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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 107 77
Rank change year-on-year +24 -30 -44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 266 147 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.72% 2.63% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.06% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 214 100 191
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% -9.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £58,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £57,717 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +20.00% -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 10,779 4,802 7,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.76% 85.75% 78.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,663 2,883 4,022
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,822
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -4 138 £53,688 -17.40% 73
East Midlands +27 128 £50,000 +42.86% 51
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 30 (11.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.39%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.01%) IIS
4 4 (1.50%) PowerFactory
5 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.50%) Revit
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 99 (37.22%) Azure
2 49 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (12.78%) Entra ID
4 24 (9.02%) AWS
5 14 (5.26%) SaaS
6 11 (4.14%) PaaS
7 9 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.01%) GCP
9 7 (2.63%) IaaS
10 6 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.88%) Cloudflare
11 5 (1.88%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.50%) GitHub
12 4 (1.50%) Serverless
13 3 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.75%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 58 (21.80%) Firewall
2 42 (15.79%) VPN
3 34 (12.78%) DNS
4 22 (8.27%) DHCP
5 14 (5.26%) VLAN
6 10 (3.76%) Network Security
6 10 (3.76%) SAN
7 9 (3.38%) WAN
8 8 (3.01%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.63%) MQTT
10 6 (2.26%) LAN
11 5 (1.88%) Internet
11 5 (1.88%) Wireless
12 4 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (1.13%) HTTP
13 3 (1.13%) LoRaWAN
13 3 (1.13%) NX-OS
13 3 (1.13%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.50%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.13%) MySQL
5 3 (1.13%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.75%) KNIME
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) GIS
7 1 (0.38%) Metadata
7 1 (0.38%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Git
2 5 (1.88%) JIRA
3 3 (1.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.14%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.38%) Law
6 8 (3.01%) Finance
6 8 (3.01%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.26%) Legal
8 5 (1.88%) Automotive
8 5 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.88%) Local Government
9 4 (1.50%) Retail
10 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 169 (63.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 71 (26.69%) Senior
3 51 (19.17%) IT Engineer
4 47 (17.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 39 (14.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (12.41%) Network Engineer
7 26 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (6.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (6.39%) Senior Network Engineer
10 15 (5.64%) Senior IT Engineer
11 12 (4.51%) Administrator
11 12 (4.51%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.14%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) IT Support
14 9 (3.38%) Lead
15 8 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.01%) Junior
15 8 (3.01%) Junior Cloud Engineer
15 8 (3.01%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.65%) Terraform
2 4 (1.50%) Flash
3 2 (0.75%) Middleware
3 2 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.75%) REST
4 1 (0.38%) Java SE
4 1 (0.38%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.90%) Driving Licence
2 14 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (4.89%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.63%) IoT
4 7 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.26%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.26%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.50%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.50%) PKI
7 4 (1.50%) Replication
7 4 (1.50%) SCADA
8 3 (1.13%) CCTV
8 3 (1.13%) Clustering
8 3 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.75%) CMDB
9 2 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 72 (27.07%) Windows
2 52 (19.55%) Windows Server
3 28 (10.53%) Linux
4 7 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.50%) VMS
7 3 (1.13%) Android
7 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (9.02%) Mentoring
7 23 (8.65%) DevOps
8 22 (8.27%) CI/CD
9 21 (7.89%) Cloud Security
10 20 (7.52%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (7.14%) ITIL
11 19 (7.14%) Project Delivery
12 17 (6.39%) Observability
13 16 (6.02%) High Availability
14 15 (5.64%) Roadmaps
14 15 (5.64%) Vulnerability Management
15 14 (5.26%) AI
15 14 (5.26%) Service Delivery
16 13 (4.89%) Incident Management
17 12 (4.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.90%) PowerShell
2 24 (9.02%) SQL
3 11 (4.14%) Python
4 5 (1.88%) Scala
5 3 (1.13%) Bash
5 3 (1.13%) Bicep
5 3 (1.13%) Java
6 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.38%) R
7 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (7.89%) Degree
2 15 (5.64%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.63%) CCNA
4 7 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.50%) CCNP
8 3 (1.13%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.13%) MCSE
8 3 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.75%) CISSP
9 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.38%) IISP
10 1 (0.38%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.88%) SLA
3 3 (1.13%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.75%) QA
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) GxP
5 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (24.06%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (12.41%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.38%) Docker
4 9 (3.38%) vSphere
5 5 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.13%) Firmware
6 3 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.38%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 25 (9.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.63%) Ansible
4 4 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.13%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.13%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.13%) SCCM
5 3 (1.13%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.75%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.75%) Grafana
6 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 81 (30.45%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.41%) VMware
3 16 (6.02%) Cisco
4 9 (3.38%) Veeam
5 8 (3.01%) Citrix
6 7 (2.63%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.88%) Oracle
7 5 (1.88%) Zoho
8 4 (1.50%) DIgSILENT
8 4 (1.50%) Google
9 3 (1.13%) Apple
9 3 (1.13%) Dell
9 3 (1.13%) Meraki
9 3 (1.13%) NetApp
9 3 (1.13%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.13%) SonicWALL
10 2 (0.75%) Acronis
10 2 (0.75%) Avaya
10 2 (0.75%) Isilon
10 2 (0.75%) Sage