Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in England is £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 871 1007
Rank change year-on-year +172 +136 -248
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 133 85 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.090% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.099% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 116 82 93
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,400 £27,800
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £52,813 £52,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £64,500 £60,000 £61,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +4.71% +14.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,061 86,064 125,517
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,068 54,328 75,797
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +52 59 £46,500 +16.25% 9
South West +2 26 £50,500 +38.36% 3
London +161 24 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Midlands +14 18 £45,000 -18.18%
West Midlands +40 12 £37,500 -21.05%
East Midlands -15 6 £47,500 -13.64%
North of England +44 5 £32,500 -14.47% 2
Yorkshire +88 2 £32,500 -14.47%
North West +7 2 £37,250 -12.35% 1
East of England +28 1 £50,000 +24.22% 1
North East +2 1 £29,000 -27.50% 1
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 121 (90.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (52.63%) Windows
3 67 (50.38%) Azure
4 65 (48.87%) VMware
5 63 (47.37%) Active Directory
6 58 (43.61%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (39.85%) VMware Infrastructure
8 51 (38.35%) Microsoft
9 50 (37.59%) Windows Server
10 45 (33.83%) PowerShell
11 39 (29.32%) Firewall
12 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
13 33 (24.81%) Microsoft Exchange
14 32 (24.06%) Citrix
15 31 (23.31%) VMware ESXi
16 27 (20.30%) SAN
16 27 (20.30%) Microsoft Intune
17 25 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (18.80%) vCenter Server
18 24 (18.05%) WAN
19 23 (17.29%) LAN
19 23 (17.29%) SLA
19 23 (17.29%) SharePoint
19 23 (17.29%) Finance
20 22 (16.54%) Entra ID
21 21 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
22 20 (15.04%) Security Cleared
22 20 (15.04%) Veeam
22 20 (15.04%) DNS
23 19 (14.29%) Cisco

Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 (24.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (17.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.26%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (2.26%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.38%) Azure
2 58 (43.61%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (16.54%) Entra ID
4 19 (14.29%) AWS
5 18 (13.53%) SaaS
6 15 (11.28%) IaaS
7 8 (6.02%) PaaS
8 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (3.76%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.26%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.50%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.50%) OpenDNS
13 1 (0.75%) GCP
13 1 (0.75%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (29.32%) Firewall
2 27 (20.30%) SAN
3 24 (18.05%) WAN
4 23 (17.29%) LAN
5 20 (15.04%) DNS
6 15 (11.28%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (9.77%) DHCP
8 12 (9.02%) VPN
9 10 (7.52%) Wireless
9 10 (7.52%) WLAN
10 9 (6.77%) Internet
11 8 (6.02%) iSCSI
12 7 (5.26%) SD-WAN
13 5 (3.76%) VLAN
14 4 (3.01%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (2.26%) NAS
15 3 (2.26%) Network Security
15 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
16 2 (1.50%) IPsec
16 2 (1.50%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) MySQL
1 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (4.51%) JIRA
2 3 (2.26%) GitLab
General
1 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.29%) Finance
3 19 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Law
6 4 (3.01%) Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.50%) LAMP
1 2 (1.50%) V-Ray
2 1 (0.75%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Driving Licence
2 13 (9.77%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (9.02%) PKI
4 10 (7.52%) Clustering
5 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.50%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 70 (52.63%) Windows
2 50 (37.59%) Windows Server
3 21 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (12.78%) Linux
4 17 (12.78%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.26%) Android
5 7 (5.26%) Apple iOS
6 6 (4.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.50%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.75%) AIX
9 1 (0.75%) Unix
9 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (90.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 18 (13.53%) ITIL
5 14 (10.53%) Problem Management
6 12 (9.02%) Capacity Management
6 12 (9.02%) Service Delivery
7 11 (8.27%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (6.77%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (6.77%) Systems Engineering
9 8 (6.02%) Incident Management
10 7 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (4.51%) Customer Experience
11 6 (4.51%) Patch Management
11 6 (4.51%) Server Monitoring
12 5 (3.76%) Change Control
13 4 (3.01%) Mentoring
13 4 (3.01%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 4 (3.01%) Proactive Monitoring
13 4 (3.01%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.83%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.52%) Bash
2 10 (7.52%) SQL
3 9 (6.77%) ActionScript
3 9 (6.77%) VB
4 3 (2.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (15.04%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.78%) Degree
3 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.77%) MCP
6 8 (6.02%) CCNA
6 8 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.26%) MCSE
9 3 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.50%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.75%) CCA
11 1 (0.75%) CCAA
11 1 (0.75%) CCDA
11 1 (0.75%) CCNP
11 1 (0.75%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.75%) LPIC
11 1 (0.75%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.29%) SLA
2 7 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 63 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 53 (39.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (23.31%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (11.28%) Hyper-V
5 12 (9.02%) XenApp
6 11 (8.27%) vSphere
7 9 (6.77%) OpenSSH
8 8 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (2.26%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.26%) XenDesktop
10 2 (1.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (1.50%) Docker
10 2 (1.50%) pfSense
10 2 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.75%) Firmware
11 1 (0.75%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 27 (20.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (18.80%) vCenter Server
3 15 (11.28%) SCCM
4 9 (6.77%) IBM BigFix
4 9 (6.77%) PowerCLI
5 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (4.51%) SCDPM
6 3 (2.26%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.50%) WSUS
8 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.75%) Ansible
8 1 (0.75%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.75%) NetCrunch
8 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 65 (48.87%) VMware
2 51 (38.35%) Microsoft
3 32 (24.06%) Citrix
4 20 (15.04%) Veeam
5 19 (14.29%) Cisco
6 15 (11.28%) HP
7 12 (9.02%) Sophos
8 10 (7.52%) IBM
9 9 (6.77%) Dell
10 6 (4.51%) Dell Compellent
10 6 (4.51%) Meraki
10 6 (4.51%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (3.01%) Aruba
12 3 (2.26%) 3PAR
12 3 (2.26%) Atlassian
12 3 (2.26%) NetApp
12 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.50%) EMC
13 2 (1.50%) Symantec
13 2 (1.50%) Veritas