Infrastructure Manager Jobs

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 460 447
Rank change year-on-year -44 -13 +360
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 202 524 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.51% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.53% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 130 417 245
10th Percentile £50,893 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,011 £50,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 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
England -64 198 £62,500 +4.17% 110
UK excluding London +21 149 £58,500 +6.36% 79
North of England +18 71 £54,793 -0.38% 16
London -7 55 £70,000 -11.11% 36
North West +7 52 £54,793 -8.68% 4
Work from Home -12 43 £59,250 -5.20% 52
South East +4 26 £65,000 +8.33% 16
Yorkshire +44 19 £60,350 +9.73% 12
East of England +29 19 £57,500 +15.00% 14
Midlands +8 19 £67,500 +17.39% 19
West Midlands +26 16 £77,500 +34.78% 11
South West +105 10 £56,373 +13.88% 7
Scotland +118 4 £67,500 +12.50% 4
East Midlands +16 3 £60,000 - 8

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 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 featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 79 (39.11%) Azure
2 74 (36.63%) Project Management
3 58 (28.71%) Finance
4 57 (28.22%) Degree
5 55 (27.23%) Manufacturing
6 50 (24.75%) Microsoft
7 49 (24.26%) Business Case
8 47 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (22.28%) Social Skills
10 43 (21.29%) ITIL
11 35 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (16.34%) Infrastructure Management
13 32 (15.84%) Data Centre
13 32 (15.84%) Customer Requirements
14 31 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (14.85%) HNC
15 30 (14.85%) NEBOSH
16 29 (14.36%) Windows
16 29 (14.36%) VMware
17 25 (12.38%) Agile
18 24 (11.88%) Firewall
18 24 (11.88%) PRINCE2
19 23 (11.39%) Cisco
20 21 (10.40%) WAN
21 19 (9.41%) Law
21 19 (9.41%) Project Delivery
22 18 (8.91%) SD-WAN
22 18 (8.91%) Business Strategy
23 17 (8.42%) Legal
23 17 (8.42%) Service Delivery

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
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 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.49%) CMS
3 2 (0.99%) Moodle
4 1 (0.50%) CICS
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 79 (39.11%) Azure
2 35 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.43%) AWS
4 6 (2.97%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.97%) GitHub
4 6 (2.97%) OneDrive
5 4 (1.98%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.98%) Serverless
6 3 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.49%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.49%) IaaS
6 3 (1.49%) PaaS
6 3 (1.49%) SaaS
7 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.99%) Datadog
7 2 (0.99%) GCP
7 2 (0.99%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.88%) Firewall
2 21 (10.40%) WAN
3 18 (8.91%) SD-WAN
4 8 (3.96%) Network Security
4 8 (3.96%) VPN
4 8 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (3.96%) Wireless
5 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.48%) BGP
6 5 (2.48%) MPLS
6 5 (2.48%) OSPF
7 4 (1.98%) Internet
7 4 (1.98%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.98%) LAN
8 3 (1.49%) DNS
8 3 (1.49%) SAN
9 2 (0.99%) DHCP
9 2 (0.99%) NAS
10 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.49%) MySQL
2 3 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 58 (28.71%) Finance
2 55 (27.23%) Manufacturing
3 45 (22.28%) Social Skills
4 19 (9.41%) Law
5 17 (8.42%) Legal
6 9 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.47%) Humanities
7 7 (3.47%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.48%) Banking
8 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.98%) Retail
9 4 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.50%) German Language
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.49%) Web Services
2 2 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.99%) Middleware
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.84%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.48%) Clustering
4 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.98%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.49%) Replication
6 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.99%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.99%) NHS
7 2 (0.99%) PMI
7 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.50%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.36%) Windows
2 14 (6.93%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.95%) Linux
4 4 (1.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (36.63%) Project Management
2 49 (24.26%) Business Case
3 47 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.29%) ITIL
5 33 (16.34%) Infrastructure Management
6 32 (15.84%) Customer Requirements
7 31 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (12.38%) Agile
9 24 (11.88%) PRINCE2
10 19 (9.41%) Project Delivery
11 18 (8.91%) Business Strategy
12 17 (8.42%) Service Delivery
13 14 (6.93%) Budget Management
13 14 (6.93%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (6.44%) Line Management
14 13 (6.44%) Manufacturing Engineering
14 13 (6.44%) Migration
14 13 (6.44%) Requirements Management
14 13 (6.44%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.42%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.46%) SQL
3 5 (2.48%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.48%) Python
4 2 (0.99%) Bash
4 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (28.22%) Degree
2 30 (14.85%) HNC
3 14 (6.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.47%) PMI Certification
6 7 (3.47%) Postgraduate
7 6 (2.97%) PMP
8 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.49%) CCIE
9 3 (1.49%) CCNP
9 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.49%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.99%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) NEBOSH
2 13 (6.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.97%) QA
4 5 (2.48%) SLA
5 4 (1.98%) GDPR
6 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.50%) NCSC
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.94%) Hyper-V
3 11 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.47%) Docker
5 4 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.99%) Firmware
8 1 (0.50%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.45%) Kubernetes
1 11 (5.45%) Terraform
2 9 (4.46%) FortiGate
2 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.48%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (2.48%) WSUS
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.99%) SCCM
5 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.36%) VMware
3 23 (11.39%) Cisco
4 6 (2.97%) NEC
5 5 (2.48%) Citrix
5 5 (2.48%) Draytek
5 5 (2.48%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (1.49%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.49%) Meraki
6 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.99%) Forcepoint
7 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) arcserve
8 1 (0.50%) Aruba
8 1 (0.50%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.50%) Sage
8 1 (0.50%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) Sophos