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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 108 64
Rank change year-on-year +22 -44 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 215 137 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.66% 2.53% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.92% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 177 101 388
10th Percentile £39,400 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -9.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 9,049 4,687 10,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.68% 86.60% 79.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,411 2,756 7,333
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 £63,781 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 6 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 6 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
West Midlands -1 119 £52,500 +5.00% 43
East Midlands +29 96 £50,000 +25.00% 26
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 26 (12.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (8.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.86%) IIS
3 4 (1.86%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.86%) Revit
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.28%) Azure
2 41 (19.07%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (11.63%) Entra ID
4 21 (9.77%) AWS
5 9 (4.19%) PaaS
6 8 (3.72%) SaaS
7 6 (2.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.33%) Nutanix
8 5 (2.33%) Serverless
9 3 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.40%) GCP
9 3 (1.40%) GitHub
9 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.40%) IaaS
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.93%) Datadog
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (20.00%) Firewall
2 28 (13.02%) VPN
3 19 (8.84%) DNS
4 14 (6.51%) VLAN
5 13 (6.05%) DHCP
6 12 (5.58%) WAN
7 10 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (4.19%) Network Security
9 8 (3.72%) LAN
9 8 (3.72%) MQTT
9 8 (3.72%) SAN
10 4 (1.86%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (1.86%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.86%) Wireless
11 3 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.40%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.93%) Internet
13 1 (0.47%) BGP
13 1 (0.47%) DMZ
13 1 (0.47%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.86%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.86%) MySQL
3 4 (1.86%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.93%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Git
2 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.93%) JMeter
2 2 (0.93%) Locust
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
3 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 35 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (4.19%) Finance
3 9 (4.19%) Law
4 8 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.72%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.33%) Banking
5 5 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.86%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.86%) Retail
7 3 (1.40%) Automotive
7 3 (1.40%) Legal
7 3 (1.40%) Social Housing
8 2 (0.93%) Advertising
8 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Local Government
8 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (73.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 55 (25.58%) Senior
3 45 (20.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (15.35%) IT Engineer
5 30 (13.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (10.70%) Network Engineer
7 17 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.58%) Senior Network Engineer
10 11 (5.12%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Lead
11 10 (4.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) Administrator
13 7 (3.26%) IT Administrator
13 7 (3.26%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.26%) VMware Engineer
13 7 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.79%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.86%) Flash
2 2 (0.93%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.93%) Middleware
2 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.44%) Driving Licence
2 12 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.72%) IoT
5 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.86%) Replication
7 3 (1.40%) CCTV
7 3 (1.40%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.40%) Clustering
7 3 (1.40%) CMDB
7 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.93%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.93%) PKI
8 2 (0.93%) SCADA
8 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.47%) Windows
2 34 (15.81%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.37%) Linux
4 5 (2.33%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.86%) VMS
6 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (13.02%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (10.23%) ITIL
5 19 (8.84%) Mentoring
5 19 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (7.91%) Project Delivery
8 16 (7.44%) CI/CD
8 16 (7.44%) Roadmaps
9 15 (6.98%) High Availability
9 15 (6.98%) Observability
10 14 (6.51%) Cloud Security
11 12 (5.58%) Systems Engineering
12 10 (4.65%) DevOps
12 10 (4.65%) Incident Management
12 10 (4.65%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 10 (4.65%) Runbook
12 10 (4.65%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.70%) PowerShell
2 20 (9.30%) SQL
3 10 (4.65%) Python
4 4 (1.86%) Bicep
4 4 (1.86%) Scala
5 3 (1.40%) Java
6 2 (0.93%) Bash
7 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (6.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.12%) Degree
3 10 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.86%) CCNA
6 4 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.40%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.40%) CCNP
7 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.93%) CISSP
8 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.47%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.86%) QA
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.93%) SLA
4 2 (0.93%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) GRC
5 1 (0.47%) GxP
5 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (19.07%) Active Directory
2 34 (15.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.23%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.65%) Docker
5 9 (4.19%) vSphere
6 3 (1.40%) Firmware
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (8.84%) Terraform
2 17 (7.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (6.05%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.26%) Ansible
5 4 (1.86%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.86%) Grafana
5 4 (1.86%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.40%) SCCM
6 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 58 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 39 (18.14%) VMware
3 15 (6.98%) Cisco
4 8 (3.72%) Citrix
4 8 (3.72%) Veeam
5 7 (3.26%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.79%) Meraki
7 4 (1.86%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (1.40%) Dell
8 3 (1.40%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.40%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.93%) Avaya
9 2 (0.93%) Isilon
9 2 (0.93%) NetApp
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.93%) Zoho
9 2 (0.93%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.47%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow