Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 114 58
Rank change year-on-year +25 -56 +41
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 84 35 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.48% 1.53% 3.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.64% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 70 20 123
10th Percentile £40,969 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,688 £32,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -21.35% -15.24%
75th Percentile - £50,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,875 £58,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 5,374 2,137 3,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 93.44% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,425 1,247 2,467
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 3 August 2026.

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 3 August 2026. 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
Leicestershire +2 41 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Northamptonshire +24 24 £45,000 +28.57% 3
Derbyshire -3 15 £46,500 +32.86%
Nottinghamshire -20 2 £52,097 -
Lincolnshire -23 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 August 2026, 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 East Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 32 (38.10%) Azure
3 31 (36.90%) Firewall
3 31 (36.90%) Windows
4 22 (26.19%) Hyper-V
5 20 (23.81%) VMware
5 20 (23.81%) Windows Server
6 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 18 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (20.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (19.05%) SQL
9 15 (17.86%) DNS
10 14 (16.67%) DHCP
11 13 (15.48%) Entra ID
12 12 (14.29%) Linux
12 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (14.29%) VPN
13 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
15 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
15 8 (9.52%) SharePoint
15 8 (9.52%) vSphere
16 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
16 7 (8.33%) High Availability
16 7 (8.33%) ITIL
16 7 (8.33%) Veeam
17 6 (7.14%) Cisco
17 6 (7.14%) Failover Clustering

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.10%) Azure
2 18 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (15.48%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.57%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.19%) AWS
7 1 (1.19%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (36.90%) Firewall
2 15 (17.86%) DNS
3 14 (16.67%) DHCP
4 12 (14.29%) VPN
5 5 (5.95%) VLAN
5 5 (5.95%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (4.76%) LAN
6 4 (4.76%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (4.76%) MQTT
7 3 (3.57%) Network Security
7 3 (3.57%) SAN
7 3 (3.57%) WAN
8 2 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.38%) Internet
9 1 (1.19%) BGP
9 1 (1.19%) DMZ
9 1 (1.19%) MPLS
9 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.19%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) MySQL
2 4 (4.76%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.38%) KNIME
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 7 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.95%) Law
4 4 (4.76%) Finance
4 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.38%) Middleware
1 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Clustering
2 5 (5.95%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.76%) IoT
3 4 (4.76%) Replication
4 3 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.38%) SCADA
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.90%) Windows
2 20 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.29%) Linux
4 5 (5.95%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.19%) Android
6 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (8.33%) High Availability
4 7 (8.33%) ITIL
5 6 (7.14%) Patch Management
5 6 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
6 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (5.95%) Mentoring
7 4 (4.76%) Cloud Security
7 4 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 4 (4.76%) Runbook
7 4 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (4.76%) Storage Management
7 4 (4.76%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (4.76%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (3.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.05%) SQL
2 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.95%) Scala
4 3 (3.57%) Python
5 2 (2.38%) Bash
5 2 (2.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
1 2 (2.38%) CCNA
1 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (2.38%) CISSP
1 2 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (2.38%) Degree
1 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.19%) CCNP
2 1 (1.19%) MCSE
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 22 (26.19%) Hyper-V
3 17 (20.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.52%) vSphere
5 4 (4.76%) Docker
6 1 (1.19%) Firmware
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (4.76%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.57%) Terraform
5 2 (2.38%) Ansible
5 2 (2.38%) Grafana
5 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) VMware
2 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.33%) Veeam
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco
5 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.38%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.19%) Acronis
7 1 (1.19%) Apple