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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 121 59
Rank change year-on-year +28 -62 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 159 131 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.00% 2.08% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.30% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 117 67 208
10th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £35,613
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,625 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £55,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,000 £61,625
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 6,420 5,694 5,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.93% 90.48% 86.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,571 2,534 4,404
10th Percentile £28,250 £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 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 17 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 17 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 +31 99 £50,000 +11.11% 23
East Midlands +4 59 £45,000 -10.00% 30
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 8 (5.03%) 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 27 (16.98%) AWS
4 26 (16.35%) SaaS
5 22 (13.84%) Entra ID
6 11 (6.92%) GCP
7 9 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.77%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.14%) IaaS
10 4 (2.52%) Datadog
10 4 (2.52%) PaaS
11 3 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.26%) Azure Stack
12 2 (1.26%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.24%) Firewall
2 23 (14.47%) DNS
3 18 (11.32%) DHCP
4 11 (6.92%) WAN
5 10 (6.29%) LAN
5 10 (6.29%) Network Security
5 10 (6.29%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.66%) VLAN
6 9 (5.66%) VPN
7 8 (5.03%) SAN
7 8 (5.03%) Skype
8 4 (2.52%) Modbus
8 4 (2.52%) MPLS
8 4 (2.52%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.89%) HTTP
9 3 (1.89%) SSL
9 3 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.26%) FTP
10 2 (1.26%) SNMP
10 2 (1.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.03%) 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 20 (12.58%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.43%) Retail
3 11 (6.92%) 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%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Finance
8 4 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 41 (25.79%) Support Engineer
3 32 (20.13%) Infrastructure Support
3 32 (20.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) Senior
5 29 (18.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (17.61%) IT Engineer
7 21 (13.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (10.69%) IT Support
9 16 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (9.43%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (8.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (6.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (5.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.66%) Lead
14 8 (5.03%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (5.03%) Network Engineer
15 7 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
15 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 15 (9.43%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.92%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.29%) CMDB
4 8 (5.03%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.03%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (3.77%) Clustering
5 6 (3.77%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.14%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.52%) SCADA
8 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 58 (36.48%) Windows
2 43 (27.04%) Windows Server
3 12 (7.55%) Linux
4 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.26%) Rocky
6 2 (1.26%) VMS
6 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (14.47%) ITIL
3 19 (11.95%) DevOps
4 17 (10.69%) CI/CD
5 16 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (10.06%) Mentoring
6 14 (8.81%) Migration
6 14 (8.81%) Service Delivery
7 12 (7.55%) Customer Service
8 11 (6.92%) Cloud Operations
8 11 (6.92%) Containerisation
8 11 (6.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (6.29%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (5.66%) Agile
10 9 (5.66%) Server Management
11 8 (5.03%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (5.03%) Problem Management
11 8 (5.03%) Project Delivery
11 8 (5.03%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (3.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.18%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.55%) SQL
3 2 (1.26%) Python
4 1 (0.63%) Java
4 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (5.03%) Degree
2 8 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.14%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.52%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.89%) CCNA
5 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.89%) MCP
6 2 (1.26%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.26%) CISM
6 2 (1.26%) CISSP
6 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) GDPR
2 8 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.14%) QA
5 4 (2.52%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.89%) SLA
7 2 (1.26%) IEC 61131
7 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (23.90%) Active Directory
2 26 (16.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (9.43%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.92%) 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 11 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (5.03%) Nagios
2 8 (5.03%) ZABBIX
3 7 (4.40%) Terraform
4 6 (3.77%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (3.14%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.52%) Ansible
7 3 (1.89%) FlexNet
8 2 (1.26%) SCCM
8 2 (1.26%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.63%) Grafana
9 1 (0.63%) Nessus
9 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.24%) VMware
3 13 (8.18%) Citrix
3 13 (8.18%) Veeam
4 12 (7.55%) Cisco
5 11 (6.92%) Google
6 10 (6.29%) Darktrace
7 9 (5.66%) Meraki
7 9 (5.66%) SolarWinds
7 9 (5.66%) Tanium
8 8 (5.03%) BMC
8 8 (5.03%) Proofpoint
8 8 (5.03%) Red Hat
8 8 (5.03%) 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