Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 594 699 850
Rank change year-on-year +105 +151 +163
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 77 132 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.15% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 65 117 78
10th Percentile £31,350 £30,000 £35,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £64,500 £61,500
UK median annual salary £41,250 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 43,417 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
South East +74 35 £42,500 -8.60% 7
North of England +63 18 £52,000 +60.00% 1
West Midlands +63 15 £33,750 -10.00% 6
Midlands +61 15 £33,750 -25.00% 7
North West +26 15 £52,000 +39.60% 1
London +95 9 £49,000 -28.73% 5
Yorkshire +62 3 £37,500 +15.38%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (98.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (68.83%) Windows
2 53 (68.83%) Microsoft
3 48 (62.34%) Active Directory
4 39 (50.65%) VMware
5 32 (41.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (40.26%) Security Cleared
7 30 (38.96%) Azure
8 29 (37.66%) VMware Infrastructure
8 29 (37.66%) Windows Server
9 27 (35.06%) PowerShell
9 27 (35.06%) DV Cleared
10 24 (31.17%) High Availability
10 24 (31.17%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (25.97%) LAN
12 20 (25.97%) WAN
13 19 (24.68%) Firewall
13 19 (24.68%) SAN
13 19 (24.68%) NAS
13 19 (24.68%) Degree
14 18 (23.38%) Clustering
14 18 (23.38%) Linux
15 17 (22.08%) DHCP
15 17 (22.08%) DNS
16 16 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (20.78%) Citrix
16 16 (20.78%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (19.48%) Customer Service

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (41.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) IIS
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) CMS
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) Azure
2 22 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (18.18%) AWS
4 9 (11.69%) OpenShift
5 6 (7.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.30%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Dropbox
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.97%) LAN
1 20 (25.97%) WAN
2 19 (24.68%) Firewall
2 19 (24.68%) NAS
2 19 (24.68%) SAN
3 17 (22.08%) DHCP
3 17 (22.08%) DNS
4 9 (11.69%) VPN
5 7 (9.09%) Network Security
5 7 (9.09%) SD-WAN
5 7 (9.09%) SMTP
6 6 (7.79%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (3.90%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.60%) IP Telephony
8 2 (2.60%) SNMP
9 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Git
1 1 (1.30%) JIRA
1 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.49%) Games
4 5 (6.49%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.90%) Back Office
6 2 (2.60%) Finance
6 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Clustering
2 13 (16.88%) Data Centre
3 7 (9.09%) PKI
4 6 (7.79%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.60%) Blackberry
6 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.30%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 53 (68.83%) Windows
2 29 (37.66%) Windows Server
3 18 (23.38%) Linux
4 11 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 7 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.60%) AIX
6 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (98.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (31.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 24 (31.17%) High Availability
3 16 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (19.48%) Customer Service
4 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 14 (18.18%) ITIL
5 14 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
5 14 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
6 12 (15.58%) Patch Management
7 9 (11.69%) Server Building
8 8 (10.39%) Antivirus Management
8 8 (10.39%) Business Continuity
8 8 (10.39%) IT Strategy
8 8 (10.39%) Web Filtering
9 7 (9.09%) Change Control
9 7 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 7 (9.09%) Statistics
9 7 (9.09%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) PowerShell
2 11 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (1.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (40.26%) Security Cleared
2 27 (35.06%) DV Cleared
3 19 (24.68%) Degree
4 16 (20.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (18.18%) A+ Certification
6 13 (16.88%) MCP
6 13 (16.88%) MCSA
7 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
8 10 (12.99%) HND
9 7 (9.09%) MCSE
10 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.30%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) GDPR
2 2 (2.60%) SLA
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 48 (62.34%) Active Directory
2 29 (37.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (16.88%) Hyper-V
4 8 (10.39%) BitLocker
4 8 (10.39%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (9.09%) Terminal Services
5 7 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (9.09%) vSphere
6 6 (7.79%) Docker
7 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (12.99%) Ansible
2 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.39%) SCCM
4 7 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 7 (9.09%) vMotion
5 6 (7.79%) Nagios
5 6 (7.79%) Puppet
6 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.19%) Terraform
7 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.30%) Grafana
8 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (68.83%) Microsoft
2 39 (50.65%) VMware
3 16 (20.78%) Citrix
4 6 (7.79%) Google
4 6 (7.79%) HP
4 6 (7.79%) Symantec
5 4 (5.19%) Cisco
5 4 (5.19%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.90%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.90%) Dell
6 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.60%) McAfee
7 2 (2.60%) Veeam
8 1 (1.30%) Apple
8 1 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.30%) Juniper
8 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow