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 20 May 2025.

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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 103 108
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 27 40 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.94% 1.44% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 1.52% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 22 36 24
10th Percentile £27,750 £36,085 £38,250
25th Percentile £29,250 £37,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £48,000 £61,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,500 £65,000 -
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -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 1,318 2,631 1,768
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.44% 93.15%
Number of salaries quoted 771 2,138 1,360
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £81,251
West Midlands median annual salary £51,887 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 27 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (77.78%) Active Directory
3 20 (74.07%) Firewall
4 17 (62.96%) Windows
5 16 (59.26%) Windows Server
6 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
7 12 (44.44%) WAN
8 11 (40.74%) VPN
8 11 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (37.04%) Azure
9 10 (37.04%) AWS
9 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (29.63%) LAN
11 8 (29.63%) VLAN
11 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
12 7 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (25.93%) DNS
12 7 (25.93%) DHCP
13 6 (22.22%) A+ Certification
13 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (22.22%) MCSA
13 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
13 6 (22.22%) MCP
13 6 (22.22%) Logistics
13 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
13 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
13 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (22.22%) Customer Service

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 3 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.81%) AWS KMS
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (14.81%) Route 53
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (74.07%) Firewall
2 12 (44.44%) WAN
3 11 (40.74%) VPN
4 8 (29.63%) LAN
4 8 (29.63%) VLAN
5 7 (25.93%) DHCP
5 7 (25.93%) DNS
6 4 (14.81%) HTTPS
6 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
7 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (7.41%) SAN
9 1 (3.70%) BGP
9 1 (3.70%) NAS
9 1 (3.70%) Network Security
9 1 (3.70%) SSL
9 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
9 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Vagrant
3 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Local Government
4 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) NHS
1 3 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 16 (59.26%) Windows Server
3 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (14.81%) Linux
5 3 (11.11%) VMS
6 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 6 (22.22%) Logistics
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
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%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Groovy
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (22.22%) A+ Certification
2 6 (22.22%) MCP
2 6 (22.22%) MCSA
3 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (14.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (3.70%) CCNA
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (11.11%) DFS Replication
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.70%) Docker
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Grafana
3 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Nessus
4 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Juniper
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Acronis
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (11.11%) WatchGuard
4 2 (7.41%) Veeam
5 1 (3.70%) Aruba
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) HP