Infrastructure Management Jobs

Infrastructure Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 296 832
Rank change year-on-year -210 +536 -85
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 427 1,224 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 1.21% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.26% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 285 110 207
10th Percentile £33,100 £31,277 £41,134
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +3.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,875 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,500 £91,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 17 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 13 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 -213 352 £62,500 +4.17% 87
UK excluding London -286 275 £50,000 -4.76% 55
Work from Home +194 171 £62,500 +11.11% 33
London +49 136 £77,500 +19.23% 34
North of England -169 86 £50,000 -4.76% 19
South East -1 53 £55,000 +4.76% 18
Midlands -154 51 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North West -156 51 £48,750 -7.14% 8
Scotland -85 46 £47,500 -9.52%
Yorkshire -28 29 £50,000 - 9
East Midlands -42 29 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands -125 22 £46,750 -22.08% 4
East of England -33 14 £56,250 +93.97% 4
Northern Ireland +31 10 £42,500 - 1
South West -44 8 £62,500 -19.35% 5
Wales +16 7 £45,000 - 3
North East - 6 £50,000 - 2

Infrastructure Management
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 62 (14.52%) Apache
2 32 (7.49%) SharePoint
3 23 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.34%) Confluence
5 8 (1.87%) nginx
5 8 (1.87%) Skype for Business
6 5 (1.17%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.94%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.64%) Magento
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 164 (38.41%) Azure
2 93 (21.78%) AWS
3 84 (19.67%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (17.10%) Amazon S3
5 23 (5.39%) GCP
6 20 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
7 19 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (4.22%) GitHub
8 18 (4.22%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.75%) SaaS
10 16 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.51%) Serverless
12 14 (3.28%) Route 53
13 13 (3.04%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.41%) Azure Pipelines
16 6 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 151 (35.36%) Firewall
2 91 (21.31%) VPN
3 87 (20.37%) Internet
4 66 (15.46%) LAN
5 64 (14.99%) WAN
6 55 (12.88%) SNMP
7 54 (12.65%) IPsec
8 37 (8.67%) DNS
9 26 (6.09%) Network Security
10 24 (5.62%) SAN
10 24 (5.62%) TCP/IP
11 20 (4.68%) DHCP
12 19 (4.45%) NAS
12 19 (4.45%) Wireless
13 17 (3.98%) VLAN
13 17 (3.98%) VoIP
14 16 (3.75%) SD-WAN
15 12 (2.81%) MPLS
16 10 (2.34%) BGP
16 10 (2.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (13.82%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (12.65%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (3.28%) MySQL
5 7 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
5 7 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.64%) Redis
6 5 (1.17%) DB2
6 5 (1.17%) Power BI
6 5 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.70%) Tableau
8 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (6.09%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.45%) Git
3 11 (2.58%) Bitbucket
3 11 (2.58%) JIRA
3 11 (2.58%) Subversion
4 10 (2.34%) GitLab
4 10 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.70%) git-flow
6 1 (0.23%) GDB
6 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.23%) Valgrind
General
1 107 (25.06%) Finance
1 107 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 40 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.96%) Manufacturing
4 28 (6.56%) Telecoms
5 23 (5.39%) Law
6 17 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.04%) Marketing
8 9 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.41%) Banking
10 6 (1.41%) Retail
11 5 (1.17%) Games
11 5 (1.17%) Legal
12 4 (0.94%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.70%) Billing
13 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (16.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (13.35%) Consultant
3 54 (12.65%) NetApp Consultant
4 39 (9.13%) Network Engineer
5 34 (7.96%) IT Engineer
5 34 (7.96%) IT Manager
6 30 (7.03%) Principal Engineer
7 27 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (6.32%) Infrastructure Manager
7 27 (6.32%) Lead
8 23 (5.39%) Architect
9 22 (5.15%) Senior
10 21 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (3.75%) Analyst
12 16 (3.75%) Principal Network Engineer
