Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK is £58,350 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 448 752
Rank change year-on-year -35 +304 -162
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 481 724 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.68% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.74% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 390 254 431
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,438 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,350 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -

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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 19 April 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 19 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 +9 455 £58,350 -6.64% 61
UK excluding London -118 307 £55,000 -2.65% 36
Work from Home +129 165 £62,500 - 26
London +173 158 £75,000 -11.76% 23
South East -50 87 £58,350 -2.75% 16
North of England +19 75 £58,750 +6.82% 8
Midlands -31 75 £57,500 +5.50% 6
West Midlands +20 48 £57,500 +6.48% 4
East of England -10 40 £50,000 -18.37% 2
North West +7 34 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Yorkshire +77 29 £60,000 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -52 27 £60,000 +9.09% 2
South West -45 19 £49,500 -10.00% 7
North East -14 12 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Wales +10 6 £50,000 -29.58%
Scotland -73 6 £58,036 +5.52%

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 167 (34.72%) Azure
2 134 (27.86%) Microsoft
3 130 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (24.74%) Project Management
5 112 (23.28%) Active Directory
5 112 (23.28%) Social Skills
6 109 (22.66%) Finance
7 98 (20.37%) Windows
8 89 (18.50%) VMware
9 71 (14.76%) ITIL
10 66 (13.72%) Firewall
11 65 (13.51%) Project Delivery
12 63 (13.10%) Data Centre
13 61 (12.68%) Line Management
13 61 (12.68%) Degree
14 60 (12.47%) Windows Server
15 55 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
16 52 (10.81%) Entra ID
17 50 (10.40%) Agile
17 50 (10.40%) WAN
18 48 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
18 48 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
19 44 (9.15%) PRINCE2
20 43 (8.94%) AWS
20 43 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
21 42 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 41 (8.52%) Linux
22 41 (8.52%) DNS
23 40 (8.32%) DHCP
23 40 (8.32%) Cisco

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 34 (7.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.99%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.12%) IIS
4 6 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.83%) nginx
6 3 (0.62%) Apache
Applications
1 19 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.21%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 167 (34.72%) Azure
2 130 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (10.81%) Entra ID
4 43 (8.94%) AWS
5 24 (4.99%) GCP
6 12 (2.49%) SaaS
7 11 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.08%) IaaS
9 8 (1.66%) PaaS
10 7 (1.46%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.25%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.25%) CloudFront
12 5 (1.04%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.83%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.62%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (0.62%) PowerApps
15 2 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (13.72%) Firewall
2 50 (10.40%) WAN
3 41 (8.52%) DNS
4 40 (8.32%) DHCP
5 30 (6.24%) LAN
6 29 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (5.61%) SD-WAN
8 19 (3.95%) SAN
9 17 (3.53%) Network Security
10 16 (3.33%) iSCSI
10 16 (3.33%) VoIP
11 11 (2.29%) VPN
12 9 (1.87%) TCP/IP
12 9 (1.87%) VLAN
12 9 (1.87%) Wireless
13 8 (1.66%) MPLS
14 7 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (1.46%) WLAN
15 4 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.83%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (1.04%) Power BI
3 4 (0.83%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.46%) JIRA
2 3 (0.62%) Jenkins
General
1 112 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 109 (22.66%) Finance
3 29 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.78%) Retail
5 21 (4.37%) Banking
6 19 (3.95%) Marketing
7 14 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.70%) Law
8 13 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.29%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.46%) Billing
10 7 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.04%) Automotive
12 5 (1.04%) French Language
12 5 (1.04%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.04%) Spanish Language
13 4 (0.83%) Legal
14 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.25%) LDAP
1 6 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.42%) EDI
2 2 (0.42%) Middleware
3 1 (0.21%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.21%) Flash
3 1 (0.21%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.10%) Data Centre
2 16 (3.33%) PMI
3 15 (3.12%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.29%) Clustering
6 7 (1.46%) CCTV
6 7 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (1.46%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.04%) Blog
8 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.04%) EPoS
9 4 (0.83%) IPTV
10 3 (0.62%) CMDB
10 3 (0.62%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.62%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.62%) Replication
11 2 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.42%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 98 (20.37%) Windows
2 60 (12.47%) Windows Server
3 41 (8.52%) Linux
4 16 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.46%) Android
6 4 (0.83%) VMS
7 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.62%) Unix
7 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (24.74%) Project Management
2 71 (14.76%) ITIL
3 65 (13.51%) Project Delivery
4 61 (12.68%) Line Management
5 50 (10.40%) Agile
6 48 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (9.15%) PRINCE2
8 42 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 39 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (7.28%) Disaster Recovery
11 34 (7.07%) Migration
12 28 (5.82%) Change Management
13 26 (5.41%) Infrastructure Management
13 26 (5.41%) IT Strategy
13 26 (5.41%) Mentoring
14 24 (4.99%) Decision-Making
15 22 (4.57%) Coaching
15 22 (4.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.03%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.08%) SQL
3 2 (0.42%) Bash
4 1 (0.21%) Python
Qualifications
1 61 (12.68%) Degree
2 23 (4.78%) PMI Certification
3 22 (4.57%) Security Cleared
4 17 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 15 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.29%) CCNA
7 11 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.29%) PMP
8 10 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.87%) MCSE
9 9 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 8 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.25%) CCNP
13 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.83%) APMP
14 4 (0.83%) CISSP
14 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.83%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.46%) GRC
3 5 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.83%) GDPR
4 4 (0.83%) PMO
5 3 (0.62%) NIST
6 2 (0.42%) GAAP
6 2 (0.42%) IFRS
6 2 (0.42%) NCSC
6 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) QA
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (23.28%) Active Directory
2 55 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (8.11%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.29%) Docker
4 11 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.83%) pfSense
6 3 (0.62%) Firmware
6 3 (0.62%) KVM
6 3 (0.62%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 13 (2.70%) ZABBIX
5 12 (2.49%) Opsgenie
5 12 (2.49%) VxRail
6 11 (2.29%) Ansible
7 9 (1.87%) Terraform
8 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Clustering
8 7 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.46%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.83%) WSUS
10 3 (0.62%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.21%) Cacti
11 1 (0.21%) Grafana
11 1 (0.21%) Nagios
11 1 (0.21%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.21%) SCCM
11 1 (0.21%) SCOM
Vendors
1 134 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 89 (18.50%) VMware
3 40 (8.32%) Cisco
4 19 (3.95%) Dell
5 18 (3.74%) Veeam
6 16 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 14 (2.91%) SolarWinds
8 12 (2.49%) NetApp
9 11 (2.29%) Apple
10 8 (1.66%) Citrix
10 8 (1.66%) Sun
11 7 (1.46%) Commvault
11 7 (1.46%) Meraki
11 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.46%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.04%) HP
13 4 (0.83%) Brocade
13 4 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.83%) Google
13 4 (0.83%) Qualys