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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 107 81
Rank change year-on-year +21 -26 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 100 42 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.49% 1.82% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.94% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 77 23 54
10th Percentile £38,063 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £54,375
90th Percentile £60,000 £56,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -4.76%

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 6,147 2,162 3,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 93.47% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,082 1,222 1,717
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -4 43 £50,000 +11.11% 8
Derbyshire -2 25 £60,000 +71.43% 4
Northamptonshire +6 24 £45,000 +28.57%
Nottinghamshire -23 6 £39,194 - 1
Lincolnshire -13 1 - - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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 94 (94.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (42.00%) Windows
3 35 (35.00%) Active Directory
4 34 (34.00%) Azure
4 34 (34.00%) Microsoft
5 29 (29.00%) Firewall
6 27 (27.00%) Windows Server
7 23 (23.00%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (21.00%) DNS
8 21 (21.00%) Hyper-V
9 19 (19.00%) DHCP
10 18 (18.00%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (17.00%) PowerShell
12 16 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (16.00%) VMware
13 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 14 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
14 13 (13.00%) SQL
15 12 (12.00%) Entra ID
15 12 (12.00%) Linux
16 10 (10.00%) ITIL
16 10 (10.00%) Veeam
16 10 (10.00%) VPN
17 9 (9.00%) Patch Management
17 9 (9.00%) Project Delivery
18 8 (8.00%) SharePoint
18 8 (8.00%) Storage Management
18 8 (8.00%) vSphere
18 8 (8.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

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 18 (18.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.00%) IIS
4 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.00%) Azure
2 23 (23.00%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.00%) PowerApps
5 5 (5.00%) Mimecast
6 4 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.00%) AWS
7 3 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.00%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.00%) GitHub
8 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 29 (29.00%) Firewall
2 21 (21.00%) DNS
3 19 (19.00%) DHCP
4 10 (10.00%) VPN
5 5 (5.00%) VLAN
6 3 (3.00%) Internet
6 3 (3.00%) LAN
6 3 (3.00%) Network Security
6 3 (3.00%) NX-OS
6 3 (3.00%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (3.00%) SAN
7 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.00%) DMZ
8 1 (1.00%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (1.00%) MQTT
8 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) KNIME
2 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.00%) MySQL
3 1 (1.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) GitLab
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) Git
General
1 13 (13.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (4.00%) Law
4 3 (3.00%) Finance
5 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) Middleware
2 2 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Driving Licence
2 8 (8.00%) Clustering
3 7 (7.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.00%) Low-Code
5 5 (5.00%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.00%) PKI
7 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.00%) SCADA
8 1 (1.00%) IoT
8 1 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (42.00%) Windows
2 27 (27.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.00%) Linux
4 7 (7.00%) macOS
5 5 (5.00%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.00%) Android
6 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (94.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (10.00%) ITIL
5 9 (9.00%) Patch Management
5 9 (9.00%) Project Delivery
6 8 (8.00%) Storage Management
6 8 (8.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 7 (7.00%) Customer Service
7 7 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (6.00%) Business Continuity
8 6 (6.00%) Cloud Security
8 6 (6.00%) Runbook
8 6 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (6.00%) Virtual Environments
9 5 (5.00%) CI/CD
9 5 (5.00%) Migration
9 5 (5.00%) Server Management
9 5 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.00%) SQL
3 5 (5.00%) Python
3 5 (5.00%) Scala
4 2 (2.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (6.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.00%) CCNA
2 4 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) MCSE
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.00%) CISSP
4 2 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.00%) GDPR
2 3 (3.00%) SLA
3 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (21.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.00%) vSphere
5 7 (7.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.00%) Docker
7 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.00%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.00%) Backup Exec
4 3 (3.00%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.00%) Ansible
5 2 (2.00%) Grafana
5 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.00%) Galera Cluster
6 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) VMware
3 10 (10.00%) Veeam
4 7 (7.00%) Cisco
5 3 (3.00%) Datto
5 3 (3.00%) Google
6 2 (2.00%) Acronis
6 2 (2.00%) Apple
6 2 (2.00%) FIS
6 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.00%) SonicWALL
6 2 (2.00%) SOTI