Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 85 57
Rank change year-on-year -10 -28 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 51 28 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.50% 1.80% 3.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.89% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 38 16 115
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,375 £36,250
25th Percentile - £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £59,938 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 3,166 1,481 3,320
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 95.06% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,025 882 2,647
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,306 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +16 32 £45,000 -21.05% 2
Northamptonshire -6 9 £70,000 +33.33% 2
Nottinghamshire -9 5 £45,000 -10.00%
Lincolnshire -22 5 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 51 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (41.18%) Azure
3 18 (35.29%) VMware
4 16 (31.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
6 9 (17.65%) Firewall
6 9 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (17.65%) Windows
7 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
7 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.69%) Windows Server
8 7 (13.73%) ITIL
9 6 (11.76%) vSphere
10 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
10 5 (9.80%) Data Security
10 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (9.80%) People Management
10 5 (9.80%) Veeam
11 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
11 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
12 3 (5.88%) Change Control
12 3 (5.88%) Linux
12 3 (5.88%) Project Delivery
12 3 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (5.88%) WAN
13 2 (3.92%) Agile
13 2 (3.92%) CCNA
13 2 (3.92%) Cisco

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 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.92%) IaaS
3 2 (3.92%) iPaaS
3 2 (3.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.96%) AWS
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) WAN
3 2 (3.92%) DHCP
3 2 (3.92%) DNS
3 2 (3.92%) LAN
3 2 (3.92%) SAN
3 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.92%) VLAN
4 1 (1.96%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (1.96%) MQTT
4 1 (1.96%) Network Security
4 1 (1.96%) Skype
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) DTS
1 1 (1.96%) MySQL
1 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (15.69%) Retail
2 3 (5.88%) Law
2 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.96%) Back Office
4 1 (1.96%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 1 (1.96%) CMDB
3 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.96%) IoT
3 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.96%) Replication
3 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.88%) Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (13.73%) ITIL
4 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
4 5 (9.80%) Data Security
4 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
4 5 (9.80%) People Management
5 3 (5.88%) Change Control
5 3 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 3 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (3.92%) Agile
6 2 (3.92%) Deadline-Driven
6 2 (3.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.92%) High Availability
6 2 (3.92%) Information Security
6 2 (3.92%) Presales
6 2 (3.92%) Risk Management
6 2 (3.92%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.96%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (1.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) CCNA
1 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.76%) vSphere
4 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.96%) Galera Cluster
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.96%) Nagios
2 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) VMware
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) Veeam
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) BMC
5 1 (1.96%) Citrix
5 1 (1.96%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.96%) Tanium
5 1 (1.96%) Trend Micro