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 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 82 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 -28 +56
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 51 33 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.52% 2.07% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 2.17% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 38 16 113
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,375 £36,350
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 3,126 1,520 3,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 95.24% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,010 871 2,635
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
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 £76,060 £71,250 £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 14 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 14 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 +19 32 £45,000 -21.05% 2
Northamptonshire -6 8 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Nottinghamshire -12 6 £45,000 -10.00%
Lincolnshire -22 5 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 22 (43.14%) Azure
3 18 (35.29%) VMware
4 16 (31.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
5 10 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (19.61%) Windows
6 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 9 (17.65%) Windows Server
7 8 (15.69%) Firewall
8 7 (13.73%) ITIL
8 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
9 6 (11.76%) Veeam
10 5 (9.80%) Data Security
10 5 (9.80%) People Management
10 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
10 5 (9.80%) vSphere
11 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
11 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
11 4 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (7.84%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (5.88%) Change Control
12 3 (5.88%) DHCP
12 3 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
12 3 (5.88%) DNS
12 3 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (5.88%) GDPR
12 3 (5.88%) iPaaS

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 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.88%) iPaaS
3 3 (5.88%) SaaS
4 2 (3.92%) AWS
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.92%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) DHCP
2 3 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (5.88%) SAN
2 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.88%) VLAN
3 2 (3.92%) Skype
3 2 (3.92%) WAN
4 1 (1.96%) LAN
4 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) DTS
General
1 9 (17.65%) Retail
2 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Law
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.88%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) CMDB
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 9 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.92%) Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (13.73%) ITIL
2 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
4 5 (9.80%) Data Security
4 5 (9.80%) People Management
5 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
5 4 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (5.88%) Change Control
6 3 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (5.88%) Project Delivery
6 3 (5.88%) Risk Management
7 2 (3.92%) Agile
7 2 (3.92%) Deadline-Driven
7 2 (3.92%) Information Security
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (3.92%) Presales
7 2 (3.92%) Problem Management
7 2 (3.92%) Server Management
7 2 (3.92%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) CCNA
1 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.80%) vSphere
4 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (3.92%) Nagios
2 2 (3.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) VMware
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Veeam
4 2 (3.92%) BMC
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) Citrix
4 2 (3.92%) Darktrace
4 2 (3.92%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Proofpoint
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.92%) Tanium
4 2 (3.92%) Trend Micro