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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 107 61
Rank change year-on-year +14 -46 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 235 143 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.68% 2.50% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.93% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 196 101 298
10th Percentile £37,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -9.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -5.21%

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 9,769 4,883 8,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.83% 85.29% 78.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,960 2,951 5,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £63,500
90th Percentile £80,024 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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
East Midlands +38 119 £50,000 +42.86% 17
West Midlands -10 116 £53,594 -0.18% 38
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 28 (11.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.70%) IIS
3 4 (1.70%) PowerFactory
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.70%) Revit
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 92 (39.15%) Azure
2 43 (18.30%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (12.34%) Entra ID
4 20 (8.51%) AWS
5 14 (5.96%) SaaS
6 10 (4.26%) PaaS
7 6 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.13%) Nutanix
8 5 (2.13%) Serverless
9 4 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.70%) Cloudflare
9 4 (1.70%) GCP
9 4 (1.70%) GitHub
9 4 (1.70%) IaaS
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.85%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.43%) Firewall
2 33 (14.04%) VPN
3 24 (10.21%) DNS
4 14 (5.96%) DHCP
4 14 (5.96%) VLAN
5 10 (4.26%) WAN
6 8 (3.40%) MQTT
6 8 (3.40%) SAN
6 8 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (2.98%) Network Security
7 7 (2.98%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.55%) LAN
9 5 (2.13%) Wireless
10 4 (1.70%) LoRaWAN
11 3 (1.28%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.28%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.85%) HTTP
12 2 (0.85%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.85%) Internet
12 2 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.70%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.70%) MySQL
3 4 (1.70%) Neo4j
3 4 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.85%) KNIME
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Git
2 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.85%) JIRA
2 2 (0.85%) JMeter
2 2 (0.85%) Locust
3 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (17.87%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.26%) Finance
4 9 (3.83%) Law
5 8 (3.40%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.13%) Local Government
7 4 (1.70%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.70%) Retail
8 3 (1.28%) Automotive
8 3 (1.28%) Legal
8 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (67.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (24.68%) Senior
3 43 (18.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (15.74%) IT Engineer
5 33 (14.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (13.62%) Network Engineer
7 17 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.23%) Senior Network Engineer
8 16 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) Lead
10 12 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.68%) Administrator
11 11 (4.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) IT Administrator
14 6 (2.55%) Citrix Engineer
14 6 (2.55%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.70%) Flash
2 2 (0.85%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.85%) Middleware
2 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.51%) Driving Licence
2 12 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.83%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.40%) IoT
4 8 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.13%) Replication
5 5 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.28%) CCTV
7 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.28%) Clustering
7 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.28%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.28%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) CMDB
8 2 (0.85%) PKI
8 2 (0.85%) SCADA
8 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.55%) Windows
2 37 (15.74%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.51%) Linux
4 6 (2.55%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.70%) VMS
7 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (13.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (8.51%) ITIL
6 20 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (8.09%) Mentoring
8 18 (7.66%) CI/CD
8 18 (7.66%) Observability
9 17 (7.23%) High Availability
9 17 (7.23%) Project Delivery
10 16 (6.81%) Roadmaps
11 15 (6.38%) Cloud Security
12 14 (5.96%) DevOps
12 14 (5.96%) Vulnerability Management
13 12 (5.11%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (5.11%) Systems Engineering
14 11 (4.68%) Runbook
15 10 (4.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.64%) PowerShell
2 21 (8.94%) SQL
3 10 (4.26%) Python
4 5 (2.13%) Scala
5 4 (1.70%) Bicep
6 3 (1.28%) Java
7 2 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (5.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.68%) Degree
3 9 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.55%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.70%) CCNA
6 4 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.28%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.28%) CCNP
7 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.85%) CISSP
8 2 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.43%) ISACA
9 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (1.70%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (0.85%) SLA
3 2 (0.85%) WCAG
4 1 (0.43%) GRC
4 1 (0.43%) GxP
4 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (20.85%) Active Directory
2 35 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (11.06%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.83%) Docker
4 9 (3.83%) vSphere
5 3 (1.28%) Firmware
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (8.51%) Terraform
2 18 (7.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (5.11%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.98%) Ansible
5 4 (1.70%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.70%) Grafana
5 4 (1.70%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.43%) Argo
8 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 40 (17.02%) VMware
3 16 (6.81%) Cisco
4 9 (3.83%) Veeam
5 8 (3.40%) Citrix
6 7 (2.98%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.13%) Zoho
8 4 (1.70%) DIgSILENT
8 4 (1.70%) Meraki
9 3 (1.28%) Dell
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle
9 3 (1.28%) SonicWALL
10 2 (0.85%) Apple
10 2 (0.85%) Avaya
10 2 (0.85%) Isilon
10 2 (0.85%) NetApp
10 2 (0.85%) Sage
10 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.85%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.43%) Nimble Storage