Infrastructure Support Jobs

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the UK is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 652 761
Rank change year-on-year +92 +109 +289
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 169 262 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 151 234 140
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,125 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,000 £51,750 £48,938
90th Percentile £73,750 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,763 102,595 85,167
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.88% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,743 72,457 55,296
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,524 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +5.94%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +109 168 £40,000 -11.11% 29
UK excluding London +107 139 £40,000 -11.11% 23
South East +65 71 £40,000 -12.57% 5
Midlands +107 38 £35,000 -15.15% 2
Work from Home +68 34 £40,000 -17.53% 7
West Midlands +84 32 £35,000 -6.67% 2
London +108 29 £52,000 +18.86% 6
North of England +65 24 £45,000 +5.88% 8
North West +17 20 £46,000 -8.00% 4
East Midlands +53 6 £32,500 -31.58%
East of England +44 5 £47,500 - 1
Yorkshire +42 4 £45,000 +9.09% 3
South West +59 1 £30,000 -18.92% 7

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 137 (81.07%) Windows
2 112 (66.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 108 (63.91%) Microsoft
3 108 (63.91%) Active Directory
4 73 (43.20%) Windows Server
5 71 (42.01%) VMware
6 70 (41.42%) Azure
7 65 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
7 65 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 64 (37.87%) PowerShell
9 52 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
10 48 (28.40%) Security Cleared
11 47 (27.81%) Degree
12 46 (27.22%) WAN
13 43 (25.44%) LAN
13 43 (25.44%) Linux
14 37 (21.89%) DNS
14 37 (21.89%) Firewall
15 35 (20.71%) DHCP
15 35 (20.71%) ITIL
16 32 (18.93%) Hyper-V
16 32 (18.93%) Patch Management
16 32 (18.93%) Social Skills
17 30 (17.75%) AWS
17 30 (17.75%) SAN
18 28 (16.57%) SC Cleared
18 28 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
19 27 (15.98%) DV Cleared
19 27 (15.98%) High Availability
19 27 (15.98%) Disaster Recovery

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 65 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.51%) Confluence
3 8 (4.73%) IIS
4 7 (4.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 70 (41.42%) Azure
2 65 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (17.75%) AWS
4 11 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (6.51%) Amazon ELB
4 11 (6.51%) Amazon Glacier
4 11 (6.51%) Amazon S3
4 11 (6.51%) AWS KMS
4 11 (6.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (5.33%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.33%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.55%) GCP
6 6 (3.55%) IaaS
7 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.18%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.59%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.59%) PaaS
8 1 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (27.22%) WAN
2 43 (25.44%) LAN
3 37 (21.89%) DNS
3 37 (21.89%) Firewall
4 35 (20.71%) DHCP
5 30 (17.75%) SAN
6 22 (13.02%) NAS
7 16 (9.47%) TCP/IP
7 16 (9.47%) Wireless
8 15 (8.88%) Internet
9 10 (5.92%) Network Security
9 10 (5.92%) SD-WAN
10 8 (4.73%) SMTP
10 8 (4.73%) VPN
11 6 (3.55%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (3.55%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (3.55%) VLAN
12 5 (2.96%) IP Telephony
12 5 (2.96%) SNMP
13 3 (1.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.06%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Git
1 11 (6.51%) JIRA
1 11 (6.51%) Vagrant
2 10 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.51%) Retail
5 5 (2.96%) Games
5 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.78%) Automotive
6 3 (1.78%) Back Office
6 3 (1.78%) Finance
6 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.83%) Clustering
2 16 (9.47%) Data Centre
3 15 (8.88%) Virtual Team
4 12 (7.10%) PKI
5 10 (5.92%) Driving Licence
5 10 (5.92%) Replication
6 6 (3.55%) CCTV
6 6 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.96%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 137 (81.07%) Windows
2 73 (43.20%) Windows Server
3 43 (25.44%) Linux
4 17 (10.06%) Windows 10
5 15 (8.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (6.51%) VMS
8 6 (3.55%) Mac OS X
9 5 (2.96%) Unix
10 4 (2.37%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.78%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.78%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.18%) AIX
12 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.59%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (66.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (20.71%) ITIL
3 32 (18.93%) Patch Management
4 28 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (15.98%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (15.98%) High Availability
6 25 (14.79%) Virtual Environments
7 22 (13.02%) Kalman Filter
8 19 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (11.24%) Customer Service
9 18 (10.65%) Computer Science
10 16 (9.47%) Change Management
11 14 (8.28%) Cloud Security
11 14 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (8.28%) Server Building
12 13 (7.69%) DevOps
12 13 (7.69%) Migration
13 12 (7.10%) Configuration Management
14 11 (6.51%) Antivirus Management
14 11 (6.51%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 64 (37.87%) PowerShell
2 25 (14.79%) SQL
3 13 (7.69%) Python
4 10 (5.92%) Groovy
5 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.81%) Degree
3 28 (16.57%) SC Cleared
4 27 (15.98%) DV Cleared
4 27 (15.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (10.06%) A+ Certification
5 17 (10.06%) MCSA
6 16 (9.47%) MCP
7 15 (8.88%) Master's Degree
7 15 (8.88%) MBA
8 14 (8.28%) MCSE
9 13 (7.69%) HND
10 10 (5.92%) CCNA
10 10 (5.92%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (3.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (2.96%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.96%) CCNP
14 4 (2.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) SLA
2 5 (2.96%) GDPR
3 4 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 108 (63.91%) Active Directory
2 52 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (18.93%) Hyper-V
4 14 (8.28%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.92%) DFS Replication
6 8 (4.73%) vSphere
7 7 (4.14%) BitLocker
7 7 (4.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (4.14%) Terminal Services
7 7 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (3.55%) Docker
9 2 (1.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.59%) NFS
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (13.02%) Ansible
1 22 (13.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (11.24%) SCCM
2 19 (11.24%) Terraform
3 11 (6.51%) Grafana
3 11 (6.51%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.33%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (4.73%) vCenter Server
6 7 (4.14%) vMotion
7 6 (3.55%) Nagios
7 6 (3.55%) Puppet
8 5 (2.96%) Backup Exec
8 5 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.37%) WSUS
10 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 108 (63.91%) Microsoft
2 71 (42.01%) VMware
3 27 (15.98%) Citrix
4 23 (13.61%) Cisco
5 15 (8.88%) Unisys
5 15 (8.88%) Veeam
6 11 (6.51%) Juniper
6 11 (6.51%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.55%) CheckPoint
7 6 (3.55%) Google
7 6 (3.55%) HP
7 6 (3.55%) Meraki
7 6 (3.55%) MobileIron
7 6 (3.55%) Riverbed
7 6 (3.55%) SAP
7 6 (3.55%) Symantec
7 6 (3.55%) Trend Micro
8 5 (2.96%) McAfee
8 5 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
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