Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 161 182
Rank change year-on-year +64 +21 -59
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 316 177 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.69% 1.91% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 2.13% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 277 116 158
10th Percentile £35,150 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £59,250 £57,500 £61,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,062 8,311 10,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 89.66% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,270 4,658 7,067
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,925 £27,539
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,054
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
East Midlands +63 163 £45,000 -10.00% 18
West Midlands +45 153 £45,000 -5.26% 28
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Infrastructure 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 across the Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 310 (98.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 161 (50.95%) Azure
3 144 (45.57%) Windows
4 125 (39.56%) Microsoft
5 119 (37.66%) Microsoft 365
6 116 (36.71%) VMware
7 104 (32.91%) Active Directory
8 96 (30.38%) Windows Server
9 86 (27.22%) VMware Infrastructure
10 85 (26.90%) Hyper-V
11 83 (26.27%) Firewall
12 69 (21.84%) Social Skills
13 59 (18.67%) DNS
14 57 (18.04%) AWS
15 54 (17.09%) PowerShell
16 50 (15.82%) SAN
16 50 (15.82%) Microsoft Exchange
17 49 (15.51%) DHCP
17 49 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
19 44 (13.92%) Data Centre
19 44 (13.92%) Linux
20 41 (12.97%) WAN
20 41 (12.97%) SharePoint
20 41 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
21 37 (11.71%) Cisco
22 36 (11.39%) ITIL
23 35 (11.08%) Veeam
23 35 (11.08%) Entra ID
24 34 (10.76%) LAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 50 (15.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (12.97%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.80%) IIS
4 6 (1.90%) Apache
5 2 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) CATIA
2 2 (0.63%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 161 (50.95%) Azure
2 119 (37.66%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (18.04%) AWS
4 35 (11.08%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.80%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.22%) Mimecast
7 6 (1.90%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.90%) GCP
7 6 (1.90%) IaaS
7 6 (1.90%) PaaS
7 6 (1.90%) SaaS
8 5 (1.58%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (1.58%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.95%) Azure Stack
10 3 (0.95%) Serverless
11 2 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.63%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (26.27%) Firewall
2 59 (18.67%) DNS
3 50 (15.82%) SAN
4 49 (15.51%) DHCP
5 41 (12.97%) WAN
6 34 (10.76%) LAN
6 34 (10.76%) TCP/IP
7 30 (9.49%) VLAN
8 26 (8.23%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.80%) SSL
10 11 (3.48%) Wireless
10 11 (3.48%) WLAN
11 10 (3.16%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.16%) VPN
12 8 (2.53%) FTP
12 8 (2.53%) HTTP
12 8 (2.53%) Network Security
12 8 (2.53%) SMTP
12 8 (2.53%) SNMP
12 8 (2.53%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.90%) MySQL
4 5 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (2.22%) Git
2 2 (0.63%) GitLab
2 2 (0.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.59%) Finance
3 16 (5.06%) Retail
4 12 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.80%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.48%) Law
6 7 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.58%) Automotive
7 5 (1.58%) Legal
8 4 (1.27%) Aviation
8 4 (1.27%) Avionics
8 4 (1.27%) Games
9 3 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Local Government
10 2 (0.63%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.90%) .NET
1 6 (1.90%) .NET Framework
1 6 (1.90%) XML
2 2 (0.63%) CSS
2 2 (0.63%) LAMP
2 2 (0.63%) V-Ray
3 1 (0.32%) JSON
3 1 (0.32%) LDAP
3 1 (0.32%) Middleware
3 1 (0.32%) SAML
3 1 (0.32%) ServiceStack
3 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.92%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.16%) CCTV
4 9 (2.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.53%) EFT
6 7 (2.22%) Clustering
6 7 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.22%) Replication
7 5 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.27%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.27%) NHS
9 3 (0.95%) IBM Mainframe
9 3 (0.95%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.95%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.63%) BYOD
10 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.63%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 144 (45.57%) Windows
2 96 (30.38%) Windows Server
3 44 (13.92%) Linux
4 22 (6.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (6.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (5.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.22%) Unix
8 5 (1.58%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.95%) Android
9 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.95%) CentOS
9 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.95%) zOS
10 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.63%) SUSE
10 2 (0.63%) VMS
10 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (98.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (11.39%) ITIL
5 26 (8.23%) DevOps
5 26 (8.23%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (6.96%) Roadmaps
8 21 (6.65%) CI/CD
9 19 (6.01%) Migration
10 18 (5.70%) Agile
10 18 (5.70%) Infrastructure Management
11 16 (5.06%) Project Management
12 15 (4.75%) Change Management
12 15 (4.75%) Customer Service
13 13 (4.11%) Data Protection
14 12 (3.80%) High Availability
14 12 (3.80%) Incident Response
14 12 (3.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (3.80%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (17.09%) PowerShell
2 10 (3.16%) SQL
3 8 (2.53%) Bash
4 4 (1.27%) Python
5 3 (0.95%) Bicep
6 2 (0.63%) Java
7 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (3.80%) CCNA
3 10 (3.16%) Degree
4 8 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.58%) MCSE
8 4 (1.27%) CCA
8 4 (1.27%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (0.95%) CCDA
9 3 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.63%) CCNP
10 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.63%) MCITP
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.32%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.53%) QA
3 5 (1.58%) GDPR
3 5 (1.58%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.27%) NIST
5 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (32.91%) Active Directory
2 86 (27.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 85 (26.90%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.38%) Docker
5 10 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.16%) vSphere
6 9 (2.85%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.58%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.63%) pfSense
10 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.96%) Ansible
3 19 (6.01%) Terraform
4 18 (5.70%) SCCM
5 12 (3.80%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.85%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (2.85%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.22%) WSUS
8 4 (1.27%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.27%) SCOM
9 3 (0.95%) VxRail
10 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.63%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.63%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.32%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.32%) Nessus
11 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 125 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 116 (36.71%) VMware
3 37 (11.71%) Cisco
4 35 (11.08%) Veeam
5 34 (10.76%) Citrix
6 25 (7.91%) Dell
7 21 (6.65%) HP
8 13 (4.11%) Google
8 13 (4.11%) Meraki
9 12 (3.80%) Globalscape
10 11 (3.48%) Sophos
11 10 (3.16%) Acronis
12 8 (2.53%) EqualLogic
13 7 (2.22%) NetApp
13 7 (2.22%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.90%) Oracle
15 5 (1.58%) Commvault
15 5 (1.58%) IBM
15 5 (1.58%) Nasuni
15 5 (1.58%) Rapid7