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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 108 68
Rank change year-on-year +18 -40 -44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 235 145 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.67% 2.53% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.97% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 199 102 271
10th Percentile £37,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,800 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +10.67% -9.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £79,750 £60,000
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 9,860 4,877 8,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.95% 85.19% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 2,978 5,160
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 £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +43 118 £50,000 +42.86% 17
West Midlands -12 117 £54,344 +1.22% 39
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 (11.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.13%) IIS
4 4 (1.70%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.70%) Revit
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 92 (39.15%) Azure
2 41 (17.45%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (11.91%) Entra ID
4 21 (8.94%) AWS
5 15 (6.38%) SaaS
6 12 (5.11%) PaaS
7 6 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.55%) IaaS
8 5 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.13%) Cloudflare
8 5 (2.13%) GCP
8 5 (2.13%) Nutanix
8 5 (2.13%) Serverless
9 4 (1.70%) GitHub
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.85%) Datadog
11 2 (0.85%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 49 (20.85%) Firewall
2 34 (14.47%) VPN
3 25 (10.64%) DNS
4 14 (5.96%) DHCP
4 14 (5.96%) VLAN
5 9 (3.83%) WAN
6 8 (3.40%) MQTT
6 8 (3.40%) SAN
6 8 (3.40%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.98%) Network Security
7 7 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
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 12 (5.11%) 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 12 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.26%) Finance
4 8 (3.40%) Law
4 8 (3.40%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.13%) Local Government
6 4 (1.70%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.70%) Retail
7 3 (1.28%) Automotive
7 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.28%) Social Housing
7 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (65.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (24.26%) Senior
3 42 (17.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (15.32%) IT Engineer
5 33 (14.04%) Network Engineer
6 32 (13.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (7.23%) Senior Network Engineer
8 16 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) Administrator
9 12 (5.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) Lead
9 12 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.98%) IT Administrator
12 7 (2.98%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (2.55%) Citrix Engineer
13 6 (2.55%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
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 21 (8.94%) 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%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.13%) Replication
5 5 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.70%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) CCTV
7 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.28%) Clustering
7 3 (1.28%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.85%) CMDB
8 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.85%) PKI
8 2 (0.85%) SCADA
8 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.98%) Windows
2 38 (16.17%) Windows Server
3 21 (8.94%) 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%) Android
8 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (13.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (10.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (8.51%) Observability
6 20 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (8.09%) CI/CD
8 18 (7.66%) High Availability
8 18 (7.66%) ITIL
8 18 (7.66%) Mentoring
9 17 (7.23%) DevOps
10 16 (6.81%) Cloud Security
10 16 (6.81%) Project Delivery
10 16 (6.81%) Roadmaps
11 15 (6.38%) Vulnerability Management
12 12 (5.11%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (5.11%) Systems Engineering
13 11 (4.68%) Containerisation
13 11 (4.68%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.21%) 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%) Degree
1 12 (5.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.98%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.70%) CCNA
5 4 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.28%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.28%) CCNP
6 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.85%) CISSP
7 2 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.43%) ISACA
8 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.70%) QA
3 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.85%) SLA
4 2 (0.85%) WCAG
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) GRC
5 1 (0.43%) GxP
5 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (21.28%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (11.49%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.83%) Docker
5 8 (3.40%) vSphere
6 3 (1.28%) Firmware
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (9.36%) 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 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.85%) SCCM
6 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 62 (26.38%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.17%) VMware
3 15 (6.38%) Cisco
4 8 (3.40%) Citrix
4 8 (3.40%) Veeam
5 7 (2.98%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.13%) Zoho
7 4 (1.70%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (1.28%) Dell
8 3 (1.28%) Meraki
8 3 (1.28%) Oracle
8 3 (1.28%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.85%) Apple
9 2 (0.85%) Avaya
9 2 (0.85%) Isilon
9 2 (0.85%) NetApp
9 2 (0.85%) Sage
9 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.85%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.43%) Nimble Storage