The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Technician role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Technician
Rank 815 877 858
Rank change year-on-year
+62 -19
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Technician 43 19 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.040% 0.016% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.017% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 38 19 11
Average salary £29,500 £42,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.58% +41.66%
UK excluding London average salary £29,500 £28,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.35% -6.66%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £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 Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Infrastructure Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Technician
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Infrastructure Technician within the UK.

Infrastructure Technician Salary Trend

Infrastructure Technician
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Infrastructure Technician over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Infrastructure Technician Salary Histogram

Infrastructure Technician
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 Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +57 43 £29,500 -30.58%
South East - 16 £22,500 -
Oxfordshire - 13 £22,500 -
Wantage - 13 £22,500 -
London +29 8 £37,500 -40.00%
East of England +8 6 £31,000 +8.77%
Cheshire - 6 £29,500 -
North West - 6 £29,500 -
South West - 4 £31,500 -
Suffolk - 3 £26,000 -
Essex - 3 £32,500 -
Sittingbourne - 2 £28,250 -
Bournemouth - 2 £30,000 -
Twickenham - 2 £32,500 -
Dorset - 2 £30,000 -
Kent - 2 £28,250 -
Gloucestershire - 2 £33,000 -
Warrington - 2 £29,500 -
City of London - 2 £37,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £35,250 -
Daresbury - 2 £29,500 -
Worcestershire - 1 £34,500 -
Surrey - 1 £30,746 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £28,500 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £28,500 -
Worksop - 1 £28,500 -
Worcester - 1 £34,500 -
Sleaford - 1 £28,500 -
Birmingham - 1 £36,000 -
Saffron Walden - 1 £36,500 -

Infrastructure Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 37 (64.91%) Windows
1 37 (64.91%) VMware
2 29 (50.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
4 21 (36.84%) Active Directory
4 21 (36.84%) MS Office
5 20 (35.09%) MS Exchange
5 20 (35.09%) VoIP
6 19 (33.33%) ITIL
7 18 (31.58%) Windows Server 2008
8 17 (29.82%) SQL Server
8 17 (29.82%) Citrix
8 17 (29.82%) Cisco
9 16 (28.07%) Windows Server 2003
10 13 (22.81%) IIS
10 13 (22.81%) LAN
10 13 (22.81%) Exchange Server 2010
10 13 (22.81%) Back Office
11 11 (19.30%) MS Excel
11 11 (19.30%) WAN
11 11 (19.30%) HP
12 9 (15.79%) Windows XP
12 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (15.79%) Telecoms
12 9 (15.79%) Windows 7
13 8 (14.04%) Finance
13 8 (14.04%) Avaya
13 8 (14.04%) SLA
13 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
14 7 (12.28%) SAN

Infrastructure Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.754%) COM
Application Platforms
1 20 (35.09%) MS Exchange
2 13 (22.81%) IIS
2 13 (22.81%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (7.018%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (5.263%) SharePoint
4 3 (5.263%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (3.509%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.754%) Lync
Applications
1 21 (36.84%) MS Office
2 11 (19.30%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (35.09%) VoIP
2 13 (22.81%) LAN
3 11 (19.30%) WAN
4 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
5 7 (12.28%) SAN
6 3 (5.263%) Wireless
6 3 (5.263%) DNS
7 2 (3.509%) Internet
8 1 (1.754%) Firewall
8 1 (1.754%) IP Telephony
8 1 (1.754%) VLAN
8 1 (1.754%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.754%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.754%) PABX
8 1 (1.754%) VPN
8 1 (1.754%) DHCP
8 1 (1.754%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 13 (22.81%) Back Office
2 9 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 4 (7.018%) Advertising
5 2 (3.509%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.754%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.754%) Banking
6 1 (1.754%) Retail
6 1 (1.754%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.263%) Blackberry
2 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.754%) Clustering
2 1 (1.754%) Statistics
2 1 (1.754%) iPhone
2 1 (1.754%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 37 (64.91%) Windows
2 18 (31.58%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (28.07%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (15.79%) Windows 7
4 9 (15.79%) Windows XP
5 4 (7.018%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (7.018%) Linux
6 2 (3.509%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.754%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (1.754%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.33%) ITIL
2 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (10.53%) Project Management
3 6 (10.53%) Service Delivery
3 6 (10.53%) Incident Management
4 3 (5.263%) Data Protection
4 3 (5.263%) Service Management
4 3 (5.263%) Software Deployment
5 2 (3.509%) Capacity Management
5 2 (3.509%) Network Management
5 2 (3.509%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (1.754%) Information Security
6 1 (1.754%) Asset Management
6 1 (1.754%) Change Management
6 1 (1.754%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (1.754%) Performance Management
6 1 (1.754%) BCP
6 1 (1.754%) ITSM
6 1 (1.754%) Security Management
6 1 (1.754%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.263%) SQL
2 1 (1.754%) VB
2 1 (1.754%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.018%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.509%) CCVP
4 2 (3.509%) MCP
4 2 (3.509%) MCSA
4 2 (3.509%) CCIE
4 2 (3.509%) CCNP
4 2 (3.509%) MCDST
4 2 (3.509%) MCTS
4 2 (3.509%) MCITP
4 2 (3.509%) Degree
5 1 (1.754%) CCNA
5 1 (1.754%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) SLA
2 1 (1.754%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (50.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (36.84%) Active Directory
3 7 (12.28%) Hyper-V
4 6 (10.53%) XenApp
5 3 (5.263%) VMware ESX
5 3 (5.263%) Xen
6 1 (1.754%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.754%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.754%) vSphere
6 1 (1.754%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (3.509%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (3.509%) SCCM
1 2 (3.509%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 37 (64.91%) VMware
2 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
3 17 (29.82%) Cisco
3 17 (29.82%) Citrix
4 11 (19.30%) HP
5 8 (14.04%) Avaya
6 5 (8.772%) NetApp
7 3 (5.263%) EMC
7 3 (5.263%) Symantec
8 2 (3.509%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.509%) Reuters
8 2 (3.509%) Bloomberg
8 2 (3.509%) ProCurve
8 2 (3.509%) NEC
8 2 (3.509%) DataCore
8 2 (3.509%) Dell
9 1 (1.754%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.754%) Veeam
9 1 (1.754%) McAfee
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Infrastructure Support Technician - Cambridge, Stevenage, Chelmsford - Urgent - Windows Server 2008R2, NetApp, Vmware, Xen, Hyper-V - £30,000 - £35,000. A Windows Server 2008R2, NetApp, Vmware, Xen, Hyper-V...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Essex
Requirements Cisco networking Windows Server 03/08 Desktop support of Win XP7, Windows 8 desireable Active Directory NetApp Xen and Hyper V VM Ware desirable Excellent communication skill,...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Responsibilities *Maintenance and management of the HP SAN environment... Experience Required: *Experience of HP 3PAR, EVA and Lefthand SAN technology *HP C Class Blade Centre Infrastructure and BL...
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Posted: 17 May 2013