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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 122 57
Rank change year-on-year +25 -65 +24
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 165 129 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.99% 2.08% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.28% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 124 70 265
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,052
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +1.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £55,250
90th Percentile £78,428 £61,250 £62,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 6,610 5,650 7,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.81% 91.25% 86.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,680 2,483 5,765
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,350 £56,000
% change year-on-year -10.35% +9.55% -10.40%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +31 102 £50,000 +11.11% 30
East Midlands +8 62 £45,000 -12.20% 14
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 29 (17.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (12.73%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.64%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.03%) CMS
5 2 (1.21%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (1.21%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (36.97%) Azure
2 35 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (15.76%) SaaS
4 25 (15.15%) AWS
5 22 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.45%) GCP
7 7 (4.24%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.64%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.03%) IaaS
10 4 (2.42%) Datadog
10 4 (2.42%) PaaS
11 3 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.21%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.21%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.21%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.21%) Serverless
12 2 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.36%) Firewall
2 22 (13.33%) DNS
3 17 (10.30%) DHCP
4 13 (7.88%) WAN
5 12 (7.27%) LAN
6 10 (6.06%) Network Security
6 10 (6.06%) TCP/IP
7 9 (5.45%) VPN
8 8 (4.85%) VLAN
9 7 (4.24%) SAN
10 6 (3.64%) Skype
11 5 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (2.42%) MPLS
12 4 (2.42%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.21%) FTP
13 2 (1.21%) HTTP
13 2 (1.21%) SMTP
13 2 (1.21%) SNMP
13 2 (1.21%) SSL
13 2 (1.21%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.64%) DTS
3 2 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Git
2 3 (1.82%) JIRA
3 2 (1.21%) GitLab
3 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.61%) JMeter
4 1 (0.61%) Locust
General
1 20 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.88%) Retail
3 9 (5.45%) Law
4 8 (4.85%) Banking
4 8 (4.85%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Finance
8 2 (1.21%) Advertising
8 2 (1.21%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (84.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (22.42%) Support Engineer
3 32 (19.39%) Senior
4 31 (18.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 29 (17.58%) IT Engineer
6 28 (16.97%) Infrastructure Support
6 28 (16.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 22 (13.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (10.30%) IT Support
9 16 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (8.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (7.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (6.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (5.45%) Lead
14 9 (5.45%) VMware Engineer
15 8 (4.85%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (4.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.82%) Middleware
1 3 (1.82%) OLE
2 1 (0.61%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.85%) CMDB
4 7 (4.24%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.64%) Clustering
5 6 (3.64%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.21%) SCADA
7 2 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (30.91%) Windows
2 39 (23.64%) Windows Server
3 10 (6.06%) Linux
4 6 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.21%) VMS
6 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.61%) Rocky
7 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (13.94%) ITIL
3 19 (11.52%) DevOps
4 17 (10.30%) CI/CD
5 16 (9.70%) Mentoring
5 16 (9.70%) Migration
5 16 (9.70%) Service Delivery
6 13 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
8 10 (6.06%) Containerisation
8 10 (6.06%) Customer Service
9 8 (4.85%) Project Delivery
9 8 (4.85%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (4.85%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (3.64%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (3.64%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 6 (3.64%) Problem Management
10 6 (3.64%) Risk Management
10 6 (3.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.27%) SQL
2 11 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.61%) Java
3 1 (0.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.64%) Degree
3 6 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.82%) CCNA
6 3 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.21%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.21%) CISM
7 2 (1.21%) CISSP
7 2 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.61%) CCNP
8 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.45%) GDPR
3 6 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.82%) QA
4 3 (1.82%) SLA
5 2 (1.21%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (19.39%) Active Directory
2 24 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.03%) vSphere
6 4 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.42%) XenApp
7 3 (1.82%) Docker
7 3 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.21%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.21%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (7.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.24%) Terraform
3 6 (3.64%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (3.64%) Nagios
3 6 (3.64%) ZABBIX
4 4 (2.42%) Ansible
4 4 (2.42%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.82%) FlexNet
6 2 (1.21%) SCCM
6 2 (1.21%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.76%) VMware
3 14 (8.48%) Cisco
4 13 (7.88%) Veeam
5 11 (6.67%) Citrix
5 11 (6.67%) Meraki
6 9 (5.45%) Google
7 8 (4.85%) Darktrace
8 7 (4.24%) SolarWinds
8 7 (4.24%) Tanium
9 6 (3.64%) BMC
9 6 (3.64%) Proofpoint
9 6 (3.64%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.64%) Trend Micro
10 5 (3.03%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.03%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.42%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.42%) IBM
11 4 (2.42%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.21%) Siemens