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 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 110 55
Rank change year-on-year +17 -55 +59
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 75 31 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.48% 1.43% 3.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.52% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 58 19 164
10th Percentile £40,406 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,688 £31,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,625 £53,750
90th Percentile - £59,850 £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 4,836 2,038 4,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 94.13% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,077 1,123 3,412
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £44,941
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.43% -14.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -12.50%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 0 37 £50,000 -10.71% 7
Northamptonshire +21 19 £50,000 +14.29% 5
Derbyshire -4 14 £46,500 +37.78%
Nottinghamshire -19 3 £45,000 - 2
Lincolnshire -20 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 72 (96.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (38.67%) Firewall
3 27 (36.00%) Azure
4 26 (34.67%) Active Directory
5 22 (29.33%) VMware
6 20 (26.67%) Windows
7 18 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 17 (22.67%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (21.33%) Windows Server
10 15 (20.00%) Hyper-V
10 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 13 (17.33%) SQL
12 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
12 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (14.67%) VPN
14 10 (13.33%) Linux
14 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (12.00%) vSphere
16 8 (10.67%) DHCP
16 8 (10.67%) DNS
16 8 (10.67%) ITIL
17 7 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
17 7 (9.33%) High Availability
17 7 (9.33%) PowerShell
17 7 (9.33%) SharePoint
17 7 (9.33%) Veeam
18 6 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
18 6 (8.00%) Mentoring
18 6 (8.00%) Performance Tuning

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 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) Azure
2 17 (22.67%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (38.67%) Firewall
2 11 (14.67%) VPN
3 8 (10.67%) DHCP
3 8 (10.67%) DNS
4 5 (6.67%) VLAN
4 5 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (5.33%) LoRaWAN
5 4 (5.33%) MQTT
6 3 (4.00%) LAN
6 3 (4.00%) Network Security
6 3 (4.00%) SAN
6 3 (4.00%) WAN
7 2 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (2.67%) Internet
8 1 (1.33%) BGP
8 1 (1.33%) DMZ
8 1 (1.33%) MPLS
8 1 (1.33%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.33%) MySQL
2 4 (5.33%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.67%) KNIME
3 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (6.67%) Law
3 4 (5.33%) Finance
3 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) Middleware
1 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Clustering
2 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.33%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.33%) IoT
2 4 (5.33%) Replication
3 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.67%) SCADA
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (26.67%) Windows
2 16 (21.33%) Windows Server
3 10 (13.33%) Linux
4 4 (5.33%) Mac OS
4 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (96.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (10.67%) ITIL
4 7 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (9.33%) High Availability
5 6 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (8.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (6.67%) Patch Management
7 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 4 (5.33%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.33%) Runbook
7 4 (5.33%) Storage Management
7 4 (5.33%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (5.33%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (4.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (4.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (4.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.33%) SQL
2 7 (9.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.33%) Scala
4 3 (4.00%) Python
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (2.67%) CCNA
1 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (2.67%) CISSP
1 2 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.33%) CCNP
2 1 (1.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) MCSE
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (34.67%) Active Directory
2 18 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (12.00%) vSphere
5 4 (5.33%) Docker
6 1 (1.33%) Firmware
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.33%) Galera Cluster
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (4.00%) Terraform
4 2 (2.67%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) VMware
2 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.33%) Veeam
4 4 (5.33%) Cisco
5 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.67%) SonicWALL