Infrastructure Support Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Support
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the South East is £45,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 344 439
Rank change year-on-year +36 +95 -97
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 93 53 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.41% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 92 48 35
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £27,625 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £35,400 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -13.66% -3.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £52,300 £53,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.76% -3.53% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,863 12,953 19,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 90.32% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,342 8,193 12,383
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the South East over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Hampshire +6 36 £48,500 -2.02% 4
Thames Valley +25 35 £45,000 +45.75% 6
Berkshire +20 26 £45,000 +45.75% 3
Kent +1 7 £31,500 +18.87%
Oxfordshire - 7 £42,500 -
Surrey -3 5 £42,000 +5.00%
West Sussex +33 4 £51,250 +20.59%
East Sussex +13 4 £55,000 +22.22%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £45,000 - 3
Sussex - 2 £32,500 -
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 67 (72.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (64.52%) Active Directory
3 55 (59.14%) Windows
4 47 (50.54%) Microsoft
5 41 (44.09%) Windows Server
6 39 (41.94%) VMware
7 38 (40.86%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (35.48%) Azure
9 31 (33.33%) SCCM
10 29 (31.18%) VMware Infrastructure
10 29 (31.18%) Firewall
11 27 (29.03%) PowerShell
12 25 (26.88%) Windows 10
12 25 (26.88%) Customer Service
13 24 (25.81%) Security Cleared
14 23 (24.73%) Windows Server 2012
15 22 (23.66%) VMware ESXi
15 22 (23.66%) ITIL
16 21 (22.58%) SLA
16 21 (22.58%) SC Cleared
17 17 (18.28%) Social Skills
17 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Exchange
18 16 (17.20%) Wi-Fi
18 16 (17.20%) Service Management
18 16 (17.20%) Hyper-V
19 15 (16.13%) AWS
19 15 (16.13%) Incident Management
19 15 (16.13%) Degree
19 15 (16.13%) Firmware
19 15 (16.13%) LAN

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.86%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (35.48%) Azure
3 15 (16.13%) AWS
4 11 (11.83%) Entra ID
5 9 (9.68%) IaaS
6 7 (7.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.38%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.23%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.08%) OCI
10 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (31.18%) Firewall
2 16 (17.20%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (16.13%) LAN
4 12 (12.90%) DNS
5 11 (11.83%) VPN
6 10 (10.75%) Internet
6 10 (10.75%) iSCSI
6 10 (10.75%) SAN
7 8 (8.60%) DHCP
8 6 (6.45%) NAS
8 6 (6.45%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.45%) WAN
9 4 (4.30%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (2.15%) Network Security
10 2 (2.15%) VoIP
10 2 (2.15%) Wireless
10 2 (2.15%) WPA
11 1 (1.08%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) MySQL
2 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) GitLab
General
1 17 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.05%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Finance
4 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.30%) Law
6 2 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Clustering
1 10 (10.75%) PKI
2 6 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.38%) Replication
4 4 (4.30%) IPTV
4 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 55 (59.14%) Windows
2 41 (44.09%) Windows Server
3 25 (26.88%) Windows 10
4 23 (24.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (11.83%) Linux
5 11 (11.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (10.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (8.60%) Windows NT
8 7 (7.53%) Android
8 7 (7.53%) Apple iOS
9 6 (6.45%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.08%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.08%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (72.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (26.88%) Customer Service
3 22 (23.66%) ITIL
4 16 (17.20%) Service Management
5 15 (16.13%) Incident Management
6 12 (12.90%) Service Delivery
7 11 (11.83%) Problem Management
8 10 (10.75%) Customer Requirements
9 9 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.60%) Change Management
10 8 (8.60%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (7.53%) Change Advisory Board
11 7 (7.53%) People Management
11 7 (7.53%) Performance Management
11 7 (7.53%) Release Management
12 6 (6.45%) Customer Experience
12 6 (6.45%) Patch Management
12 6 (6.45%) Server Monitoring
13 5 (5.38%) Change Control
13 5 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.03%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.75%) ActionScript
2 10 (10.75%) VB
3 6 (6.45%) Bash
3 6 (6.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.13%) Degree
4 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (6.45%) MCP
6 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.15%) CCNA
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.08%) CCNP
7 1 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.58%) SLA
2 7 (7.53%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 60 (64.52%) Active Directory
2 29 (31.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (23.66%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (17.20%) Hyper-V
5 15 (16.13%) Firmware
6 11 (11.83%) vSphere
7 10 (10.75%) OpenSSH
7 10 (10.75%) XenApp
8 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.08%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 31 (33.33%) SCCM
2 14 (15.05%) vCenter Server
3 13 (13.98%) WSUS
4 10 (10.75%) IBM BigFix
4 10 (10.75%) PowerCLI
5 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (8.60%) NetBackup
6 8 (8.60%) SCOM
6 8 (8.60%) Sysprep
7 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (6.45%) SCDPM
8 2 (2.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.08%) NetCrunch
9 1 (1.08%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 47 (50.54%) Microsoft
2 39 (41.94%) VMware
3 15 (16.13%) Citrix
4 10 (10.75%) IBM
4 10 (10.75%) Veeam
5 8 (8.60%) Cisco
5 8 (8.60%) Meraki
6 7 (7.53%) Dell
6 7 (7.53%) McAfee
7 6 (6.45%) Dell Compellent
7 6 (6.45%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (3.23%) 3PAR
9 2 (2.15%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.15%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (2.15%) EMC
9 2 (2.15%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.08%) HP
10 1 (1.08%) Ivanti
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle
10 1 (1.08%) Symantec