Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 147 150
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 -20
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 154 123 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.09% 1.92% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 2.13% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 133 83 122
10th Percentile £35,384 £37,660 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,000 £35,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% -7.41%
75th Percentile £57,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,450 £57,500 £60,900
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,937 5,767 6,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.25% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,217 3,278 4,740
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +10 42 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Staffordshire -10 30 £42,500 -5.56% 10
Warwickshire - 23 £45,000 - 2
Coventry +28 14 £47,100 -7.19% 3
Shropshire +3 11 £35,000 - 2
Solihull +2 7 £53,750 +9.14% 1
Worcestershire -22 4 £46,919 +2.50% 1
Brierley Hill - 1 £35,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 148 (96.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (59.09%) Azure
3 76 (49.35%) Microsoft
4 67 (43.51%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (39.61%) Windows
6 51 (33.12%) Active Directory
7 50 (32.47%) VMware
8 43 (27.92%) Hyper-V
9 36 (23.38%) VMware Infrastructure
10 34 (22.08%) Windows Server
11 33 (21.43%) Firewall
12 32 (20.78%) PowerShell
13 31 (20.13%) AWS
14 30 (19.48%) SAN
15 29 (18.83%) ITIL
15 29 (18.83%) Social Skills
16 26 (16.88%) DHCP
16 26 (16.88%) DNS
17 24 (15.58%) Microsoft Exchange
18 22 (14.29%) Citrix
18 22 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
19 20 (12.99%) LAN
19 20 (12.99%) WAN
19 20 (12.99%) Microsoft Intune
19 20 (12.99%) Entra ID
20 17 (11.04%) Dell
21 16 (10.39%) Cisco
21 16 (10.39%) SharePoint
21 16 (10.39%) Linux
21 16 (10.39%) Terraform

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 24 (15.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.39%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.55%) IIS
4 6 (3.90%) Apache
5 2 (1.30%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 91 (59.09%) Azure
2 67 (43.51%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (20.13%) AWS
4 20 (12.99%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.25%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.95%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.95%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.95%) Serverless
7 2 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.30%) GCP
7 2 (1.30%) GitHub
7 2 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.30%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.30%) OpenDNS
7 2 (1.30%) PaaS
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.65%) IaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (21.43%) Firewall
2 30 (19.48%) SAN
3 26 (16.88%) DHCP
3 26 (16.88%) DNS
4 20 (12.99%) LAN
4 20 (12.99%) WAN
5 15 (9.74%) TCP/IP
6 12 (7.79%) VLAN
7 9 (5.84%) Wireless
8 8 (5.19%) FTP
8 8 (5.19%) HTTP
8 8 (5.19%) SMTP
8 8 (5.19%) SNMP
8 8 (5.19%) SSH
8 8 (5.19%) SSL
8 8 (5.19%) Telnet
8 8 (5.19%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.90%) WLAN
10 4 (2.60%) Network Security
10 4 (2.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.60%) MySQL
3 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.60%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (1.30%) GitLab
1 2 (1.30%) JIRA
1 2 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (18.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.74%) Finance
3 9 (5.84%) Law
4 5 (3.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.60%) Games
6 3 (1.95%) Digital Healthcare
6 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.95%) Legal
6 3 (1.95%) Retail
7 2 (1.30%) Advertising
7 2 (1.30%) Electronics
7 2 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (1.30%) Local Government
7 2 (1.30%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.90%) .NET
1 6 (3.90%) .NET Framework
1 6 (3.90%) XML
2 2 (1.30%) CSS
2 2 (1.30%) LAMP
2 2 (1.30%) V-Ray
3 1 (0.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.74%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.19%) EFT
2 8 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.25%) Clustering
4 4 (2.60%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (1.95%) Replication
6 2 (1.30%) BYOD
6 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.30%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.30%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (1.30%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.30%) NHS
6 2 (1.30%) PKI
6 2 (1.30%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) CCTV
7 1 (0.65%) IoT
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (39.61%) Windows
2 34 (22.08%) Windows Server
3 16 (10.39%) Linux
4 12 (7.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.25%) Unix
7 3 (1.95%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.30%) Android
8 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.30%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.30%) SUSE
8 2 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.30%) zOS
9 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (96.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (18.83%) ITIL
3 22 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 13 (8.44%) Data Protection
7 12 (7.79%) High Availability
8 11 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (7.14%) DevOps
9 10 (6.49%) Incident Response
9 10 (6.49%) Service Delivery
9 10 (6.49%) Strategic Roadmap
10 9 (5.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (5.84%) Virtual Environments
11 8 (5.19%) Customer Service
11 8 (5.19%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (5.19%) Server Patching
12 7 (4.55%) CI/CD
12 7 (4.55%) Line Management
12 7 (4.55%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.78%) PowerShell
2 5 (3.25%) Bash
2 5 (3.25%) SQL
3 3 (1.95%) Bicep
3 3 (1.95%) Python
4 2 (1.30%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 7 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.60%) CCNA
2 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (2.60%) Degree
3 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.30%) CCNP
4 2 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) MCSA
5 1 (0.65%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) GDPR
2 4 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.60%) NIST
3 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (33.12%) Active Directory
2 43 (27.92%) Hyper-V
3 36 (23.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.25%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.60%) Docker
6 4 (2.60%) vSphere
7 2 (1.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.30%) pfSense
7 2 (1.30%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (12.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (10.39%) Terraform
3 12 (7.79%) Ansible
4 11 (7.14%) SCCM
5 9 (5.84%) vCenter Server
6 5 (3.25%) WSUS
7 4 (2.60%) Data Guard
7 4 (2.60%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.95%) VxRail
9 2 (1.30%) Backup Exec
9 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
9 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.30%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.65%) Nessus
10 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 76 (49.35%) Microsoft
2 50 (32.47%) VMware
3 22 (14.29%) Citrix
4 17 (11.04%) Dell
5 16 (10.39%) Cisco
6 11 (7.14%) Veeam
7 9 (5.84%) HP
8 8 (5.19%) EqualLogic
8 8 (5.19%) Globalscape
9 7 (4.55%) Sophos
10 6 (3.90%) Oracle
11 5 (3.25%) Nimble Storage
11 5 (3.25%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.60%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (2.60%) NetApp
13 3 (1.95%) Aruba
13 3 (1.95%) CheckPoint
13 3 (1.95%) Google
13 3 (1.95%) Meraki
14 2 (1.30%) Acronis