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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 461 341
Rank change year-on-year +21 -120 +282
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 152 317 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.44% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.47% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 108 267 123
10th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £46,090
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £70,875 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £91,200 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +1.67% -2.44% +2.50%

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 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 20 May 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 20 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 +41 73 £54,793 -3.44% 15
North West +11 56 £54,793 -15.70% 5
South East +26 29 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Midlands +4 20 £83,750 +45.65% 18
Yorkshire +57 17 £66,250 +12.77% 10
West Midlands +32 17 £92,500 +60.87% 12
East of England +13 16 £57,500 +15.00% 16
South West +96 10 £56,373 +13.88% 7
Scotland +123 4 £67,500 +17.39% 5
East Midlands -3 3 £60,000 - 6
Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 58 (38.16%) Project Management
2 55 (36.18%) Manufacturing
3 51 (33.55%) Azure
4 48 (31.58%) Finance
5 47 (30.92%) Business Case
6 45 (29.61%) Degree
7 36 (23.68%) Microsoft
8 34 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (20.39%) Customer Requirements
9 31 (20.39%) ITIL
10 30 (19.74%) HNC
10 30 (19.74%) NEBOSH
11 29 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (15.13%) Social Skills
14 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure Management
14 20 (13.16%) WAN
15 19 (12.50%) Firewall
15 19 (12.50%) VMware
16 18 (11.84%) Cisco
16 18 (11.84%) PRINCE2
17 17 (11.18%) Data Centre
17 17 (11.18%) SD-WAN
18 15 (9.87%) Server Management
18 15 (9.87%) Business Strategy
18 15 (9.87%) Law
18 15 (9.87%) Agile
19 14 (9.21%) Windows
19 14 (9.21%) Service Delivery
19 14 (9.21%) BPSS Clearance

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 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.97%) IIS
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.66%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.66%) CICS
5 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.66%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 51 (33.55%) Azure
2 34 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.61%) AWS
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.97%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.97%) OneDrive
4 3 (1.97%) Serverless
5 2 (1.32%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.66%) GitHub
6 1 (0.66%) IaaS
6 1 (0.66%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.66%) PaaS
6 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.66%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.16%) WAN
2 19 (12.50%) Firewall
3 17 (11.18%) SD-WAN
4 10 (6.58%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (5.92%) VPN
6 8 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.26%) Wireless
7 5 (3.29%) BGP
7 5 (3.29%) Internet
7 5 (3.29%) MPLS
7 5 (3.29%) Network Security
7 5 (3.29%) OSPF
8 4 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (2.63%) LAN
9 3 (1.97%) DHCP
9 3 (1.97%) DNS
10 2 (1.32%) NAS
10 2 (1.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.32%) MySQL
3 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Git
1 2 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 55 (36.18%) Manufacturing
2 48 (31.58%) Finance
3 23 (15.13%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Law
5 11 (7.24%) Legal
6 10 (6.58%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Local Government
8 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.32%) Middleware
1 2 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.18%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.61%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (3.29%) Clustering
3 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.97%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.97%) Replication
4 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.32%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.66%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.66%) PMI
6 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.21%) Windows
2 10 (6.58%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.95%) Linux
4 3 (1.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.16%) Project Management
2 47 (30.92%) Business Case
3 31 (20.39%) Customer Requirements
3 31 (20.39%) ITIL
4 29 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure Management
7 18 (11.84%) PRINCE2
8 15 (9.87%) Agile
8 15 (9.87%) Business Strategy
8 15 (9.87%) Server Management
9 14 (9.21%) Service Delivery
10 13 (8.55%) Manufacturing Engineering
10 13 (8.55%) Project Delivery
10 13 (8.55%) Requirements Management
11 12 (7.89%) People Management
11 12 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (7.24%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (7.24%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.24%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.95%) SQL
3 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.32%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (29.61%) Degree
2 30 (19.74%) HNC
3 14 (9.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.97%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CISA
6 1 (0.66%) CISSP
6 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.66%) PMP
6 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.74%) NEBOSH
2 11 (7.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.63%) QA
4 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) SLA
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (8.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.89%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.97%) Docker
5 2 (1.32%) Firmware
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (5.92%) FortiGate
2 6 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.29%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (3.29%) WSUS
4 3 (1.97%) SCCM
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
5 1 (0.66%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.66%) Puppet
5 1 (0.66%) Terraform
5 1 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.50%) VMware
3 18 (11.84%) Cisco
4 5 (3.29%) Draytek
4 5 (3.29%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (2.63%) NEC
6 3 (1.97%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.66%) Aruba
7 1 (0.66%) Concur
7 1 (0.66%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.66%) Mitel
7 1 (0.66%) MobileIron
7 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.66%) Sage
7 1 (0.66%) SAP
7 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.66%) Symantec