Infrastructure Support Jobs

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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 655 807
Rank change year-on-year +110 +152 +216
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 158 257 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 139 233 144
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,346 £25,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +5.59% -5.29%
75th Percentile £53,000 £51,750 £50,650
90th Percentile £73,750 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -6.54%

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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £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 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +101 157 £40,000 -11.11% 35
UK excluding London +107 128 £40,000 -11.11% 26
South East +55 69 £40,000 -13.98% 6
Midlands +78 33 £35,000 -15.15% 7
Work from Home +75 33 £40,000 -17.53% 8
London +94 29 £55,000 +22.22% 9
West Midlands +69 27 £35,000 -6.67% 5
North of England +36 22 £43,750 +2.94% 6
North West +15 19 £40,000 -20.00% 1
East Midlands +43 6 £32,500 -31.58% 2
East of England +52 3 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Yorkshire +42 3 £45,000 +5.88% 4
South West +63 1 £30,000 -33.33% 5

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 125 (79.11%) Windows
2 102 (64.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 99 (62.66%) Microsoft
4 97 (61.39%) Active Directory
5 67 (42.41%) Windows Server
6 65 (41.14%) VMware
7 64 (40.51%) Azure
8 60 (37.97%) Microsoft 365
9 59 (37.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 54 (34.18%) PowerShell
11 47 (29.75%) Degree
12 46 (29.11%) VMware Infrastructure
13 45 (28.48%) WAN
14 43 (27.22%) Security Cleared
15 42 (26.58%) LAN
16 37 (23.42%) Linux
17 35 (22.15%) DNS
18 33 (20.89%) DHCP
19 32 (20.25%) ITIL
19 32 (20.25%) Firewall
20 29 (18.35%) SAN
21 28 (17.72%) Patch Management
21 28 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
21 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
22 27 (17.09%) DV Cleared
22 27 (17.09%) Hyper-V
22 27 (17.09%) AWS
22 27 (17.09%) High Availability
22 27 (17.09%) Citrix
23 26 (16.46%) Disaster Recovery

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:

Application Platforms
1 59 (37.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.06%) IIS
3 7 (4.43%) Confluence
3 7 (4.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (10.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.51%) Azure
2 60 (37.97%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (17.09%) AWS
4 9 (5.70%) OpenShift
5 8 (5.06%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon Glacier
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.43%) AWS KMS
6 7 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (3.80%) GCP
8 5 (3.16%) IaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.27%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 45 (28.48%) WAN
2 42 (26.58%) LAN
3 35 (22.15%) DNS
4 33 (20.89%) DHCP
5 32 (20.25%) Firewall
6 29 (18.35%) SAN
7 22 (13.92%) NAS
8 17 (10.76%) Wireless
9 16 (10.13%) Internet
10 14 (8.86%) TCP/IP
11 10 (6.33%) Network Security
11 10 (6.33%) SD-WAN
12 8 (5.06%) SMTP
12 8 (5.06%) VPN
13 6 (3.80%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (3.80%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (3.80%) VLAN
14 5 (3.16%) IP Telephony
14 5 (3.16%) SNMP
15 3 (1.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Git
1 7 (4.43%) JIRA
1 7 (4.43%) Vagrant
2 6 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.96%) Retail
5 5 (3.16%) Games
5 5 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.90%) Automotive
6 3 (1.90%) Back Office
6 3 (1.90%) Finance
6 3 (1.90%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.66%) Clustering
2 16 (10.13%) Virtual Team
3 15 (9.49%) Data Centre
4 12 (7.59%) PKI
5 10 (6.33%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.80%) CCTV
6 6 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.80%) Replication
7 5 (3.16%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) AS400
9 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 125 (79.11%) Windows
2 67 (42.41%) Windows Server
3 37 (23.42%) Linux
4 17 (10.76%) Windows 10
5 14 (8.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (6.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (4.43%) VMS
8 6 (3.80%) Mac OS X
9 4 (2.53%) Unix
9 4 (2.53%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.27%) AIX
10 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.63%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (64.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (20.25%) ITIL
3 28 (17.72%) Patch Management
3 28 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (17.09%) High Availability
5 26 (16.46%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (13.29%) Virtual Environments
7 20 (12.66%) Kalman Filter
8 19 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (12.03%) Customer Service
9 18 (11.39%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.86%) Server Building
11 13 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (7.59%) Change Management
12 12 (7.59%) Migration
13 11 (6.96%) Antivirus Management
13 11 (6.96%) IT Strategy
13 11 (6.96%) Web Filtering
14 10 (6.33%) Cloud Security
15 9 (5.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (34.18%) PowerShell
2 24 (15.19%) SQL
3 9 (5.70%) Python
4 6 (3.80%) Groovy
5 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (29.75%) Degree
2 43 (27.22%) Security Cleared
3 27 (17.09%) DV Cleared
4 25 (15.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (14.56%) SC Cleared
6 16 (10.13%) A+ Certification
6 16 (10.13%) Master's Degree
6 16 (10.13%) MBA
6 16 (10.13%) MCSA
7 15 (9.49%) MCP
8 13 (8.23%) HND
8 13 (8.23%) MCSE
9 9 (5.70%) CCNA
9 9 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (3.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
12 5 (3.16%) CCNP
12 5 (3.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.76%) SLA
2 5 (3.16%) GDPR
3 3 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 97 (61.39%) Active Directory
2 46 (29.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (17.09%) Hyper-V
4 13 (8.23%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (4.43%) BitLocker
5 7 (4.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (4.43%) Terminal Services
5 7 (4.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (4.43%) vSphere
6 6 (3.80%) DFS Replication
6 6 (3.80%) Docker
7 2 (1.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.63%) NFS
8 1 (0.63%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (11.39%) Ansible
2 18 (11.39%) SCCM
3 15 (9.49%) Terraform
4 9 (5.70%) Kubernetes
5 8 (5.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (4.43%) Grafana
6 7 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.43%) vCenter Server
6 7 (4.43%) vMotion
7 6 (3.80%) Nagios
7 6 (3.80%) Puppet
8 5 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.90%) Backup Exec
9 3 (1.90%) WSUS
10 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 99 (62.66%) Microsoft
2 65 (41.14%) VMware
3 27 (17.09%) Citrix
4 22 (13.92%) Cisco
5 16 (10.13%) Unisys
6 13 (8.23%) Veeam
7 7 (4.43%) Juniper
7 7 (4.43%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.80%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.80%) Google
8 6 (3.80%) HP
8 6 (3.80%) Meraki
8 6 (3.80%) MobileIron
8 6 (3.80%) Riverbed
8 6 (3.80%) SAP
8 6 (3.80%) Symantec
8 6 (3.80%) Trend Micro
9 5 (3.16%) McAfee
9 5 (3.16%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.53%) Fortinet