Infrastructure Support Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Support
England > London

The median Infrastructure Support salary in London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 January 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 398 412
Rank change year-on-year +85 +14 +212
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 55 26 35
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 31
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,940 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,246 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +77.78% +4.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £56,250
90th Percentile £88,750 - £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,509 14,421 16,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,294 8,343 13,685
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,204 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in London

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in London

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +53 11 £60,000 +14.85% 1
East London -8 5 £87,500 +4.48%
Infrastructure Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 January 2026, Infrastructure Support 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 30 (54.55%) AWS
2 29 (52.73%) ITIL
2 29 (52.73%) Windows
3 28 (50.91%) Linux
4 25 (45.45%) SLA
5 24 (43.64%) Python
6 22 (40.00%) Change Management
6 22 (40.00%) Unix
7 20 (36.36%) Red Hat
8 19 (34.55%) Degree
9 18 (32.73%) ITIL Certification
9 18 (32.73%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (30.91%) AWS Certification
10 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
10 17 (30.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (29.09%) VMware
12 15 (27.27%) IBM
12 15 (27.27%) WebSphere
13 14 (25.45%) Ansible
13 14 (25.45%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (25.45%) SSL
14 13 (23.64%) Azure
14 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (23.64%) ServiceNow
14 13 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
15 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
15 12 (21.82%) Cloud Operations
15 12 (21.82%) DB2
15 12 (21.82%) Tomcat
16 11 (20.00%) LAPP Stack

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (27.27%) WebSphere
2 12 (21.82%) Tomcat
3 11 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (7.27%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.82%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 30 (54.55%) AWS
2 18 (32.73%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (23.64%) Azure
4 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (7.27%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.64%) Route 53
6 2 (3.64%) Serverless
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.45%) SSL
2 9 (16.36%) Firewall
3 7 (12.73%) VPN
4 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.09%) SD-WAN
5 5 (9.09%) VoIP
5 5 (9.09%) WAN
6 4 (7.27%) DHCP
6 4 (7.27%) DNS
6 4 (7.27%) Wireless
7 2 (3.64%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.82%) Network Security
8 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (21.82%) DB2
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Git
1 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (54.55%) Finance
2 19 (34.55%) Banking
3 11 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) LAPP Stack
1 11 (20.00%) LDAP
1 11 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Management Information System
2 11 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (12.73%) Clustering
3 7 (12.73%) Public Cloud
4 5 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (7.27%) iPad
5 4 (7.27%) iPhone
5 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.27%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (52.73%) Windows
2 28 (50.91%) Linux
3 22 (40.00%) Unix
4 17 (30.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (14.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (9.09%) Windows 10
6 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (7.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) ITIL
2 22 (40.00%) Change Management
3 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (21.82%) Cloud Operations
5 11 (20.00%) Release Management
5 11 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.73%) DevOps
8 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (12.73%) Time Management
9 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.91%) Observability
10 5 (9.09%) Problem Management
10 5 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 4 (7.27%) Asset Management
11 4 (7.27%) Incident Management
11 4 (7.27%) Process Management
11 4 (7.27%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (43.64%) Python
2 2 (3.64%) SQL
3 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Degree
2 18 (32.73%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (30.91%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) CCNA
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (45.45%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Ansible
2 8 (14.55%) Terraform
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Red Hat
2 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
3 16 (29.09%) VMware
4 15 (27.27%) IBM
5 13 (23.64%) ServiceNow
6 7 (12.73%) Symantec
7 6 (10.91%) Citrix
8 5 (9.09%) Juniper
9 4 (7.27%) CheckPoint
9 4 (7.27%) Cisco
9 4 (7.27%) Meraki
10 1 (1.82%) Apple