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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 139 68
Rank change year-on-year +31 -71 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 184 93 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.43% 1.80% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.00% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 143 72 352
10th Percentile £41,400 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,000 £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 £60,864 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,097 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +14.19% -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 9,337 4,646 9,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.63% 89.93% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,604 2,593 7,141
10th Percentile £29,159 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,500 £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 8 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 8 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% 34
East Midlands +12 62 £45,000 -14.29% 15
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 19 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
3 1 (0.54%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.54%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 61 (33.15%) Azure
2 28 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (10.87%) AWS
4 19 (10.33%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.80%) SaaS
6 6 (3.26%) PaaS
7 5 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.17%) IaaS
8 4 (2.17%) Serverless
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.63%) GCP
9 3 (1.63%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) dbt
10 2 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.59%) Firewall
2 18 (9.78%) VPN
2 18 (9.78%) WAN
3 17 (9.24%) DNS
4 13 (7.07%) LAN
5 12 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (5.98%) DHCP
7 6 (3.26%) MQTT
7 6 (3.26%) Network Security
8 5 (2.72%) VLAN
9 4 (2.17%) SAN
10 3 (1.63%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (1.63%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.09%) NAS
11 2 (1.09%) Wireless
12 1 (0.54%) DMZ
12 1 (0.54%) Internet
12 1 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.63%) MySQL
3 3 (1.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Git
2 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.09%) GitLab
3 2 (1.09%) JMeter
3 2 (1.09%) Locust
General
1 26 (14.13%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.89%) Banking
4 9 (4.89%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.80%) Retail
6 6 (3.26%) Law
7 4 (2.17%) Finance
8 3 (1.63%) Advertising
8 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.63%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 155 (84.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (22.28%) Senior
3 37 (20.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (11.41%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (9.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) IT Engineer
8 15 (8.15%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) Network Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Lead
10 12 (6.52%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.98%) Support Engineer
11 11 (5.98%) VMware Engineer
11 11 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.63%) Middleware
1 3 (1.63%) OLE
2 2 (1.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.54%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.98%) Driving Licence
2 9 (4.89%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.26%) IoT
5 4 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.63%) Replication
7 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.09%) Clustering
7 2 (1.09%) CMDB
7 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.54%) iPad
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.76%) Windows
2 23 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.07%) Linux
4 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.63%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (9.78%) ITIL
3 16 (8.70%) Mentoring
4 14 (7.61%) CI/CD
4 14 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (7.61%) Migration
4 14 (7.61%) Service Delivery
5 13 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (5.98%) Cloud Security
7 11 (5.98%) High Availability
7 11 (5.98%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (5.43%) DevOps
8 10 (5.43%) Roadmaps
9 9 (4.89%) Agile
9 9 (4.89%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (4.35%) Containerisation
10 8 (4.35%) Observability
11 7 (3.80%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.61%) SQL
2 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.26%) Python
4 2 (1.09%) Java
5 1 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.80%) Degree
5 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (1.63%) CCNA
6 3 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.54%) CCNP
7 1 (0.54%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.54%) IISP
7 1 (0.54%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.17%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.80%) vSphere
5 6 (3.26%) Docker
6 3 (1.63%) Firmware
7 2 (1.09%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.61%) Terraform
3 8 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.72%) Ansible
5 3 (1.63%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.63%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.63%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) SCCM
7 1 (0.54%) Podman
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.50%) VMware
3 14 (7.61%) Cisco
4 8 (4.35%) Citrix
4 8 (4.35%) Meraki
5 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.17%) Veeam
7 3 (1.63%) Dell
7 3 (1.63%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.63%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.09%) Avaya
8 2 (1.09%) Isilon
8 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.54%) Apple
9 1 (0.54%) Commvault
9 1 (0.54%) NetApp
9 1 (0.54%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.54%) Tanium
9 1 (0.54%) Tenable