Infrastructure Manager Jobs in England

Infrastructure Manager
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 417 409
Rank change year-on-year -49 -8 +374
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 199 493 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.59% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 129 399 206
10th Percentile £50,537 £43,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £85,938
90th Percentile £90,800 £87,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,066 84,104 79,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.65% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,206 62,399 50,596
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in England

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Manager in England

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Manager in England

Infrastructure Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
North of England +25 71 £54,793 -3.44% 12
London -12 55 £70,000 -12.50% 22
North West +14 52 £54,793 -8.68% 3
South East +30 27 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Yorkshire +45 19 £60,350 +4.96% 9
East of England +20 19 £57,500 +15.00% 12
Midlands +3 19 £77,500 +34.78% 15
West Midlands +26 16 £85,000 +47.83% 8
South West +111 10 £56,373 +13.88% 10
East Midlands +7 3 £60,000 - 7
Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 81 (40.70%) Azure
2 73 (36.68%) Project Management
3 57 (28.64%) Finance
4 56 (28.14%) Degree
5 55 (27.64%) Manufacturing
6 50 (25.13%) Microsoft
7 49 (24.62%) Business Case
8 47 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (21.61%) ITIL
10 42 (21.11%) Social Skills
11 35 (17.59%) Microsoft 365
12 32 (16.08%) Infrastructure Management
12 32 (16.08%) Data Centre
12 32 (16.08%) Customer Requirements
13 30 (15.08%) NEBOSH
13 30 (15.08%) HNC
13 30 (15.08%) Windows
14 29 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (14.57%) VMware
15 25 (12.56%) Firewall
16 24 (12.06%) PRINCE2
16 24 (12.06%) Cisco
17 22 (11.06%) WAN
17 22 (11.06%) Agile
18 19 (9.55%) Law
18 19 (9.55%) SD-WAN
18 19 (9.55%) Project Delivery
19 18 (9.05%) PowerShell
20 17 (8.54%) Legal
20 17 (8.54%) Service Delivery

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.51%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.51%) CMS
4 2 (1.01%) IIS
4 2 (1.01%) Moodle
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 81 (40.70%) Azure
2 35 (17.59%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.04%) AWS
4 6 (3.02%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.02%) GitHub
5 5 (2.51%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.01%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.01%) Serverless
7 3 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.51%) Cloudflare
7 3 (1.51%) IaaS
7 3 (1.51%) PaaS
8 2 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.01%) Datadog
8 2 (1.01%) GCP
8 2 (1.01%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.56%) Firewall
2 22 (11.06%) WAN
3 19 (9.55%) SD-WAN
4 9 (4.52%) VPN
4 9 (4.52%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (4.02%) Network Security
5 8 (4.02%) Wireless
6 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.51%) BGP
7 5 (2.51%) MPLS
7 5 (2.51%) OSPF
8 4 (2.01%) DNS
8 4 (2.01%) Internet
8 4 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (2.01%) LAN
9 3 (1.51%) DHCP
9 3 (1.51%) SAN
10 2 (1.01%) NAS
11 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.51%) MySQL
2 3 (1.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Git
2 3 (1.51%) JIRA
General
1 57 (28.64%) Finance
2 55 (27.64%) Manufacturing
3 42 (21.11%) Social Skills
4 19 (9.55%) Law
5 17 (8.54%) Legal
6 9 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.02%) Tech for Good
8 7 (3.52%) Humanities
9 5 (2.51%) Banking
9 5 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.51%) Retail
12 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.50%) German Language
13 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.51%) Web Services
2 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.01%) Middleware
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.08%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.02%) Clustering
5 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.01%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.01%) Replication
7 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.51%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.01%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.01%) NHS
8 2 (1.01%) PMI
8 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.08%) Windows
2 15 (7.54%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.53%) Linux
4 4 (2.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.68%) Project Management
2 49 (24.62%) Business Case
3 47 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.61%) ITIL
5 32 (16.08%) Customer Requirements
5 32 (16.08%) Infrastructure Management
6 29 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (12.06%) PRINCE2
8 22 (11.06%) Agile
9 19 (9.55%) Project Delivery
10 17 (8.54%) Business Strategy
10 17 (8.54%) Service Delivery
11 14 (7.04%) Budget Management
11 14 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (6.53%) Manufacturing Engineering
12 13 (6.53%) Requirements Management
12 13 (6.53%) Server Management
13 12 (6.03%) People Management
13 12 (6.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.05%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.52%) SQL
3 5 (2.51%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.51%) Python
4 2 (1.01%) Bash
4 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (28.14%) Degree
2 30 (15.08%) HNC
3 14 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.52%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.52%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.52%) PMI Certification
6 7 (3.52%) Postgraduate
7 6 (3.02%) PMP
8 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.51%) CCIE
9 3 (1.51%) CCNP
9 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (1.51%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.51%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.08%) NEBOSH
2 13 (6.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.02%) QA
3 6 (3.02%) SLA
4 4 (2.01%) GDPR
5 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (7.54%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.53%) Hyper-V
3 11 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.02%) Docker
5 4 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.01%) Firmware
8 1 (0.50%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.53%) Kubernetes
1 11 (5.53%) Terraform
2 9 (4.52%) FortiGate
2 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.02%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (2.51%) WSUS
5 4 (2.01%) Ansible
6 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.01%) SCCM
6 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.57%) VMware
3 24 (12.06%) Cisco
4 6 (3.02%) NEC
5 5 (2.51%) Citrix
5 5 (2.51%) Draytek
5 5 (2.51%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (1.51%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.51%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.51%) Meraki
6 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.01%) Forcepoint
7 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) arcserve
8 1 (0.50%) Aruba
8 1 (0.50%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.50%) Planview
8 1 (0.50%) Sage
8 1 (0.50%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) Sophos