Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 67 30
Rank change year-on-year -72 -37 +102
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 130 472 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.92% 3.39% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 4.26% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 94 388 148
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,136
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £43,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £45,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -9.21% +10.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,625 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,044 11,067 7,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.28% 79.40% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,728 7,448 4,376
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
West Midlands -25 94 £48,550 -2.90% 87
East Midlands -81 36 £43,000 -3.91% 58
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 24 (18.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (11.54%) Confluence
3 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.08%) IIS
5 1 (0.77%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.85%) Azure
2 33 (25.38%) AWS
3 30 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (13.08%) Entra ID
6 16 (12.31%) Amazon S3
6 16 (12.31%) AWS KMS
6 16 (12.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (11.54%) Amazon ELB
7 15 (11.54%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (5.38%) Nutanix
9 6 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (4.62%) GitHub
9 6 (4.62%) IaaS
9 6 (4.62%) Mimecast
9 6 (4.62%) SaaS
10 5 (3.85%) PaaS
11 4 (3.08%) Azure Stack
11 4 (3.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (38.46%) Firewall
2 36 (27.69%) WAN
3 32 (24.62%) VPN
4 26 (20.00%) DHCP
4 26 (20.00%) DNS
4 26 (20.00%) LAN
5 13 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 12 (9.23%) SD-WAN
6 12 (9.23%) VLAN
7 8 (6.15%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (3.85%) Network Security
8 5 (3.85%) SAN
9 4 (3.08%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.54%) Wireless
11 1 (0.77%) Internet
11 1 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.77%) PBX
11 1 (0.77%) SSL
11 1 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.31%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.23%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.85%) Data Hub
3 5 (3.85%) SQL CLR
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.54%) Metadata
5 2 (1.54%) Power BI
6 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (13.08%) Git
1 17 (13.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.31%) JIRA
3 15 (11.54%) Vagrant
4 3 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (31.54%) Public Sector
2 22 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.54%) Finance
4 13 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.15%) Law
7 7 (5.38%) Legal
7 7 (5.38%) Local Government
8 6 (4.62%) Back Office
9 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.54%) Retail
11 1 (0.77%) Advertising
11 1 (0.77%) Electronics
11 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (86.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (26.15%) Infrastructure Support
2 34 (26.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 34 (26.15%) Support Engineer
3 17 (13.08%) IT Engineer
3 17 (13.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (10.00%) Senior
5 11 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Civil Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Development Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.31%) .NET
2 3 (2.31%) .NET Core
2 3 (2.31%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.31%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.31%) Dapper ORM
2 3 (2.31%) Entity Framework
2 3 (2.31%) OLE
3 1 (0.77%) OAuth
3 1 (0.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.54%) Replication
2 12 (9.23%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.15%) Cyberattack
4 7 (5.38%) NHS
5 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.31%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.54%) Clustering
8 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.77%) PKI
9 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.77%) SCADA
9 1 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 93 (71.54%) Windows
2 61 (46.92%) Windows Server
3 34 (26.15%) Linux
4 17 (13.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (12.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (11.54%) VMS
7 10 (7.69%) Android
8 8 (6.15%) Windows 10
9 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (3.08%) Rocky
11 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (2.31%) Unix
12 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (24.62%) DevOps
3 22 (16.92%) Change Management
3 22 (16.92%) Cloud Security
4 21 (16.15%) Configuration Management
5 18 (13.85%) ITIL
6 15 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (9.23%) Line Management
8 12 (9.23%) Project Management
9 11 (8.46%) Agile
9 11 (8.46%) Collaborative Culture
9 11 (8.46%) Cost Management
9 11 (8.46%) High Availability
10 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (7.69%) Server Management
11 9 (6.92%) Risk Management
11 9 (6.92%) Storage Management
11 9 (6.92%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.15%) PowerShell
2 30 (23.08%) Python
3 22 (16.92%) SQL
4 15 (11.54%) Groovy
5 11 (8.46%) Bash
6 3 (2.31%) C#
7 2 (1.54%) Perl
7 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.77%) Go
8 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (25.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 23 (17.69%) SC Cleared
4 20 (15.38%) MCP
4 20 (15.38%) MCSA
5 19 (14.62%) A+ Certification
6 18 (13.85%) Azure Certification
7 15 (11.54%) MCSE
8 11 (8.46%) Degree
9 10 (7.69%) DV Cleared
10 8 (6.15%) AWS Certification
11 5 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (1.54%) CCNA
14 2 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.77%) GIAC
15 1 (0.77%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.31%) GDPR
4 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.54%) NIST
4 2 (1.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.77%) GRC
5 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 74 (56.92%) Active Directory
2 22 (16.92%) Hyper-V
3 19 (14.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (10.77%) DFS Replication
5 11 (8.46%) Docker
6 8 (6.15%) VMware NSX
6 8 (6.15%) vSphere
7 6 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.77%) Firmware
9 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (25.38%) Terraform
2 28 (21.54%) Ansible
3 15 (11.54%) Grafana
3 15 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.69%) SCCM
5 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (4.62%) Kubernetes
6 6 (4.62%) SCOM
7 4 (3.08%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (2.31%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.31%) Puppet
8 3 (2.31%) WSUS
9 2 (1.54%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.54%) Nessus
10 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.77%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.77%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.77%) SCSM
Vendors
1 66 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.23%) VMware
3 24 (18.46%) Juniper
4 19 (14.62%) Cisco
5 17 (13.08%) ServiceNow
6 10 (7.69%) Splunk
7 8 (6.15%) 3PAR
7 8 (6.15%) Dell
8 7 (5.38%) Meraki
8 7 (5.38%) Rapid7
9 6 (4.62%) Nasuni
10 4 (3.08%) Citrix
10 4 (3.08%) Isilon
10 4 (3.08%) Veeam
11 3 (2.31%) HP
11 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.54%) ArcSight
13 1 (0.77%) Apple
13 1 (0.77%) Aruba
13 1 (0.77%) Imperva