Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 651 699
Rank change year-on-year +162 +48 +96
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 82 114 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 71 111 57
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £33,776
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,750 £51,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £59,000 £52,400
UK median annual salary £42,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -5.26%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
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 Infrastructure Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +77 43 £41,500 -10.75% 8
West Midlands +72 18 £35,000 -6.67% 5
Midlands +62 18 £35,000 -22.22% 6
North of England +53 17 £52,000 +60.00%
North West +15 16 £52,000 +39.60%
East of England +45 3 £47,500 -5.00% 2
South West +87 1 £30,000 -40.59% 4
Yorkshire +61 1 £42,500 +30.77%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (71.95%) Windows
2 59 (71.95%) Microsoft
3 54 (65.85%) Active Directory
4 41 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 40 (48.78%) VMware
6 38 (46.34%) PowerShell
7 37 (45.12%) Security Cleared
8 34 (41.46%) Azure
9 33 (40.24%) VMware Infrastructure
10 30 (36.59%) Windows Server
11 27 (32.93%) DV Cleared
12 26 (31.71%) High Availability
13 23 (28.05%) SAN
14 21 (25.61%) LAN
14 21 (25.61%) WAN
14 21 (25.61%) Firewall
14 21 (25.61%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (25.61%) NAS
15 20 (24.39%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (23.17%) Kalman Filter
16 19 (23.17%) Virtual Environments
17 18 (21.95%) Clustering
17 18 (21.95%) Linux
17 18 (21.95%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (20.73%) Degree
18 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 17 (20.73%) SC Cleared
19 16 (19.51%) Computer Science
19 16 (19.51%) ITIL

Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 41 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.88%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.46%) Azure
2 21 (25.61%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (12.20%) AWS
4 6 (7.32%) GCP
4 6 (7.32%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.88%) AWS KMS
5 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (28.05%) SAN
2 21 (25.61%) Firewall
2 21 (25.61%) LAN
2 21 (25.61%) NAS
2 21 (25.61%) WAN
3 13 (15.85%) DHCP
3 13 (15.85%) DNS
4 8 (9.76%) VPN
5 7 (8.54%) SD-WAN
5 7 (8.54%) SMTP
6 6 (7.32%) Network Security
6 6 (7.32%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (4.88%) IP Telephony
7 4 (4.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Git
1 4 (4.88%) JIRA
1 4 (4.88%) Vagrant
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.10%) Games
4 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.95%) Clustering
2 10 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.54%) PKI
4 6 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.88%) Blackberry
6 3 (3.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 59 (71.95%) Windows
2 30 (36.59%) Windows Server
3 18 (21.95%) Linux
4 8 (9.76%) Windows 10
5 7 (8.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.88%) VMS
7 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.44%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.44%) Unix
8 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (31.71%) High Availability
3 20 (24.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (23.17%) Kalman Filter
4 19 (23.17%) Virtual Environments
5 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (19.51%) Computer Science
6 16 (19.51%) ITIL
7 14 (17.07%) Customer Service
7 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.85%) Patch Management
9 11 (13.41%) Server Building
10 10 (12.20%) Antivirus Management
10 10 (12.20%) IT Strategy
10 10 (12.20%) Web Filtering
11 9 (10.98%) Task Automation
12 8 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (8.54%) Change Control
13 7 (8.54%) Mobile Device Management
13 7 (8.54%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.34%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.76%) SQL
3 4 (4.88%) Python
4 3 (3.66%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (45.12%) Security Cleared
2 27 (32.93%) DV Cleared
3 18 (21.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (20.73%) Degree
4 17 (20.73%) SC Cleared
5 15 (18.29%) A+ Certification
6 14 (17.07%) MCP
6 14 (17.07%) MCSA
7 12 (14.63%) HND
8 8 (9.76%) MCSE
9 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.22%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) GDPR
2 3 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (65.85%) Active Directory
2 33 (40.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (15.85%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.54%) BitLocker
4 7 (8.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (8.54%) Terminal Services
4 7 (8.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (8.54%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (7.32%) Docker
5 6 (7.32%) vSphere
6 3 (3.66%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 10 (12.20%) Ansible
2 7 (8.54%) vCenter Server
2 7 (8.54%) vMotion
3 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.32%) Nagios
3 6 (7.32%) Puppet
4 4 (4.88%) Grafana
4 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.88%) Terraform
5 3 (3.66%) Backup Exec
6 2 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (71.95%) Microsoft
2 40 (48.78%) VMware
3 14 (17.07%) Citrix
4 7 (8.54%) Veeam
5 6 (7.32%) Google
5 6 (7.32%) HP
5 6 (7.32%) Symantec
6 4 (4.88%) Juniper
6 4 (4.88%) McAfee
6 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.44%) Apple
7 2 (2.44%) Sophos