Infrastructure Support Job Trends

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the UK is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 488 641
Rank change year-on-year -75 +153 +85
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 195 195 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.45% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 168 177 223
10th Percentile £30,775 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 91,865 43,203 98,401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 89.93% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 63,065 25,304 70,829
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,224 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,445 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% - -5.66%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Support' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 July 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
England -58 190 £40,000 - 18
UK excluding London -52 177 £40,000 - 16
Work from Home +15 65 £45,000 +28.57% 8
South East -34 60 £52,500 +31.25% 7
North of England -23 53 £37,500 -21.05%
East of England +7 32 £40,000 -15.79% 1
North West +1 29 £37,500 -27.88%
South West -49 23 £32,500 +4.84% 5
Yorkshire -15 19 £40,000 -13.51%
London -37 14 £44,615 -18.88% 4
Midlands -62 8 £30,000 -14.29% 3
West Midlands -58 5 £30,000 -14.29% 1
North East - 5 £45,000 -
East Midlands -27 3 £45,500 +40.00% 2
Scotland - 1 £60,000 -

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 July 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 featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 106 (54.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 99 (50.77%) Microsoft
3 94 (48.21%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (45.64%) Windows
5 71 (36.41%) Active Directory
6 67 (34.36%) Azure
7 52 (26.67%) Firewall
8 49 (25.13%) Windows Server
9 45 (23.08%) Entra ID
10 42 (21.54%) Microsoft Exchange
11 41 (21.03%) SharePoint
12 33 (16.92%) DNS
13 32 (16.41%) Hyper-V
13 32 (16.41%) ITIL
13 32 (16.41%) VLAN
14 31 (15.90%) DHCP
14 31 (15.90%) VMware
15 28 (14.36%) Incident Management
15 28 (14.36%) Microsoft Intune
15 28 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (12.82%) VPN
18 24 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 24 (12.31%) Service Delivery
19 22 (11.28%) Windows 10
20 21 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
20 21 (10.77%) SQL
21 20 (10.26%) Mimecast
21 20 (10.26%) TCP/IP
21 20 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 42 (21.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (21.03%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.59%) OpenEdge
4 2 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 94 (48.21%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (34.36%) Azure
3 45 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.26%) Mimecast
5 16 (8.21%) SaaS
6 13 (6.67%) AWS
7 11 (5.64%) IaaS
8 7 (3.59%) Serverless
9 6 (3.08%) PaaS
10 5 (2.56%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.56%) Intacct
10 5 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.03%) Rubrik
13 1 (0.51%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (26.67%) Firewall
2 33 (16.92%) DNS
3 32 (16.41%) VLAN
4 31 (15.90%) DHCP
5 25 (12.82%) VPN
6 20 (10.26%) TCP/IP
7 19 (9.74%) LAN
8 16 (8.21%) WAN
9 13 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (5.64%) Wireless
11 9 (4.62%) Network Security
12 8 (4.10%) VoIP
13 6 (3.08%) DMZ
14 5 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (2.56%) STUN
15 4 (2.05%) BGP
15 4 (2.05%) IPsec
16 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
17 1 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
17 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) JIRA
2 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.28%) Finance
3 14 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (7.18%) Retail
4 12 (6.15%) Legal
5 10 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Police
11 1 (0.51%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.56%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (1.03%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.03%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.64%) CCTV
2 6 (3.08%) Replication
3 4 (2.05%) CMDB
4 3 (1.54%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.54%) NHS
5 2 (1.03%) BYOD
5 2 (1.03%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.03%) Smart Energy
5 2 (1.03%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.51%) Clustering
6 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 89 (45.64%) Windows
2 49 (25.13%) Windows Server
3 22 (11.28%) Windows 10
4 18 (9.23%) Linux
5 6 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.56%) Debian
7 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (54.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (16.41%) ITIL
3 28 (14.36%) Incident Management
3 28 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (12.31%) Service Delivery
6 21 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (8.21%) Change Management
8 15 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 15 (7.69%) Software Deployment
9 14 (7.18%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (6.67%) Patch Management
11 12 (6.15%) Emotional Intelligence
11 12 (6.15%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 12 (6.15%) ITSM
11 12 (6.15%) Project Delivery
11 12 (6.15%) Security Operations
11 12 (6.15%) Workflow
12 11 (5.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.77%) SQL
2 18 (9.23%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.64%) R
4 7 (3.59%) Bash
4 7 (3.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (8.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.15%) Azure Certification
3 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
4 7 (3.59%) Degree
5 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCNA
8 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.51%) MCSA
8 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (9.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (5.64%) GDPR
4 4 (2.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (36.41%) Active Directory
2 32 (16.41%) Hyper-V
3 20 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.56%) Docker
6 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 28 (14.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.18%) SCCM
3 10 (5.13%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.62%) Backup Exec
5 5 (2.56%) Terraform
6 3 (1.54%) Grafana
6 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 99 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.90%) VMware
3 17 (8.72%) Veeam
4 15 (7.69%) Cisco
5 13 (6.67%) Citrix
5 13 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 12 (6.15%) SolarWinds
7 11 (5.64%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (5.13%) Meraki
9 5 (2.56%) iManage
9 5 (2.56%) Juniper
9 5 (2.56%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.56%) Sage
9 5 (2.56%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (2.05%) Apple
10 4 (2.05%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.54%) HP
11 3 (1.54%) ICL
11 3 (1.54%) IFS
11 3 (1.54%) Oracle