Infrastructure Support Jobs in England

Infrastructure Support
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support salary in England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 633 734
Rank change year-on-year +118 +101 +236
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 176 238 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 158 208 135
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,385 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,438 £35,750 £33,032
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,000 £51,750 £49,850
90th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £63,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,682 92,029 74,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.67% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,914 67,111 48,868
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,445 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the England region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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 +73 71 £40,000 -11.11% 7
Midlands +114 40 £35,000 -12.50% 4
West Midlands +96 34 £35,000 -6.67% 4
London +91 28 £49,000 +15.29% 26
North of England +69 26 £46,250 +8.82% 9
North West +38 21 £52,000 +4.00% 4
East of England +41 7 £47,500 - 1
East Midlands +57 6 £32,500 -31.58%
Yorkshire +47 5 £45,000 +9.09% 3
South West +66 4 £31,000 -16.22% 8
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 144 (81.82%) Windows
2 119 (67.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 114 (64.77%) Microsoft
3 114 (64.77%) Active Directory
4 80 (45.45%) Windows Server
5 77 (43.75%) Azure
6 74 (42.05%) VMware
7 70 (39.77%) Microsoft 365
8 68 (38.64%) PowerShell
9 67 (38.07%) Microsoft Exchange
10 55 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
11 50 (28.41%) Security Cleared
12 46 (26.14%) Degree
12 46 (26.14%) WAN
13 45 (25.57%) Linux
14 43 (24.43%) LAN
15 41 (23.30%) Firewall
16 40 (22.73%) DNS
17 38 (21.59%) DHCP
17 38 (21.59%) Hyper-V
18 36 (20.45%) ITIL
19 34 (19.32%) Patch Management
19 34 (19.32%) Social Skills
20 31 (17.61%) SAN
21 30 (17.05%) SC Cleared
21 30 (17.05%) AWS
22 28 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
22 28 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
23 27 (15.34%) Virtual Environments
23 27 (15.34%) Disaster Recovery

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 67 (38.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.82%) Confluence
3 8 (4.55%) IIS
4 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 77 (43.75%) Azure
2 70 (39.77%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (17.05%) AWS
4 12 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (6.82%) Amazon ELB
4 12 (6.82%) Amazon Glacier
4 12 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 12 (6.82%) AWS KMS
4 12 (6.82%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (5.11%) IaaS
5 9 (5.11%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.41%) GCP
7 4 (2.27%) PaaS
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.14%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.14%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.14%) SaaS
8 2 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (26.14%) WAN
2 43 (24.43%) LAN
3 41 (23.30%) Firewall
4 40 (22.73%) DNS
5 38 (21.59%) DHCP
6 31 (17.61%) SAN
7 22 (12.50%) NAS
8 19 (10.80%) TCP/IP
9 15 (8.52%) Wireless
10 14 (7.95%) Internet
11 12 (6.82%) SD-WAN
12 10 (5.68%) Network Security
13 8 (4.55%) SMTP
13 8 (4.55%) VLAN
13 8 (4.55%) VPN
14 6 (3.41%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (3.41%) Remote Desktop
15 5 (2.84%) IP Telephony
15 5 (2.84%) SNMP
16 3 (1.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Git
1 12 (6.82%) JIRA
1 12 (6.82%) Vagrant
2 11 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.93%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.25%) Retail
5 5 (2.84%) Games
5 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.70%) Automotive
6 3 (1.70%) Back Office
6 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.14%) Finance
7 2 (1.14%) Military
7 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.41%) SAML
2 2 (1.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.36%) Clustering
2 15 (8.52%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.95%) Virtual Team
4 12 (6.82%) PKI
5 11 (6.25%) Replication
6 10 (5.68%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.41%) CCTV
7 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.84%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) BYOD
11 1 (0.57%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 144 (81.82%) Windows
2 80 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 45 (25.57%) Linux
4 16 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 16 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (6.82%) VMS
6 6 (3.41%) Mac OS X
6 6 (3.41%) Unix
7 4 (2.27%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.27%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.27%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.57%) AIX
9 1 (0.57%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (67.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (20.45%) ITIL
3 34 (19.32%) Patch Management
4 28 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (15.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (15.34%) High Availability
5 27 (15.34%) Virtual Environments
6 22 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
7 19 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (10.80%) Customer Service
8 18 (10.23%) Computer Science
9 17 (9.66%) Change Management
10 16 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (8.52%) Cloud Security
12 14 (7.95%) DevOps
12 14 (7.95%) Migration
12 14 (7.95%) Server Building
13 13 (7.39%) Configuration Management
13 13 (7.39%) Task Automation
14 11 (6.25%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 68 (38.64%) PowerShell
2 25 (14.20%) SQL
3 14 (7.95%) Python
4 11 (6.25%) Groovy
5 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 46 (26.14%) Degree
3 30 (17.05%) SC Cleared
4 28 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (15.34%) DV Cleared
6 18 (10.23%) A+ Certification
7 17 (9.66%) MCP
7 17 (9.66%) MCSA
8 14 (7.95%) Master's Degree
8 14 (7.95%) MBA
8 14 (7.95%) MCSE
9 13 (7.39%) HND
10 10 (5.68%) CCNA
10 10 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (3.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (3.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.84%) CCNP
13 5 (2.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) SLA
2 7 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.84%) GDPR
5 4 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 114 (64.77%) Active Directory
2 55 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (21.59%) Hyper-V
4 15 (8.52%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (6.25%) DFS Replication
6 9 (5.11%) vSphere
7 7 (3.98%) BitLocker
7 7 (3.98%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (3.98%) Terminal Services
7 7 (3.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (3.41%) Docker
9 2 (1.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (14.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (13.07%) Ansible
3 20 (11.36%) Terraform
4 18 (10.23%) SCCM
5 12 (6.82%) Grafana
5 12 (6.82%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.11%) Kubernetes
6 9 (5.11%) vCenter Server
7 8 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (3.98%) Backup Exec
8 7 (3.98%) vMotion
9 6 (3.41%) Nagios
9 6 (3.41%) Puppet
10 5 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (2.27%) WSUS
12 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 114 (64.77%) Microsoft
2 74 (42.05%) VMware
3 25 (14.20%) Citrix
4 23 (13.07%) Cisco
5 19 (10.80%) Veeam
6 14 (7.95%) Unisys
7 12 (6.82%) Juniper
7 12 (6.82%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.55%) HP
9 6 (3.41%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.41%) Google
9 6 (3.41%) Meraki
9 6 (3.41%) MobileIron
9 6 (3.41%) Riverbed
9 6 (3.41%) SAP
9 6 (3.41%) Symantec
9 6 (3.41%) Trend Micro
10 5 (2.84%) McAfee
10 5 (2.84%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.27%) Apple
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