Infrastructure Management Jobs

Infrastructure Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 527 269
Rank change year-on-year +53 -258 +572
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 252 444 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.49% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 189 290 109
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,155 £32,350
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £88,750 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% -15.42% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,935 91,102 87,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.69% 82.46% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,000 62,815 53,361
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,015 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +0.03% -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,145 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 June 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
England +69 227 £55,000 -8.33% 266
UK excluding London +51 131 £50,000 -1.48% 168
Work from Home +70 103 £53,750 -6.52% 123
London +87 95 £70,000 -9.68% 132
North of England +10 37 £58,750 +17.50% 34
Midlands +57 32 £50,000 -9.09% 9
West Midlands +78 28 £50,000 +0.25% 4
North West -15 24 £51,250 -6.82% 13
South East +61 23 £55,000 - 84
East of England +44 22 £51,500 -8.44% 19
South West +116 10 £33,750 -46.00% 15
Yorkshire +35 9 £53,750 +7.50% 19
Scotland +74 4 £73,750 +55.26% 4
North East +51 4 £62,500 +25.00% 2
East Midlands +30 4 - - 5
Wales +38 1 £52,500 +16.67% 2
Northern Ireland +27 1 £57,500 +35.29% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Infrastructure Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (9.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) CICS
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.19%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.79%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.40%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (59.13%) Azure
2 95 (37.70%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (25.40%) AWS
4 44 (17.46%) Entra ID
5 23 (9.13%) GCP
6 21 (8.33%) GitHub
7 16 (6.35%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.16%) OneDrive
9 11 (4.37%) Serverless
10 10 (3.97%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (3.97%) SaaS
11 9 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.17%) Google Workspace
13 7 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 80 (31.75%) Firewall
2 39 (15.48%) WAN
3 34 (13.49%) LAN
4 32 (12.70%) VLAN
5 21 (8.33%) DNS
6 19 (7.54%) DHCP
6 19 (7.54%) VPN
6 19 (7.54%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (5.16%) Network Security
7 13 (5.16%) Wireless
8 11 (4.37%) SAN
9 9 (3.57%) TCP/IP
10 7 (2.78%) SD-WAN
10 7 (2.78%) SSL
11 5 (1.98%) Internet
11 5 (1.98%) NAS
11 5 (1.98%) Wireshark
12 4 (1.59%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.59%) VoIP
13 3 (1.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.57%) Power BI
3 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.79%) MySQL
6 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) DB2
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.54%) Git
2 11 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.38%) GitLab
4 4 (1.59%) JIRA
4 4 (1.59%) Maven
5 2 (0.79%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 99 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.25%) Finance
3 28 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.14%) Law
5 15 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.16%) Legal
7 9 (3.57%) Banking
7 9 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Humanities
10 5 (1.98%) Marketing
10 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.59%) Front Office
11 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.59%) Retail
12 3 (1.19%) Automotive
13 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (15.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (12.70%) Infrastructure Manager
3 29 (11.51%) Senior
4 26 (10.32%) IT Manager
5 25 (9.92%) IT Support
6 23 (9.13%) Support Engineer
7 20 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.75%) Administrator
9 16 (6.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) 3rd Line Support
9 16 (6.35%) IT Support Manager
10 13 (5.16%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 13 (5.16%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) IT Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) Lead
12 11 (4.37%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.57%) .NET
2 5 (1.98%) Spring
2 5 (1.98%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.59%) AWS CDK
3 4 (1.59%) CSS
3 4 (1.59%) Kafka
3 4 (1.59%) SOAP
4 3 (1.19%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.19%) HTML
4 3 (1.19%) Node.js
5 2 (0.79%) JSON
5 2 (0.79%) Laravel
5 2 (0.79%) PySpark
5 2 (0.79%) React
5 2 (0.79%) Vue
5 2 (0.79%) YAML
6 1 (0.40%) D3.js
6 1 (0.40%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (0.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.92%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.54%) Data Centre
4 17 (6.75%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.17%) CMDB
6 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.59%) Derivative
9 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.40%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.95%) Windows
2 64 (25.40%) Windows Server
3 31 (12.30%) Linux
4 24 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (9.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.17%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.78%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.38%) Android
8 6 (2.38%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.59%) Unix
10 3 (1.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.79%) Debian
11 2 (0.79%) SUSE
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.73%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (23.02%) DevOps
3 54 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (20.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 51 (20.24%) CI/CD
5 51 (20.24%) ITIL
6 45 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 39 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 33 (13.10%) Computer Science
9 30 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (10.71%) Business Continuity
11 26 (10.32%) Agile
12 25 (9.92%) Project Management
13 24 (9.52%) Containerisation
14 23 (9.13%) High Availability
15 22 (8.73%) Cloud Security
15 22 (8.73%) Network Design
15 22 (8.73%) Risk Management
15 22 (8.73%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 68 (26.98%) PowerShell
2 44 (17.46%) Python
3 15 (5.95%) SQL
4 12 (4.76%) Java
5 11 (4.37%) Bash
6 5 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.98%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.59%) Go
7 4 (1.59%) Scala
7 4 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.19%) PHP
9 2 (0.79%) Ruby
10 1 (0.40%) COBOL
10 1 (0.40%) Elixir
10 1 (0.40%) Elm
10 1 (0.40%) Erlang
10 1 (0.40%) F#
10 1 (0.40%) Haskell
10 1 (0.40%) JCL
10 1 (0.40%) PureScript
Qualifications
1 48 (19.05%) Degree
2 30 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 27 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 20 (7.94%) AWS Certification
5 16 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.16%) Security Cleared
7 11 (4.37%) CCNA
8 10 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.97%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.98%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.98%) Postgraduate
10 4 (1.59%) CISSP
10 4 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.59%) PhD
11 3 (1.19%) MCP
11 3 (1.19%) MCSA
11 3 (1.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (3.57%) GDPR
3 6 (2.38%) QA
4 4 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.19%) NIST
5 3 (1.19%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) COBIT
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.79%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 80 (31.75%) Active Directory
2 50 (19.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (11.11%) Docker
4 23 (9.13%) Hyper-V
5 19 (7.54%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (6.35%) XenApp
7 11 (4.37%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (4.37%) vSphere
8 4 (1.59%) Firmware
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.40%) pfSense
10 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 49 (19.44%) Terraform
2 41 (16.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (15.48%) Kubernetes
4 28 (11.11%) Ansible
5 8 (3.17%) Grafana
5 8 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (2.78%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.59%) SCCM
8 3 (1.19%) Iperf
8 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.79%) Autotask
9 2 (0.79%) Nessus
9 2 (0.79%) Puppet
10 1 (0.40%) Argo
10 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.40%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.40%) Packer
10 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (39.68%) Microsoft
2 69 (27.38%) Cisco
3 58 (23.02%) VMware
4 38 (15.08%) Meraki
5 27 (10.71%) SonicWALL
6 24 (9.52%) Fortinet
7 20 (7.94%) Citrix
7 20 (7.94%) Google
8 18 (7.14%) CheckPoint
9 11 (4.37%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.57%) WatchGuard
11 6 (2.38%) Pure Storage
12 5 (1.98%) Apple
12 5 (1.98%) Dell
12 5 (1.98%) Extreme Networks
12 5 (1.98%) Sage
12 5 (1.98%) Samsung
13 4 (1.59%) HubSpot
13 4 (1.59%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.59%) Veeam