IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

IT Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in Birmingham is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 July 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 131 124
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 1 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.074% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - - £40,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £57,500
90th Percentile - £62,625 -
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £44,250
% change year-on-year +35.00% +12.99% -19.55%

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 1,284 2,720 1,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 94.81% 92.98%
Number of salaries quoted 833 2,099 1,273
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Server Building
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

IT 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Server Building
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware