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 to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 648 821 962
Rank change year-on-year +173 +141 -244
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 250 164 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 225 148 202
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £33,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £51,750 £49,625 £52,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £62,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +184 219 £45,000 +12.50% 36
UK excluding London +107 207 £42,500 +13.33% 34
South East +67 100 £45,000 +27.12% 13
Work from Home +107 77 £48,500 +7.78% 7
South West +7 38 £35,000 -4.11% 5
London +147 33 £58,375 +16.75% 11
North of England +58 25 £42,500 +11.84% 6
Midlands +11 22 £41,250 -13.16%
Scotland -45 21 £27,400 -21.15% 9
Yorkshire +101 20 £42,500 +11.84% 3
West Midlands +37 16 £37,500 -4.46%
East Midlands -15 6 £47,500 -13.64%
North West +8 4 £41,250 -11.86% 2
East of England +26 1 £50,000 +41.84% 1
North East +2 1 £29,000 -27.50% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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.

1 171 (68.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 130 (52.00%) Windows
3 119 (47.60%) Active Directory
4 101 (40.40%) Windows Server
5 99 (39.60%) Azure
6 97 (38.80%) Microsoft
7 93 (37.20%) Microsoft 365
8 87 (34.80%) VMware
9 72 (28.80%) Security Cleared
10 64 (25.60%) VMware Infrastructure
11 62 (24.80%) Firewall
11 62 (24.80%) Social Skills
12 49 (19.60%) PowerShell
13 42 (16.80%) Customer Service
14 41 (16.40%) Microsoft Exchange
14 41 (16.40%) DV Cleared
14 41 (16.40%) SCCM
15 38 (15.20%) Microsoft Intune
16 36 (14.40%) VMware ESXi
16 36 (14.40%) Windows 10
16 36 (14.40%) Windows Server 2012
17 35 (14.00%) ITIL
17 35 (14.00%) Citrix
18 34 (13.60%) SC Cleared
18 34 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (13.20%) Entra ID
20 31 (12.40%) LAN
20 31 (12.40%) WAN
21 30 (12.00%) SAN
22 29 (11.60%) SLA

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 41 (16.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.00%) IIS
4 3 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.40%) LightWave 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (39.60%) Azure
2 93 (37.20%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (13.20%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.80%) AWS
4 22 (8.80%) IaaS
5 18 (7.20%) SaaS
6 11 (4.40%) PaaS
7 9 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (2.80%) OneDrive
8 7 (2.80%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.60%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.60%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.80%) OpenDNS
11 1 (0.40%) GCP
11 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.40%) OCI
11 1 (0.40%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 62 (24.80%) Firewall
2 31 (12.40%) LAN
2 31 (12.40%) WAN
3 30 (12.00%) SAN
4 28 (11.20%) DNS
5 25 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (9.60%) VPN
7 18 (7.20%) DHCP
8 15 (6.00%) Wireless
9 12 (4.80%) iSCSI
10 11 (4.40%) Internet
10 11 (4.40%) SD-WAN
10 11 (4.40%) TCP/IP
11 10 (4.00%) WLAN
12 9 (3.60%) VLAN
13 8 (3.20%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (2.80%) NAS
14 7 (2.80%) Network Security
15 5 (2.00%) DMZ
16 3 (1.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.40%) MySQL
3 5 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (2.40%) JIRA
2 3 (1.20%) GitLab
General
1 62 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.60%) Finance
3 21 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.80%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.00%) Law
7 7 (2.80%) Legal
7 7 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.60%) Banking
8 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.80%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.80%) LAMP
1 2 (0.80%) V-Ray
2 1 (0.40%) EDI
2 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.80%) Driving Licence
1 22 (8.80%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (4.80%) PKI
3 11 (4.40%) Clustering
3 11 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.40%) Replication
4 6 (2.40%) Smart Home
5 4 (1.60%) IPTV
5 4 (1.60%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.80%) BYOD
7 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.40%) FMCG
8 1 (0.40%) Life Science
8 1 (0.40%) NHS
8 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 130 (52.00%) Windows
2 101 (40.40%) Windows Server
3 36 (14.40%) Windows 10
3 36 (14.40%) Windows Server 2012
4 26 (10.40%) Linux
5 17 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (6.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (4.40%) Windows NT
7 8 (3.20%) Android
8 7 (2.80%) Apple iOS
9 6 (2.40%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.80%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.40%) AIX
11 1 (0.40%) Unix
11 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.40%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (68.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (16.80%) Customer Service
3 35 (14.00%) ITIL
4 34 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (7.60%) Service Management
6 15 (6.00%) Incident Management
7 14 (5.60%) Problem Management
8 13 (5.20%) Service Delivery
9 12 (4.80%) Capacity Management
10 11 (4.40%) Change Management
10 11 (4.40%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (4.40%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (4.40%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (4.00%) Server Monitoring
12 9 (3.60%) Customer Requirements
12 9 (3.60%) Systems Engineering
13 8 (3.20%) Change Advisory Board
13 8 (3.20%) Server Management
14 7 (2.80%) Patch Management
14 7 (2.80%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.60%) PowerShell
2 12 (4.80%) SQL
3 11 (4.40%) Bash
4 9 (3.60%) ActionScript
4 9 (3.60%) VB
5 4 (1.60%) Python
Qualifications
1 72 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.40%) DV Cleared
3 34 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.20%) Degree
5 9 (3.60%) MCP
6 8 (3.20%) CCNA
6 8 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.20%) MCSE
10 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.80%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CCA
12 1 (0.40%) CCDA
12 1 (0.40%) CCNP
12 1 (0.40%) GCIA
12 1 (0.40%) GCWN
12 1 (0.40%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.60%) SLA
2 9 (3.60%) GDPR
3 6 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 119 (47.60%) Active Directory
2 64 (25.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (14.40%) VMware ESXi
4 27 (10.80%) Hyper-V
5 19 (7.60%) Firmware
6 12 (4.80%) XenApp
7 11 (4.40%) vSphere
8 9 (3.60%) OpenSSH
9 8 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.60%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.20%) Docker
11 3 (1.20%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.80%) pfSense
12 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.80%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 41 (16.40%) SCCM
2 38 (15.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 17 (6.80%) WSUS
5 11 (4.40%) Sysprep
6 9 (3.60%) IBM BigFix
6 9 (3.60%) PowerCLI
7 8 (3.20%) NetBackup
7 8 (3.20%) SCOM
8 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 6 (2.40%) SCDPM
9 3 (1.20%) Backup Exec
9 3 (1.20%) ZENworks
10 2 (0.80%) Ansible
10 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.40%) NetCrunch
11 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 97 (38.80%) Microsoft
2 87 (34.80%) VMware
3 35 (14.00%) Citrix
4 29 (11.60%) Cisco
5 25 (10.00%) Veeam
6 16 (6.40%) HP
7 12 (4.80%) Meraki
7 12 (4.80%) Sophos
8 10 (4.00%) Dell
8 10 (4.00%) IBM
9 9 (3.60%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.80%) McAfee
11 6 (2.40%) Aruba
11 6 (2.40%) Dell Compellent
11 6 (2.40%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (1.20%) 3PAR
12 3 (1.20%) Apple
12 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.20%) NetApp
13 2 (0.80%) Veritas