3rd Line Infrastructure Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support salary in the UK excluding London is £38,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 723 718 828
Rank change year-on-year -5 +110 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 39 31 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.052% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.058% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 37 28 21
10th Percentile £31,250 - £37,775
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,400 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -5.88% +7.59%
75th Percentile £51,750 £52,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £52,550 £55,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,190 53,191 68,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.20% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,534 30,285 42,785
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Midlands +13 14 £37,500 -31.82% 1
South East -1 13 £32,500 -8.19% 2
West Midlands +14 10 £37,500 -21.05% 1
South West - 10 £50,500 -
East Midlands -17 4 £47,500 -13.64%
North of England +32 2 £36,000 -24.21% 1
North West +3 2 £36,000 -24.21%
3rd Line Infrastructure Support
UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 3rd Line 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 30 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (74.36%) Azure
3 28 (71.79%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (66.67%) Microsoft
5 24 (61.54%) WAN
6 20 (51.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (48.72%) VMware
8 18 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
9 16 (41.03%) Firewall
9 16 (41.03%) Active Directory
9 16 (41.03%) DNS
10 14 (35.90%) Citrix
11 13 (33.33%) SAN
11 13 (33.33%) HP
11 13 (33.33%) LAN
11 13 (33.33%) Hyper-V
11 13 (33.33%) Veeam
12 12 (30.77%) PowerShell
12 12 (30.77%) SharePoint
12 12 (30.77%) Windows
13 11 (28.21%) Sophos
13 11 (28.21%) SD-WAN
14 10 (25.64%) Power Platform
14 10 (25.64%) Windows Server
14 10 (25.64%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (25.64%) IaaS
14 10 (25.64%) SaaS
14 10 (25.64%) PaaS
15 9 (23.08%) SCCM
15 9 (23.08%) WLAN

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.13%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (5.13%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 28 (71.79%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (25.64%) IaaS
3 10 (25.64%) PaaS
3 10 (25.64%) Power Platform
3 10 (25.64%) SaaS
4 3 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.13%) Mimecast
5 2 (5.13%) OpenDNS
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 24 (61.54%) WAN
2 16 (41.03%) DNS
2 16 (41.03%) Firewall
3 13 (33.33%) LAN
3 13 (33.33%) SAN
4 11 (28.21%) SD-WAN
5 9 (23.08%) WLAN
6 6 (15.38%) DHCP
7 4 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (5.13%) EIGRP
8 2 (5.13%) HSRP
8 2 (5.13%) IPsec
8 2 (5.13%) iSCSI
8 2 (5.13%) OSPF
8 2 (5.13%) RIP
8 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
8 2 (5.13%) VLAN
8 2 (5.13%) VPN
8 2 (5.13%) VRRP
8 2 (5.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Finance
2 2 (5.13%) Law
2 2 (5.13%) Legal
2 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) LAMP
1 2 (5.13%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Clustering
1 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (5.13%) PKI
2 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Replication
2 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Windows
2 10 (25.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.82%) Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (25.64%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
4 7 (17.95%) Change Advisory Board
4 7 (17.95%) Change Management
4 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
4 7 (17.95%) People Management
4 7 (17.95%) Performance Management
4 7 (17.95%) Release Management
4 7 (17.95%) Service Management
5 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.13%) Biomedicine
6 2 (5.13%) Biotechnology
6 2 (5.13%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (5.13%) Migration
6 2 (5.13%) Server Building
6 2 (5.13%) Server Management
6 2 (5.13%) Software Deployment
6 2 (5.13%) Storage Management
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (41.03%) Active Directory
3 13 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 7 (17.95%) Firmware
5 3 (7.69%) Terminal Services
5 3 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (5.13%) Docker
6 2 (5.13%) pfSense
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (51.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (23.08%) SCCM
3 7 (17.95%) NetBackup
3 7 (17.95%) SCOM
4 2 (5.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.56%) Ansible
5 1 (2.56%) WSUS
5 1 (2.56%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 26 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (48.72%) VMware
3 14 (35.90%) Citrix
4 13 (33.33%) HP
4 13 (33.33%) Veeam
5 11 (28.21%) Sophos
6 7 (17.95%) McAfee
7 4 (10.26%) Aruba
8 3 (7.69%) Cisco
9 2 (5.13%) Acronis
9 2 (5.13%) Datto
9 2 (5.13%) Dell
9 2 (5.13%) SonicWALL
9 2 (5.13%) Veritas
10 1 (2.56%) 3PAR
10 1 (2.56%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds