Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in the UK is £42,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 744 889
Rank change year-on-year +112 +145 +220
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 86 140 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 74 125 83
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,154 £35,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -2.70%
75th Percentile £53,000 £52,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £64,500 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £46,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year -13.98% +12.73% -0.30%

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 50,627 94,635 91,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.71% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 26,942 67,569 57,579
10th Percentile £29,444 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 11 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 21 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
England +115 85 £41,500 -10.75% 17
UK excluding London +143 77 £40,000 -13.98% 14
South East +71 39 £42,000 -9.68% 5
Work from Home +78 20 £42,500 -12.37% 2
North of England +56 19 £47,250 +45.38%
West Midlands +64 17 £35,000 -6.67% 4
Midlands +62 17 £35,000 -22.22% 5
North West +13 17 £52,000 +39.60%
London +103 8 £49,000 -27.41% 3
Yorkshire +64 2 £40,000 +23.08%
East of England +43 2 £47,500 -5.00% 1

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, 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 featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (69.77%) Windows
2 60 (69.77%) Microsoft
3 54 (62.79%) Active Directory
4 43 (50.00%) VMware
5 38 (44.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 36 (41.86%) Azure
7 35 (40.70%) PowerShell
8 34 (39.53%) Security Cleared
9 33 (38.37%) VMware Infrastructure
9 33 (38.37%) Windows Server
10 27 (31.40%) DV Cleared
11 25 (29.07%) High Availability
11 25 (29.07%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (27.91%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (26.74%) Firewall
14 22 (25.58%) LAN
14 22 (25.58%) WAN
15 21 (24.42%) Linux
15 21 (24.42%) SAN
15 21 (24.42%) Degree
16 20 (23.26%) NAS
17 19 (22.09%) Microsoft Certification
18 18 (20.93%) ITIL
18 18 (20.93%) Clustering
19 17 (19.77%) Citrix
19 17 (19.77%) DHCP
19 17 (19.77%) DNS
19 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
19 17 (19.77%) Kalman Filter

Infrastructure Support Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (44.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) IIS
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) Azure
2 25 (29.07%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (17.44%) AWS
4 9 (10.47%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.98%) GCP
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.49%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.74%) Firewall
2 22 (25.58%) LAN
2 22 (25.58%) WAN
3 21 (24.42%) SAN
4 20 (23.26%) NAS
5 17 (19.77%) DHCP
5 17 (19.77%) DNS
6 9 (10.47%) VPN
7 7 (8.14%) Network Security
7 7 (8.14%) SD-WAN
7 7 (8.14%) SMTP
8 6 (6.98%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (3.49%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (3.49%) IP Telephony
9 3 (3.49%) SNMP
9 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.16%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Git
1 3 (3.49%) JIRA
1 3 (3.49%) Vagrant
2 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
1 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.81%) Games
3 5 (5.81%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.49%) Back Office
5 2 (2.33%) Finance
5 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Clustering
2 13 (15.12%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.14%) PKI
4 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.49%) Blackberry
5 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Replication
7 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 60 (69.77%) Windows
2 33 (38.37%) Windows Server
3 21 (24.42%) Linux
4 10 (11.63%) Windows 10
5 7 (8.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.49%) VMS
7 2 (2.33%) AIX
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (29.07%) High Availability
3 24 (27.91%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (20.93%) ITIL
5 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (19.77%) Kalman Filter
5 17 (19.77%) Virtual Environments
6 16 (18.60%) Patch Management
7 15 (17.44%) Computer Science
7 15 (17.44%) Customer Service
8 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.63%) Server Building
10 9 (10.47%) Antivirus Management
10 9 (10.47%) IT Strategy
10 9 (10.47%) Web Filtering
11 8 (9.30%) Business Continuity
11 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (9.30%) Task Automation
12 7 (8.14%) Data Protection
12 7 (8.14%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.70%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.95%) SQL
3 3 (3.49%) Python
4 2 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.40%) DV Cleared
3 21 (24.42%) Degree
4 19 (22.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (17.44%) A+ Certification
5 15 (17.44%) MCSA
6 14 (16.28%) MCP
6 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
7 11 (12.79%) HND
8 9 (10.47%) MCSE
9 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.16%) CCNA
10 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.16%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (62.79%) Active Directory
2 33 (38.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (17.44%) Hyper-V
4 8 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (8.14%) BitLocker
5 7 (8.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (8.14%) Terminal Services
5 7 (8.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (8.14%) vSphere
6 6 (6.98%) Docker
7 2 (2.33%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Ansible
2 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.47%) SCCM
3 7 (8.14%) vCenter Server
3 7 (8.14%) vMotion
4 6 (6.98%) Nagios
4 6 (6.98%) Puppet
4 6 (6.98%) Terraform
5 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.49%) Grafana
6 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 60 (69.77%) Microsoft
2 43 (50.00%) VMware
3 17 (19.77%) Citrix
4 6 (6.98%) Google
4 6 (6.98%) HP
4 6 (6.98%) Symantec
5 5 (5.81%) Cisco
5 5 (5.81%) Veeam
6 4 (4.65%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.49%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.49%) Dell
7 3 (3.49%) Juniper
7 3 (3.49%) McAfee
7 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.16%) Apple
8 1 (1.16%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.16%) Sophos