Infrastructure Support Engineer Job Trends

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in the UK is £44,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 670 674
Rank change year-on-year +94 +4 +264
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 75 42 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.079% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.085% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 52 17 52
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,700 £33,991
25th Percentile £35,500 £32,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -11.76% +3.66%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £54,375
90th Percentile £57,000 £66,750 £70,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £33,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +30.37% -20.59% +6.25%

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 54,089 49,558 53,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.89% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,489 25,634 41,126
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +99 70 £44,000 +17.33% 6
UK excluding London +93 62 £44,000 +30.37% 5
Midlands +55 32 £44,000 +30.37%
Work from Home +76 22 £42,000 -1.18% 3
West Midlands +37 16 £44,000 +30.37%
East Midlands - 16 £45,000 -
North of England +31 15 £45,750 +22.00% 2
London +62 13 £52,500 -4.55% 1
North West +32 9 £45,750 +42.97% 1
South East +18 7 £35,500 +42.00% 2
Yorkshire -4 6 £50,000 +33.33% 1
Wales - 5 - -
South West +5 3 £40,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (98.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (64.00%) Windows
3 42 (56.00%) Azure
4 38 (50.67%) Microsoft
5 35 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (44.00%) Active Directory
7 28 (37.33%) Windows Server
8 22 (29.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (28.00%) Firewall
10 19 (25.33%) SaaS
11 18 (24.00%) SQL
12 15 (20.00%) Linux
12 15 (20.00%) SQL Server
13 14 (18.67%) AWS
13 14 (18.67%) Degree
13 14 (18.67%) DevOps
13 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (18.67%) SharePoint
13 14 (18.67%) VPN
14 13 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (17.33%) ITIL
14 13 (17.33%) VLAN
15 12 (16.00%) DNS
15 12 (16.00%) Nagios
15 12 (16.00%) ZABBIX
16 11 (14.67%) Citrix
16 11 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
16 11 (14.67%) GCP
16 11 (14.67%) Google
16 11 (14.67%) ServiceNow

Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 22 (29.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (18.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (10.67%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 42 (56.00%) Azure
2 35 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (25.33%) SaaS
4 14 (18.67%) AWS
5 11 (14.67%) GCP
6 8 (10.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (9.33%) IaaS
8 5 (6.67%) iPaaS
9 4 (5.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.00%) Datadog
10 3 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.00%) PaaS
11 2 (2.67%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.33%) Route 53
12 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.00%) Firewall
2 14 (18.67%) VPN
3 13 (17.33%) VLAN
4 12 (16.00%) DNS
5 9 (12.00%) DHCP
5 9 (12.00%) VoIP
6 8 (10.67%) Skype
7 6 (8.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (6.67%) SAN
9 4 (5.33%) DMZ
9 4 (5.33%) STUN
10 2 (2.67%) NetScaler
11 1 (1.33%) LAN
11 1 (1.33%) Network Security
11 1 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.33%) SSL
11 1 (1.33%) Telnet
11 1 (1.33%) WAN
11 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.67%) DTS
3 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) DB2
3 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) JIRA
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.67%) Manufacturing
3 9 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Retail
5 5 (6.67%) Law
6 3 (4.00%) Finance
6 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Front Office
8 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) LDAP
2 4 (5.33%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (1.33%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (1.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 11 (14.67%) CMDB
3 8 (10.67%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (6.67%) Clustering
4 5 (6.67%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.00%) Anti-Spyware
5 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (64.00%) Windows
2 28 (37.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (20.00%) Linux
4 8 (10.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (9.33%) Mac OS
6 5 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (5.33%) Debian
7 4 (5.33%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.67%) Unix
9 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (98.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (18.67%) DevOps
2 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (17.33%) ITIL
4 11 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (13.33%) Time Management
6 9 (12.00%) Cloud Operations
6 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 9 (12.00%) Migration
6 9 (12.00%) Service Delivery
7 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.67%) Customer Service
7 8 (10.67%) Problem Management
7 8 (10.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (10.67%) Server Management
8 6 (8.00%) Incident Management
9 5 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.00%) SQL
2 10 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Degree
2 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.00%) MCP
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.33%) CCNA
3 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.67%) GDPR
3 4 (5.33%) ISO 9001
3 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.33%) SLA
4 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 33 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (8.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.33%) Kamailio
7 2 (2.67%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Nagios
1 12 (16.00%) ZABBIX
2 8 (10.67%) SCCM
3 5 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.33%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.33%) Ansible
6 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (50.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) Citrix
2 11 (14.67%) Google
2 11 (14.67%) ServiceNow
2 11 (14.67%) VMware
3 9 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (10.67%) BMC
4 8 (10.67%) Darktrace
4 8 (10.67%) Proofpoint
4 8 (10.67%) SolarWinds
4 8 (10.67%) Tanium
4 8 (10.67%) Trend Micro
5 5 (6.67%) Juniper
5 5 (6.67%) Veeam
6 4 (5.33%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.33%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.00%) Cisco
7 3 (4.00%) Meraki
8 2 (2.67%) IBM