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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 439 801
Rank change year-on-year -25 +362 -186
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 504 702 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.71% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.77% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 408 242 404
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,355
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £86,750
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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -4 475 £60,000 -4.00% 72
UK excluding London -138 316 £55,000 - 52
Work from Home +113 174 £62,500 - 26
London +157 169 £80,000 -5.88% 28
South East -44 92 £60,000 - 17
North of England +17 80 £56,743 +3.17% 19
Midlands -54 75 £57,500 +6.48% 12
West Midlands -5 45 £57,500 +9.52% 7
East of England -34 40 £50,000 -17.70%
North West +1 36 £67,500 +22.73% 10
Yorkshire +59 31 £58,750 +6.82% 8
East Midlands -43 30 £60,000 +9.09% 5
South West -68 17 £49,500 -10.00% 1
North East -14 13 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Scotland -68 7 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Wales +8 6 £50,000 -29.58% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 (32.54%) Azure
2 133 (26.39%) Microsoft
3 128 (25.40%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (23.02%) Social Skills
5 112 (22.22%) Finance
6 111 (22.02%) Project Management
7 105 (20.83%) Active Directory
8 92 (18.25%) Windows
9 87 (17.26%) VMware
10 67 (13.29%) ITIL
11 65 (12.90%) Firewall
11 65 (12.90%) Project Delivery
12 64 (12.70%) Line Management
13 62 (12.30%) Degree
14 57 (11.31%) Windows Server
15 55 (10.91%) Data Centre
16 54 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
17 53 (10.52%) Entra ID
18 52 (10.32%) WAN
19 51 (10.12%) Agile
20 48 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
21 46 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 46 (9.13%) AWS
22 45 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
23 44 (8.73%) Cisco
24 43 (8.53%) Linux
25 42 (8.33%) PRINCE2
25 42 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
26 40 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
26 40 (7.94%) DHCP

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 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.98%) IIS
4 4 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.20%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 164 (32.54%) Azure
2 128 (25.40%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (10.52%) Entra ID
4 46 (9.13%) AWS
5 24 (4.76%) GCP
6 12 (2.38%) SaaS
7 11 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (1.98%) IaaS
9 9 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.59%) PaaS
11 7 (1.39%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.19%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.79%) CloudFront
14 3 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.60%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (0.60%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.60%) WhatsApp
15 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.90%) Firewall
2 52 (10.32%) WAN
3 40 (7.94%) DHCP
4 39 (7.74%) DNS
5 33 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
6 32 (6.35%) LAN
7 27 (5.36%) SD-WAN
8 19 (3.77%) SAN
9 18 (3.57%) Network Security
10 16 (3.17%) iSCSI
10 16 (3.17%) VoIP
11 12 (2.38%) Wireless
12 10 (1.98%) VPN
13 9 (1.79%) TCP/IP
13 9 (1.79%) VLAN
14 8 (1.59%) MPLS
15 7 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (1.19%) WLAN
17 4 (0.79%) HTTP
17 4 (0.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.19%) Power BI
3 4 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.40%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 116 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 112 (22.22%) Finance
3 31 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.56%) Banking
5 23 (4.56%) Marketing
5 23 (4.56%) Retail
6 17 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.37%) Law
7 13 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.59%) Billing
9 8 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.19%) Automotive
11 5 (0.99%) Legal
11 5 (0.99%) Local Government
11 5 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.79%) French Language
12 4 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.79%) LDAP
1 4 (0.79%) 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 55 (10.91%) Data Centre
2 15 (2.98%) PMI
2 15 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.18%) Clustering
5 7 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (1.39%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.19%) Blog
6 6 (1.19%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 5 (0.99%) CCTV
7 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (0.99%) EPoS
7 5 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.79%) CMDB
8 4 (0.79%) 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 92 (18.25%) Windows
2 57 (11.31%) Windows Server
3 43 (8.53%) Linux
4 16 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.19%) Android
6 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.79%) VMS
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
1 111 (22.02%) Project Management
2 67 (13.29%) ITIL
3 65 (12.90%) Project Delivery
4 64 (12.70%) Line Management
5 51 (10.12%) Agile
6 48 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 45 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (8.33%) PRINCE2
10 40 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (6.75%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (5.95%) Migration
14 28 (5.56%) Risk Management
15 27 (5.36%) Infrastructure Management
16 26 (5.16%) Mentoring
17 25 (4.96%) IT Strategy
17 25 (4.96%) Service Delivery
18 24 (4.76%) Change Management
18 24 (4.76%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.16%) PowerShell
2 8 (1.59%) SQL
3 1 (0.20%) Bash
Qualifications
1 62 (12.30%) Degree
2 22 (4.37%) PMI Certification
3 21 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 12 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.38%) CCNA
7 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.18%) PMP
8 10 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 9 (1.79%) MCSE
10 8 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.39%) CCNP
12 6 (1.19%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.79%) APMP
14 4 (0.79%) CISSP
14 4 (0.79%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.39%) GRC
3 6 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.19%) GDPR
4 4 (0.79%) NCSC
4 4 (0.79%) 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
1 105 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 54 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (7.54%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.79%) Docker
6 4 (0.79%) 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (2.38%) Opsgenie
4 12 (2.38%) VxRail
4 12 (2.38%) ZABBIX
5 9 (1.79%) Ansible
5 9 (1.79%) Terraform
6 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.39%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.79%) Puppet
7 4 (0.79%) WSUS
8 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 133 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 87 (17.26%) VMware
3 44 (8.73%) Cisco
4 19 (3.77%) Dell
5 17 (3.37%) Veeam
6 16 (3.17%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.58%) SolarWinds
8 12 (2.38%) NetApp
9 11 (2.18%) Apple
10 8 (1.59%) Sun
11 7 (1.39%) Citrix
11 7 (1.39%) Commvault
11 7 (1.39%) Meraki
11 7 (1.39%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.39%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (0.99%) Aruba
13 4 (0.79%) BroadSoft
13 4 (0.79%) Google
13 4 (0.79%) Qualys
13 4 (0.79%) Ruckus Wireless