Infrastructure Support Jobs with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Support salary for remote or hybrid work is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 534 828
Rank change year-on-year +65 +294 -229
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 64 45 84
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 53 38 71
10th Percentile £32,600 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,121 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £37,616
Median % change year-on-year - +19.63% -5.96%
75th Percentile £48,500 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £53,750 £66,875 £61,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Support.

Infrastructure Support salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Infrastructure Support salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 53 (82.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (79.69%) VMware
3 37 (57.81%) Windows
3 37 (57.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (51.56%) Windows Server
5 30 (46.88%) Active Directory
6 27 (42.19%) Azure
6 27 (42.19%) SLA
7 25 (39.06%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (37.50%) vCenter Server
9 21 (32.81%) Citrix
10 20 (31.25%) PowerShell
11 19 (29.69%) Degree
11 19 (29.69%) Microsoft
12 17 (26.56%) Finance
12 17 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (25.00%) XenApp
13 16 (25.00%) IBM
13 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
14 15 (23.44%) Customer Requirements
14 15 (23.44%) IBM BigFix
14 15 (23.44%) PowerCLI
14 15 (23.44%) VB
14 15 (23.44%) ActionScript
14 15 (23.44%) Clustering
14 15 (23.44%) Internet
14 15 (23.44%) OpenSSH
14 15 (23.44%) PKI
14 15 (23.44%) Problem Management

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.19%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (20.31%) Entra ID
4 9 (14.06%) SaaS
5 4 (6.25%) AWS
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.13%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.44%) Internet
2 9 (14.06%) Firewall
3 8 (12.50%) WAN
4 6 (9.38%) LAN
5 5 (7.81%) SAN
6 4 (6.25%) VPN
6 4 (6.25%) WLAN
7 3 (4.69%) SD-WAN
7 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (3.13%) DHCP
8 2 (3.13%) DNS
8 2 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (3.13%) Network Security
8 2 (3.13%) VLAN
8 2 (3.13%) Wireless
9 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.56%) MySQL
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
2 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Clustering
1 15 (23.44%) PKI
2 9 (14.06%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.69%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.13%) BYOD
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (57.81%) Windows
2 33 (51.56%) Windows Server
3 24 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (7.81%) Linux
5 4 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.56%) AIX
6 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (82.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (23.44%) Customer Requirements
2 15 (23.44%) Problem Management
3 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.06%) Capacity Management
5 6 (9.38%) ITIL
6 5 (7.81%) Customer Service
7 4 (6.25%) Application Packaging
7 4 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (4.69%) SIEM
9 2 (3.13%) Acceptance Criteria
9 2 (3.13%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (3.13%) High Availability
9 2 (3.13%) ITSM
9 2 (3.13%) Mentoring
9 2 (3.13%) PRINCE2
9 2 (3.13%) Runbook
9 2 (3.13%) Security Patching
9 2 (3.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 15 (23.44%) ActionScript
2 15 (23.44%) VB
3 2 (3.13%) Bash
3 2 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.56%) GCIA
4 1 (1.56%) GCWN
4 1 (1.56%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.56%) LPIC
4 1 (1.56%) MCP
4 1 (1.56%) MCSE
4 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.56%) SANS
4 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (42.19%) SLA
2 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (57.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (46.88%) Active Directory
3 25 (39.06%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (25.00%) XenApp
5 15 (23.44%) OpenSSH
5 15 (23.44%) vSphere
6 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (37.50%) vCenter Server
2 15 (23.44%) IBM BigFix
2 15 (23.44%) PowerCLI
3 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.69%) SCCM
4 3 (4.69%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 51 (79.69%) VMware
2 21 (32.81%) Citrix
3 19 (29.69%) Microsoft
4 16 (25.00%) IBM
5 6 (9.38%) Cisco
6 4 (6.25%) HP
6 4 (6.25%) Sophos
6 4 (6.25%) Veeam
7 2 (3.13%) Apple
7 2 (3.13%) Meraki
8 1 (1.56%) Aruba
8 1 (1.56%) Intel
8 1 (1.56%) NetApp
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle
8 1 (1.56%) Ubiquiti