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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 120 67
Rank change year-on-year +32 -53 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 210 121 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.67% 2.39% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.70% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 166 84 399
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -9.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -7.41%

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 8,743 4,478 11,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.63% 88.60% 78.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,136 2,575 7,757
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +2 121 £52,500 +14.13% 25
East Midlands +21 89 £47,500 +10.47% 23
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 25 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (9.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) IIS
3 4 (1.90%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.90%) Revit
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.19%) Azure
2 36 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (10.48%) AWS
4 19 (9.05%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.81%) PaaS
6 6 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (2.38%) IaaS
7 5 (2.38%) SaaS
7 5 (2.38%) Serverless
8 4 (1.90%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.43%) GCP
9 3 (1.43%) GitHub
9 3 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.95%) Datadog
10 2 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.00%) Firewall
2 24 (11.43%) VPN
3 16 (7.62%) DNS
4 13 (6.19%) VLAN
5 12 (5.71%) WAN
6 11 (5.24%) DHCP
7 10 (4.76%) Network Security
7 10 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (3.81%) LAN
8 8 (3.81%) MQTT
8 8 (3.81%) SAN
9 4 (1.90%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.43%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.43%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.95%) Internet
11 2 (0.95%) Wireless
12 1 (0.48%) BGP
12 1 (0.48%) DMZ
12 1 (0.48%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.90%) MySQL
3 4 (1.90%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.95%) JMeter
2 2 (0.95%) Locust
3 1 (0.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 31 (14.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.29%) Law
5 7 (3.33%) Banking
5 7 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.86%) Finance
6 6 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.90%) Retail
8 3 (1.43%) Legal
8 3 (1.43%) Social Housing
9 2 (0.95%) Advertising
9 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Automotive
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (79.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 59 (28.10%) Senior
3 50 (23.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (12.86%) IT Engineer
5 25 (11.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (8.57%) Network Engineer
8 16 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) VMware Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Administrator
12 8 (3.81%) Lead
13 7 (3.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.33%) IT Administrator
13 7 (3.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.90%) Flash
2 2 (0.95%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.95%) Middleware
2 2 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.71%) Driving Licence
1 12 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (5.24%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.81%) IoT
4 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.90%) Replication
6 3 (1.43%) CCTV
6 3 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.43%) Clustering
6 3 (1.43%) CMDB
6 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.95%) PKI
7 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.95%) SCADA
8 1 (0.48%) iPad
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.43%) Windows
2 35 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 19 (9.05%) Linux
4 5 (2.38%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.90%) VMS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 22 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (10.00%) ITIL
5 19 (9.05%) Mentoring
6 18 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (8.10%) Roadmaps
8 16 (7.62%) CI/CD
9 15 (7.14%) High Availability
9 15 (7.14%) Project Delivery
10 14 (6.67%) Observability
11 13 (6.19%) Cloud Security
11 13 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (5.71%) Service Delivery
12 12 (5.71%) Systems Engineering
13 10 (4.76%) Incident Management
14 9 (4.29%) Agile
14 9 (4.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
14 9 (4.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 18 (8.57%) SQL
3 10 (4.76%) Python
4 3 (1.43%) Bicep
4 3 (1.43%) Java
4 3 (1.43%) Scala
5 2 (0.95%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (6.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.24%) Degree
3 10 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.90%) CCNA
6 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.43%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.43%) CCNP
7 3 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.95%) CISSP
8 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.48%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.90%) QA
5 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) GxP
6 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (17.62%) Active Directory
2 36 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.05%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.24%) vSphere
5 9 (4.29%) Docker
6 3 (1.43%) Firmware
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.48%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (9.05%) Terraform
2 14 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (5.71%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.33%) Ansible
5 4 (1.90%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.90%) Grafana
5 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.43%) SCCM
6 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.48%) Podman
Vendors
1 50 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.52%) VMware
3 14 (6.67%) Cisco
4 8 (3.81%) Citrix
4 8 (3.81%) Veeam
5 7 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.86%) Meraki
7 4 (1.90%) DIgSILENT
7 4 (1.90%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.43%) Dell
8 3 (1.43%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.95%) Avaya
9 2 (0.95%) Isilon
9 2 (0.95%) NetApp
9 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.95%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.48%) Apple
10 1 (0.48%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.48%) Sophos