Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in the UK is £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 860 1150
Rank change year-on-year +95 +290 -307
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 157 85 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.091% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.10% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 140 80 95
10th Percentile £30,385 £34,131 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £48,938 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,700 £60,000 £66,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +16.25% -5.88% +13.33%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +99 149 £46,500 +3.33% 9
UK excluding London -3 120 £46,500 +16.25% 10
Work from Home +83 64 £48,500 +7.78% 1
South East +25 60 £46,500 +16.25% 5
South West +1 34 £50,500 +11.91%
London +76 33 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Midlands -20 16 £45,000 -18.18% 1
West Midlands -2 10 £37,500 -21.05%
East Midlands -30 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
North of England +18 5 £32,500 -14.47%
Scotland -66 4 £48,750 +52.34% 3
Yorkshire +63 2 £32,500 -14.47%
North West -12 2 £37,250 -12.35%
East of England -14 1 - - 1
North East -17 1 £29,000 -27.50%

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 144 (91.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 82 (52.23%) Windows
3 74 (47.13%) Azure
4 72 (45.86%) VMware
5 65 (41.40%) Active Directory
6 61 (38.85%) Windows Server
7 57 (36.31%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (34.39%) VMware Infrastructure
9 51 (32.48%) Microsoft
10 49 (31.21%) Firewall
10 49 (31.21%) PowerShell
11 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
12 35 (22.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 33 (21.02%) VMware ESXi
13 33 (21.02%) DNS
13 33 (21.02%) Citrix
14 32 (20.38%) Microsoft Exchange
15 31 (19.75%) Finance
16 29 (18.47%) vCenter Server
16 29 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (18.47%) SharePoint
16 29 (18.47%) SLA
17 26 (16.56%) Windows Server 2012
17 26 (16.56%) Linux
17 26 (16.56%) WAN
18 25 (15.92%) SAN
18 25 (15.92%) AWS
19 23 (14.65%) IaaS
19 23 (14.65%) Cisco
20 22 (14.01%) LAN

Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 32 (20.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (18.47%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.55%) IIS
4 3 (1.91%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (47.13%) Azure
2 57 (36.31%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (15.92%) AWS
4 23 (14.65%) IaaS
5 22 (14.01%) Entra ID
5 22 (14.01%) SaaS
6 12 (7.64%) PaaS
7 11 (7.01%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.18%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.91%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.27%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.27%) OpenDNS
12 1 (0.64%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (31.21%) Firewall
2 33 (21.02%) DNS
3 26 (16.56%) WAN
4 25 (15.92%) SAN
5 22 (14.01%) LAN
6 21 (13.38%) VPN
7 17 (10.83%) DHCP
8 15 (9.55%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (8.92%) Internet
10 11 (7.01%) SD-WAN
11 9 (5.73%) iSCSI
11 9 (5.73%) VLAN
11 9 (5.73%) Wireless
11 9 (5.73%) WLAN
12 8 (5.10%) Network Security
13 5 (3.18%) DMZ
13 5 (3.18%) TCP/IP
14 4 (2.55%) NAS
14 4 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (1.27%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.82%) MySQL
4 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (6.37%) JIRA
2 3 (1.91%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.75%) Finance
3 20 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.10%) Law
6 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.55%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Legal
8 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.18%) .NET
2 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (1.27%) LAMP
2 2 (1.27%) LDAP
2 2 (1.27%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.83%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (10.19%) Driving Licence
2 16 (10.19%) PKI
3 14 (8.92%) Clustering
4 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.91%) Replication
6 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.64%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (52.23%) Windows
2 61 (38.85%) Windows Server
3 26 (16.56%) Linux
3 26 (16.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (13.38%) Windows 10
5 7 (4.46%) Android
5 7 (4.46%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.27%) CentOS
8 2 (1.27%) Debian
8 2 (1.27%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.64%) AIX
9 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.64%) Unix
9 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.64%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (91.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (11.46%) ITIL
4 16 (10.19%) Customer Service
5 15 (9.55%) Problem Management
6 13 (8.28%) Customer Requirements
7 12 (7.64%) Service Delivery
8 11 (7.01%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (6.37%) Capacity Management
10 9 (5.73%) Systems Engineering
11 8 (5.10%) Incident Management
11 8 (5.10%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (4.46%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (4.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (3.82%) Customer Experience
13 6 (3.82%) Patch Management
13 6 (3.82%) Server Monitoring
14 5 (3.18%) Configuration Management
15 4 (2.55%) Change Control
15 4 (2.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.21%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.28%) ActionScript
2 13 (8.28%) SQL
2 13 (8.28%) VB
3 10 (6.37%) Bash
4 5 (3.18%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.27%) C#
5 2 (1.27%) Java
6 1 (0.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (12.74%) Degree
1 20 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.46%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.46%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (4.46%) MCP
5 5 (3.18%) CCNA
5 5 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CCA
6 1 (0.64%) CCDA
6 1 (0.64%) CCNP
6 1 (0.64%) CISSP
6 1 (0.64%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.64%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.64%) LPIC
6 1 (0.64%) MCSE
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.47%) SLA
2 6 (3.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 65 (41.40%) Active Directory
2 54 (34.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (21.02%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (10.19%) Hyper-V
4 16 (10.19%) XenApp
5 15 (9.55%) vSphere
6 13 (8.28%) OpenSSH
7 8 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.91%) Docker
8 3 (1.91%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.91%) XenDesktop
9 2 (1.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (1.27%) pfSense
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (22.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (18.47%) vCenter Server
3 16 (10.19%) SCCM
4 13 (8.28%) IBM BigFix
4 13 (8.28%) PowerCLI
5 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (3.82%) SCDPM
6 3 (1.91%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.27%) WSUS
8 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.64%) NetCrunch
8 1 (0.64%) SCOM
Vendors
1 72 (45.86%) VMware
2 51 (32.48%) Microsoft
3 33 (21.02%) Citrix
4 23 (14.65%) Cisco
5 21 (13.38%) Veeam
6 14 (8.92%) HP
6 14 (8.92%) IBM
7 12 (7.64%) Sophos
8 9 (5.73%) Dell
9 6 (3.82%) Dell Compellent
9 6 (3.82%) Meraki
9 6 (3.82%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (2.55%) Aruba
11 3 (1.91%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.91%) NetApp
11 3 (1.91%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.91%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.27%) EMC
12 2 (1.27%) Symantec
12 2 (1.27%) Veritas