Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in the UK is £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 772 889 1111
Rank change year-on-year +117 +222 -298
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 138 90 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.087% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.095% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 122 86 93
10th Percentile £30,039 £35,400 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £54,750
90th Percentile £64,500 £60,000 £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £41,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% +3.13% +11.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +154 133 £46,500 +3.33% 16
UK excluding London +34 109 £46,500 +12.73% 16
South East +47 56 £46,500 +16.25% 8
Work from Home +89 55 £48,500 +7.78% 2
South West -11 28 £50,500 +38.36% 2
London +127 25 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Midlands +25 18 £45,000 -18.18%
West Midlands +35 12 £37,500 -21.05%
East Midlands -12 6 £47,500 -13.64%
North of England +48 5 £32,500 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire +95 2 £32,500 -14.47%
North West +14 2 £37,250 -12.35%
East of England +14 1 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North East -9 1 £29,000 -27.50% 1
Scotland -69 1 £40,000 +25.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (90.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 75 (54.35%) Windows
3 74 (53.62%) Azure
4 66 (47.83%) VMware
5 62 (44.93%) Active Directory
6 61 (44.20%) Microsoft 365
7 55 (39.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 55 (39.86%) Microsoft
7 55 (39.86%) Windows Server
8 47 (34.06%) Firewall
8 47 (34.06%) PowerShell
9 41 (29.71%) Social Skills
10 33 (23.91%) Microsoft Exchange
11 32 (23.19%) Citrix
12 31 (22.46%) VMware ESXi
12 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
14 27 (19.57%) SAN
15 26 (18.84%) SharePoint
15 26 (18.84%) WAN
16 25 (18.12%) DNS
16 25 (18.12%) vCenter Server
17 24 (17.39%) Finance
18 23 (16.67%) SLA
18 23 (16.67%) Cisco
18 23 (16.67%) LAN
19 22 (15.94%) Linux
19 22 (15.94%) Entra ID
20 21 (15.22%) Windows Server 2012
20 21 (15.22%) IaaS

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (23.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (18.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.90%) IIS
4 3 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (53.62%) Azure
2 61 (44.20%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (15.94%) Entra ID
4 21 (15.22%) AWS
4 21 (15.22%) IaaS
5 20 (14.49%) SaaS
6 10 (7.25%) PaaS
7 9 (6.52%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.62%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.17%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.45%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.45%) OpenDNS
12 1 (0.72%) GCP
12 1 (0.72%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 47 (34.06%) Firewall
2 27 (19.57%) SAN
3 26 (18.84%) WAN
4 25 (18.12%) DNS
5 23 (16.67%) LAN
6 17 (12.32%) VPN
7 15 (10.87%) DHCP
7 15 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (7.25%) Internet
8 10 (7.25%) Wireless
8 10 (7.25%) WLAN
9 9 (6.52%) SD-WAN
9 9 (6.52%) VLAN
10 8 (5.80%) iSCSI
10 8 (5.80%) Network Security
11 5 (3.62%) DMZ
12 4 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (2.90%) TCP/IP
13 3 (2.17%) NAS
14 2 (1.45%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.35%) MySQL
3 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.07%) JIRA
2 3 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 41 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.39%) Finance
3 20 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.80%) Law
6 6 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.90%) Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Legal
8 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.45%) LAMP
1 2 (1.45%) V-Ray
2 1 (0.72%) .NET
2 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.72%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (11.59%) Driving Licence
3 12 (8.70%) PKI
4 10 (7.25%) Clustering
5 6 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.17%) Replication
7 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.72%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 75 (54.35%) Windows
2 55 (39.86%) Windows Server
3 22 (15.94%) Linux
4 21 (15.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (13.04%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.07%) Android
6 7 (5.07%) Apple iOS
7 6 (4.35%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.45%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.72%) AIX
10 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.72%) Unix
10 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.72%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (90.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (14.49%) ITIL
4 19 (13.77%) Customer Service
5 13 (9.42%) Problem Management
6 12 (8.70%) Capacity Management
6 12 (8.70%) Service Delivery
7 11 (7.97%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (6.52%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (6.52%) Systems Engineering
9 8 (5.80%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (5.80%) Incident Management
10 6 (4.35%) Customer Experience
10 6 (4.35%) Knowledge Transfer
10 6 (4.35%) Patch Management
10 6 (4.35%) Server Monitoring
11 5 (3.62%) Change Control
12 4 (2.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 4 (2.90%) Storage Management
13 3 (2.17%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.06%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.25%) SQL
3 9 (6.52%) ActionScript
3 9 (6.52%) Bash
3 9 (6.52%) VB
4 2 (1.45%) Python
5 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.59%) Degree
3 12 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.80%) CCNA
5 8 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.80%) MCP
6 7 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.07%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.45%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.45%) MCSE
9 1 (0.72%) CCA
9 1 (0.72%) CCAA
9 1 (0.72%) CCDA
9 1 (0.72%) CCNP
9 1 (0.72%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.72%) LPIC
9 1 (0.72%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.67%) SLA
2 7 (5.07%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 62 (44.93%) Active Directory
2 55 (39.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (22.46%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (12.32%) Hyper-V
5 12 (8.70%) XenApp
6 11 (7.97%) vSphere
7 9 (6.52%) OpenSSH
8 8 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (2.17%) Docker
9 3 (2.17%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.17%) XenDesktop
10 2 (1.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (1.45%) pfSense
10 2 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.72%) Firmware
11 1 (0.72%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (18.12%) vCenter Server
3 15 (10.87%) SCCM
4 9 (6.52%) IBM BigFix
4 9 (6.52%) PowerCLI
5 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (4.35%) SCDPM
6 3 (2.17%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.45%) WSUS
8 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.72%) Ansible
8 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.72%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.72%) NetCrunch
8 1 (0.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 66 (47.83%) VMware
2 55 (39.86%) Microsoft
3 32 (23.19%) Citrix
4 23 (16.67%) Cisco
5 20 (14.49%) Veeam
6 15 (10.87%) HP
7 12 (8.70%) Sophos
8 10 (7.25%) IBM
9 9 (6.52%) Dell
10 6 (4.35%) Dell Compellent
10 6 (4.35%) Meraki
10 6 (4.35%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (2.90%) Aruba
12 3 (2.17%) 3PAR
12 3 (2.17%) Atlassian
12 3 (2.17%) NetApp
12 3 (2.17%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.45%) EMC
13 2 (1.45%) Symantec
13 2 (1.45%) Veritas