3rd Line Infrastructure Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Third Line Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 707 660
Rank change year-on-year +130 -47 +217
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 8 35 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.047% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.049% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 8 33 29
10th Percentile - £31,250 £34,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +26.76% -17.92%
75th Percentile £48,750 £51,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £51,750 £53,350 £52,600
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £36,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +23.29% -18.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,348 71,319 45,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.78% 94.96% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 20,879 49,303 28,747
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,673 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% +2.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
East of England - 8 £47,500 - 2
3rd Line Infrastructure Support
UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, 3rd Line 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2019
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 7 (87.50%) Task Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Patch Management
2 7 (87.50%) Veeam
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (87.50%) Backup Exec
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) NetBackup

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 7 (87.50%) Patch Management
2 7 (87.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Server Building
3 1 (12.50%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Backup Exec
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Veeam
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) SAP