13 15 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.28%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.28%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (13.11%) YAML
2 54 (12.65%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (3.04%) SAML
4 8 (1.87%) .NET
4 8 (1.87%) 802.1X
4 8 (1.87%) EDI
5 7 (1.64%) Middleware
6 6 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 6 (1.41%) ATL
6 6 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.17%) Node.js
7 5 (1.17%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.70%) LAMP
9 3 (0.70%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (0.70%) Web Services
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.47%) JSON
10 2 (0.47%) Kafka
10 2 (0.47%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 113 (26.46%) Data Centre
2 45 (10.54%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.75%) Client/Server
4 12 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.58%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.34%) PKI
7 9 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.11%) NHS
8 8 (1.87%) IoT
8 8 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (1.64%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) Clustering
10 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 160 (37.47%) Windows
2 125 (29.27%) Linux
3 62 (14.52%) Windows Server
4 54 (12.65%) Data ONTAP
5 13 (3.04%) Android
5 13 (3.04%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.87%) Unix
7 7 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.17%) CentOS
8 5 (1.17%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.47%) VMS
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (44.03%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 90 (21.08%) Project Management
4 74 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
5 64 (14.99%) DevOps
5 64 (14.99%) Roadmaps
6 62 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 60 (14.05%) Project Planning
8 59 (13.82%) Storage Management
9 58 (13.58%) CI/CD
10 57 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (13.35%) Migration
11 56 (13.11%) Release Management
12 54 (12.65%) Actionable Insight
12 54 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 52 (12.18%) Computer Science
14 48 (11.24%) Customer Experience
14 48 (11.24%) ITIL
15 40 (9.37%) Service Management
16 39 (9.13%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 91 (21.31%) Python
2 31 (7.26%) SQL
3 19 (4.45%) Bash
4 15 (3.51%) Java
4 15 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.34%) Swift
6 4 (0.94%) C#
6 4 (0.94%) PHP
6 4 (0.94%) X++
7 3 (0.70%) Go
8 2 (0.47%) Korn
8 2 (0.47%) Ruby
8 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 103 (24.12%) Degree
2 39 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (3.28%) HNC
6 13 (3.04%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.81%) MCSE
7 12 (2.81%) Security Cleared
8 10 (2.34%) CCNA
8 10 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (2.11%) CISSP
9 9 (2.11%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.87%) CCNP
11 7 (1.64%) SC Cleared
12 6 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (1.17%) RHCA
14 4 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.85%) GDPR
2 17 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (3.51%) QA
4 10 (2.34%) SLA
5 9 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.17%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 108 (25.29%) Docker
1 108 (25.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (16.39%) Active Directory
3 31 (7.26%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.75%) vSphere
5 11 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.17%) Firmware
7 5 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.70%) KVM
10 1 (0.23%) etcd
Systems Management
1 112 (26.23%) Kubernetes
2 105 (24.59%) Ansible
3 60 (14.05%) Prometheus
4 55 (12.88%) vCenter Server
5 38 (8.90%) Terraform
6 20 (4.68%) Docker Swarm
7 15 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (3.04%) Puppet
9 12 (2.81%) Progress Chef
10 11 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (2.34%) Packer
11 10 (2.34%) ZABBIX
12 9 (2.11%) Nagios
13 8 (1.87%) SCOM
14 7 (1.64%) Grafana
14 7 (1.64%) Salt
15 6 (1.41%) FortiGate
16 5 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
17 3 (0.70%) Graphite
18 2 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 160 (37.47%) Microsoft
2 118 (27.63%) VMware
3 63 (14.75%) Red Hat
4 59 (13.82%) NetApp
5 55 (12.88%) Palo Alto
6 54 (12.65%) SolidFire
7 37 (8.67%) Cisco
8 31 (7.26%) Juniper
9 30 (7.03%) Fortinet
10 23 (5.39%) Sandvine
11 21 (4.92%) Oracle
12 16 (3.75%) Citrix
12 16 (3.75%) Epicor
13 14 (3.28%) CheckPoint
14 11 (2.58%) Atlassian
14 11 (2.58%) IBM
15 9 (2.11%) HP
15 9 (2.11%) IFS
15 9 (2.11%) JD Edwards
16 8 (1.87%) Google