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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 124 59
Rank change year-on-year +30 -65 -4
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 173 97 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.71% 1.91% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.09% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 132 75 314
10th Percentile £40,200 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,233 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.74%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,550 £60,250
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 7,790 4,652 8,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.94% 91.70% 84.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,444 2,564 6,583
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,662 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,690 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +32 112 £50,000 +11.11% 28
East Midlands -12 61 £45,000 -14.29% 10
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 23 (13.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (10.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (37.57%) Azure
2 34 (19.65%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (15.61%) Entra ID
4 19 (10.98%) SaaS
5 17 (9.83%) AWS
6 7 (4.05%) PaaS
7 6 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.47%) Datadog
7 6 (3.47%) IaaS
8 4 (2.31%) GCP
9 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.73%) dbt
9 3 (1.73%) Serverless
9 3 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.72%) Firewall
2 19 (10.98%) DNS
3 15 (8.67%) WAN
4 14 (8.09%) DHCP
4 14 (8.09%) LAN
5 11 (6.36%) VPN
6 9 (5.20%) Network Security
6 9 (5.20%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (3.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.31%) MPLS
8 4 (2.31%) SAN
8 4 (2.31%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.31%) VLAN
9 2 (1.16%) FTP
9 2 (1.16%) HTTP
9 2 (1.16%) SMTP
9 2 (1.16%) SNMP
9 2 (1.16%) SSH
9 2 (1.16%) SSL
9 2 (1.16%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.58%) DTS
3 1 (0.58%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Git
2 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
2 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.73%) JIRA
2 3 (1.73%) JMeter
2 3 (1.73%) Locust
3 2 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 21 (12.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (5.20%) Banking
3 9 (5.20%) Investment Banking
3 9 (5.20%) Retail
4 6 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.47%) Finance
4 6 (3.47%) Law
5 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.73%) Advertising
7 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Back Office
8 1 (0.58%) Legal
8 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (87.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (21.39%) Senior
3 36 (20.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (15.61%) Support Engineer
5 26 (15.03%) IT Engineer
6 20 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (10.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (10.98%) Infrastructure Support
7 19 (10.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 19 (10.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (9.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (6.94%) IT Support
11 12 (6.94%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (6.94%) Lead
12 11 (6.36%) Network Engineer
12 11 (6.36%) VMware Engineer
12 11 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.73%) Gherkin
1 3 (1.73%) Middleware
1 3 (1.73%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (4.62%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.73%) CMDB
5 2 (1.16%) Clustering
5 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) iPad
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.58%) PKI
6 1 (0.58%) Replication
6 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.54%) Windows
2 31 (17.92%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.62%) Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (13.29%) ITIL
3 19 (10.98%) Mentoring
4 18 (10.40%) Migration
4 18 (10.40%) Service Delivery
5 16 (9.25%) DevOps
6 15 (8.67%) CI/CD
7 12 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (5.78%) Cloud Operations
8 10 (5.78%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (4.62%) Project Delivery
10 7 (4.05%) Agile
10 7 (4.05%) Cloud Security
10 7 (4.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (4.05%) Data Migration
10 7 (4.05%) Information Security
10 7 (4.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (4.05%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (4.05%) Roadmaps
10 7 (4.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.09%) SQL
2 9 (5.20%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.73%) Java
3 3 (1.73%) Python
4 1 (0.58%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.31%) Degree
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) CCNA
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.16%) CISM
6 2 (1.16%) CISSP
6 2 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.58%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.31%) GDPR
4 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.73%) QA
4 3 (1.73%) SLA
4 3 (1.73%) WCAG
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (14.45%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.05%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.47%) Docker
4 6 (3.47%) vSphere
5 4 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.31%) XenApp
6 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.16%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (9.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (6.36%) Terraform
3 6 (3.47%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.89%) Ansible
5 3 (1.73%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.73%) Grafana
6 2 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.16%) SCCM
7 1 (0.58%) Galera Cluster
7 1 (0.58%) Nagios
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.45%) VMware
3 15 (8.67%) Cisco
4 13 (7.51%) Meraki
5 10 (5.78%) Veeam
6 6 (3.47%) Citrix
7 5 (2.89%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.31%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.31%) Google
8 4 (2.31%) IBM
8 4 (2.31%) SonicWALL
9 3 (1.73%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.16%) Tanium
11 1 (0.58%) BMC
11 1 (0.58%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.58%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.58%) Tenable
11 1 (0.58%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.58%) Zscaler