Infrastructure Support Engineer Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in England is £44,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 636 627
Rank change year-on-year +110 -9 +272
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 71 43 63
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.089% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.096% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53 18 52
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,400 £33,991
25th Percentile £35,500 £32,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -11.76% +3.66%
75th Percentile £47,500 £46,563 £54,375
90th Percentile £56,500 £64,750 £70,125
UK median annual salary £44,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +17.33% -11.76% +3.66%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 47,437 44,591 47,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 92.72% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29,917 23,336 37,002
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancies in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 2026. 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
Midlands +50 33 £44,000 +30.37%
East Midlands - 17 £45,000 -
West Midlands +36 16 £44,000 +30.37%
North of England +15 15 £45,750 +22.00% 2
London +65 13 £52,500 -4.55% 1
North West +38 9 £45,750 +42.97% 1
South East +22 7 £35,500 +42.00% 2
Yorkshire -7 6 £50,000 +33.33% 1
South West +7 3 £40,000 -11.11%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Infrastructure Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (98.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (69.01%) Windows
3 42 (59.15%) Azure
4 39 (54.93%) Microsoft
5 36 (50.70%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (47.89%) Active Directory
7 28 (39.44%) Windows Server
8 23 (32.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (29.58%) Firewall
10 19 (26.76%) SaaS
11 18 (25.35%) SQL
12 15 (21.13%) Degree
12 15 (21.13%) Linux
12 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (21.13%) SQL Server
12 15 (21.13%) VPN
13 14 (19.72%) AWS
13 14 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (19.72%) DevOps
13 14 (19.72%) ITIL
13 14 (19.72%) SharePoint
14 13 (18.31%) DNS
14 13 (18.31%) VLAN
15 12 (16.90%) Nagios
15 12 (16.90%) ZABBIX
16 11 (15.49%) Citrix
16 11 (15.49%) GCP
16 11 (15.49%) Google
16 11 (15.49%) ServiceNow
16 11 (15.49%) VMware

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (32.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (19.72%) SharePoint
3 8 (11.27%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) Azure
2 36 (50.70%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (26.76%) SaaS
4 14 (19.72%) AWS
5 11 (15.49%) GCP
6 8 (11.27%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (9.86%) IaaS
8 5 (7.04%) iPaaS
9 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (5.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.23%) Datadog
10 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.23%) PaaS
11 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.41%) Mimecast
12 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (29.58%) Firewall
2 15 (21.13%) VPN
3 13 (18.31%) DNS
3 13 (18.31%) VLAN
4 10 (14.08%) DHCP
5 9 (12.68%) VoIP
6 8 (11.27%) Skype
7 6 (8.45%) TCP/IP
8 5 (7.04%) SAN
9 4 (5.63%) DMZ
9 4 (5.63%) STUN
10 2 (2.82%) NetScaler
11 1 (1.41%) LAN
11 1 (1.41%) Network Security
11 1 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.41%) SSL
11 1 (1.41%) Telnet
11 1 (1.41%) WAN
11 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.27%) DTS
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.41%) DB2
3 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) JIRA
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Manufacturing
3 9 (12.68%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Retail
5 5 (7.04%) Law
6 3 (4.23%) Finance
7 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Front Office
8 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) LDAP
2 4 (5.63%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (1.41%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (1.41%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Onboarding
2 11 (15.49%) CMDB
3 8 (11.27%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (7.04%) Clustering
4 5 (7.04%) Driving Licence
4 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (69.01%) Windows
2 28 (39.44%) Windows Server
3 15 (21.13%) Linux
4 8 (11.27%) Mac OS
4 8 (11.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (7.04%) Windows 10
5 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.63%) Debian
7 2 (2.82%) Unix
8 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (98.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (19.72%) DevOps
3 14 (19.72%) ITIL
4 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
4 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Management
5 9 (12.68%) Cloud Operations
5 9 (12.68%) Computer Science
5 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
5 9 (12.68%) Migration
5 9 (12.68%) Service Delivery
6 8 (11.27%) Customer Service
6 8 (11.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (11.27%) Problem Management
6 8 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (11.27%) Server Management
7 7 (9.86%) Incident Management
7 7 (9.86%) Time Management
8 6 (8.45%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.35%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) MCP
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.41%) CCNA
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.04%) GDPR
3 4 (5.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (5.63%) ISO 9001
3 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.63%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (47.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (8.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.63%) Kamailio
7 2 (2.82%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Nagios
1 12 (16.90%) ZABBIX
2 8 (11.27%) SCCM
3 5 (7.04%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.63%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.41%) Ansible
6 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (54.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.49%) Citrix
2 11 (15.49%) Google
2 11 (15.49%) ServiceNow
2 11 (15.49%) VMware
3 9 (12.68%) Red Hat
4 8 (11.27%) BMC
4 8 (11.27%) Darktrace
4 8 (11.27%) Proofpoint
4 8 (11.27%) SolarWinds
4 8 (11.27%) Tanium
4 8 (11.27%) Trend Micro
5 5 (7.04%) Juniper
5 5 (7.04%) Veeam
6 4 (5.63%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.23%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco
7 3 (4.23%) Meraki
8 2 (2.82%) IBM