The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 22 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 773 743 794
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 91 157 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.084% 0.128% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.135% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 76 131 66
Average salary £38,000 £47,500 £43,198
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +9.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,519 £29,250 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,750 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +13.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Infrastructure Specialist Salary Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Infrastructure Specialist Salary Histogram

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England -46 69 £40,000 -15.78%
London +6 25 £42,750 -22.27%
South East +18 22 £40,000 -6.97%
South Wales - 16 £32,500 -
Wales - 16 £32,500 -
East of England +3 10 £40,000 -5.88%
Cardiff - 10 £32,500 -
Berkshire +12 9 £42,500 +51.78%
Bedfordshire -5 9 £40,000 -11.11%
Reading - 9 £42,500 -
Hampshire +9 8 £40,000 -6.97%
Southampton - 8 £40,000 -
City of London -6 6 £59,500 +13.33%
Bridgend - 6 £21,000 -
Bedford - 6 £40,000 -
Surrey +15 3 £42,500 -5.55%
South West +2 3 £32,000 -8.57%
Luton -2 3 - -
Scotland -5 3 £40,995 -31.67%
North West -38 3 £32,500 -26.13%
East Midlands +2 2 £41,250 +50.00%
West Midlands -11 2 £35,250 -10.19%
Manchester -13 2 £36,250 +31.81%
Gloucestershire - 2 £33,500 -
Dundee - 2 £40,995 -
Merseyside +14 1 £27,250 -27.33%
Redhill +9 1 £35,000 -22.22%
Liverpool +7 1 £27,250 -27.33%
West Yorkshire -2 1 - -
Edinburgh -3 1 £70,000 +16.66%

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 124 (58.77%) VMware
2 123 (58.29%) Windows
3 91 (43.13%) Microsoft
4 75 (35.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 74 (35.07%) Cisco
6 68 (32.23%) Firewall
7 65 (30.81%) SAN
8 64 (30.33%) Active Directory
8 64 (30.33%) Windows Server 2008
9 60 (28.44%) Linux
10 57 (27.01%) DNS
10 57 (27.01%) Citrix
11 54 (25.59%) MS Exchange
12 47 (22.27%) HP
13 46 (21.80%) MS Excel
14 42 (19.91%) SQL Server
15 41 (19.43%) TCP/IP
16 40 (18.96%) Windows Server 2003
17 36 (17.06%) vSphere
18 34 (16.11%) Cisco Certification
19 33 (15.64%) IIS
20 32 (15.17%) UNIX
20 32 (15.17%) MySQL
20 32 (15.17%) SharePoint
21 31 (14.69%) SQL
21 31 (14.69%) Degree
22 30 (14.22%) VoIP
22 30 (14.22%) Exchange Server 2007
23 28 (13.27%) Apache
23 28 (13.27%) VPN

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 10 (4.739%) Application Packaging
2 9 (4.265%) Middleware
2 9 (4.265%) LAMP
3 3 (1.422%) Web Services
4 2 (0.948%) COM
4 2 (0.948%) SAML
5 1 (0.474%) JMS
5 1 (0.474%) .NET
5 1 (0.474%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.474%) ODBC
5 1 (0.474%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.474%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 54 (25.59%) MS Exchange
2 33 (15.64%) IIS
3 32 (15.17%) SharePoint
4 30 (14.22%) Exchange Server 2007
5 28 (13.27%) Apache
6 25 (11.85%) Exchange Server 2010
7 24 (11.37%) Lync
8 16 (7.583%) Exchange Server 2003
9 10 (4.739%) SharePoint 2010
10 8 (3.791%) SharePoint Server
11 7 (3.318%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (1.422%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 3 (1.422%) MQSeries
12 3 (1.422%) SAS
12 3 (1.422%) Windows Azure
13 2 (0.948%) nginx
13 2 (0.948%) TIBCO EMS
13 2 (0.948%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.474%) CICS
14 1 (0.474%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 46 (21.80%) MS Excel
2 10 (4.739%) Office 365
3 6 (2.844%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.370%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.948%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.948%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 68 (32.23%) Firewall
2 65 (30.81%) SAN
3 57 (27.01%) DNS
4 41 (19.43%) TCP/IP
5 30 (14.22%) VoIP
6 28 (13.27%) VPN
7 26 (12.32%) DHCP
8 24 (11.37%) Internet
9 21 (9.953%) WAN
10 20 (9.479%) NAS
11 17 (8.057%) LAN
12 16 (7.583%) Ethernet
13 14 (6.635%) Network Security
13 14 (6.635%) Unified Communications
14 13 (6.161%) SMTP
14 13 (6.161%) Wireless
15 12 (5.687%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (5.687%) MPLS
16 11 (5.213%) BGP
16 11 (5.213%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.91%) SQL Server
2 32 (15.17%) MySQL
3 12 (5.687%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (4.739%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (1.422%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (0.948%) Big Data
6 2 (0.948%) DB2
6 2 (0.948%) OLAP
7 1 (0.474%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.474%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 10 (4.739%) MSI
2 2 (0.948%) Subversion
3 1 (0.474%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.474%) Hudson
General
1 19 (9.005%) Finance
2 12 (5.687%) Advertising
3 11 (5.213%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.265%) Retail
5 5 (2.370%) Electronics
6 4 (1.896%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.422%) Banking
7 3 (1.422%) Front Office
8 2 (0.948%) Automotive
8 2 (0.948%) Law
8 2 (0.948%) Legal
8 2 (0.948%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.474%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.474%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.531%) Clustering
2 12 (5.687%) SaaS
3 10 (4.739%) Computer Science
4 7 (3.318%) Client/Server
4 7 (3.318%) CCTV
4 7 (3.318%) Handset
5 6 (2.844%) Blog
5 6 (2.844%) PKI
6 5 (2.370%) Replication
6 5 (2.370%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.896%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.422%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.422%) Equities
8 3 (1.422%) Open Source
9 2 (0.948%) Life Science
9 2 (0.948%) EqualLogic
9 2 (0.948%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.948%) Informatics
9 2 (0.948%) Mathematics
9 2 (0.948%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 123 (58.29%) Windows
2 64 (30.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 60 (28.44%) Linux
4 40 (18.96%) Windows Server 2003
5 32 (15.17%) UNIX
6 25 (11.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (10.43%) Windows 7
8 16 (7.583%) Debian
9 15 (7.109%) Windows XP
10 13 (6.161%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (3.791%) Windows 8
12 7 (3.318%) Windows Vista
13 6 (2.844%) Solaris
14 5 (2.370%) CentOS
15 4 (1.896%) Windows 2000 Server
16 3 (1.422%) NetWare
16 3 (1.422%) Ubuntu
16 3 (1.422%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.948%) AIX
17 2 (0.948%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (12.32%) ITIL
2 19 (9.005%) Change Control
2 19 (9.005%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (8.531%) Project Management
4 15 (7.109%) Business Continuity
5 13 (6.161%) Network Design
6 11 (5.213%) Change Management
7 9 (4.265%) Capacity Planning
7 9 (4.265%) Network Management
8 8 (3.791%) Capacity Management
9 6 (2.844%) ITSM
10 5 (2.370%) E-Commerce
10 5 (2.370%) Software Engineering
10 5 (2.370%) Service Management
10 5 (2.370%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (1.896%) Algorithmic Trading
11 4 (1.896%) Network Load Balancing
11 4 (1.896%) Software Deployment
11 4 (1.896%) Configuration Management
11 4 (1.896%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.69%) SQL
2 12 (5.687%) Perl
3 11 (5.213%) Bash shell
4 10 (4.739%) Python
5 9 (4.265%) Java
6 8 (3.791%) VB
7 7 (3.318%) C
7 7 (3.318%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.370%) VBScript
8 5 (2.370%) C++
9 2 (0.948%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.948%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.474%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.474%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.474%) PHP
10 1 (0.474%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 34 (16.11%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (14.69%) Degree
3 27 (12.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (10.90%) CCNA
5 22 (10.43%) MCSE
6 14 (6.635%) CCNP
7 8 (3.791%) MCITP
8 7 (3.318%) RHCE
8 7 (3.318%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (2.844%) MCP
9 6 (2.844%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (2.370%) CCIP
10 5 (2.370%) CCSP
10 5 (2.370%) VCP4
10 5 (2.370%) SC Cleared
10 5 (2.370%) Security Cleared
11 4 (1.896%) CCEE
11 4 (1.896%) CCIA
11 4 (1.896%) CCA
12 3 (1.422%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.161%) SLA
2 5 (2.370%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.370%) QA
3 4 (1.896%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.948%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.948%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (35.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (30.33%) Active Directory
3 36 (17.06%) vSphere
4 19 (9.005%) VMware ESX
5 18 (8.531%) XenApp
6 11 (5.213%) NFS
7 10 (4.739%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.739%) Hyper-V
8 9 (4.265%) Samba
9 8 (3.791%) Postfix
10 7 (3.318%) XenDesktop
11 6 (2.844%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (2.370%) ISA Server
12 5 (2.370%) Forefront TMG
12 5 (2.370%) UAG
12 5 (2.370%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 5 (2.370%) XenServer
13 4 (1.896%) Terminal Services
14 3 (1.422%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.948%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 27 (12.80%) SCCM
2 15 (7.109%) SCOM
3 11 (5.213%) HP SIM
4 10 (4.739%) Puppet
4 10 (4.739%) Nagios
5 8 (3.791%) Windows Intune
6 6 (2.844%) Munin
7 5 (2.370%) OpenView
8 2 (0.948%) OSSEC
8 2 (0.948%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (0.948%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 2 (0.948%) WSUS
8 2 (0.948%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.948%) ARCserve
9 1 (0.474%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.474%) Nessus
9 1 (0.474%) WebInspect
9 1 (0.474%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.474%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.474%) Cacti
Vendors
1 124 (58.77%) VMware
2 91 (43.13%) Microsoft
3 74 (35.07%) Cisco
4 57 (27.01%) Citrix
5 47 (22.27%) HP
6 22 (10.43%) CheckPoint
7 17 (8.057%) Red Hat
8 15 (7.109%) Juniper
9 14 (6.635%) Dell
10 13 (6.161%) EMC
11 10 (4.739%) Oracle
12 8 (3.791%) NetApp
13 6 (2.844%) Symantec
14 5 (2.370%) Remedy
14 5 (2.370%) 3PAR
15 4 (1.896%) ProCurve
15 4 (1.896%) WatchGuard
15 4 (1.896%) AppSense
15 4 (1.896%) Avaya
16 3 (1.422%) McAfee
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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
Cambridgeshire
Supporting systems such as Exchange 2010, NetApp SAN, Citrix, VMware and Blackberry... Computer People are an equal opportunities employer Keywords- SQL / Active Directory / VMware / Exchange / Windows / Citrix / XenDesktop /...
Computer People
Salary: £28000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Excellent Package!
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridgeshire
Supporting systems such as Exchange 2010, NetApp SAN, Citrix, VMware and Blackberry... Computer People are an equal opportunities employer Keywords- SQL / Active Directory / VMware / Exchange / Windows / Citrix / XenDesktop /...
Computer People
Salary: £28000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
You will have expert knowledge of IT infrastructures and architectures and have working knowledge of the following: Citrix XenApp 5, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Active Directory 2003/...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: negotiable
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Skills/Qualifications: HP Proliant Blade systems * HP Proliant DL/ML servers * Storage (NAS, SAN, MSL Tape Library's) * Networking fundamentals * Windows 2003/2008 * Linux (Redhat) * VMware ESXi * EMC...
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Redhill, Surrey
My client is looking for someone with exposure in the following areas, you to be a specialist within at least 1: * Wintel Server 2003-08R2 management and support *...
ISL
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Infrastructure & Trade Support Specialist is wanted by a leading FX market making specialist... The Network Infrastructure Engineer will need to have; 5 + years commercial network infrastructure support experience...
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits Package
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Essential) In-Depth knowledge of implementing infrastructure solutions to support VMware ESX and Citrix Xen Desktop Virtualisation... Good understanding of Layer-3 networks including IP and ideally OSPF,...
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The Ideal skill set will include DNS Services, Microsoft Exchange 2007 /2010 and SharePoint services 2007 / 2010. You will have ideally had experience in installing, usage and/or...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Central London / West End
Frontier Technology is a premier IT solution provider delivering cloud computing and on-premise solutions.As a Microsoft, Citrix, Symantec and Commvault Partner, we are the first choice...
Frontier Technology
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum plus performance related bonus
Posted: 9 May 2013
City of London
Your skills and qualifications will include - Experience of large/complex SharePoint implementations - Design and implementation of SharePoint architecture and deployment scenarios - Windows SharePoint Services Windows SharePoint Foundation Microsoft...
IT Human Resources
Posted: 15 May 2013