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 £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 662 697 764
Rank change year-on-year +35 +67 -155
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 109 65 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 105 62 65
10th Percentile £29,850 £35,400 £26,900
25th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +3.13% +12.68%
75th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,600 £54,800 £61,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +56 56 £46,500 +16.25% 9
South West -5 28 £50,500 +38.36% 2
Midlands +27 18 £45,000 -18.18%
West Midlands +29 12 £37,500 -21.05%
East Midlands -10 6 £47,500 -13.64%
North of England +38 5 £32,500 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire +84 2 £32,500 -14.47%
North West +9 2 £37,250 -12.35%
East of England +14 1 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North East -9 1 £29,000 -27.50% 1
Scotland -69 1 £40,000 +25.00% 4
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 5 May 2024, 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 97 (88.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (51.38%) Azure
2 56 (51.38%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (46.79%) Windows
4 48 (44.04%) Microsoft
4 48 (44.04%) VMware
5 47 (43.12%) Active Directory
6 40 (36.70%) Firewall
7 39 (35.78%) PowerShell
8 38 (34.86%) VMware Infrastructure
9 37 (33.94%) Windows Server
10 29 (26.61%) Citrix
11 27 (24.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
13 25 (22.94%) SAN
14 24 (22.02%) WAN
15 23 (21.10%) DNS
15 23 (21.10%) SharePoint
16 21 (19.27%) SLA
16 21 (19.27%) LAN
17 20 (18.35%) Microsoft Exchange
17 20 (18.35%) Security Cleared
17 20 (18.35%) VMware ESXi
18 19 (17.43%) AWS
18 19 (17.43%) Veeam
18 19 (17.43%) Finance
18 19 (17.43%) Customer Service
19 18 (16.51%) ITIL
20 17 (15.60%) Cisco
20 17 (15.60%) IaaS

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 23 (21.10%) SharePoint
2 20 (18.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.67%) IIS
4 2 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (51.38%) Azure
1 56 (51.38%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (17.43%) AWS
3 17 (15.60%) IaaS
4 11 (10.09%) Entra ID
5 10 (9.17%) PaaS
5 10 (9.17%) SaaS
6 9 (8.26%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (4.59%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.83%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.83%) OpenDNS
10 1 (0.92%) GCP
10 1 (0.92%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (36.70%) Firewall
2 25 (22.94%) SAN
3 24 (22.02%) WAN
4 23 (21.10%) DNS
5 21 (19.27%) LAN
6 15 (13.76%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (12.84%) DHCP
8 11 (10.09%) VPN
9 10 (9.17%) Internet
9 10 (9.17%) Wireless
10 9 (8.26%) SD-WAN
10 9 (8.26%) WLAN
11 8 (7.34%) iSCSI
12 5 (4.59%) VLAN
13 4 (3.67%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (2.75%) NAS
14 3 (2.75%) Network Security
14 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
15 2 (1.83%) OSPF
15 2 (1.83%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) MySQL
1 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) JIRA
2 3 (2.75%) GitLab
General
1 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.43%) Finance
3 14 (12.84%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Law
5 2 (1.83%) Legal
5 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.83%) LAMP
1 2 (1.83%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Driving Licence
2 12 (11.01%) PKI
3 10 (9.17%) Clustering
4 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) NHS
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (46.79%) Windows
2 37 (33.94%) Windows Server
3 16 (14.68%) Windows 10
4 15 (13.76%) Linux
5 11 (10.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (6.42%) Android
6 7 (6.42%) Apple iOS
7 6 (5.50%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.92%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.92%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (88.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (17.43%) Customer Service
3 18 (16.51%) ITIL
4 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (11.93%) Problem Management
6 12 (11.01%) Service Delivery
7 11 (10.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (8.26%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (8.26%) Systems Engineering
9 8 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.34%) Incident Management
10 6 (5.50%) Customer Experience
10 6 (5.50%) Patch Management
10 6 (5.50%) Server Monitoring
11 5 (4.59%) Change Control
12 4 (3.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 3 (2.75%) Mentoring
13 3 (2.75%) Mobile Device Management
13 3 (2.75%) Server Management
13 3 (2.75%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.78%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.26%) ActionScript
2 9 (8.26%) VB
3 8 (7.34%) Bash
4 7 (6.42%) SQL
5 2 (1.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.68%) Degree
3 12 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.17%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.42%) CCNA
5 7 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (6.42%) MCP
6 6 (5.50%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.83%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.92%) CCA
9 1 (0.92%) CCAA
9 1 (0.92%) CCDA
9 1 (0.92%) CCNP
9 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.92%) MCSE
9 1 (0.92%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.27%) SLA
2 7 (6.42%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 47 (43.12%) Active Directory
2 38 (34.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (18.35%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (14.68%) Hyper-V
5 11 (10.09%) vSphere
6 9 (8.26%) OpenSSH
6 9 (8.26%) XenApp
7 6 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.75%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (1.83%) Docker
9 2 (1.83%) pfSense
9 2 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.92%) Firmware
10 1 (0.92%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 27 (24.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (13.76%) vCenter Server
3 11 (10.09%) SCCM
4 9 (8.26%) IBM BigFix
4 9 (8.26%) PowerCLI
5 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (5.50%) SCDPM
6 2 (1.83%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.83%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.83%) WSUS
7 1 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.92%) Ansible
7 1 (0.92%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.92%) NetCrunch
7 1 (0.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (44.04%) Microsoft
1 48 (44.04%) VMware
2 29 (26.61%) Citrix
3 19 (17.43%) Veeam
4 17 (15.60%) Cisco
5 15 (13.76%) HP
6 12 (11.01%) Sophos
7 9 (8.26%) Dell
7 9 (8.26%) IBM
8 6 (5.50%) Dell Compellent
8 6 (5.50%) Meraki
8 6 (5.50%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (3.67%) Aruba
10 3 (2.75%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.83%) Acronis
11 2 (1.83%) EMC
11 2 (1.83%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds