Infrastructure Support Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Support
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the South East is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 319 459
Rank change year-on-year +9 +140 -103
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 94 58 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.44% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.49% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 91 50 34
10th Percentile £31,250 £23,900 £25,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £27,625 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,400 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -13.66% -3.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £58,250 £52,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire +2 45 £46,500 -6.06% 6
Thames Valley -4 30 £45,000 +53.85% 1
Berkshire +2 22 £45,000 +53.85% 1
Kent -15 7 £31,500 +18.87%
Oxfordshire - 6 £42,500 -
West Sussex +22 4 £51,250 +31.41%
East Sussex +9 4 £55,000 +4.76%
Surrey -18 2 £65,000 +62.50%
Sussex - 2 £32,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £45,000 -
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 67 (71.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (59.57%) Active Directory
3 51 (54.26%) Windows
4 45 (47.87%) VMware
5 39 (41.49%) Microsoft
5 39 (41.49%) Windows Server
6 33 (35.11%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (31.91%) Azure
8 28 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
8 28 (29.79%) PowerShell
8 28 (29.79%) SLA
8 28 (29.79%) Firewall
9 27 (28.72%) SCCM
10 23 (24.47%) VMware ESXi
11 22 (23.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (21.28%) Security Cleared
12 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
13 19 (20.21%) Windows 10
14 18 (19.15%) Degree
15 17 (18.09%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (18.09%) Citrix
15 17 (18.09%) ITIL
15 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Exchange
15 17 (18.09%) vCenter Server
15 17 (18.09%) Customer Service
16 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
16 16 (17.02%) Hyper-V
17 15 (15.96%) AWS
17 15 (15.96%) Incident Management
18 14 (14.89%) Problem Management

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (12.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.11%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (31.91%) Azure
3 15 (15.96%) AWS
4 12 (12.77%) Entra ID
5 9 (9.57%) IaaS
6 7 (7.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.32%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.19%) PaaS
9 2 (2.13%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.06%) OCI
10 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (29.79%) Firewall
2 17 (18.09%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (13.83%) Internet
3 13 (13.83%) LAN
4 12 (12.77%) DNS
4 12 (12.77%) VPN
5 11 (11.70%) iSCSI
6 10 (10.64%) SAN
7 7 (7.45%) DHCP
7 7 (7.45%) NAS
7 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.26%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (3.19%) WAN
10 2 (2.13%) Network Security
10 2 (2.13%) VoIP
10 2 (2.13%) Wireless
10 2 (2.13%) WPA
11 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) MySQL
2 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 2 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.89%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (13.83%) Finance
4 7 (7.45%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Law
7 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Clustering
1 13 (13.83%) PKI
2 6 (6.38%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.32%) Replication
3 5 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.26%) IPTV
5 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (54.26%) Windows
2 39 (41.49%) Windows Server
3 22 (23.40%) Windows Server 2012
4 19 (20.21%) Windows 10
5 10 (10.64%) Linux
6 7 (7.45%) Android
6 7 (7.45%) Apple iOS
7 6 (6.38%) Ubuntu
7 6 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (3.19%) Windows NT
10 1 (1.06%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.06%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (71.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (18.09%) Customer Service
2 17 (18.09%) ITIL
3 15 (15.96%) Incident Management
4 14 (14.89%) Problem Management
5 13 (13.83%) Customer Requirements
6 12 (12.77%) Service Delivery
7 11 (11.70%) Service Management
8 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (8.51%) Change Management
10 7 (7.45%) Change Advisory Board
10 7 (7.45%) Patch Management
10 7 (7.45%) People Management
10 7 (7.45%) Performance Management
10 7 (7.45%) Release Management
11 6 (6.38%) Customer Experience
11 6 (6.38%) Server Monitoring
12 4 (4.26%) Change Control
12 4 (4.26%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (4.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.83%) ActionScript
2 13 (13.83%) VB
3 6 (6.38%) Bash
3 6 (6.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
1 20 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.15%) Degree
3 6 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (6.38%) MCP
4 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CCNA
6 1 (1.06%) CCNP
6 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (29.79%) SLA
2 6 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (6.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 56 (59.57%) Active Directory
2 28 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (24.47%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (17.02%) Hyper-V
5 14 (14.89%) vSphere
6 13 (13.83%) OpenSSH
6 13 (13.83%) XenApp
7 10 (10.64%) Firmware
8 6 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (28.72%) SCCM
2 17 (18.09%) vCenter Server
3 13 (13.83%) IBM BigFix
3 13 (13.83%) PowerCLI
4 9 (9.57%) WSUS
5 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (8.51%) NetBackup
5 8 (8.51%) SCOM
6 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 6 (6.38%) SCDPM
7 3 (3.19%) Sysprep
8 2 (2.13%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.06%) NetCrunch
9 1 (1.06%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 45 (47.87%) VMware
2 39 (41.49%) Microsoft
3 17 (18.09%) Citrix
4 13 (13.83%) IBM
5 11 (11.70%) Veeam
6 8 (8.51%) Cisco
6 8 (8.51%) Meraki
7 7 (7.45%) Dell
7 7 (7.45%) McAfee
8 6 (6.38%) Dell Compellent
8 6 (6.38%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (2.13%) 3PAR
9 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.13%) Barracuda Networks
9 2 (2.13%) EMC
9 2 (2.13%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.06%) HP
10 1 (1.06%) Ivanti
10 1 (1.06%) Juniper
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle