3rd Line Infrastructure Support Jobs

Third Line Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support salary in the UK is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 761 696 1042
Rank change year-on-year -65 +346 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 5 34 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.064% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.067% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 1 27 30
10th Percentile - £34,250 £35,675
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,400 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £39,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.14% -1.18%
75th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £51,625
90th Percentile - £56,250 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £39,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% -5.45% -2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 64,932 50,573 117,209
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 95.45% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 32,232 36,954 73,757
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,798
25th Percentile £43,650 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 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
England -85 5 £32,500 -16.67% 1
UK excluding London -96 5 £32,500 -16.67% 1
Work from Home +3 4 £32,500 -16.67% 1
North of England -30 4 £32,500 -18.75%
North East - 3 - -
West Midlands -40 1 - -
Midlands -49 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £32,500 -

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 December 2024, 3rd Line 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 featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
4 1 (20.00%) SCCM
4 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft