Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 54 129
Rank change year-on-year -68 +75 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 35 185 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.27% 3.57% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 3.78% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 20 157 26
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,188 £37,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +12.90%
75th Percentile £57,063 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £59,675 £58,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,600 4,891 2,290
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 94.37% 89.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 3,262 1,233
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,336
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -15.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. 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
Derbyshire -20 18 £33,750 -27.03% 3
Leicestershire +28 6 £56,000 +21.08% 4
Northamptonshire +3 4 £35,000 -17.65% 4
Lincolnshire -31 3 £47,500 +18.75% 4
Nottinghamshire +2 2 - - 6
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 East Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (85.71%) Windows
3 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 20 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 20 (57.14%) Windows Server
5 18 (51.43%) Azure
6 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
6 17 (48.57%) VPN
7 16 (45.71%) DHCP
7 16 (45.71%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (42.86%) DNS
8 15 (42.86%) Cisco
8 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (34.29%) Firewall
9 12 (34.29%) Hyper-V
10 10 (28.57%) DevOps
10 10 (28.57%) Linux
11 9 (25.71%) ITIL
11 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (25.71%) Android
11 9 (25.71%) Task Automation
11 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (22.86%) Storage Management
12 8 (22.86%) VMware NSX
12 8 (22.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (22.86%) Cyberattack
12 8 (22.86%) Elastic Stack

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (17.14%) Nutanix
5 5 (14.29%) Mimecast
6 3 (8.57%) AWS
6 3 (8.57%) IaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.86%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.86%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.86%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) VPN
2 16 (45.71%) DHCP
3 15 (42.86%) DNS
4 12 (34.29%) Firewall
5 8 (22.86%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (22.86%) WAN
6 7 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
8 5 (14.29%) VLAN
8 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (8.57%) LAN
9 3 (8.57%) Network Security
10 1 (2.86%) Internet
10 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (2.86%) SAN
10 1 (2.86%) Skype
10 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) DTS
General
1 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (20.00%) Legal
4 4 (11.43%) Law
4 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cyberattack
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) CMDB
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (85.71%) Windows
2 20 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 10 (28.57%) Linux
4 9 (25.71%) Android
4 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) DevOps
4 9 (25.71%) ITIL
4 9 (25.71%) Task Automation
5 8 (22.86%) Line Management
5 8 (22.86%) Mathematics
5 8 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (22.86%) Risk Management
5 8 (22.86%) Storage Management
6 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
7 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (8.57%) Change Management
8 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (8.57%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (8.57%) Identity Management
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (8.57%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.86%) Bash
2 8 (22.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.71%) MCP
4 1 (2.86%) MCITP
4 1 (2.86%) MCSA
4 1 (2.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) GRC
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 12 (34.29%) Hyper-V
3 8 (22.86%) Docker
3 8 (22.86%) VMware NSX
3 8 (22.86%) vSphere
4 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
1 8 (22.86%) SCCM
1 8 (22.86%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.57%) SCOM
3 1 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Nagios
3 1 (2.86%) WSUS
3 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (42.86%) Cisco
3 8 (22.86%) 3PAR
3 8 (22.86%) Juniper
3 8 (22.86%) Splunk
4 6 (17.14%) Meraki
4 6 (17.14%) VMware
5 5 (14.29%) Nasuni
5 5 (14.29%) Rapid7
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.86%) BMC
7 1 (2.86%) Darktrace
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) Imperva
7 1 (2.86%) Isilon
7 1 (2.86%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.86%) Tanium
7 1 (2.86%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.86%) Veeam