Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 430 792
Rank change year-on-year -39 +362 -169
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 497 707 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.70% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.77% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 401 248 409
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,950
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
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 £80,750 £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%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

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 Infrastructure Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -17 469 £60,000 -4.00% 68
UK excluding London -129 310 £55,000 - 48
Work from Home +108 173 £62,500 - 23
London +166 168 £80,000 -3.03% 22
South East -43 92 £60,000 - 14
North of England -5 76 £56,743 +3.17% 19
Midlands -43 75 £57,500 +6.48% 12
West Midlands -8 46 £57,500 +9.52% 6
East of England -38 39 £50,000 -25.93% 1
North West -1 35 £70,000 +27.27% 11
Yorkshire +62 29 £58,750 +6.82% 6
East Midlands -53 29 £60,000 +9.09% 6
South West -65 17 £49,500 -10.00% 2
North East -15 12 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Wales +15 6 £50,000 -29.58%
Scotland -62 6 £58,036 +5.52% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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.

1 164 (33.00%) Azure
2 132 (26.56%) Microsoft
3 128 (25.75%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (23.14%) Social Skills
5 113 (22.74%) Finance
6 110 (22.13%) Project Management
7 106 (21.33%) Active Directory
8 93 (18.71%) Windows
9 87 (17.51%) VMware
10 66 (13.28%) ITIL
11 64 (12.88%) Firewall
11 64 (12.88%) Line Management
12 62 (12.47%) Project Delivery
12 62 (12.47%) Degree
13 57 (11.47%) Windows Server
13 57 (11.47%) Data Centre
14 54 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
15 53 (10.66%) Entra ID
16 51 (10.26%) WAN
17 50 (10.06%) Agile
18 48 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
19 47 (9.46%) AWS
20 44 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 44 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
21 42 (8.45%) Linux
21 42 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
22 41 (8.25%) Cisco
23 40 (8.05%) DHCP
23 40 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
24 39 (7.85%) DNS

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 30 (6.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.02%) IIS
4 6 (1.21%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.20%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 164 (33.00%) Azure
2 128 (25.75%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (10.66%) Entra ID
4 47 (9.46%) AWS
5 24 (4.83%) GCP
6 12 (2.41%) SaaS
7 11 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (2.01%) IaaS
9 8 (1.61%) PaaS
10 7 (1.41%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.21%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.21%) CloudFront
11 6 (1.21%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.60%) DigitalOcean
12 3 (0.60%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.60%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (12.88%) Firewall
2 51 (10.26%) WAN
3 40 (8.05%) DHCP
4 39 (7.85%) DNS
5 31 (6.24%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (6.04%) LAN
7 27 (5.43%) SD-WAN
8 19 (3.82%) SAN
9 17 (3.42%) Network Security
10 16 (3.22%) iSCSI
10 16 (3.22%) VoIP
11 11 (2.21%) Wireless
12 10 (2.01%) VPN
13 9 (1.81%) TCP/IP
13 9 (1.81%) VLAN
14 8 (1.61%) MPLS
15 7 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (1.21%) WLAN
17 4 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
17 4 (0.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (1.21%) Power BI
3 2 (0.40%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 115 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.74%) Finance
3 31 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.43%) Banking
5 23 (4.63%) Retail
6 20 (4.02%) Marketing
7 17 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.22%) Law
9 13 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.61%) Billing
11 8 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.61%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.01%) Automotive
12 5 (1.01%) Legal
12 5 (1.01%) Local Government
12 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.80%) French Language
13 4 (0.80%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.21%) LDAP
1 6 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (0.60%) Flash
2 3 (0.60%) Middleware
2 3 (0.60%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (0.40%) TAPI
4 1 (0.20%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.47%) Data Centre
2 15 (3.02%) PMI
2 15 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.21%) Clustering
5 7 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (1.41%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.21%) Blog
6 6 (1.21%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.01%) CCTV
7 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.01%) EPoS
7 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.80%) CMDB
8 4 (0.80%) IPTV
9 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.60%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.60%) Replication
9 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (18.71%) Windows
2 57 (11.47%) Windows Server
3 42 (8.45%) Linux
4 16 (3.22%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.21%) Android
6 4 (0.80%) VMS
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Unix
8 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) AIX
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (22.13%) Project Management
2 66 (13.28%) ITIL
3 64 (12.88%) Line Management
4 62 (12.47%) Project Delivery
5 50 (10.06%) Agile
6 48 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 44 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (7.85%) PRINCE2
10 37 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (6.84%) Disaster Recovery
12 29 (5.84%) Migration
13 27 (5.43%) Infrastructure Management
14 26 (5.23%) Mentoring
15 25 (5.03%) Risk Management
16 24 (4.83%) Change Management
16 24 (4.83%) Coaching
16 24 (4.83%) Decision-Making
16 24 (4.83%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.23%) PowerShell
2 8 (1.61%) SQL
3 1 (0.20%) Bash
Qualifications
1 62 (12.47%) Degree
2 21 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.02%) PMI Certification
4 16 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 12 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.21%) CCNA
8 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.81%) MCSE
9 9 (1.81%) PMP
10 8 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 7 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.21%) CCNP
12 6 (1.21%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.01%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.80%) APMP
14 4 (0.80%) CISSP
14 4 (0.80%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.41%) GRC
3 6 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.21%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) NCSC
4 4 (0.80%) PMO
5 3 (0.60%) NIST
6 2 (0.40%) GAAP
6 2 (0.40%) IFRS
6 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) QA
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (21.33%) Active Directory
2 54 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (7.65%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.81%) Docker
6 4 (0.80%) pfSense
7 3 (0.60%) KVM
7 3 (0.60%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.40%) Firmware
8 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (2.41%) Opsgenie
4 12 (2.41%) VxRail
4 12 (2.41%) ZABBIX
5 9 (1.81%) Ansible
5 9 (1.81%) Terraform
6 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.41%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.80%) WSUS
8 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 132 (26.56%) Microsoft
2 87 (17.51%) VMware
3 41 (8.25%) Cisco
4 19 (3.82%) Dell
5 17 (3.42%) Veeam
6 16 (3.22%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.62%) SolarWinds
8 12 (2.41%) NetApp
9 11 (2.21%) Apple
10 8 (1.61%) Sun
11 7 (1.41%) Citrix
11 7 (1.41%) Commvault
11 7 (1.41%) Meraki
11 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.41%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (0.80%) BroadSoft
12 4 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.80%) Dell Compellent
12 4 (0.80%) QNAP
12 4 (0.80%) Zerto