IT Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

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

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 128 117
Rank change year-on-year -29 -11 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 9 5 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% 0.26% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.27% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 58
10th Percentile £37,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £39,375 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £41,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £45,650 £44,125
England median annual salary £48,445 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +13.99% - -5.56%

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 4,394 1,841 4,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.29% 94.07% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,752 982 3,051
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,625 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Northamptonshire - 5 £45,000 -
Lincolnshire -20 3 - -
Leicestershire -33 1 £45,000 +16.13% 1
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 May 2026, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) Data Security
4 3 (33.33%) People Management
5 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (22.22%) Internet
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (22.22%) Mimecast
5 2 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (22.22%) Network Security
5 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
5 2 (22.22%) SAN
5 2 (22.22%) Server Management
5 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 2 (22.22%) SonicWALL
5 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
5 2 (22.22%) Veeam
5 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi

IT 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (22.22%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Internet
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Security
2 3 (33.33%) People Management
3 2 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 2 (22.22%) Server Management
3 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) SonicWALL
1 2 (22.22%) Veeam