Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 141 68
Rank change year-on-year +39 -73 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 196 88 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.48% 1.82% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.03% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 157 59 367
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,147 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% +0.33% -8.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,694 £56,043
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -4.76%

All Process & 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 9,613 4,335 9,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.49% 89.49% 80.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,862 2,346 7,332
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,936 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,213
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

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 27 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
West Midlands +16 127 £51,250 +13.89% 31
East Midlands +7 69 £45,000 -5.26% 22
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 23 (11.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (9.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.04%) PowerFactory
4 3 (1.53%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) AutoCAD
1 4 (2.04%) Revit
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (36.22%) Azure
2 34 (17.35%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (11.22%) AWS
4 20 (10.20%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (3.57%) PaaS
6 5 (2.55%) Serverless
7 4 (2.04%) IaaS
7 4 (2.04%) SaaS
8 3 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.53%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.53%) GCP
8 3 (1.53%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) dbt
9 2 (1.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 34 (17.35%) Firewall
2 21 (10.71%) VPN
3 19 (9.69%) DNS
4 16 (8.16%) WAN
5 12 (6.12%) DHCP
5 12 (6.12%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (5.61%) LAN
7 8 (4.08%) Network Security
7 8 (4.08%) VLAN
8 7 (3.57%) MQTT
9 6 (3.06%) SAN
10 3 (1.53%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (1.53%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.02%) Internet
11 2 (1.02%) NAS
11 2 (1.02%) Wireless
12 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.53%) MySQL
4 3 (1.53%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.51%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Git
2 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.02%) GitLab
3 2 (1.02%) JMeter
3 2 (1.02%) Locust
General
1 31 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.59%) Banking
4 9 (4.59%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.57%) Law
6 5 (2.55%) Finance
6 5 (2.55%) Retail
7 3 (1.53%) Advertising
7 3 (1.53%) Legal
7 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.53%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.53%) Social Housing
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (80.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 45 (22.96%) Senior
3 39 (19.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (11.22%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (9.69%) IT Engineer
6 19 (9.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) VMware Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Lead
9 10 (5.10%) Systems Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.04%) Flash
2 2 (1.02%) Gherkin
2 2 (1.02%) Middleware
3 1 (0.51%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.63%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.10%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.57%) IoT
5 4 (2.04%) CMDB
6 3 (1.53%) CCTV
6 3 (1.53%) Clustering
6 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.53%) Replication
6 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.51%) iPad
8 1 (0.51%) PKI
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.35%) Windows
2 27 (13.78%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.65%) Linux
4 5 (2.55%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.04%) VMS
5 4 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (9.69%) ITIL
3 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (9.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (9.18%) Mentoring
4 17 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (6.63%) Agile
5 13 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (6.63%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (6.63%) Service Delivery
6 12 (6.12%) CI/CD
6 12 (6.12%) High Availability
6 12 (6.12%) Roadmaps
7 11 (5.61%) Cloud Security
7 11 (5.61%) Migration
7 11 (5.61%) Project Delivery
7 11 (5.61%) Systems Engineering
7 11 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (4.59%) Observability
9 8 (4.08%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.16%) SQL
2 14 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.57%) Python
4 2 (1.02%) Bicep
4 2 (1.02%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (7.65%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.61%) Degree
2 11 (5.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.06%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.04%) CCNA
5 4 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.02%) CCNP
8 1 (0.51%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.51%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) IISP
8 1 (0.51%) ISACA
8 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.04%) QA
3 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (14.80%) Active Directory
2 26 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.63%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.08%) vSphere
5 7 (3.57%) Docker
6 3 (1.53%) Firmware
7 2 (1.02%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.51%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (8.16%) Terraform
3 9 (4.59%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.55%) Ansible
5 3 (1.53%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.53%) SCCM
5 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.02%) Grafana
7 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.31%) VMware
3 15 (7.65%) Cisco
4 8 (4.08%) Citrix
5 7 (3.57%) Meraki
6 6 (3.06%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.06%) Veeam
7 5 (2.55%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.04%) DIgSILENT
9 3 (1.53%) Dell
9 3 (1.53%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.02%) Avaya
10 2 (1.02%) Isilon
10 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.02%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.51%) Apple
11 1 (0.51%) Commvault
11 1 (0.51%) NetApp
11 1 (0.51%) Tanium