Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends 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 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 82 76
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +23
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 42 88 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.82% 2.39% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 2.52% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 23 52 38
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £40,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £54,625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -17.62% +19.40%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £56,750 £60,000 £62,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +1.94%

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 2,163 3,493 1,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 94.94% 98.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 1,684 1,122
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £76,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.79% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -21 19 £35,000 -21.35% 3
Nottinghamshire -3 9 - - 5
Leicestershire +28 6 £45,000 -7.22% 3
Northamptonshire +22 5 £35,000 -12.50%
Lincolnshire -17 3 £47,500 +35.71%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, 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 42 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (92.86%) Windows
3 30 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 30 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (69.05%) Active Directory
5 26 (61.90%) Windows Server
6 25 (59.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (57.14%) Azure
8 22 (52.38%) DHCP
9 21 (50.00%) DNS
10 18 (42.86%) PowerShell
10 18 (42.86%) VPN
11 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (38.10%) Firewall
13 15 (35.71%) SharePoint
14 14 (33.33%) Risk Management
14 14 (33.33%) Hyper-V
14 14 (33.33%) Onboarding
15 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
15 13 (30.95%) Cisco
16 12 (28.57%) TCP/IP
17 11 (26.19%) VMware
17 11 (26.19%) VLAN
17 11 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
18 10 (23.81%) Law
18 10 (23.81%) Red Hat
18 10 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (23.81%) AWS
18 10 (23.81%) Server Management
18 10 (23.81%) Customer Service

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 25 (59.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (35.71%) SharePoint
3 9 (21.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (57.14%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) AWS
4 9 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (21.43%) GCP
5 7 (16.67%) Nutanix
6 6 (14.29%) iPaaS
6 6 (14.29%) SaaS
7 5 (11.90%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (11.90%) Mimecast
8 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (52.38%) DHCP
2 21 (50.00%) DNS
3 18 (42.86%) VPN
4 16 (38.10%) Firewall
5 12 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 11 (26.19%) VLAN
7 9 (21.43%) Skype
8 8 (19.05%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (16.67%) SAN
10 6 (14.29%) WAN
11 5 (11.90%) SD-WAN
11 5 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (2.38%) LAN
12 1 (2.38%) Network Security
12 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) DTS
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Law
3 9 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 9 (21.43%) Retail
4 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.52%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 9 (21.43%) CMDB
2 9 (21.43%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (19.05%) Cyberattack
4 6 (14.29%) Clustering
4 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (92.86%) Windows
2 26 (61.90%) Windows Server
3 10 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (21.43%) Linux
5 8 (19.05%) Android
5 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (19.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (11.90%) Mac OS
6 5 (11.90%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 10 (23.81%) Customer Service
4 10 (23.81%) Server Management
5 9 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
5 9 (21.43%) ITIL
5 9 (21.43%) Problem Management
5 9 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (19.05%) DevOps
6 8 (19.05%) Line Management
6 8 (19.05%) Mathematics
6 8 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) Storage Management
6 8 (19.05%) Task Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (11.90%) Client Onboarding
8 5 (11.90%) Preventative Maintenance
8 5 (11.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 8 (19.05%) Bash
2 8 (19.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) MCP
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) GDPR
2 6 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (11.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (69.05%) Active Directory
2 14 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 11 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (19.05%) Docker
5 8 (19.05%) VMware NSX
5 8 (19.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Nagios
1 9 (21.43%) ZABBIX
2 8 (19.05%) Ansible
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 6 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (11.90%) SCCM
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (30.95%) Cisco
3 11 (26.19%) VMware
4 10 (23.81%) Red Hat
5 9 (21.43%) BMC
5 9 (21.43%) Citrix
5 9 (21.43%) Darktrace
5 9 (21.43%) Google
5 9 (21.43%) Proofpoint
5 9 (21.43%) SolarWinds
5 9 (21.43%) Tanium
5 9 (21.43%) Trend Micro
6 8 (19.05%) 3PAR
6 8 (19.05%) Juniper
6 8 (19.05%) Splunk
7 7 (16.67%) Meraki
8 6 (14.29%) Veeam
9 5 (11.90%) Nasuni
9 5 (11.90%) Rapid7
10 1 (2.38%) Fortinet