Infrastructure Support Jobs in the Midlands

Infrastructure Support
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the Midlands is £41,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 311 335
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 -85
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 22 15 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.19% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20 15 18
10th Percentile £35,875 £32,600 £31,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% - +46.15%
75th Percentile £50,625 £55,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £53,750 - -
England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% +2.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,023 8,538 10,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 89.43% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,246 4,756 7,107
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the Midlands

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the Midlands

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the Midlands

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands +31 16 £37,500 -4.46%
East Midlands -14 6 £47,500 -13.64%
Infrastructure Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 20 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (81.82%) Azure
2 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 15 (68.18%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (63.64%) HP
4 14 (63.64%) SAN
5 13 (59.09%) Citrix
5 13 (59.09%) VMware
5 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (59.09%) Veeam
6 11 (50.00%) Sophos
7 10 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
8 9 (40.91%) Systems Engineering
8 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (40.91%) LAN
8 9 (40.91%) WLAN
8 9 (40.91%) WAN
9 8 (36.36%) Windows
10 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
10 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
11 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
11 6 (27.27%) DNS
11 6 (27.27%) DHCP
11 6 (27.27%) Firewall
12 5 (22.73%) Cisco
12 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (22.73%) Aruba
13 4 (18.18%) Law

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.64%) IIS
2 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) Mimecast
4 2 (9.09%) OpenDNS
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) SAN
2 9 (40.91%) LAN
2 9 (40.91%) WAN
2 9 (40.91%) WLAN
3 6 (27.27%) DHCP
3 6 (27.27%) DNS
3 6 (27.27%) Firewall
4 3 (13.64%) VLAN
4 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 2 (9.09%) HSRP
5 2 (9.09%) IPsec
5 2 (9.09%) iSCSI
5 2 (9.09%) OSPF
5 2 (9.09%) RIP
5 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (9.09%) VPN
5 2 (9.09%) VRRP
5 2 (9.09%) X.509
6 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Law
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) LAMP
1 2 (9.09%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Clustering
1 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) FMCG
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.64%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Android
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (40.91%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
5 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.09%) E-Commerce
6 2 (9.09%) High Availability
6 2 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (9.09%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (9.09%) Server Management
6 2 (9.09%) Server Migrations
6 2 (9.09%) Software Deployment
6 2 (9.09%) Storage Management
7 1 (4.55%) Antivirus Management
7 1 (4.55%) Logistics
7 1 (4.55%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.55%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CCNA
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CCA
2 1 (4.55%) CCDA
2 1 (4.55%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MCSE
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.64%) Terminal Services
5 2 (9.09%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (9.09%) Docker
5 2 (9.09%) pfSense
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Backup Exec
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (63.64%) HP
3 13 (59.09%) Citrix
3 13 (59.09%) Veeam
3 13 (59.09%) VMware
4 11 (50.00%) Sophos
5 5 (22.73%) Aruba
5 5 (22.73%) Cisco
6 3 (13.64%) Dell
7 2 (9.09%) Acronis
7 2 (9.09%) Datto
7 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
7 2 (9.09%) SonicWALL
7 2 (9.09%) Veritas
8 1 (4.55%) Apple
8 1 (4.55%) Foundry
8 1 (4.55%) Google
8 1 (4.55%) NetApp
8 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds