Infrastructure Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 576 629
Rank change year-on-year +112 +53 +72
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 119 199 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.29% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 104 189 97
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,346 £24,450
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -6.54%
75th Percentile £43,750 £51,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £53,800
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year -5.88% +5.59% -5.29%

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support 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 22 May 2025.

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 22 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 +69 67 £40,000 -13.98% 10
Midlands +63 26 £32,500 -21.21% 5
North of England +48 23 £43,750 +2.94% 1
West Midlands +74 20 £35,000 -6.67% 4
North West +13 20 £40,000 -20.00%
East Midlands +29 6 £32,500 -31.58% 1
Yorkshire +51 3 £45,000 +5.88%
East of England +41 2 £47,500 -5.00% 2
South West +58 1 £30,000 -18.92% 3
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 93 (78.15%) Windows
2 81 (68.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 74 (62.18%) Microsoft
4 71 (59.66%) Active Directory
5 47 (39.50%) Windows Server
6 46 (38.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 46 (38.66%) VMware
7 40 (33.61%) Azure
8 39 (32.77%) LAN
8 39 (32.77%) WAN
9 38 (31.93%) Degree
10 37 (31.09%) PowerShell
11 35 (29.41%) Security Cleared
11 35 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (27.73%) VMware Infrastructure
13 27 (22.69%) DV Cleared
14 26 (21.85%) SAN
14 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (21.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (21.01%) High Availability
16 23 (19.33%) Linux
17 22 (18.49%) DNS
17 22 (18.49%) Firewall
18 21 (17.65%) DHCP
18 21 (17.65%) Social Skills
19 20 (16.81%) Hyper-V
19 20 (16.81%) NAS
20 19 (15.97%) MBA
20 19 (15.97%) Unisys
20 19 (15.97%) Wireless

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 46 (38.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.84%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.61%) Azure
2 35 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.24%) AWS
4 6 (5.04%) GCP
4 6 (5.04%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.20%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.20%) IaaS
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.52%) AWS KMS
6 3 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (32.77%) LAN
1 39 (32.77%) WAN
2 26 (21.85%) SAN
3 22 (18.49%) DNS
3 22 (18.49%) Firewall
4 21 (17.65%) DHCP
5 20 (16.81%) NAS
6 19 (15.97%) Internet
6 19 (15.97%) Wireless
7 8 (6.72%) SMTP
7 8 (6.72%) VPN
8 7 (5.88%) SD-WAN
9 6 (5.04%) Network Security
9 6 (5.04%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.52%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (2.52%) IP Telephony
10 3 (2.52%) SNMP
10 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.52%) VLAN
10 3 (2.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Git
1 3 (2.52%) JIRA
1 3 (2.52%) Vagrant
2 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (21.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.20%) Games
4 5 (4.20%) Retail
4 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.52%) Automotive
5 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Virtual Team
2 18 (15.13%) Clustering
3 12 (10.08%) PKI
4 10 (8.40%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.88%) Driving Licence
6 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.52%) Blackberry
7 3 (2.52%) CCTV
8 2 (1.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (78.15%) Windows
2 47 (39.50%) Windows Server
3 23 (19.33%) Linux
4 12 (10.08%) Windows 10
5 10 (8.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.36%) Windows 7
8 3 (2.52%) Mac OS X
8 3 (2.52%) VMS
9 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.84%) Unix
10 1 (0.84%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (68.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (21.01%) High Availability
4 19 (15.97%) Customer Service
4 19 (15.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (14.29%) ITIL
5 17 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
5 17 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
6 16 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (12.61%) Computer Science
8 13 (10.92%) Patch Management
9 10 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (8.40%) Server Building
10 9 (7.56%) Antivirus Management
10 9 (7.56%) IT Strategy
10 9 (7.56%) Web Filtering
11 8 (6.72%) Task Automation
12 7 (5.88%) Budget Management
12 7 (5.88%) Change Control
12 7 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.09%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.61%) SQL
3 3 (2.52%) Python
4 2 (1.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (31.93%) Degree
2 35 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 27 (22.69%) DV Cleared
4 19 (15.97%) Master's Degree
4 19 (15.97%) MBA
4 19 (15.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (12.61%) SC Cleared
6 14 (11.76%) A+ Certification
7 13 (10.92%) MCP
7 13 (10.92%) MCSA
8 11 (9.24%) HND
9 10 (8.40%) MCSE
10 8 (6.72%) CCNA
10 8 (6.72%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (4.20%) Azure Certification
11 5 (4.20%) CCNP
11 5 (4.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) SLA
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 71 (59.66%) Active Directory
2 33 (27.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (16.81%) Hyper-V
4 12 (10.08%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (5.88%) BitLocker
5 7 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (5.88%) Terminal Services
5 7 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (5.04%) Docker
6 6 (5.04%) vSphere
7 2 (1.68%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.84%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (7.56%) Ansible
2 7 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 7 (5.88%) vMotion
3 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.04%) Nagios
3 6 (5.04%) Puppet
4 5 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.36%) SCCM
6 3 (2.52%) Grafana
6 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.52%) Terraform
7 2 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.68%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 74 (62.18%) Microsoft
2 46 (38.66%) VMware
3 19 (15.97%) Unisys
4 14 (11.76%) Citrix
5 10 (8.40%) Veeam
6 8 (6.72%) Cisco
7 6 (5.04%) Google
7 6 (5.04%) HP
7 6 (5.04%) Symantec
8 3 (2.52%) Acronis
8 3 (2.52%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.52%) Juniper
8 3 (2.52%) Kaseya
8 3 (2.52%) McAfee
8 3 (2.52%) Riverbed
8 3 (2.52%) Sage
8 3 (2.52%) SAP
8 3 (2.52%) SonicWALL
8 3 (2.52%) Trend Micro
8 3 (2.52%) WatchGuard