Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in England is £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 845 1037
Rank change year-on-year +141 +192 -257
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 132 81 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.090% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.098% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 117 78 87
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,400 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £54,250
90th Percentile £64,500 £61,500 £61,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,478 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,133 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 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
South East +50 55 £46,500 +16.25% 9
South West -9 28 £50,500 +38.36% 3
London +124 26 £68,750 +14.58% 4
Midlands +12 17 £45,000 -18.18%
West Midlands +26 11 £37,500 -21.05%
East Midlands -14 6 £47,500 -13.64%
North of England +37 5 £32,500 -16.67%
Yorkshire +80 2 £32,500 -14.47%
North West +10 2 £37,250 -12.35%
East of England +13 1 £50,000 +11.11%
North East -5 1 £29,000 -27.50%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 119 (90.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (53.79%) Windows
3 68 (51.52%) Azure
4 65 (49.24%) VMware
5 59 (44.70%) Active Directory
5 59 (44.70%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 51 (38.64%) Windows Server
8 49 (37.12%) Microsoft
9 45 (34.09%) PowerShell
10 41 (31.06%) Firewall
11 36 (27.27%) Social Skills
12 32 (24.24%) Citrix
12 32 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
13 31 (23.48%) VMware ESXi
14 30 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
15 27 (20.45%) SAN
16 26 (19.70%) SharePoint
16 26 (19.70%) WAN
17 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (18.94%) vCenter Server
18 24 (18.18%) DNS
18 24 (18.18%) Finance
19 23 (17.42%) SLA
19 23 (17.42%) LAN
20 21 (15.91%) Windows Server 2012
20 21 (15.91%) Entra ID
20 21 (15.91%) AWS
21 20 (15.15%) Veeam
21 20 (15.15%) SaaS

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 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (19.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.27%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.52%) Azure
2 59 (44.70%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (15.91%) AWS
3 21 (15.91%) Entra ID
4 20 (15.15%) SaaS
5 17 (12.88%) IaaS
6 10 (7.58%) PaaS
7 9 (6.82%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.79%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.27%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.52%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.52%) OpenDNS
12 1 (0.76%) GCP
12 1 (0.76%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (31.06%) Firewall
2 27 (20.45%) SAN
3 26 (19.70%) WAN
4 24 (18.18%) DNS
5 23 (17.42%) LAN
6 14 (10.61%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (9.85%) DHCP
7 13 (9.85%) VPN
8 10 (7.58%) WLAN
9 9 (6.82%) Internet
9 9 (6.82%) SD-WAN
9 9 (6.82%) Wireless
10 8 (6.06%) iSCSI
11 4 (3.03%) Network Security
11 4 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (3.03%) VLAN
12 3 (2.27%) NAS
12 3 (2.27%) TCP/IP
13 2 (1.52%) IPsec
13 2 (1.52%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.55%) MySQL
3 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (5.30%) JIRA
2 3 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 36 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.18%) Finance
3 19 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.36%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.06%) Law
6 4 (3.03%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Legal
7 2 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.52%) .NET
1 2 (1.52%) LAMP
1 2 (1.52%) V-Ray
2 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.76%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Driving Licence
2 12 (9.09%) PKI
3 11 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.58%) Clustering
5 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.27%) Replication
7 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.76%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 71 (53.79%) Windows
2 51 (38.64%) Windows Server
3 21 (15.91%) Windows Server 2012
4 19 (14.39%) Linux
5 18 (13.64%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.30%) Android
6 7 (5.30%) Apple iOS
7 6 (4.55%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.52%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.76%) AIX
10 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.76%) Unix
10 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (14.39%) Customer Service
3 19 (14.39%) ITIL
4 12 (9.09%) Capacity Management
4 12 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 12 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 11 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (6.82%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (6.82%) Systems Engineering
7 8 (6.06%) Incident Management
8 7 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (4.55%) Customer Experience
9 6 (4.55%) Patch Management
9 6 (4.55%) Server Monitoring
10 5 (3.79%) Change Control
11 4 (3.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 4 (3.03%) Storage Management
12 3 (2.27%) Mobile Device Management
12 3 (2.27%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.09%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.58%) SQL
3 9 (6.82%) ActionScript
3 9 (6.82%) VB
4 8 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.36%) Degree
3 12 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.58%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.06%) MCP
6 7 (5.30%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (4.55%) CCNA
7 6 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.52%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.76%) CCA
10 1 (0.76%) CCAA
10 1 (0.76%) CCDA
10 1 (0.76%) CCNP
10 1 (0.76%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.76%) LPIC
10 1 (0.76%) MCSE
10 1 (0.76%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.42%) SLA
2 7 (5.30%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 59 (44.70%) Active Directory
2 54 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (23.48%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (11.36%) Hyper-V
5 12 (9.09%) XenApp
6 11 (8.33%) vSphere
7 9 (6.82%) OpenSSH
8 8 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (2.27%) Docker
9 3 (2.27%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.27%) XenDesktop
10 2 (1.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (1.52%) pfSense
10 2 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.76%) Firmware
11 1 (0.76%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (18.94%) vCenter Server
3 15 (11.36%) SCCM
4 9 (6.82%) IBM BigFix
4 9 (6.82%) PowerCLI
5 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (4.55%) SCDPM
6 3 (2.27%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.52%) WSUS
8 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.76%) Ansible
8 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.76%) NetCrunch
8 1 (0.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 65 (49.24%) VMware
2 49 (37.12%) Microsoft
3 32 (24.24%) Citrix
4 20 (15.15%) Veeam
5 17 (12.88%) Cisco
6 15 (11.36%) HP
7 12 (9.09%) Sophos
8 10 (7.58%) IBM
9 9 (6.82%) Dell
10 6 (4.55%) Dell Compellent
10 6 (4.55%) Meraki
10 6 (4.55%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (3.03%) Aruba
12 3 (2.27%) 3PAR
12 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
12 3 (2.27%) NetApp
12 3 (2.27%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.52%) EMC
13 2 (1.52%) Symantec
13 2 (1.52%) Veritas