Infrastructure Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 August 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 415 504
Rank change year-on-year -79 +89 +116
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 103 286 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.49% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 65 214 106
10th Percentile £52,050 £40,072 £42,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £49,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,875 £73,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 39,415 58,884 39,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.35% 95.08% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 21,333 37,604 26,441
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,225 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 -61 25 £58,500 +6.36% 11
Midlands +6 22 £71,250 +23.91% 7
South East -24 20 £72,750 +21.25% 23
South West +67 18 £57,500 +15.00% 8
Yorkshire -7 18 £58,200 +5.82% 4
West Midlands +20 16 £77,500 +34.78% 5
East of England -19 14 £58,000 +16.00% 5
North West -69 7 £74,250 +29.13% 6
East Midlands -1 6 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Scotland +78 4 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Infrastructure Manager
UK

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 42 (40.78%) Azure
2 34 (33.01%) Microsoft
3 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (22.33%) Project Management
5 20 (19.42%) Manufacturing
6 18 (17.48%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (16.50%) Firewall
8 16 (15.53%) Windows
8 16 (15.53%) VMware
9 15 (14.56%) NEC
9 15 (14.56%) Finance
9 15 (14.56%) Logistics
9 15 (14.56%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (14.56%) Social Skills
9 15 (14.56%) Sprinklr
10 14 (13.59%) Active Directory
10 14 (13.59%) Agile
11 13 (12.62%) Migration
11 13 (12.62%) ITIL
11 13 (12.62%) Data Centre
11 13 (12.62%) Windows Server
11 13 (12.62%) Project Delivery
12 12 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (11.65%) WAN
12 12 (11.65%) Service Delivery
12 12 (11.65%) Business Continuity
13 11 (10.68%) Degree
14 10 (9.71%) Hyper-V
14 10 (9.71%) Contract Negotiation
15 9 (8.74%) Line Management

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.94%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.94%) CMS
3 2 (1.94%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Sprinklr
2 2 (1.94%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) Azure
2 18 (17.48%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.77%) AWS
4 5 (4.85%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.91%) IaaS
5 3 (2.91%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.91%) PaaS
6 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.94%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.94%) GitHub
6 2 (1.94%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.94%) Serverless
7 1 (0.97%) GCP
7 1 (0.97%) OCI
7 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.50%) Firewall
2 12 (11.65%) WAN
3 8 (7.77%) SD-WAN
4 6 (5.83%) LAN
4 6 (5.83%) VPN
4 6 (5.83%) Wireless
5 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.88%) DNS
6 4 (3.88%) Internet
6 4 (3.88%) Network Security
6 4 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.91%) BGP
7 3 (2.91%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.91%) MPLS
7 3 (2.91%) OSPF
8 2 (1.94%) DHCP
8 2 (1.94%) SAN
8 2 (1.94%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.94%) MySQL
2 2 (1.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Git
1 2 (1.94%) JIRA
General
1 20 (19.42%) Manufacturing
2 15 (14.56%) Finance
2 15 (14.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.74%) Law
4 8 (7.77%) Legal
5 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.88%) Retail
7 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.97%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.94%) Middleware
1 2 (1.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.88%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.91%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (0.97%) IoT
5 1 (0.97%) PMI
5 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.53%) Windows
2 13 (12.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.88%) Linux
4 3 (2.91%) Unix
5 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (22.33%) Project Management
3 15 (14.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (14.56%) Logistics
4 14 (13.59%) Agile
5 13 (12.62%) ITIL
5 13 (12.62%) Migration
5 13 (12.62%) Project Delivery
6 12 (11.65%) Business Continuity
6 12 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (11.65%) Service Delivery
7 10 (9.71%) Contract Negotiation
8 9 (8.74%) Line Management
8 9 (8.74%) PRINCE2
9 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Management
9 8 (7.77%) Roadmaps
9 8 (7.77%) Waterfall
10 7 (6.80%) Budgeting
10 7 (6.80%) Business Strategy
10 7 (6.80%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
1 5 (4.85%) SQL
2 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) Degree
2 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.91%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.91%) PMP
5 2 (1.94%) CISSP
5 2 (1.94%) MCSE
5 2 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.97%) CCIE
6 1 (0.97%) CCNP
6 1 (0.97%) CISA
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.91%) QA
3 3 (2.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.94%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.94%) NCSC
4 2 (1.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (13.59%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.71%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) Docker
4 2 (1.94%) vSphere
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.80%) FortiGate
2 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.88%) Terraform
4 3 (2.91%) WSUS
5 2 (1.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.97%) Ansible
6 1 (0.97%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (33.01%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.53%) VMware
3 15 (14.56%) NEC
4 5 (4.85%) Cisco
4 5 (4.85%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.91%) Draytek
5 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.91%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (1.94%) arcserve
6 2 (1.94%) Aruba
6 2 (1.94%) Concur
6 2 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.94%) Dell
6 2 (1.94%) Forcepoint
6 2 (1.94%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.94%) Sage
6 2 (1.94%) Sophos
6 2 (1.94%) Veeam
7 1 (0.97%) Citrix
7 1 (0.97%) Juniper