Infrastructure Support Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the UK excluding London is £44,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 505 445
Rank change year-on-year +80 -60 +214
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 97 53 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 64 29 107
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,100 £25,200
25th Percentile £35,313 £32,000 £34,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -5.88% +13.10%
75th Percentile £50,000 - £55,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £50,600 -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,586 33,429 32,762
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,611 16,250 24,824
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,013 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

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 Infrastructure Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Midlands +55 37 £44,000 +30.37%
North of England +37 35 £37,250 -0.67% 6
Yorkshire +11 25 £30,000 -20.00% 2
East Midlands - 21 £45,000 -
South East +20 17 £52,500 +31.25% 6
West Midlands +33 16 £44,000 +30.37%
North West +29 10 £41,625 +30.08% 2
Wales - 5 - -
South West -7 3 £40,000 +25.00%
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 62 (63.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (55.67%) Windows
3 50 (51.55%) Azure
4 47 (48.45%) Microsoft
5 42 (43.30%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (40.21%) Active Directory
7 31 (31.96%) SaaS
8 28 (28.87%) Windows Server
9 27 (27.84%) SQL
10 21 (21.65%) VMware
11 20 (20.62%) Migration
11 20 (20.62%) VMware Infrastructure
12 19 (19.59%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (18.56%) DevOps
13 18 (18.56%) Microsoft Exchange
13 18 (18.56%) ServiceNow
14 17 (17.53%) SolarWinds
15 16 (16.49%) AWS
15 16 (16.49%) SAN
16 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (15.46%) Project Delivery
16 15 (15.46%) SCCM
16 15 (15.46%) SharePoint
17 14 (14.43%) DNS
17 14 (14.43%) Firewall
17 14 (14.43%) Mentoring
17 14 (14.43%) SQL Server
17 14 (14.43%) VLAN
18 13 (13.40%) Cyber Essentials
18 13 (13.40%) ITIL

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 18 (18.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (15.46%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.25%) Skype for Business
4 5 (5.15%) Drupal
4 5 (5.15%) nginx
4 5 (5.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (51.55%) Azure
2 42 (43.30%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (31.96%) SaaS
4 16 (16.49%) AWS
5 11 (11.34%) GCP
6 8 (8.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (7.22%) IaaS
8 6 (6.19%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.15%) iPaaS
10 4 (4.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.09%) Datadog
11 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.09%) PaaS
12 2 (2.06%) OneDrive
13 1 (1.03%) Intacct
13 1 (1.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.49%) SAN
2 14 (14.43%) DNS
2 14 (14.43%) Firewall
2 14 (14.43%) VLAN
3 12 (12.37%) VPN
4 11 (11.34%) DHCP
5 8 (8.25%) Skype
6 7 (7.22%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.12%) DMZ
7 4 (4.12%) STUN
7 4 (4.12%) VoIP
8 1 (1.03%) LAN
8 1 (1.03%) Network Security
8 1 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.03%) Telnet
8 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.25%) DTS
3 5 (5.15%) MariaDB
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) JIRA
General
1 35 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.68%) Manufacturing
3 11 (11.34%) Advertising
4 10 (10.31%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.25%) Retail
6 5 (5.15%) Law
6 5 (5.15%) Local Government
6 5 (5.15%) Police
6 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (4.12%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Onboarding
2 14 (14.43%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (11.34%) CMDB
4 8 (8.25%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (6.19%) Driving Licence
6 5 (5.15%) Clustering
6 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.09%) Anti-Spyware
Operating Systems
1 54 (55.67%) Windows
2 28 (28.87%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.40%) Windows 10
4 12 (12.37%) Linux
5 8 (8.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (7.22%) Mac OS
7 4 (4.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (63.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (20.62%) Migration
3 19 (19.59%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (18.56%) DevOps
5 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.46%) Project Delivery
6 14 (14.43%) Mentoring
7 13 (13.40%) ITIL
7 13 (13.40%) ITSM
8 10 (10.31%) CI/CD
8 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (9.28%) Cloud Operations
9 9 (9.28%) Customer Service
9 9 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (9.28%) Emotional Intelligence
9 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 9 (9.28%) Patch Management
9 9 (9.28%) Security Operations
9 9 (9.28%) Service Delivery
9 9 (9.28%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.84%) SQL
2 10 (10.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (8.25%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.09%) MCP
5 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (9.28%) ISO 9001
2 9 (9.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (5.15%) GDPR
5 3 (3.09%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (40.21%) Active Directory
2 20 (20.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.28%) Docker
4 8 (8.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (7.22%) Hyper-V
6 5 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.12%) Kamailio
8 2 (2.06%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (15.46%) SCCM
2 12 (12.37%) Nagios
2 12 (12.37%) ZABBIX
3 5 (5.15%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.12%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.03%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 47 (48.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.65%) VMware
3 18 (18.56%) ServiceNow
4 17 (17.53%) SolarWinds
5 11 (11.34%) Google
6 9 (9.28%) Citrix
7 8 (8.25%) BMC
7 8 (8.25%) Darktrace
7 8 (8.25%) Proofpoint
7 8 (8.25%) Red Hat
7 8 (8.25%) Tanium
7 8 (8.25%) Trend Micro
8 6 (6.19%) Veeam
9 5 (5.15%) Oracle
10 4 (4.12%) Fortinet
10 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.03%) IFS
11 1 (1.03%) Sage
11 1 (1.03%) Ubiquiti