IT Infrastructure Manager Jobs

IT Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 849 1090
Rank change year-on-year +105 +241 -298
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Manager 157 110 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 135 95 120
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £67,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £78,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,913 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +3.48% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

IT Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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 +148 150 £57,500 -4.17% 15
UK excluding London +37 112 £50,000 -12.15% 11
Work from Home +76 53 £50,000 -18.70% 3
London +144 42 £80,000 +23.08% 4
South East +14 38 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North of England +73 34 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Midlands +4 21 £53,000 +0.95% 2
Yorkshire +94 20 £57,500 -13.21% 2
West Midlands +26 14 £57,500 +9.52% 2
North West +13 13 £50,000 -8.68% 3
East of England - 9 £41,250 -
East Midlands -4 7 £48,500 -53.81%
South West -19 7 £49,500 +3.99% 1
Scotland -58 3 £61,250 +22.50%
North East -5 1 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Wales - 1 £45,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 featuring IT Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 53 (33.76%) Microsoft
2 48 (30.57%) Windows
3 47 (29.94%) Azure
4 44 (28.03%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (28.03%) Active Directory
5 38 (24.20%) VMware
6 33 (21.02%) Social Skills
7 32 (20.38%) Windows Server
7 32 (20.38%) Firewall
8 31 (19.75%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (19.11%) Project Management
10 28 (17.83%) Line Management
10 28 (17.83%) Degree
11 26 (16.56%) Finance
12 22 (14.01%) Data Centre
13 21 (13.38%) VMware Infrastructure
13 21 (13.38%) Banking
14 20 (12.74%) ITIL
14 20 (12.74%) WAN
15 19 (12.10%) Entra ID
15 19 (12.10%) Project Delivery
16 18 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (11.46%) Wi-Fi
17 17 (10.83%) Agile
18 16 (10.19%) LAN
19 15 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 14 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
20 14 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
21 13 (8.28%) Mentoring
21 13 (8.28%) IT Strategy

IT 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 10 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.64%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.94%) Azure
2 44 (28.03%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (12.10%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.01%) AWS
5 7 (4.46%) OneDrive
6 6 (3.82%) GCP
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.64%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.38%) Firewall
2 20 (12.74%) WAN
3 18 (11.46%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (10.19%) LAN
5 12 (7.64%) DNS
6 11 (7.01%) DHCP
6 11 (7.01%) Network Security
7 6 (3.82%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.82%) VPN
7 6 (3.82%) WLAN
8 5 (3.18%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.55%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (2.55%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.55%) SAN
9 4 (2.55%) SNMP
9 4 (2.55%) VLAN
9 4 (2.55%) VoIP
9 4 (2.55%) Wireless
10 3 (1.91%) NAS
10 3 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
General
1 33 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.56%) Finance
3 21 (13.38%) Banking
4 15 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.01%) Law
7 9 (5.73%) Retail
8 8 (5.10%) Financial Institution
8 8 (5.10%) Marketing
9 4 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.27%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.64%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.46%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.18%) CCTV
3 5 (3.18%) EPoS
3 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.55%) IPTV
5 3 (1.91%) Replication
6 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Clustering
7 1 (0.64%) CMDB
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.64%) Tandem
7 1 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (30.57%) Windows
2 32 (20.38%) Windows Server
3 12 (7.64%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.55%) Linux
4 4 (2.55%) VMS
5 2 (1.27%) Android
5 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.64%) AIX
6 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.75%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (19.11%) Project Management
3 28 (17.83%) Line Management
4 20 (12.74%) ITIL
5 19 (12.10%) Project Delivery
6 18 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (10.83%) Agile
8 14 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (8.28%) IT Strategy
9 13 (8.28%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.01%) Coaching
10 11 (7.01%) Contract Management
10 11 (7.01%) Logistics
10 11 (7.01%) Roadmaps
11 10 (6.37%) Computer Science
11 10 (6.37%) Contract Negotiation
11 10 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (6.37%) Information Security
12 9 (5.73%) Demand Management
13 8 (5.10%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.46%) PowerShell
1 7 (4.46%) SQL
2 1 (0.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (17.83%) Degree
2 11 (7.01%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (5.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.46%) MCSE
6 6 (3.82%) CCNA
6 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.18%) CCNP
7 5 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.55%) CISSP
8 4 (2.55%) MCP
9 3 (1.91%) CCAA
9 3 (1.91%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.27%) CCIE
10 2 (1.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.18%) GDPR
2 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.55%) GRC
3 4 (2.55%) NCSC
4 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (28.03%) Active Directory
2 21 (13.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.37%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.55%) pfSense
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.64%) Ansible
2 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 53 (33.76%) Microsoft
2 38 (24.20%) VMware
3 11 (7.01%) Cisco
4 8 (5.10%) Veeam
5 7 (4.46%) Apple
5 7 (4.46%) Citrix
5 7 (4.46%) Dell
6 4 (2.55%) BroadSoft
6 4 (2.55%) Brocade
6 4 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.55%) Dell Compellent
6 4 (2.55%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.55%) Google
6 4 (2.55%) HP
6 4 (2.55%) QNAP
6 4 (2.55%) Qualys
6 4 (2.55%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (2.55%) Zerto
7 3 (1.91%) Adobe
8 2 (1.27%) Meraki