Infrastructure Manager Jobs

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 431 557
Rank change year-on-year -167 +126 +214
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 147 470 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.57% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 91 324 243
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -

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 55,025 82,075 67,929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.21% 95.14% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 30,267 52,784 48,266
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £71,991 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,980 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -140 141 £65,000 +8.33% 71
UK excluding London -71 103 £62,500 +8.70% 57
Work from Home -33 50 £59,000 -5.60% 29
London -43 44 £70,000 -12.50% 24
North of England -65 25 £58,500 +4.00% 13
Midlands +3 22 £71,250 +23.91% 6
South East -27 20 £72,750 +21.25% 21
South West +65 18 £57,500 +15.00% 5
Yorkshire +2 18 £58,200 +5.82% 4
West Midlands +18 16 £77,500 +34.78% 4
East of England -21 14 £58,000 +16.00% 6
North West -57 7 £74,250 +29.13% 8
East Midlands -5 6 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Scotland +73 4 £57,500 -11.54% 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 August 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 61 (41.50%) Azure
2 50 (34.01%) Microsoft
3 35 (23.81%) Project Management
4 30 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (19.73%) Windows
6 27 (18.37%) VMware
6 27 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (17.69%) Finance
8 24 (16.33%) Agile
8 24 (16.33%) Social Skills
9 22 (14.97%) Firewall
9 22 (14.97%) ITIL
10 20 (13.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (13.61%) Manufacturing
11 19 (12.93%) Active Directory
11 19 (12.93%) Degree
11 19 (12.93%) Project Delivery
11 19 (12.93%) Data Centre
11 19 (12.93%) Windows Server
12 18 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (12.24%) WAN
13 17 (11.56%) Service Delivery
13 17 (11.56%) VMware Infrastructure
14 16 (10.88%) DevOps
14 16 (10.88%) Business Continuity
15 15 (10.20%) NEC
15 15 (10.20%) Logistics
15 15 (10.20%) Infrastructure Management
15 15 (10.20%) Sprinklr
16 14 (9.52%) Migration

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 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.04%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.04%) CMS
4 2 (1.36%) IIS
4 2 (1.36%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (10.20%) Sprinklr
2 2 (1.36%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 61 (41.50%) Azure
2 27 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.12%) AWS
4 8 (5.44%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.76%) GitHub
6 5 (3.40%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.72%) IaaS
7 4 (2.72%) PaaS
7 4 (2.72%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.04%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.36%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.36%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.36%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.36%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.36%) SaaS
9 2 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.97%) Firewall
2 18 (12.24%) WAN
3 13 (8.84%) SD-WAN
4 9 (6.12%) Network Security
4 9 (6.12%) VPN
5 7 (4.76%) LAN
6 6 (4.08%) Wireless
7 5 (3.40%) DNS
7 5 (3.40%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (2.72%) Internet
8 4 (2.72%) MPLS
8 4 (2.72%) SAN
9 3 (2.04%) BGP
9 3 (2.04%) DHCP
9 3 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (2.04%) OSPF
9 3 (2.04%) WLAN
10 2 (1.36%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.72%) Power BI
3 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Git
2 2 (1.36%) GitLab
2 2 (1.36%) JIRA
General
1 26 (17.69%) Finance
2 24 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.61%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.48%) Legal
5 10 (6.80%) Law
6 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.76%) Banking
6 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Retail
9 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.04%) Web Services
2 2 (1.36%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.93%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.40%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.72%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.04%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.36%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.36%) PMI
7 2 (1.36%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.73%) Windows
2 19 (12.93%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.44%) Linux
4 4 (2.72%) Unix
5 2 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.81%) Project Management
2 30 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (16.33%) Agile
4 22 (14.97%) ITIL
5 20 (13.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (12.93%) Project Delivery
7 18 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (11.56%) Service Delivery
9 16 (10.88%) Business Continuity
9 16 (10.88%) DevOps
10 15 (10.20%) Infrastructure Management
10 15 (10.20%) Logistics
11 14 (9.52%) Migration
12 13 (8.84%) Roadmaps
12 13 (8.84%) Service Management
13 12 (8.16%) Change Management
13 12 (8.16%) IT Strategy
13 12 (8.16%) PRINCE2
14 11 (7.48%) CI/CD
14 11 (7.48%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.84%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.76%) SQL
3 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (12.93%) Degree
2 8 (5.44%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.76%) PMP
4 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.40%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.72%) CCIE
5 4 (2.72%) CCNP
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.36%) CISSP
7 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.36%) MCSE
7 2 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) SLA
2 7 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.08%) QA
4 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.04%) GDPR
6 3 (2.04%) PMO
7 2 (1.36%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.36%) NCSC
7 2 (1.36%) NIST
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (12.93%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.40%) Docker
5 4 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.04%) vSphere
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.68%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (6.80%) Terraform
2 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.76%) FortiGate
3 7 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.08%) Ansible
5 3 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.04%) WSUS
6 2 (1.36%) SCCM
7 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (34.01%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.37%) VMware
3 15 (10.20%) NEC
4 13 (8.84%) Cisco
5 7 (4.76%) Citrix
6 5 (3.40%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.72%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.72%) Meraki
8 3 (2.04%) Draytek
8 3 (2.04%) Forcepoint
8 3 (2.04%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.04%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (1.36%) arcserve
9 2 (1.36%) Aruba
9 2 (1.36%) Concur
9 2 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.36%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.36%) TippingPoint
9 2 (1.36%) Veeam