Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 135 68
Rank change year-on-year +29 -67 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 136 114 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.74% 1.79% 3.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.90% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 96 57 174
10th Percentile £42,000 £35,650 £36,019
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £39,451
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £46,604
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -0.22% -0.84%
75th Percentile £55,938 £53,750 £54,688
90th Percentile £76,250 £57,500 £60,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -3.05%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 7,094 6,010 5,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 94.19% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,323 2,791 4,449
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.53% -5.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,614 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the 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 Midlands.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
West Midlands +29 87 £50,000 +11.11% 16
East Midlands +1 48 £45,000 -10.00% 10
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (36.76%) Azure
2 50 (36.76%) Windows
3 42 (30.88%) Windows Server
4 39 (28.68%) Microsoft
5 35 (25.74%) Active Directory
6 32 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (22.06%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (19.12%) Firewall
8 26 (19.12%) VMware
9 24 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
10 22 (16.18%) DNS
11 21 (15.44%) ITIL
12 20 (14.71%) SaaS
13 19 (13.97%) AWS
13 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.97%) SharePoint
14 17 (12.50%) DHCP
15 16 (11.76%) Entra ID
16 14 (10.29%) Hyper-V
16 14 (10.29%) Mentoring
16 14 (10.29%) Migration
16 14 (10.29%) Service Delivery
17 13 (9.56%) Citrix
17 13 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
17 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
18 12 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
18 12 (8.82%) SQL
18 12 (8.82%) Veeam
19 11 (8.09%) CI/CD

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 30 (22.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (13.97%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.88%) Skype for Business
4 4 (2.94%) WinCC
5 2 (1.47%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.76%) Azure
2 32 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (14.71%) SaaS
4 19 (13.97%) AWS
5 16 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 11 (8.09%) GCP
7 10 (7.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (4.41%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.68%) IaaS
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Stack
10 3 (2.21%) Datadog
10 3 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.21%) PaaS
11 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.47%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.47%) Serverless
11 2 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.12%) Firewall
2 22 (16.18%) DNS
3 17 (12.50%) DHCP
4 10 (7.35%) VPN
4 10 (7.35%) WAN
5 9 (6.62%) LAN
5 9 (6.62%) SAN
6 8 (5.88%) Skype
6 8 (5.88%) TCP/IP
7 7 (5.15%) VLAN
8 5 (3.68%) Network Security
9 4 (2.94%) Modbus
9 4 (2.94%) MPLS
9 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.21%) HTTP
10 3 (2.21%) SSL
10 3 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.47%) FTP
11 2 (1.47%) SMTP
11 2 (1.47%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) DTS
3 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Git
2 4 (2.94%) JIRA
3 3 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.03%) Retail
3 11 (8.09%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.62%) Law
5 7 (5.15%) Banking
5 7 (5.15%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Finance
7 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.47%) Advertising
8 2 (1.47%) Back Office
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.21%) Middleware
1 3 (2.21%) OLE
2 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Onboarding
2 11 (8.09%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.35%) CMDB
4 9 (6.62%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (4.41%) Clustering
6 6 (4.41%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.68%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.94%) SCADA
9 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (36.76%) Windows
2 42 (30.88%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (5.15%) Linux
6 3 (2.21%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.21%) Rocky
6 3 (2.21%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (15.44%) ITIL
3 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (10.29%) Mentoring
4 14 (10.29%) Migration
4 14 (10.29%) Service Delivery
5 13 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (8.09%) CI/CD
7 11 (8.09%) DevOps
8 10 (7.35%) Customer Service
8 10 (7.35%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (6.62%) Cloud Operations
9 9 (6.62%) Server Management
10 8 (5.88%) Agile
10 8 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (5.88%) Problem Management
11 6 (4.41%) Incident Management
11 6 (4.41%) Presales
11 6 (4.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.82%) SQL
3 1 (0.74%) Python
3 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (5.88%) Degree
2 8 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.21%) CCNA
5 3 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.21%) MCP
5 3 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.74%) CCNP
7 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) GDPR
2 6 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.94%) IEC 61508
3 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.94%) QA
4 3 (2.21%) SLA
5 2 (1.47%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 35 (25.74%) Active Directory
2 24 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (10.29%) Hyper-V
4 11 (8.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.94%) vSphere
5 4 (2.94%) XenApp
6 3 (2.21%) Docker
6 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.47%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.74%) Firmware
8 1 (0.74%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (5.88%) Nagios
2 8 (5.88%) ZABBIX
3 6 (4.41%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.94%) Terraform
6 3 (2.21%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.47%) Ansible
7 2 (1.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.74%) Nessus
8 1 (0.74%) Puppet
8 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.12%) VMware
3 13 (9.56%) Citrix
4 12 (8.82%) Veeam
5 11 (8.09%) Google
6 10 (7.35%) Cisco
6 10 (7.35%) Tanium
7 9 (6.62%) SolarWinds
8 8 (5.88%) BMC
8 8 (5.88%) Darktrace
8 8 (5.88%) Meraki
8 8 (5.88%) Proofpoint
8 8 (5.88%) Red Hat
8 8 (5.88%) Trend Micro
9 5 (3.68%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.94%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.94%) IBM
10 4 (2.94%) Rockwell
10 4 (2.94%) Siemens