Infrastructure Support Jobs in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Support
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the West Midlands is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 267 272
Rank change year-on-year +41 +5 -68
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 16 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 12
10th Percentile £33,625 £29,100 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -9.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £42,875 £41,500 £59,313
90th Percentile £47,500 £53,000 £61,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% +2.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,646 6,198 6,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 90.07% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,104 3,390 4,835
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £63,563 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Birmingham +4 8 £37,500 +4.90%
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
Staffordshire -13 1 £45,000 +11.11%
Coventry - 1 £45,000 -
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 14 (87.50%) Azure
1 14 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (56.25%) HP
4 9 (56.25%) Citrix
4 9 (56.25%) SAN
4 9 (56.25%) Veeam
5 8 (50.00%) VMware
5 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (43.75%) Sophos
6 7 (43.75%) Windows
7 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
7 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
8 5 (31.25%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
8 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
8 5 (31.25%) Aruba
8 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (31.25%) Firewall
8 5 (31.25%) LAN
8 5 (31.25%) WLAN
8 5 (31.25%) WAN
8 5 (31.25%) DHCP
8 5 (31.25%) DNS
8 5 (31.25%) Cisco
9 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (25.00%) Law

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) Mimecast
4 2 (12.50%) OpenDNS
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) LAN
2 5 (31.25%) WAN
2 5 (31.25%) WLAN
3 3 (18.75%) VLAN
3 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
4 2 (12.50%) HSRP
4 2 (12.50%) IPsec
4 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
4 2 (12.50%) OSPF
4 2 (12.50%) RIP
4 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) VRRP
4 2 (12.50%) X.509
5 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Law
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LAMP
1 2 (12.50%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) FMCG
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Android
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (12.50%) Server Management
5 2 (12.50%) Server Migrations
5 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
5 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
6 1 (6.25%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Logistics
6 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CCNA
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.25%) MCSE
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (12.50%) Docker
4 2 (12.50%) pfSense
4 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Backup Exec
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) Citrix
2 9 (56.25%) HP
2 9 (56.25%) Veeam
3 8 (50.00%) VMware
4 7 (43.75%) Sophos
5 5 (31.25%) Aruba
5 5 (31.25%) Cisco
6 2 (12.50%) Acronis
6 2 (12.50%) Datto
6 2 (12.50%) Dell
6 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 2 (12.50%) SonicWALL
6 2 (12.50%) Veritas
7 1 (6.25%) Apple
7 1 (6.25%) Foundry
7 1 (6.25%) Google
7 1 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds