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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 127 63
Rank change year-on-year +33 -64 +15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 159 128 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.00% 2.05% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.26% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 118 67 216
10th Percentile £36,375 £36,250 £35,897
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,625 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,813 £53,750 £55,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,000 £61,250
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 6,429 5,669 5,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.75% 90.75% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,573 2,514 4,557
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -6.40%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +32 100 £50,000 +11.11% 26
East Midlands +4 58 £45,000 -10.00% 31
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 32 (20.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (13.21%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.40%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.14%) CMS
5 4 (2.52%) WinCC
6 2 (1.26%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (37.11%) Azure
2 38 (23.90%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (16.35%) AWS
3 26 (16.35%) SaaS
4 23 (14.47%) Entra ID
5 10 (6.29%) GCP
6 8 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.77%) iPaaS
8 5 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.14%) IaaS
9 4 (2.52%) Datadog
9 4 (2.52%) PaaS
10 3 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.26%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.26%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.24%) Firewall
2 24 (15.09%) DNS
3 19 (11.95%) DHCP
4 12 (7.55%) WAN
5 11 (6.92%) LAN
6 10 (6.29%) Network Security
6 10 (6.29%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.29%) VPN
7 9 (5.66%) VLAN
8 8 (5.03%) SAN
9 7 (4.40%) Skype
10 4 (2.52%) Modbus
10 4 (2.52%) MPLS
10 4 (2.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.89%) HTTP
11 3 (1.89%) SSL
12 2 (1.26%) FTP
12 2 (1.26%) SMTP
12 2 (1.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.40%) DTS
3 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) JIRA
3 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.63%) JMeter
5 1 (0.63%) Locust
5 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.81%) Retail
3 10 (6.29%) Manufacturing
4 9 (5.66%) Law
5 7 (4.40%) Banking
5 7 (4.40%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Finance
9 3 (1.89%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.26%) Advertising
10 2 (1.26%) Back Office
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (84.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (25.16%) Support Engineer
3 31 (19.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 31 (19.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) Senior
5 29 (18.24%) IT Engineer
5 29 (18.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (13.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (10.69%) IT Support
8 16 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (9.43%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (8.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Lead
13 8 (5.03%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Network Engineer
14 7 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (4.40%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.89%) Middleware
1 3 (1.89%) OLE
2 1 (0.63%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.81%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.92%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.66%) CMDB
4 8 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.40%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.40%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (3.77%) Clustering
7 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.14%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (2.52%) SCADA
9 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 57 (35.85%) Windows
2 42 (26.42%) Windows Server
3 12 (7.55%) Linux
4 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (4.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.89%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.89%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.26%) Rocky
7 2 (1.26%) VMS
7 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (15.09%) ITIL
3 19 (11.95%) DevOps
4 17 (10.69%) CI/CD
5 16 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (10.06%) Mentoring
6 15 (9.43%) Migration
6 15 (9.43%) Service Delivery
7 12 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (6.92%) Cloud Operations
8 11 (6.92%) Containerisation
8 11 (6.92%) Customer Service
9 9 (5.66%) Agile
9 9 (5.66%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (5.03%) Project Delivery
10 8 (5.03%) Server Management
10 8 (5.03%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (4.40%) Infrastructure Management
11 7 (4.40%) Problem Management
12 6 (3.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.55%) PowerShell
1 12 (7.55%) SQL
2 2 (1.26%) Python
3 1 (0.63%) Java
3 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) Degree
4 6 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (1.89%) CCNA
7 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.89%) MCP
8 2 (1.26%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.26%) CISM
8 2 (1.26%) CISSP
8 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) GDPR
1 9 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (3.14%) QA
4 4 (2.52%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.89%) SLA
6 2 (1.26%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (23.27%) Active Directory
2 25 (15.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (9.43%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.14%) vSphere
6 4 (2.52%) Docker
6 4 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.52%) XenApp
7 3 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.26%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.26%) vCloud
9 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.40%) Nagios
2 7 (4.40%) Terraform
2 7 (4.40%) ZABBIX
3 6 (3.77%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (3.14%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.52%) Ansible
6 3 (1.89%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.26%) SCCM
7 2 (1.26%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.63%) Grafana
8 1 (0.63%) Nessus
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.61%) VMware
3 13 (8.18%) Cisco
3 13 (8.18%) Veeam
4 12 (7.55%) Citrix
5 10 (6.29%) Google
5 10 (6.29%) Meraki
6 9 (5.66%) Darktrace
7 8 (5.03%) SolarWinds
7 8 (5.03%) Tanium
8 7 (4.40%) BMC
8 7 (4.40%) Proofpoint
8 7 (4.40%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.40%) Trend Micro
9 5 (3.14%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.14%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.52%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.52%) IBM
10 4 (2.52%) Siemens
10 4 (2.52%) SonicWALL