Infrastructure Management Job Trends

Infrastructure Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 467 522
Rank change year-on-year -177 +55 +82
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 161 211 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.48% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 108 164 184
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,675 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,650 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,113 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £75,063
90th Percentile £87,325 £102,750 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,166 £49,875 £54,000
% change year-on-year -5.43% -7.64% -10.00%

All Process & 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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 16 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 10 September 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
England -142 153 £53,113 -0.63% 82
UK excluding London -124 92 £47,166 -5.43% 52
London -76 65 £77,500 - 43
South East -1 33 £45,000 -52.63% 15
Work from Home -97 24 £62,500 -7.41% 31
East of England -37 14 £53,725 +4.32% 4
South West -74 14 £60,000 +84.62% 12
Midlands -64 13 £60,000 +20.00% 6
North of England -62 10 £40,000 +6.67% 10
East Midlands -23 9 £45,000 -9.55% 3
Scotland +11 6 £60,000 -28.36% 6
West Midlands -49 4 £66,250 +32.50% 3
North East - 4 £40,000 - 2
North West -25 3 - - 8
Yorkshire -45 3 £85,000 +113.03%
Wales -75 2 £35,000 -33.33%

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.73%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (3.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 3 (1.86%) SAP Business One
4 2 (1.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (34.78%) AWS
2 47 (29.19%) Azure
3 37 (22.98%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (16.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (14.91%) Entra ID
6 15 (9.32%) SaaS
7 12 (7.45%) GitHub
8 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.35%) IaaS
10 6 (3.73%) Serverless
11 5 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.11%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (3.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (3.11%) Datadog
11 5 (3.11%) PaaS
11 5 (3.11%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.48%) GCP
12 4 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.86%) Amazon Bedrock
13 3 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 31 (19.25%) Firewall
2 20 (12.42%) VPN
3 19 (11.80%) DNS
4 15 (9.32%) LAN
5 14 (8.70%) WAN
6 13 (8.07%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (7.45%) DHCP
7 12 (7.45%) TCP/IP
8 10 (6.21%) Wireless
9 9 (5.59%) VLAN
10 8 (4.97%) SAN
11 7 (4.35%) Network Security
12 6 (3.73%) NAS
13 5 (3.11%) Ethernet
14 2 (1.24%) Remote Desktop
15 1 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
15 1 (0.62%) FCoE
15 1 (0.62%) Fibre Channel
15 1 (0.62%) iSCSI
15 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.91%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.73%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.24%) Metadata
5 2 (1.24%) MySQL
5 2 (1.24%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (19.25%) GitLab
2 22 (13.66%) Cucumber
3 14 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.97%) Git
4 8 (4.97%) JIRA
5 6 (3.73%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 42 (26.09%) Finance
2 40 (24.84%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.97%) Aerospace
4 8 (4.97%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.73%) Banking
6 6 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.48%) Law
8 3 (1.86%) Back Office
8 3 (1.86%) Marketing
8 3 (1.86%) Retail
9 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.24%) Local Government
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (13.66%) IT Engineer
1 22 (13.66%) Java Engineer
1 22 (13.66%) Principal Engineer
1 22 (13.66%) Principal Java Engineer
2 21 (13.04%) IT Support
3 20 (12.42%) IT Manager
4 18 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (10.56%) Support Engineer
6 16 (9.94%) Senior
7 13 (8.07%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Network Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Technical Support
9 10 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Support Manager
10 8 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (4.97%) Lead
10 8 (4.97%) Network Manager
10 8 (4.97%) Systems Administrator
11 7 (4.35%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.63%) Terraform
2 25 (15.53%) Kafka
3 22 (13.66%) Spring
3 22 (13.66%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.86%) .NET
4 3 (1.86%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.86%) CrewAI
4 3 (1.86%) Flask
4 3 (1.86%) HTML
4 3 (1.86%) LangChain
4 3 (1.86%) LangGraph
4 3 (1.86%) OAuth
4 3 (1.86%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.86%) OpenID
4 3 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.86%) Ray
4 3 (1.86%) RESTful
4 3 (1.86%) Swagger
4 3 (1.86%) vLLM
4 3 (1.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.25%) Enterprise Software
2 27 (16.77%) Cloud Native
3 25 (15.53%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (14.29%) Public Cloud
5 22 (13.66%) e-Learning
6 14 (8.70%) Onboarding
7 13 (8.07%) Data Centre
8 10 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (4.97%) CCTV
10 8 (4.97%) Security Posture
11 6 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (3.73%) PKI
12 5 (3.11%) AS400
12 5 (3.11%) iSeries
12 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.86%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
13 3 (1.86%) Fat Client
13 3 (1.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 46 (28.57%) Windows
2 30 (18.63%) Linux
3 24 (14.91%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.11%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.86%) Unix
7 2 (1.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.62%) CentOS
8 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.54%) CI/CD
2 48 (29.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (24.84%) Mentoring
6 38 (23.60%) Disaster Recovery
7 36 (22.36%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (21.74%) Agile
8 35 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (18.63%) Test Automation
10 25 (15.53%) Event-Driven
10 25 (15.53%) Microservices
11 23 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
12 22 (13.66%) Architectural Patterns
12 22 (13.66%) BDD
12 22 (13.66%) Coaching
12 22 (13.66%) CQRS
12 22 (13.66%) DevOps
12 22 (13.66%) End-to-End Testing
12 22 (13.66%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.74%) SQL
2 32 (19.88%) Python
3 27 (16.77%) PowerShell
4 26 (16.15%) Java
5 8 (4.97%) Bash
6 7 (4.35%) C#
7 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.86%) VB
8 3 (1.86%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.24%) C++
9 2 (1.24%) Go
9 2 (1.24%) PHP
9 2 (1.24%) Ruby
9 2 (1.24%) Scala
9 2 (1.24%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.62%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 22 (13.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 19 (11.80%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.45%) Degree
5 9 (5.59%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.86%) CCNA
8 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.24%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.62%) CISM
10 1 (0.62%) CISSP
10 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.62%) Server+ Certification
10 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.70%) GDPR
2 10 (6.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (4.97%) SLA
4 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.24%) PMO
5 2 (1.24%) QA
5 2 (1.24%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (27.95%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.66%) Docker
2 22 (13.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.56%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.59%) vSphere
5 5 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (12.42%) Kubernetes
1 20 (12.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (8.70%) Ansible
3 12 (7.45%) Grafana
3 12 (7.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.73%) SCCM
5 5 (3.11%) Proxmox
6 4 (2.48%) SCOM
7 3 (1.86%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.86%) SCOrch
8 2 (1.24%) MaaS360
8 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.24%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.62%) Puppet
9 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 32 (19.88%) VMware
3 5 (3.11%) Cisco
3 5 (3.11%) JD Edwards
3 5 (3.11%) Zoho
4 4 (2.48%) Facebook
4 4 (2.48%) Instagram
4 4 (2.48%) Meraki
4 4 (2.48%) Veeam
5 3 (1.86%) Apple
5 3 (1.86%) Citrix
5 3 (1.86%) Dell
5 3 (1.86%) NVIDIA
5 3 (1.86%) SAP
5 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.24%) HP
7 1 (0.62%) QNAP
7 1 (0.62%) Synology
7 1 (0.62%) Ubiquiti