IT Infrastructure Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £59,687 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 655 691
Rank change year-on-year +99 +36 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Manager 15 110 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14 94 57
10th Percentile £51,370 £40,900 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,861 £46,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,687 £50,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.37% -11.50% +2.73%
75th Percentile £73,438 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,525 £66,250 £69,000
UK median annual salary £64,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.30% -4.17% +4.35%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
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% -

IT Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +12 6 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire +47 5 £53,750 -2.27% 3
South East +56 4 £72,750 +38.57%
South West +113 2 £56,373 +13.88% 1
West Midlands +54 2 £67,500 +29.50% 3
Midlands +44 2 £67,500 +39.18% 4
East of England +35 1 £63,000 +52.73% 2
North West -12 1 £55,000 +10.00%
IT Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
4 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (20.00%) High Availability
5 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (20.00%) Firewall
5 3 (20.00%) ITSM
5 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (20.00%) Windows

IT 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) ITSM
4 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (13.33%) IT Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) MCSE
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (6.67%) ISO 22301
4 1 (6.67%) NCSC
4 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) arcserve
4 1 (6.67%) Concur
4 1 (6.67%) Forcepoint
4 1 (6.67%) HubSpot
4 1 (6.67%) Sage
4 1 (6.67%) Sophos