Infrastructure Manager Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in the South East is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 250 230
Rank change year-on-year +10 -20 +75
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 35 52 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.34% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.61% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 33 38 37
10th Percentile £47,000 £46,150 £46,000
25th Percentile £47,738 £53,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +17.24% -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £72,625 £71,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 9,501 8,467 7,340
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 91.58% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,887 4,565 5,336
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £29,618
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Infrastructure Manager job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Thames Valley -2 17 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Berkshire +6 11 £49,000 -10.91%
Surrey +6 9 £80,000 +17.22%
Kent -9 8 £52,500 -25.00%
Oxfordshire +7 3 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Buckinghamshire +4 3 £68,000 -
Hampshire +36 1 £48,500 -46.11%
Infrastructure Manager
England

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Infrastructure Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 20 (57.14%) Windows
3 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
4 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
4 13 (37.14%) Firewall
5 12 (34.29%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (34.29%) VMware
6 10 (28.57%) Windows Server
7 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (22.86%) Emotional Intelligence
8 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 8 (22.86%) ITSM
8 8 (22.86%) Patch Management
8 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
8 8 (22.86%) SCCM
8 8 (22.86%) Security Operations
8 8 (22.86%) ServiceNow
8 8 (22.86%) Software Deployment
8 8 (22.86%) SolarWinds
8 8 (22.86%) Windows 10
9 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 7 (20.00%) VPN
10 6 (17.14%) AWS
10 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
10 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
11 5 (14.29%) WAN

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) IaaS
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) VPN
3 5 (14.29%) WAN
4 4 (11.43%) LAN
4 4 (11.43%) Wireless
5 2 (5.71%) DHCP
5 2 (5.71%) DNS
5 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.86%) BGP
6 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Clustering
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Windows
2 10 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 8 (22.86%) Windows 10
4 3 (8.57%) Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (22.86%) Emotional Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 8 (22.86%) ITSM
1 8 (22.86%) Patch Management
1 8 (22.86%) Security Operations
1 8 (22.86%) Software Deployment
2 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.43%) ITIL
5 4 (11.43%) Service Management
6 2 (5.71%) IT Strategy
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Debt
6 2 (5.71%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (5.71%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
3 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.71%) Docker
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (22.86%) SCCM
3 4 (11.43%) Ansible
3 4 (11.43%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (34.29%) VMware
3 8 (22.86%) ServiceNow
3 8 (22.86%) SolarWinds
4 3 (8.57%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Meraki
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat