The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 419 425 404
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 22 13 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.099% 0.055% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.105% 0.058% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 13
Average salary £40,000 £43,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,354 £31,100 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,250 £51,000 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-18.12% +14.00%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21050 22607 21256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.23% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17463 19538 18266
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Infrastructure Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the South East region.

South East Infrastructure Specialist Salary Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East Infrastructure Specialist Salary Histogram

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +18 9 £42,500 +51.78%
Hampshire +4 8 £40,000 -6.97%
Surrey +11 3 £42,500 -5.55%
West Sussex -12 1 £34,500 +10.40%
Middlesex - 1 £75,000 -
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Specialist in their job title.

1 30 (71.43%) VMware
2 26 (61.90%) Windows
2 26 (61.90%) Cisco
3 25 (59.52%) SAN
4 23 (54.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
6 17 (40.48%) Firewall
7 16 (38.10%) Citrix
8 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
8 13 (30.95%) vSphere
9 12 (28.57%) VPN
10 11 (26.19%) Linux
11 10 (23.81%) SQL Server
11 10 (23.81%) DNS
11 10 (23.81%) HP
11 10 (23.81%) TCP/IP
11 10 (23.81%) CheckPoint
11 10 (23.81%) NAS
12 9 (21.43%) MS Excel
13 8 (19.05%) Apache
13 8 (19.05%) Degree
13 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (16.67%) SCCM
14 7 (16.67%) DHCP
14 7 (16.67%) ITIL
14 7 (16.67%) UNIX
14 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
16 5 (11.90%) Advertising
16 5 (11.90%) IPsec

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.762%) Web Services
1 2 (4.762%) SAML
2 1 (2.381%) ODBC
2 1 (2.381%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) Apache
2 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (9.524%) IIS
4 3 (7.143%) MS Exchange
4 3 (7.143%) Lync
5 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (4.762%) Tomcat
5 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (2.381%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (2.381%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.762%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 25 (59.52%) SAN
2 17 (40.48%) Firewall
3 12 (28.57%) VPN
4 10 (23.81%) DNS
4 10 (23.81%) TCP/IP
4 10 (23.81%) NAS
5 7 (16.67%) DHCP
6 5 (11.90%) IPsec
7 4 (9.524%) iSCSI
7 4 (9.524%) VoIP
7 4 (9.524%) LAN
8 3 (7.143%) MPLS
8 3 (7.143%) FTP
8 3 (7.143%) HTTP
8 3 (7.143%) PBX
8 3 (7.143%) WAN
9 2 (4.762%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (4.762%) Network Security
9 2 (4.762%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (4.762%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.90%) MySQL
3 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.381%) DB2
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 5 (11.90%) Advertising
1 5 (11.90%) Retail
2 3 (7.143%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.762%) Finance
3 2 (4.762%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.143%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.762%) CCTV
3 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.381%) Handset
3 1 (2.381%) Clustering
3 1 (2.381%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 26 (61.90%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) Linux
3 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (16.67%) UNIX
4 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (7.143%) Windows XP
5 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.143%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.762%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.381%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.381%) Debian
7 1 (2.381%) Solaris
7 1 (2.381%) CentOS
7 1 (2.381%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (16.67%) ITIL
2 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (9.524%) E-Commerce
3 4 (9.524%) Information Security
4 3 (7.143%) Project Management
4 3 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 3 (7.143%) Capacity Management
4 3 (7.143%) Fault Management
4 3 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (4.762%) ITSM
5 2 (4.762%) Identity Management
5 2 (4.762%) Change Management
5 2 (4.762%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (4.762%) Business Continuity
6 1 (2.381%) Automated Testing
6 1 (2.381%) Resource Management
6 1 (2.381%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.381%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.381%) Network Management
6 1 (2.381%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) SQL
1 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.762%) Bash shell
2 2 (4.762%) VBScript
2 2 (4.762%) C
2 2 (4.762%) Perl
3 1 (2.381%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.381%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.381%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (9.524%) CCNA
4 3 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.143%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.143%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.762%) MCSE
5 2 (4.762%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.381%) CEH
6 1 (2.381%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.381%) MCITP
6 1 (2.381%) CISSP
6 1 (2.381%) OCP
6 1 (2.381%) OCA
6 1 (2.381%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.381%) MCP
6 1 (2.381%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.762%) QA
2 1 (2.381%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.381%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (54.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.95%) vSphere
3 3 (7.143%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.143%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.143%) XenApp
4 2 (4.762%) Shibboleth
4 2 (4.762%) NFS
4 2 (4.762%) Terminal Server
4 2 (4.762%) VMware ESX
4 2 (4.762%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (4.762%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.381%) Nmap
5 1 (2.381%) Xen
5 1 (2.381%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) SCCM
2 4 (9.524%) SCOM
3 2 (4.762%) HP SIM
3 2 (4.762%) OpenView
3 2 (4.762%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.381%) Nessus
4 1 (2.381%) WebInspect
4 1 (2.381%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 30 (71.43%) VMware
2 26 (61.90%) Cisco
3 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
4 16 (38.10%) Citrix
5 10 (23.81%) HP
5 10 (23.81%) CheckPoint
6 4 (9.524%) 3PAR
6 4 (9.524%) EMC
6 4 (9.524%) Avaya
6 4 (9.524%) Juniper
6 4 (9.524%) WatchGuard
7 3 (7.143%) Nortel
8 2 (4.762%) Veeam
8 2 (4.762%) F5
8 2 (4.762%) Isilon
8 2 (4.762%) Remedy
9 1 (2.381%) Qualys
9 1 (2.381%) Symantec
9 1 (2.381%) NetApp
9 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
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The suitable Systems Administrator will have at least 3 years experience supporting and overseeing the following technologies, VMware, Windows, Linux & Cisco... VMware platform for Data Centre services that...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
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Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Redhill, Surrey
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ISL
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Surrey
INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT ANALYST / INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST / 2 ND LINE SUPPORT / 3 RD LINE SUPPORT / NETWPORK SUPPORT / WINDOWS SUPPORT / WINTEL SUPPORT / INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT / SERVER SUPPORT / PROJECT SUPPORT / USER SUPPORT / WINDOWS...
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Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum plus benefits
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