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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 128 67
Rank change year-on-year +24 -61 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 183 93 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.42% 1.83% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.06% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 140 72 354
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,704 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £59,950 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,660 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.19% +11.32% -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 9,369 4,519 9,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.67% 89.15% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,609 2,612 7,120
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,000 £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 5 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 5 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 +16 122 £52,500 +16.67% 31
East Midlands -3 61 £45,000 -14.29% 12
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 18 (9.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (8.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.55%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 63 (34.43%) Azure
2 28 (15.30%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (11.48%) AWS
3 21 (11.48%) Entra ID
4 10 (5.46%) SaaS
5 6 (3.28%) PaaS
6 5 (2.73%) IaaS
7 4 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.19%) GCP
7 4 (2.19%) Serverless
8 3 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.64%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.64%) Datadog
8 3 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) dbt
9 2 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.21%) Firewall
2 19 (10.38%) WAN
3 18 (9.84%) DNS
3 18 (9.84%) VPN
4 14 (7.65%) LAN
5 12 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (6.01%) DHCP
7 6 (3.28%) MQTT
8 5 (2.73%) Network Security
9 4 (2.19%) SAN
9 4 (2.19%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.19%) VLAN
10 3 (1.64%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.09%) MPLS
11 2 (1.09%) NAS
12 1 (0.55%) BGP
12 1 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.64%) MySQL
3 3 (1.64%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Git
2 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.09%) GitLab
3 2 (1.09%) JMeter
3 2 (1.09%) Locust
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 25 (13.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.92%) Banking
4 9 (4.92%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.83%) Retail
6 6 (3.28%) Law
7 5 (2.73%) Finance
8 3 (1.64%) Advertising
8 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 155 (84.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (21.86%) Senior
3 36 (19.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.93%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (9.84%) IT Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (8.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Support Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Lead
10 12 (6.56%) Network Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) VMware Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (5.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.64%) Middleware
1 3 (1.64%) OLE
2 2 (1.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.55%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.01%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.37%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.28%) IoT
4 3 (1.64%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.64%) Replication
5 2 (1.09%) Clustering
5 2 (1.09%) CMDB
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.55%) CCTV
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.55%) iPad
6 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.55%) PKI
6 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.94%) Windows
2 25 (13.66%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.65%) Linux
4 4 (2.19%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.64%) VMS
5 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (9.84%) ITIL
3 17 (9.29%) Mentoring
4 15 (8.20%) CI/CD
4 15 (8.20%) Migration
4 15 (8.20%) Service Delivery
5 12 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (6.01%) Cloud Security
6 11 (6.01%) DevOps
6 11 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (6.01%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (5.46%) High Availability
8 9 (4.92%) Containerisation
8 9 (4.92%) Roadmaps
9 8 (4.37%) Agile
9 8 (4.37%) Observability
9 8 (4.37%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (3.83%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.74%) SQL
2 9 (4.92%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.28%) Python
4 2 (1.09%) Java
5 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (7.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.73%) Degree
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.09%) CCNA
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.55%) IISP
8 1 (0.55%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.19%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.09%) WCAG
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (11.48%) Active Directory
1 21 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.37%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.83%) vSphere
4 6 (3.28%) Docker
5 2 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.09%) Firmware
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.55%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.56%) Terraform
3 8 (4.37%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.19%) Ansible
5 3 (1.64%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.64%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.64%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) SCCM
7 1 (0.55%) Podman
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.57%) VMware
3 14 (7.65%) Cisco
4 9 (4.92%) Meraki
5 8 (4.37%) Citrix
6 5 (2.73%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.73%) Veeam
7 3 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.64%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.09%) Avaya
8 2 (1.09%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.09%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.55%) Apple
9 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.55%) Commvault
9 1 (0.55%) Dell
9 1 (0.55%) Google
9 1 (0.55%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) NetApp