Infrastructure Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 609 714
Rank change year-on-year +45 +105 -148
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 214 118 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 199 104 118
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,225 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,813 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £50,875 £47,543 £49,969
90th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £54,875
UK median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,349 49,280 72,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 88.83% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 52,720 29,285 42,723
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
South East +21 96 £45,000 +27.12% 6
South West +18 54 £37,000 -1.33%
North of England +21 23 £42,500 +11.84% 2
Midlands -23 20 £41,250 +1.23% 2
Scotland -48 20 £27,400 -14.38% 7
Yorkshire +80 16 £41,250 +10.00% 1
West Midlands -7 14 £37,500 -4.46% 1
North West -17 6 £50,000 +6.84% 1
East Midlands -34 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
East of England -15 1 - - 1
North East -19 1 £29,000 -31.76%
Infrastructure Support
UK

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 138 (64.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 88 (41.12%) Windows
3 81 (37.85%) Azure
3 81 (37.85%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (37.38%) Active Directory
5 74 (34.58%) VMware
6 73 (34.11%) Microsoft
7 71 (33.18%) Windows Server
8 62 (28.97%) Security Cleared
9 58 (27.10%) Firewall
10 45 (21.03%) VMware Infrastructure
10 45 (21.03%) Social Skills
11 42 (19.63%) PowerShell
12 37 (17.29%) SC Cleared
13 36 (16.82%) Microsoft Intune
14 35 (16.36%) DNS
15 32 (14.95%) SLA
15 32 (14.95%) SCCM
16 31 (14.49%) Citrix
17 30 (14.02%) Customer Service
18 29 (13.55%) VMware ESXi
19 28 (13.08%) Windows 10
19 28 (13.08%) Veeam
19 28 (13.08%) DV Cleared
20 26 (12.15%) Hyper-V
20 26 (12.15%) ITIL
20 26 (12.15%) SharePoint
20 26 (12.15%) Finance
21 25 (11.68%) WAN
21 25 (11.68%) SAN

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (12.15%) SharePoint
2 23 (10.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.34%) IIS
4 2 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.80%) LightWave 3D
Cloud Services
1 81 (37.85%) Azure
1 81 (37.85%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (11.21%) AWS
3 21 (9.81%) IaaS
4 15 (7.01%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.54%) PaaS
6 12 (5.61%) SaaS
7 11 (5.14%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.34%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.87%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.93%) OpenDNS
12 1 (0.47%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.47%) OCI
12 1 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 58 (27.10%) Firewall
2 35 (16.36%) DNS
3 25 (11.68%) SAN
3 25 (11.68%) WAN
4 24 (11.21%) LAN
5 22 (10.28%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (8.88%) DHCP
6 19 (8.88%) Internet
6 19 (8.88%) VPN
7 15 (7.01%) TCP/IP
8 13 (6.07%) iSCSI
9 12 (5.61%) SD-WAN
10 11 (5.14%) Wireless
11 9 (4.21%) WLAN
12 8 (3.74%) NAS
13 7 (3.27%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (2.80%) VoIP
15 5 (2.34%) IPsec
15 5 (2.34%) Softphone
15 5 (2.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.80%) MySQL
1 6 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.80%) JIRA
2 3 (1.40%) GitLab
General
1 45 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.15%) Finance
3 14 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.74%) Law
4 8 (3.74%) Manufacturing
5 6 (2.80%) Legal
6 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.47%) Marketing
7 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.93%) LAMP
1 2 (0.93%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.28%) Driving Licence
2 16 (7.48%) PKI
3 15 (7.01%) Clustering
4 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.80%) Smart Home
6 5 (2.34%) Replication
7 4 (1.87%) IPTV
7 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.47%) FMCG
10 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 88 (41.12%) Windows
2 71 (33.18%) Windows Server
3 28 (13.08%) Windows 10
4 25 (11.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 19 (8.88%) Linux
6 8 (3.74%) Android
6 8 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (3.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.80%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.34%) Windows NT
10 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.47%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (64.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (14.02%) Customer Service
3 26 (12.15%) ITIL
4 18 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (7.01%) Incident Management
5 15 (7.01%) Problem Management
6 13 (6.07%) Customer Requirements
6 13 (6.07%) Service Delivery
6 13 (6.07%) Service Management
7 11 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (5.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (4.67%) Server Monitoring
9 9 (4.21%) Change Management
9 9 (4.21%) Systems Engineering
10 8 (3.74%) Change Advisory Board
10 8 (3.74%) Patch Management
11 7 (3.27%) People Management
11 7 (3.27%) Performance Management
11 7 (3.27%) Release Management
12 6 (2.80%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.63%) PowerShell
2 13 (6.07%) ActionScript
2 13 (6.07%) VB
3 9 (4.21%) SQL
4 7 (3.27%) Bash
5 1 (0.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 62 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.08%) DV Cleared
4 20 (9.35%) Degree
5 6 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.80%) MCP
6 4 (1.87%) CCNA
6 4 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CCA
8 1 (0.47%) CCDA
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) CISSP
8 1 (0.47%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.95%) SLA
2 8 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 80 (37.38%) Active Directory
2 45 (21.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (13.55%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (12.15%) Hyper-V
5 15 (7.01%) vSphere
6 13 (6.07%) Firmware
6 13 (6.07%) OpenSSH
6 13 (6.07%) XenApp
7 8 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.40%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.93%) Docker
9 2 (0.93%) pfSense
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (16.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (14.95%) SCCM
3 19 (8.88%) vCenter Server
4 13 (6.07%) IBM BigFix
4 13 (6.07%) PowerCLI
5 11 (5.14%) WSUS
6 8 (3.74%) NetBackup
6 8 (3.74%) SCOM
7 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (2.80%) SCDPM
8 5 (2.34%) Sysprep
9 2 (0.93%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.47%) NetCrunch
10 1 (0.47%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 74 (34.58%) VMware
2 73 (34.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (14.49%) Citrix
4 28 (13.08%) Veeam
5 16 (7.48%) Cisco
6 15 (7.01%) HP
7 13 (6.07%) IBM
8 12 (5.61%) Sophos
9 10 (4.67%) Dell
10 8 (3.74%) Meraki
10 8 (3.74%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.27%) McAfee
12 6 (2.80%) Aruba
12 6 (2.80%) Dell Compellent
12 6 (2.80%) Ubiquiti
13 3 (1.40%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.93%) 3PAR
14 2 (0.93%) Barracuda Networks
14 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
14 2 (0.93%) SonicWALL