Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £48,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 106 71
Rank change year-on-year +13 -35 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 87 38 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.35% 1.64% 2.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.75% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 73 21 86
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -22.22% -17.62%
75th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -

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 6,015 2,172 3,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.66% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,897 1,263 2,048
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,050 £73,750
England median annual salary £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%

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 September 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 September 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 -1 38 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Northamptonshire +17 27 £45,000 +28.57%
Derbyshire -10 16 £53,250 +52.14% 6
Nottinghamshire -26 4 £39,194 - 2
Lincolnshire -21 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 81 (93.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (44.83%) Windows
3 36 (41.38%) Active Directory
4 34 (39.08%) Firewall
5 32 (36.78%) Azure
6 24 (27.59%) Hyper-V
6 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
6 24 (27.59%) Windows Server
7 21 (24.14%) DNS
7 21 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (21.84%) DHCP
9 17 (19.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (19.54%) VMware
10 16 (18.39%) SQL
11 15 (17.24%) Linux
11 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
12 14 (16.09%) Entra ID
12 14 (16.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (16.09%) VPN
13 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
14 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (10.34%) SharePoint
15 9 (10.34%) vSphere
16 8 (9.20%) Cisco
16 8 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
16 8 (9.20%) ITIL
16 8 (9.20%) Veeam
17 7 (8.05%) High Availability
17 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code

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 17 (19.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.60%) IIS
4 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.78%) Azure
2 21 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (16.09%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.60%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.45%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.30%) GitHub
6 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.30%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.15%) AWS
7 1 (1.15%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (39.08%) Firewall
2 21 (24.14%) DNS
3 19 (21.84%) DHCP
4 14 (16.09%) VPN
5 6 (6.90%) LAN
6 5 (5.75%) VLAN
6 5 (5.75%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (4.60%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (4.60%) MQTT
8 3 (3.45%) Internet
8 3 (3.45%) Network Security
8 3 (3.45%) NX-OS
8 3 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.45%) SAN
8 3 (3.45%) WAN
9 2 (2.30%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (1.15%) BGP
10 1 (1.15%) DMZ
10 1 (1.15%) MPLS
10 1 (1.15%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.60%) MySQL
2 4 (4.60%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.30%) KNIME
3 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) GitLab
1 3 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Git
General
1 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.05%) Law
3 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.60%) Finance
4 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) Terraform
2 2 (2.30%) Middleware
2 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Driving Licence
2 8 (9.20%) Clustering
3 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.75%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.60%) IoT
5 4 (4.60%) Replication
6 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.45%) PKI
7 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.30%) SCADA
8 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (44.83%) Windows
2 24 (27.59%) Windows Server
3 15 (17.24%) Linux
4 6 (6.90%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.45%) Android
6 3 (3.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (93.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (9.20%) ITIL
5 7 (8.05%) High Availability
5 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (8.05%) Patch Management
6 6 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (6.90%) Storage Management
6 6 (6.90%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (5.75%) CI/CD
7 5 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (5.75%) Customer Service
7 5 (5.75%) DevOps
7 5 (5.75%) Server Management
7 5 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (4.60%) Business Continuity
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Security
8 4 (4.60%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) SQL
2 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.75%) Python
3 5 (5.75%) Scala
4 2 (2.30%) Bash
4 2 (2.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (6.90%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) CCNA
2 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.45%) MCSE
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.30%) CISSP
4 2 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.15%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.45%) GDPR
2 3 (3.45%) SLA
3 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 24 (27.59%) Hyper-V
3 15 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (10.34%) vSphere
5 4 (4.60%) Docker
6 3 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.90%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (4.60%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.60%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.45%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.30%) Ansible
5 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.54%) VMware
3 8 (9.20%) Cisco
3 8 (9.20%) Veeam
4 3 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.30%) Acronis
5 2 (2.30%) Apple
5 2 (2.30%) FIS
5 2 (2.30%) SonicWALL
6 1 (1.15%) Datto
6 1 (1.15%) Google