Infrastructure Support Job Trends

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 514 644
Rank change year-on-year -5 +130 +158
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 196 142 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 162 125 222
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,050
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +4.94%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £51,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £79,500 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.88% +13.33%

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 84,208 39,316 91,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 89.55% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,431 23,382 67,108
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +5 190 £42,500 +6.25% 10
UK excluding London -5 168 £41,000 +2.50% 9
Work from Home +64 73 £52,500 +27.27% 5
South East -21 61 £52,500 +31.25% 5
North of England -23 49 £36,650 -16.23% 2
East of England - 30 £40,000 -
North West -2 24 £35,800 -31.15% 1
London -24 23 £85,000 +9.68% 1
Yorkshire -34 20 £32,500 -23.53% 1
South West - 16 £32,500 - 1
Midlands -49 11 £44,000 +35.38% 1
West Midlands -34 9 £44,000 +30.37% 1
North East - 5 £45,000 -
East Midlands -31 2 - -
Scotland - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 105 (53.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 95 (48.47%) Windows
3 93 (47.45%) Microsoft
4 90 (45.92%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (38.27%) Azure
6 67 (34.18%) Active Directory
7 47 (23.98%) Windows Server
8 43 (21.94%) Firewall
9 39 (19.90%) Entra ID
9 39 (19.90%) VMware
10 37 (18.88%) ITIL
11 36 (18.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 34 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 33 (16.84%) DNS
14 32 (16.33%) Hyper-V
14 32 (16.33%) SharePoint
15 31 (15.82%) DHCP
15 31 (15.82%) Windows 10
16 29 (14.80%) VLAN
17 28 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
17 28 (14.29%) VPN
18 26 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
19 25 (12.76%) Change Management
19 25 (12.76%) Incident Management
20 23 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
20 23 (11.73%) Linux
20 23 (11.73%) SCCM
20 23 (11.73%) Software Deployment
20 23 (11.73%) TCP/IP
21 22 (11.22%) ISO/IEC 27001

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 36 (18.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (16.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.04%) OpenEdge
4 3 (1.53%) Drupal
4 3 (1.53%) nginx
4 3 (1.53%) WordPress
5 2 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (1.02%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) Appian
Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.92%) Microsoft 365
2 75 (38.27%) Azure
3 39 (19.90%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.20%) AWS
5 19 (9.69%) SaaS
6 14 (7.14%) Mimecast
7 11 (5.61%) IaaS
8 6 (3.06%) OneDrive
8 6 (3.06%) PaaS
9 5 (2.55%) Intacct
10 4 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.04%) Serverless
11 2 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.02%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (21.94%) Firewall
2 33 (16.84%) DNS
3 31 (15.82%) DHCP
4 29 (14.80%) VLAN
5 28 (14.29%) VPN
6 23 (11.73%) TCP/IP
7 19 (9.69%) WAN
8 18 (9.18%) LAN
9 11 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (4.59%) Wireless
11 6 (3.06%) DMZ
11 6 (3.06%) Network Security
11 6 (3.06%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.55%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (2.55%) STUN
12 5 (2.55%) VoIP
13 4 (2.04%) BGP
13 4 (2.04%) IPsec
14 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.53%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.61%) JIRA
2 5 (2.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 55 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.33%) Finance
3 11 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.61%) Legal
3 11 (5.61%) Retail
4 10 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.53%) Local Government
8 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.53%) Police
9 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.55%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (1.02%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.61%) CCTV
2 7 (3.57%) Clustering
3 6 (3.06%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.06%) Replication
4 5 (2.55%) CMDB
5 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.04%) iPad
5 4 (2.04%) iPhone
5 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.02%) BYOD
7 2 (1.02%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 95 (48.47%) Windows
2 47 (23.98%) Windows Server
3 31 (15.82%) Windows 10
4 23 (11.73%) Linux
5 7 (3.57%) Unix
6 5 (2.55%) Debian
6 5 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.04%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (53.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (18.88%) ITIL
3 26 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (12.76%) Change Management
4 25 (12.76%) Incident Management
5 23 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (11.73%) Software Deployment
6 20 (10.20%) Emotional Intelligence
6 20 (10.20%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 20 (10.20%) ITSM
6 20 (10.20%) Patch Management
6 20 (10.20%) Security Operations
7 19 (9.69%) Service Delivery
8 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (8.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (7.14%) Cloud Operations
10 14 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (6.12%) Workflow
12 11 (5.61%) Identity Management
12 11 (5.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.20%) SQL
2 18 (9.18%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.61%) R
4 9 (4.59%) Python
5 7 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (6.12%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (4.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.59%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.08%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (3.57%) Degree
6 5 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (5.61%) GDPR
3 11 (5.61%) SLA
4 3 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.53%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (34.18%) Active Directory
2 32 (16.33%) Hyper-V
3 28 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.55%) Docker
5 5 (2.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.02%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (11.73%) SCCM
3 9 (4.59%) Backup Exec
4 6 (3.06%) Ansible
5 4 (2.04%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (47.45%) Microsoft
2 39 (19.90%) VMware
3 22 (11.22%) ServiceNow
4 20 (10.20%) SolarWinds
5 13 (6.63%) Citrix
5 13 (6.63%) Veeam
6 11 (5.61%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (5.10%) Cisco
8 7 (3.57%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.57%) Symantec
9 5 (2.55%) Sage
9 5 (2.55%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (2.04%) Meraki
11 3 (1.53%) HP
11 3 (1.53%) IFS
11 3 (1.53%) Oracle
12 2 (1.02%) Apple
12 2 (1.02%) Aruba
12 2 (1.02%) Fortinet