3rd Line Infrastructure Support Jobs

Third Line Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 863 911 1227
Rank change year-on-year +48 +316 -340
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 44 36 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.038% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.042% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 42 32 34
10th Percentile £31,250 - £37,233
25th Percentile £35,188 £35,400 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £51,750 £52,188 £54,375
90th Percentile £61,625 £55,000 £58,725
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +6.25%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support.

Salary trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +45 44 £45,000 +11.11% 1
UK excluding London -27 36 £41,250 +3.13% 1
Work from Home +47 16 £37,500 -21.05%
Midlands -5 13 £37,500 -31.82%
South East -16 11 £32,500 -8.32%
South West - 11 £50,500 -
West Midlands -7 9 £37,500 -21.05%
London +118 8 £63,750 +23.19%
East Midlands -17 4 £47,500 -13.64%
North of England +30 1 £32,000 -32.63% 1
North West -6 1 £32,000 -32.63%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 3rd Line 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 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 32 (72.73%) Azure
2 31 (70.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (68.18%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (65.91%) Microsoft
5 25 (56.82%) WAN
6 22 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (43.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 19 (43.18%) VMware
7 19 (43.18%) Firewall
8 18 (40.91%) Active Directory
9 16 (36.36%) Citrix
9 16 (36.36%) DNS
10 15 (34.09%) SharePoint
11 14 (31.82%) PowerShell
11 14 (31.82%) Hyper-V
11 14 (31.82%) SD-WAN
12 13 (29.55%) Veeam
12 13 (29.55%) HP
12 13 (29.55%) SAN
13 12 (27.27%) Windows
13 12 (27.27%) SCCM
13 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
14 11 (25.00%) Power Platform
14 11 (25.00%) IaaS
14 11 (25.00%) SaaS
14 11 (25.00%) PaaS
14 11 (25.00%) LAN
14 11 (25.00%) Sophos
15 10 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (22.73%) Social Skills

3rd Line 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 15 (34.09%) SharePoint
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (72.73%) Azure
2 30 (68.18%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (25.00%) IaaS
3 11 (25.00%) PaaS
3 11 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 11 (25.00%) SaaS
4 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.55%) AWS
6 2 (4.55%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.55%) OpenDNS
7 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 25 (56.82%) WAN
2 19 (43.18%) Firewall
3 16 (36.36%) DNS
4 14 (31.82%) SD-WAN
5 13 (29.55%) SAN
6 11 (25.00%) LAN
7 9 (20.45%) WLAN
8 5 (11.36%) DHCP
9 4 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (6.82%) VPN
11 2 (4.55%) EIGRP
11 2 (4.55%) HSRP
11 2 (4.55%) IPsec
11 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
11 2 (4.55%) OSPF
11 2 (4.55%) RIP
11 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
11 2 (4.55%) VLAN
11 2 (4.55%) VRRP
11 2 (4.55%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Law
4 2 (4.55%) Legal
4 2 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) LAMP
1 2 (4.55%) V-Ray
2 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (4.55%) Clustering
2 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
1 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (20.45%) Systems Engineering
4 8 (18.18%) Change Management
5 7 (15.91%) Change Advisory Board
5 7 (15.91%) Incident Management
5 7 (15.91%) People Management
5 7 (15.91%) Performance Management
5 7 (15.91%) Release Management
5 7 (15.91%) Service Management
6 3 (6.82%) SIEM
7 2 (4.55%) Biomedicine
7 2 (4.55%) Biotechnology
7 2 (4.55%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (4.55%) ITIL
7 2 (4.55%) Migration
7 2 (4.55%) Server Management
7 2 (4.55%) Server Migrations
7 2 (4.55%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) CCNA
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (40.91%) Active Directory
3 14 (31.82%) Hyper-V
4 7 (15.91%) Firmware
5 3 (6.82%) XenApp
5 3 (6.82%) XenDesktop
6 2 (4.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (4.55%) Docker
6 2 (4.55%) pfSense
6 2 (4.55%) Terminal Services
6 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (27.27%) SCCM
3 7 (15.91%) NetBackup
3 7 (15.91%) SCOM
4 3 (6.82%) ZENworks
5 2 (4.55%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 29 (65.91%) Microsoft
2 19 (43.18%) VMware
3 16 (36.36%) Citrix
4 13 (29.55%) HP
4 13 (29.55%) Veeam
5 11 (25.00%) Sophos
6 7 (15.91%) McAfee
7 4 (9.09%) Aruba
7 4 (9.09%) Cisco
8 2 (4.55%) Acronis
8 2 (4.55%) Datto
8 2 (4.55%) Dell
8 2 (4.55%) SonicWALL
8 2 (4.55%) Veritas