Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Birmingham

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in Birmingham is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 123 90
Rank change year-on-year +30 -33 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 6 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.32% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.34% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £57,500 - £45,653
25th Percentile - £43,500 £45,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -16.67% +22.29%
75th Percentile - £46,500 £59,625
90th Percentile £74,000 £52,000 £60,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £49,565
% change year-on-year +22.22% -9.21% -2.57%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 1,596 1,789 1,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.81% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,148 890 996
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,692 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £87,625 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) FlexNet
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) CCNP
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) ISDN
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) ISDN
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) PSTN
2 1 (16.67%) RTP
2 1 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Server Building
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) FlexNet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam
2 1 (16.67%) VMware