Infrastructure Support Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Support
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the South East is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 308 342
Rank change year-on-year +65 +34 +113
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 70 92 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.52% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.56% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 59 90 49
10th Percentile £35,300 £31,250 £23,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £27,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,500 £35,400
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +31.36% -13.66%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,400
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +11.11% -4.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,376 16,502 12,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.09% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,469 11,730 7,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,613 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Surrey +76 34 £40,000 -38.46% 2
Thames Valley +67 26 £40,000 -11.11% 9
Oxfordshire +51 19 £40,000 -5.88% 2
Hampshire +42 7 £57,500 +18.56%
Berkshire +21 7 £32,500 -27.78% 3
Kent +31 3 £37,500 +19.05%
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 63 (90.00%) Windows
2 49 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 49 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (61.43%) Active Directory
4 41 (58.57%) VMware
5 38 (54.29%) Degree
6 37 (52.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 32 (45.71%) PowerShell
8 29 (41.43%) VMware Infrastructure
8 29 (41.43%) SAN
9 27 (38.57%) Security Cleared
9 27 (38.57%) High Availability
10 24 (34.29%) LAN
10 24 (34.29%) WAN
11 23 (32.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (31.43%) NAS
13 21 (30.00%) Azure
13 21 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
14 20 (28.57%) Windows Server
14 20 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
15 19 (27.14%) DV Cleared
16 18 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (25.71%) Clustering
17 17 (24.29%) MBA
17 17 (24.29%) Wireless
17 17 (24.29%) Unisys
17 17 (24.29%) Internet
17 17 (24.29%) Computer Science

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 37 (52.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.43%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.00%) Azure
2 18 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.57%) AWS
3 6 (8.57%) GCP
3 6 (8.57%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.14%) IaaS
5 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (41.43%) SAN
2 24 (34.29%) LAN
2 24 (34.29%) WAN
3 22 (31.43%) NAS
4 17 (24.29%) Internet
4 17 (24.29%) Wireless
5 11 (15.71%) DNS
6 10 (14.29%) DHCP
7 9 (12.86%) Firewall
8 8 (11.43%) SMTP
9 7 (10.00%) SD-WAN
10 6 (8.57%) Network Security
10 6 (8.57%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (7.14%) IP Telephony
11 5 (7.14%) SNMP
12 3 (4.29%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
12 3 (4.29%) VLAN
13 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 23 (32.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Games
3 5 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Clustering
2 17 (24.29%) Virtual Team
3 12 (17.14%) PKI
4 6 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (7.14%) Blackberry
6 3 (4.29%) CCTV
6 3 (4.29%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 63 (90.00%) Windows
2 20 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 15 (21.43%) Linux
4 3 (4.29%) Mac OS X
4 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.86%) Unix
5 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (38.57%) High Availability
3 21 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
4 20 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
5 18 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (24.29%) Computer Science
7 13 (18.57%) Customer Service
8 12 (17.14%) Server Building
9 11 (15.71%) Antivirus Management
9 11 (15.71%) IT Strategy
9 11 (15.71%) Patch Management
9 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.71%) Web Filtering
10 8 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (10.00%) Change Control
11 7 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 7 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
11 7 (10.00%) Statistics
11 7 (10.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (54.29%) Degree
2 27 (38.57%) Security Cleared
3 19 (27.14%) DV Cleared
4 17 (24.29%) Master's Degree
4 17 (24.29%) MBA
5 13 (18.57%) HND
6 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 5 (7.14%) CCNA
7 5 (7.14%) CCNP
7 5 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (4.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.43%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) SLA
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (61.43%) Active Directory
2 29 (41.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 12 (17.14%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (10.00%) BitLocker
5 7 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 7 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (8.57%) Docker
6 6 (8.57%) vSphere
7 1 (1.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) vCenter Server
1 7 (10.00%) vMotion
2 6 (8.57%) Ansible
2 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.57%) Nagios
2 6 (8.57%) Puppet
3 5 (7.14%) SCCM
3 5 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 49 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 41 (58.57%) VMware
3 17 (24.29%) Unisys
4 14 (20.00%) Citrix
5 10 (14.29%) Veeam
6 6 (8.57%) Google
6 6 (8.57%) HP
6 6 (8.57%) Symantec
7 5 (7.14%) McAfee
8 3 (4.29%) Cisco
8 3 (4.29%) MobileIron
8 3 (4.29%) Riverbed
8 3 (4.29%) SAP
8 3 (4.29%) Trend Micro
9 2 (2.86%) Apple
9 2 (2.86%) Sophos