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 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 648 687
Rank change year-on-year +140 +39 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 68 109 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 58 105 61
10th Percentile £30,200 £29,850 £35,400
25th Percentile £33,438 £32,750 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +9.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,875 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £54,725 £59,600 £55,000
UK median annual salary £41,250 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -

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 34,762 67,007 54,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 94.81% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,570 47,425 30,872
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,870 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 8 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 8 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 +86 35 £42,500 -8.60% 5
North of England +83 18 £52,000 +60.00% 2
West Midlands +49 15 £33,750 -10.00% 5
Midlands +45 15 £33,750 -25.00% 6
North West +18 15 £52,000 +39.60% 2
Yorkshire +61 3 £37,500 +15.38%
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 8 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 67 (98.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (69.12%) Microsoft
3 46 (67.65%) Windows
4 42 (61.76%) Active Directory
5 33 (48.53%) VMware
6 32 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (45.59%) Security Cleared
8 27 (39.71%) PowerShell
8 27 (39.71%) DV Cleared
9 26 (38.24%) Azure
10 25 (36.76%) VMware Infrastructure
11 24 (35.29%) High Availability
12 22 (32.35%) Windows Server
13 20 (29.41%) LAN
13 20 (29.41%) WAN
13 20 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (27.94%) SAN
14 19 (27.94%) NAS
15 18 (26.47%) Clustering
16 15 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (22.06%) Degree
16 15 (22.06%) Firewall
16 15 (22.06%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (20.59%) A+ Certification
17 14 (20.59%) Citrix
17 14 (20.59%) Computer Science
17 14 (20.59%) Virtual Environments
17 14 (20.59%) Kalman Filter
17 14 (20.59%) Customer Service

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 32 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) Azure
2 15 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.29%) AWS
4 6 (8.82%) GCP
4 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.47%) Dropbox
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (29.41%) LAN
1 20 (29.41%) WAN
2 19 (27.94%) NAS
2 19 (27.94%) SAN
3 15 (22.06%) Firewall
4 13 (19.12%) DHCP
4 13 (19.12%) DNS
5 8 (11.76%) VPN
6 7 (10.29%) SD-WAN
6 7 (10.29%) SMTP
7 6 (8.82%) Network Security
7 6 (8.82%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (2.94%) IP Telephony
8 2 (2.94%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Git
1 1 (1.47%) JIRA
1 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (1.47%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.35%) Games
4 5 (7.35%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.47%) Clustering
2 10 (14.71%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.29%) PKI
4 6 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.47%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 46 (67.65%) Windows
2 22 (32.35%) Windows Server
3 13 (19.12%) Linux
4 8 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (98.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (35.29%) High Availability
3 20 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (20.59%) Computer Science
5 14 (20.59%) Customer Service
5 14 (20.59%) Kalman Filter
5 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.59%) Virtual Environments
6 11 (16.18%) ITIL
7 9 (13.24%) Server Building
8 8 (11.76%) Antivirus Management
8 8 (11.76%) IT Strategy
8 8 (11.76%) Patch Management
8 8 (11.76%) Web Filtering
9 7 (10.29%) Budget Management
9 7 (10.29%) Change Control
9 7 (10.29%) Mobile Device Management
9 7 (10.29%) Statistics
9 7 (10.29%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) PowerShell
2 8 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.71%) DV Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) Degree
3 15 (22.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (20.59%) A+ Certification
5 13 (19.12%) MCP
5 13 (19.12%) MCSA
6 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
7 10 (14.71%) HND
8 7 (10.29%) MCSE
9 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.47%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 42 (61.76%) Active Directory
2 25 (36.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (14.71%) Hyper-V
4 8 (11.76%) BitLocker
5 7 (10.29%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (10.29%) Terminal Services
5 7 (10.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (10.29%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (8.82%) Docker
6 6 (8.82%) vSphere
7 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Ansible
1 7 (10.29%) vCenter Server
1 7 (10.29%) vMotion
2 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Nagios
2 6 (8.82%) Puppet
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (69.12%) Microsoft
2 33 (48.53%) VMware
3 14 (20.59%) Citrix
4 6 (8.82%) Google
4 6 (8.82%) HP
4 6 (8.82%) Symantec
5 2 (2.94%) McAfee
5 2 (2.94%) Veeam
6 1 (1.47%) Apple
6 1 (1.47%) Juniper
6 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow