Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 57 125
Rank change year-on-year -58 +68 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 20 163 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.87% 3.79% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 4.00% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 13 145 32
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £59,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £56,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 2,176 4,073 2,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 94.63% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 2,982 1,397
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.48% -10.84% +0.95%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 26 April 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 26 April 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
Leicestershire +17 6 £56,000 +17.89% 5
Northamptonshire -15 6 £73,750 +73.53%
Nottinghamshire +9 5 £43,750 -12.50% 4
Derbyshire -5 1 £32,500 -31.58% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 April 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 17 (85.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (75.00%) Azure
3 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (40.00%) Hyper-V
6 8 (40.00%) VMware
6 8 (40.00%) Firewall
7 7 (35.00%) VPN
7 7 (35.00%) DNS
7 7 (35.00%) DHCP
7 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (25.00%) Cisco
9 5 (25.00%) WAN
9 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
9 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
9 5 (25.00%) Azure Certification
10 4 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (20.00%) High Availability
10 4 (20.00%) PaaS
10 4 (20.00%) IaaS
10 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
10 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
10 4 (20.00%) Network Security
10 4 (20.00%) Degree
10 4 (20.00%) SCCM

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (20.00%) IaaS
4 4 (20.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS
6 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
6 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) DHCP
2 7 (35.00%) DNS
2 7 (35.00%) VPN
3 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 5 (25.00%) WAN
4 4 (20.00%) Network Security
5 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.00%) VLAN
6 2 (10.00%) LAN
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
6 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.00%) 5G
7 1 (5.00%) Bluetooth
7 1 (5.00%) Internet
7 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (5.00%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (15.00%) Legal
1 3 (15.00%) Retail
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) NB-IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Windows
1 17 (85.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (20.00%) High Availability
3 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security
5 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.00%) MCITP
5 1 (5.00%) MCSA
5 1 (5.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCCM
2 3 (15.00%) SCOM
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) Sophos
4 2 (10.00%) TP-LINK
5 1 (5.00%) HP
5 1 (5.00%) Imperva
5 1 (5.00%) Isilon
5 1 (5.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Nasuni
5 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam