Infrastructure Support Jobs in England

Infrastructure Support
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support salary in England is £45,000 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 628 744 961
Rank change year-on-year +116 +217 -226
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 237 150 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 208 133 182
10th Percentile £30,385 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £33,000 £33,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £51,750 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the England 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
South East +9 94 £45,000 +27.12% 7
South West +4 55 £37,000 -1.33%
London +97 44 £42,500 -5.56% 4
North of England +14 23 £42,500 +11.84% 3
Midlands -31 20 £41,250 +1.23% 2
Yorkshire +74 16 £41,250 +15.38% 2
West Midlands -6 14 £37,500 -4.46% 1
North West -24 6 £50,000 +6.84% 1
East Midlands -27 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
East of England -15 1 - - 1
North East -21 1 £29,000 -31.76%
Infrastructure Support
UK

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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 England region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 155 (65.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (45.57%) Windows
3 101 (42.62%) Azure
4 98 (41.35%) VMware
5 91 (38.40%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (37.55%) Active Directory
7 81 (34.18%) Microsoft
7 81 (34.18%) Windows Server
8 65 (27.43%) Firewall
9 63 (26.58%) VMware Infrastructure
9 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
10 50 (21.10%) PowerShell
11 47 (19.83%) Security Cleared
12 44 (18.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 42 (17.72%) DNS
14 38 (16.03%) VMware ESXi
15 37 (15.61%) Windows 10
16 36 (15.19%) SCCM
17 35 (14.77%) SC Cleared
17 35 (14.77%) SLA
17 35 (14.77%) Citrix
18 34 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (13.92%) Windows Server 2012
19 33 (13.92%) SharePoint
19 33 (13.92%) Microsoft Exchange
20 32 (13.50%) WAN
20 32 (13.50%) Linux
20 32 (13.50%) AWS
21 31 (13.08%) Customer Service
22 29 (12.24%) vCenter Server

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (13.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 33 (13.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.69%) IIS
3 3 (1.27%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.53%) LightWave 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (42.62%) Azure
2 91 (38.40%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (13.50%) AWS
4 29 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 22 (9.28%) SaaS
6 21 (8.86%) IaaS
7 14 (5.91%) PaaS
8 11 (4.64%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.95%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.69%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.69%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.84%) OpenDNS
14 1 (0.42%) Google Workspace
14 1 (0.42%) OCI
14 1 (0.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.43%) Firewall
2 42 (17.72%) DNS
3 32 (13.50%) WAN
4 29 (12.24%) LAN
5 28 (11.81%) VPN
6 27 (11.39%) SAN
7 23 (9.70%) DHCP
8 22 (9.28%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (8.02%) Internet
10 14 (5.91%) SD-WAN
11 13 (5.49%) iSCSI
11 13 (5.49%) TCP/IP
11 13 (5.49%) Wireless
12 9 (3.80%) WLAN
13 8 (3.38%) NAS
13 8 (3.38%) VLAN
14 7 (2.95%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (2.53%) Softphone
16 4 (1.69%) Network Security
17 3 (1.27%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.53%) MySQL
4 5 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (5.06%) JIRA
2 3 (1.27%) GitLab
2 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.24%) Finance
3 23 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.38%) Law
5 8 (3.38%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.53%) Legal
7 4 (1.69%) Banking
8 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.84%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.53%) .NET
2 3 (1.27%) .NET Framework
2 3 (1.27%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.27%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (1.27%) LDAP
3 2 (0.84%) LAMP
3 2 (0.84%) V-Ray
4 1 (0.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.28%) Driving Licence
2 16 (6.75%) PKI
2 16 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (6.33%) Clustering
4 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.95%) Replication
6 6 (2.53%) Smart Home
7 4 (1.69%) IPTV
7 4 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.84%) BYOD
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.42%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 108 (45.57%) Windows
2 81 (34.18%) Windows Server
3 37 (15.61%) Windows 10
4 33 (13.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 32 (13.50%) Linux
6 9 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.38%) Android
7 8 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.95%) Apple iOS
9 6 (2.53%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.27%) CentOS
10 3 (1.27%) Debian
10 3 (1.27%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.42%) AIX
11 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.42%) Unix
11 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (65.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (13.08%) Customer Service
4 26 (10.97%) ITIL
5 15 (6.33%) Incident Management
5 15 (6.33%) Problem Management
6 14 (5.91%) Service Management
7 13 (5.49%) Change Management
7 13 (5.49%) Customer Requirements
7 13 (5.49%) Service Delivery
8 11 (4.64%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (4.22%) Capacity Management
9 10 (4.22%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (4.22%) Server Monitoring
10 9 (3.80%) Systems Engineering
11 8 (3.38%) Change Advisory Board
11 8 (3.38%) Patch Management
12 7 (2.95%) People Management
12 7 (2.95%) Performance Management
12 7 (2.95%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.10%) PowerShell
2 16 (6.75%) SQL
3 13 (5.49%) ActionScript
3 13 (5.49%) VB
4 11 (4.64%) Bash
5 7 (2.95%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.27%) C#
6 3 (1.27%) Java
7 1 (0.42%) Python
Qualifications
1 47 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.86%) Degree
4 13 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (2.95%) MCP
6 5 (2.11%) CCNA
6 5 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.42%) CCA
8 1 (0.42%) CCDA
8 1 (0.42%) CCNP
8 1 (0.42%) CISSP
8 1 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.42%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.42%) MCSE
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.77%) SLA
2 8 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (3.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 89 (37.55%) Active Directory
2 63 (26.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (16.03%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (10.13%) Hyper-V
5 16 (6.75%) XenApp
6 15 (6.33%) vSphere
7 13 (5.49%) OpenSSH
8 11 (4.64%) Firmware
9 10 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.27%) Docker
10 3 (1.27%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.27%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.84%) pfSense
11 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (18.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (15.19%) SCCM
3 29 (12.24%) vCenter Server
4 13 (5.49%) IBM BigFix
4 13 (5.49%) PowerCLI
5 9 (3.80%) WSUS
6 8 (3.38%) NetBackup
6 8 (3.38%) SCOM
7 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (2.53%) SCDPM
8 3 (1.27%) Sysprep
8 3 (1.27%) ZENworks
9 2 (0.84%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.42%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 98 (41.35%) VMware
2 81 (34.18%) Microsoft
3 35 (14.77%) Citrix
4 25 (10.55%) Veeam
5 23 (9.70%) Cisco
6 15 (6.33%) HP
7 14 (5.91%) IBM
8 12 (5.06%) Sophos
9 10 (4.22%) Dell
10 8 (3.38%) Meraki
10 8 (3.38%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.95%) McAfee
12 6 (2.53%) Aruba
12 6 (2.53%) Dell Compellent
12 6 (2.53%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (1.69%) SolarWinds
14 3 (1.27%) Apple
14 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
14 3 (1.27%) NetApp
15 2 (0.84%) Veritas