Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Birmingham is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 106 114
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 +27
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 27 45 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.83% 1.66% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.76% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 23 41 28
10th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £40,125
25th Percentile £29,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £48,000 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £50,800 £65,000 £57,500
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,387 2,561 1,866
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 94.29% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 795 2,089 1,425
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (96.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (77.78%) Active Directory
3 19 (70.37%) Windows Server
4 18 (66.67%) Firewall
5 17 (62.96%) Microsoft
6 15 (55.56%) Windows
7 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (48.15%) Azure
9 12 (44.44%) WAN
10 11 (40.74%) VPN
11 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (37.04%) VLAN
12 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (29.63%) LAN
14 7 (25.93%) AWS
14 7 (25.93%) Windows 10
14 7 (25.93%) DNS
14 7 (25.93%) DHCP
14 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Office
15 6 (22.22%) MCP
15 6 (22.22%) MCSA
15 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
15 6 (22.22%) A+ Certification
15 6 (22.22%) VMware
15 6 (22.22%) Logistics
15 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
16 5 (18.52%) WatchGuard
16 5 (18.52%) Wi-Fi

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (48.15%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (14.81%) Route 53
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Dropbox
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (66.67%) Firewall
2 12 (44.44%) WAN
3 11 (40.74%) VPN
4 10 (37.04%) VLAN
5 8 (29.63%) LAN
6 7 (25.93%) DHCP
6 7 (25.93%) DNS
7 5 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (14.81%) HTTPS
8 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
9 3 (11.11%) SAN
10 1 (3.70%) BGP
10 1 (3.70%) NAS
10 1 (3.70%) Network Security
10 1 (3.70%) SSL
10 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
10 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Local Government
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) iPhone
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows Server
2 15 (55.56%) Windows
3 7 (25.93%) Windows 10
4 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 6 (22.22%) Logistics
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (18.52%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (14.81%) Cost Management
5 4 (14.81%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (14.81%) Identity Management
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
5 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.81%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (14.81%) Proactive Management
5 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
5 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
5 4 (14.81%) Threat Management
5 4 (14.81%) Zero Trust
6 3 (11.11%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (22.22%) A+ Certification
2 6 (22.22%) MCP
2 6 (22.22%) MCSA
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
3 4 (14.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (11.11%) Degree
5 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) CCNA
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.70%) Docker
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Nessus
2 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Acronis
3 5 (18.52%) WatchGuard
4 2 (7.41%) Citrix
4 2 (7.41%) Veeam
5 1 (3.70%) Apple
5 1 (3.70%) Aruba
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) Juniper
22 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in the West Midlands