Infrastructure Support Job Trends

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 630 548
Rank change year-on-year +135 -82 +331
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 157 81 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.16% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 94 54 145
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,475 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £36,938 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £55,156 £80,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,125 - £58,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.88% +10.39%

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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Top 14 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 1 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 +146 151 £45,000 - 20
UK excluding London +111 101 £44,000 +10.00% 14
Work from Home +112 60 £44,000 -2.22% 6
London +57 55 £60,000 -25.00% 8
Midlands +59 41 £44,000 +30.37% 2
North of England +45 33 £37,000 -1.33% 6
East Midlands - 24 £45,000 - 1
Yorkshire +14 22 £27,500 -26.67% 3
West Midlands +32 17 £44,000 +30.37% 1
South East +20 15 £52,500 +31.25% 4
North West +32 11 £45,750 +42.97% 2
South West +3 6 £35,500 +10.94% 1
Wales - 5 - -
East of England +20 1 £57,500 +25.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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 89 (56.69%) Windows
2 81 (51.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 70 (44.59%) Microsoft
4 67 (42.68%) Azure
5 64 (40.76%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (36.94%) Active Directory
7 48 (30.57%) AWS
8 43 (27.39%) Linux
8 43 (27.39%) Windows Server
9 42 (26.75%) ITIL
10 40 (25.48%) VMware
11 37 (23.57%) VMware Infrastructure
12 31 (19.75%) SQL
13 30 (19.11%) Degree
13 30 (19.11%) Microsoft Exchange
13 30 (19.11%) SaaS
14 29 (18.47%) Red Hat
14 29 (18.47%) ServiceNow
15 28 (17.83%) SLA
16 26 (16.56%) Firewall
17 25 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
17 25 (15.92%) DevOps
18 24 (15.29%) Change Management
18 24 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
18 24 (15.29%) Python
19 23 (14.65%) DNS
20 22 (14.01%) AWS Certification
20 22 (14.01%) Unix
20 22 (14.01%) VPN
21 21 (13.38%) Migration

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 30 (19.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (12.10%) SharePoint
3 15 (9.55%) WebSphere
4 12 (7.64%) Tomcat
5 11 (7.01%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (5.73%) Skype for Business
7 5 (3.18%) Drupal
7 5 (3.18%) nginx
7 5 (3.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.64%) Appian
8 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (42.68%) Azure
2 64 (40.76%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (30.57%) AWS
4 30 (19.11%) SaaS
5 14 (8.92%) Entra ID
6 12 (7.64%) GCP
7 10 (6.37%) IaaS
8 9 (5.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.18%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.18%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.18%) PaaS
10 5 (3.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.55%) Serverless
12 3 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.91%) Datadog
13 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.56%) Firewall
2 23 (14.65%) DNS
3 22 (14.01%) VPN
4 18 (11.46%) DHCP
5 17 (10.83%) SAN
5 17 (10.83%) VLAN
6 15 (9.55%) TCP/IP
7 14 (8.92%) SSL
8 10 (6.37%) VoIP
9 9 (5.73%) Skype
10 8 (5.10%) WAN
11 7 (4.46%) SD-WAN
12 5 (3.18%) DMZ
12 5 (3.18%) STUN
13 4 (2.55%) Wireless
14 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (1.27%) LAN
15 2 (1.27%) NetScaler
15 2 (1.27%) Network Security
16 1 (0.64%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.64%) DB2
4 9 (5.73%) DTS
5 5 (3.18%) MariaDB
6 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) JIRA
2 6 (3.82%) Git
2 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.47%) Finance
3 23 (14.65%) Manufacturing
4 19 (12.10%) Banking
5 11 (7.01%) Advertising
5 11 (7.01%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (6.37%) Retail
7 7 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.82%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.18%) Law
9 5 (3.18%) Local Government
9 5 (3.18%) Police
10 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Front Office
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.64%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.55%) LDAP
2 11 (7.01%) LAPP Stack
2 11 (7.01%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (3.18%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (1.27%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.27%) SAML
5 1 (0.64%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.92%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.92%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (8.28%) Clustering
3 13 (8.28%) Video Conferencing
4 11 (7.01%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (6.37%) CMDB
6 9 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (4.46%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.82%) Driving Licence
9 5 (3.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.55%) iPad
10 4 (2.55%) iPhone
10 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.91%) Anti-Spyware
12 2 (1.27%) BYOD
13 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.64%) PKI
13 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 89 (56.69%) Windows
2 43 (27.39%) Linux
2 43 (27.39%) Windows Server
3 22 (14.01%) Unix
4 21 (13.38%) Windows 10
5 17 (10.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (5.73%) Mac OS
6 9 (5.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (3.18%) Debian
9 4 (2.55%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (51.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (26.75%) ITIL
3 25 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (15.92%) DevOps
4 24 (15.29%) Change Management
4 24 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (13.38%) Migration
6 20 (12.74%) Cloud Operations
6 20 (12.74%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (10.19%) CI/CD
7 16 (10.19%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (9.55%) Problem Management
8 15 (9.55%) Project Delivery
9 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure Management
9 14 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (8.28%) Customer Service
10 13 (8.28%) ITSM
10 13 (8.28%) Mentoring
10 13 (8.28%) Service Delivery
11 12 (7.64%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.75%) SQL
2 24 (15.29%) Python
3 13 (8.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (19.11%) Degree
2 22 (14.01%) AWS Certification
3 18 (11.46%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.82%) MCP
6 4 (2.55%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.55%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.27%) CCNA
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.64%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.64%) MCSA
9 1 (0.64%) MCSE
9 1 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.83%) SLA
2 17 (10.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (6.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 10 (6.37%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (36.94%) Active Directory
2 37 (23.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.92%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (6.37%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (5.73%) Docker
6 5 (3.18%) Kamailio
6 5 (3.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (9.55%) SCCM
2 14 (8.92%) Ansible
3 13 (8.28%) Nagios
3 13 (8.28%) ZABBIX
4 12 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.10%) Terraform
6 5 (3.18%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (3.18%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.64%) Puppet
9 1 (0.64%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 70 (44.59%) Microsoft
2 40 (25.48%) VMware
3 29 (18.47%) Red Hat
3 29 (18.47%) ServiceNow
4 17 (10.83%) SolarWinds
5 16 (10.19%) Citrix
6 15 (9.55%) IBM
7 12 (7.64%) Google
8 9 (5.73%) BMC
8 9 (5.73%) Darktrace
8 9 (5.73%) Proofpoint
8 9 (5.73%) Tanium
8 9 (5.73%) Trend Micro
9 7 (4.46%) Cisco
9 7 (4.46%) Symantec
9 7 (4.46%) Veeam
10 5 (3.18%) Juniper
10 5 (3.18%) Salesforce
11 4 (2.55%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.55%) Fortinet