Infrastructure Support Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Support
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the South West is £37,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 244 299
Rank change year-on-year +4 +55 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 55 11 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.19% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 45 7 23
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,910
25th Percentile £30,385 £32,875 £35,665
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £37,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -23.08% +34.48%
75th Percentile £51,750 £47,188 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £52,700 -
England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 10,157 5,725 8,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 88.79% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,334 3,659 5,114
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the South West

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the South West

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the South West

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Wiltshire +3 12 £50,500 +26.65%
Somerset +6 11 £30,385 -21.08%
Bristol -1 10 £35,000 -36.36%
Dorset -25 9 £60,000 +84.62%
Gloucestershire -14 8 £53,000 -
Devon - 4 £45,000 -
Cornwall - 1 £33,500 -
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 across the South West region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 23 (41.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (38.18%) Security Cleared
3 19 (34.55%) Azure
3 19 (34.55%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (32.73%) Firewall
5 13 (23.64%) DNS
6 11 (20.00%) SharePoint
6 11 (20.00%) WAN
6 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 11 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (20.00%) IaaS
6 11 (20.00%) SaaS
6 11 (20.00%) PaaS
6 11 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 11 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 10 (18.18%) VMware
7 10 (18.18%) Windows
8 9 (16.36%) Wireless
8 9 (16.36%) DV Cleared
8 9 (16.36%) Driving Licence
9 8 (14.55%) Windows Server
9 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
10 7 (12.73%) Linux
10 7 (12.73%) Finance
10 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
11 6 (10.91%) Windows 10
11 6 (10.91%) Softphone
11 6 (10.91%) Internet
11 6 (10.91%) AWS

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) Azure
1 19 (34.55%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (20.00%) IaaS
2 11 (20.00%) PaaS
2 11 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 11 (20.00%) SaaS
3 6 (10.91%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.73%) Firewall
2 13 (23.64%) DNS
3 11 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 11 (20.00%) WAN
4 9 (16.36%) Wireless
5 6 (10.91%) Internet
5 6 (10.91%) Softphone
6 2 (3.64%) DHCP
6 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.64%) VLAN
6 2 (3.64%) VPN
7 1 (1.82%) NAS
7 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.82%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 7 (12.73%) Finance
1 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Legal
3 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.27%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Windows
2 8 (14.55%) Windows Server
3 7 (12.73%) Linux
4 6 (10.91%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (7.27%) Network Design
2 4 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (7.27%) Server Monitoring
3 2 (3.64%) ITIL
3 2 (3.64%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (1.82%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) CCNA
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) SLA
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) Firmware
3 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) VMware
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) Aruba
3 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.82%) Citrix
3 1 (1.82%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (1.82%) N-able
3 1 (1.82%) NetApp
3 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.82%) Sophos
3 1 (1.82%) Veeam