (3.27%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.27%) Manufacturing Engineer
14 14 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (13.08%) YAML
2 54 (12.62%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (3.04%) SAML
4 10 (2.34%) .NET
5 8 (1.87%) .NET Framework
5 8 (1.87%) 802.1X
5 8 (1.87%) ATL
5 8 (1.87%) EDI
6 7 (1.64%) Middleware
7 5 (1.17%) Node.js
7 5 (1.17%) Web Services
7 5 (1.17%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (0.93%) Smart Contracts
9 3 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.70%) LAMP
9 3 (0.70%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (0.47%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 113 (26.40%) Data Centre
2 46 (10.75%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.74%) Client/Server
4 12 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.10%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.10%) NHS
6 9 (2.10%) PKI
7 8 (1.87%) IoT
7 8 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (1.64%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.40%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.40%) Clustering
9 6 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.17%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.93%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 158 (36.92%) Windows
2 122 (28.50%) Linux
3 60 (14.02%) Windows Server
4 54 (12.62%) Data ONTAP
5 13 (3.04%) Android
5 13 (3.04%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.64%) Unix
8 5 (1.17%) CentOS
8 5 (1.17%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.47%) VMS
9 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (44.39%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (22.20%) Project Management
3 90 (21.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 74 (17.29%) Cybersecurity
5 68 (15.89%) DevOps
6 65 (15.19%) Roadmaps
7 62 (14.49%) Project Planning
8 61 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 59 (13.79%) CI/CD
9 59 (13.79%) Migration
9 59 (13.79%) Storage Management
10 56 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (12.85%) Release Management
12 54 (12.62%) Actionable Insight
13 52 (12.15%) Computer Science
14 48 (11.21%) ITIL
15 47 (10.98%) Customer Experience
16 41 (9.58%) Service Management
17 40 (9.35%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.33%) Python
2 31 (7.24%) SQL
3 18 (4.21%) Bash
4 16 (3.74%) PowerShell
5 14 (3.27%) Java
6 10 (2.34%) Swift
7 6 (1.40%) C#
7 6 (1.40%) X++
8 4 (0.93%) PHP
9 3 (0.70%) Go
10 2 (0.47%) Bicep
10 2 (0.47%) Korn
10 2 (0.47%) Perl
10 2 (0.47%) Ruby
10 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (24.53%) Degree
2 41 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (3.97%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.27%) HNC
5 14 (3.27%) Security Cleared
6 13 (3.04%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.57%) MCSE
8 10 (2.34%) CCNA
8 10 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (2.10%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.10%) CISSP
9 9 (2.10%) DBS Check
9 9 (2.10%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.87%) CCNP
11 7 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 5 (1.17%) RHCA
13 4 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.84%) GDPR
2 16 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (3.50%) QA
4 11 (2.57%) SLA
5 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 112 (26.17%) Docker
2 108 (25.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (16.36%) Active Directory
4 32 (7.48%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.50%) vSphere
6 11 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.93%) Firmware
8 4 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.70%) KVM
10 1 (0.23%) etcd
Systems Management
1 116 (27.10%) Kubernetes
2 102 (23.83%) Ansible
3 60 (14.02%) Prometheus
4 54 (12.62%) vCenter Server
5 42 (9.81%) Terraform
6 18 (4.21%) Docker Swarm
7 15 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (3.04%) Puppet
9 12 (2.80%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.34%) Packer
10 10 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (2.10%) ZABBIX
12 8 (1.87%) Nagios
13 7 (1.64%) Salt
13 7 (1.64%) SCOM
14 6 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (1.40%) FortiGate
14 6 (1.40%) Grafana
15 2 (0.47%) Graphite
15 2 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 161 (37.62%) Microsoft
2 118 (27.57%) VMware
3 63 (14.72%) Red Hat
4 60 (14.02%) NetApp
5 55 (12.85%) Palo Alto
6 54 (12.62%) SolidFire
7 37 (8.64%) Cisco
8 31 (7.24%) Fortinet
8 31 (7.24%) Juniper
9 23 (5.37%) Sandvine
10 20 (4.67%) Oracle
11 16 (3.74%) Citrix
11 16 (3.74%) Epicor
12 14 (3.27%) CheckPoint
13 11 (2.57%) Atlassian
13 11 (2.57%) IBM
14 9 (2.10%) HP
14 9 (2.10%) IFS
14 9 (2.10%) JD Edwards
15 8 (1.87%) Google