IT Infrastructure Manager Jobs

IT Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 755 860
Rank change year-on-year +80 +105 +242
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Manager 34 157 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 134 87
10th Percentile £51,649 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,687 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +19.37% -11.50% +2.73%

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 50,066 97,923 88,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,124 69,761 56,179
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £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% +6.63%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Top 12 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 30 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 +42 34 £64,000 +11.30% 81
London +92 19 £65,000 -18.75% 7
UK excluding London +96 15 £59,687 +19.37% 84
Work from Home +81 12 £55,000 +10.00% 6
North of England +22 6 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Yorkshire +45 5 £53,750 -2.27% 8
South East +53 4 £72,750 +38.57% 19
South West +99 2 £56,373 +13.31% 10
Midlands +70 2 £67,500 +39.18% 20
West Midlands +48 2 £67,500 +29.50% 10
East of England +39 1 £63,000 +52.73% 13
North West -5 1 £55,000 +10.00% 7

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 14 (41.18%) ITIL
3 12 (35.29%) Windows
3 12 (35.29%) Project Management
4 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
5 9 (26.47%) Finance
6 8 (23.53%) Firewall
6 8 (23.53%) VMware
6 8 (23.53%) Agile
7 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (17.65%) ITSM
8 6 (17.65%) Service Delivery
8 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
8 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
8 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
9 5 (14.71%) Budget Management
9 5 (14.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (14.71%) IT Strategy
9 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
9 5 (14.71%) CRM
9 5 (14.71%) WAN
9 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
9 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
9 5 (14.71%) Degree
9 5 (14.71%) Network Security
9 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure

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 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Moodle
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.88%) Datadog
5 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) IaaS
6 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) Network Security
2 5 (14.71%) WAN
3 4 (11.76%) SD-WAN
4 3 (8.82%) VPN
5 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.94%) DNS
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Power BI
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Legal
3 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) Clustering
2 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.88%) Learning Management System
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.88%) Replication
3 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) ITIL
2 12 (35.29%) Project Management
3 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 6 (17.65%) ITSM
4 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 6 (17.65%) Service Delivery
5 5 (14.71%) Budget Management
5 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
5 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (14.71%) CRM
5 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (14.71%) IT Strategy
5 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
6 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.76%) Migration
6 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 4 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Bash
2 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.88%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) MCSE
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 3 (8.82%) SLA
4 1 (2.94%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.94%) NCSC
4 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) CheckPoint
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco
3 3 (8.82%) Citrix
3 3 (8.82%) Meraki
4 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) arcserve
5 1 (2.94%) Concur
5 1 (2.94%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.94%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.94%) Sage
5 1 (2.94%) Sophos