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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 129 69
Rank change year-on-year +24 -60 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 184 91 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.44% 1.83% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.05% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 140 71 355
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,719 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -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 9,281 4,432 9,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.79% 88.91% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,526 2,609 7,119
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £34,792
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +17 122 £50,000 +11.11% 32
East Midlands 0 62 £45,000 -14.29% 20
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 17 (9.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (34.24%) Azure
2 27 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (11.41%) AWS
4 20 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.52%) SaaS
6 5 (2.72%) IaaS
6 5 (2.72%) PaaS
7 4 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.17%) GCP
7 4 (2.17%) Serverless
8 3 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.63%) Datadog
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) dbt
9 2 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.59%) Firewall
2 19 (10.33%) WAN
3 18 (9.78%) DNS
3 18 (9.78%) VPN
4 14 (7.61%) LAN
5 11 (5.98%) DHCP
5 11 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (3.26%) MQTT
7 4 (2.17%) Network Security
7 4 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.17%) VLAN
8 3 (1.63%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (1.63%) SAN
8 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.09%) MPLS
9 2 (1.09%) NAS
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.54%) VXLAN
10 1 (0.54%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.63%) MySQL
3 3 (1.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Git
2 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.09%) GitLab
3 2 (1.09%) JMeter
3 2 (1.09%) Locust
4 1 (0.54%) JIRA
General
1 24 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.89%) Banking
4 9 (4.89%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.80%) Retail
6 6 (3.26%) Law
7 5 (2.72%) Finance
8 3 (1.63%) Advertising
8 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 159 (86.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (22.28%) Senior
3 37 (20.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (9.78%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (9.78%) IT Engineer
6 17 (9.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (9.24%) Support Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Network Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Support
9 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Lead
10 11 (5.98%) VMware Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.63%) Middleware
1 3 (1.63%) OLE
2 2 (1.09%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.26%) IoT
4 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.63%) Replication
5 2 (1.09%) CMDB
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.54%) Clustering
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) iPad
6 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) PKI
6 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.39%) Windows
2 26 (14.13%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.61%) Linux
4 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.63%) VMS
5 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (9.78%) ITIL
3 17 (9.24%) Mentoring
4 16 (8.70%) CI/CD
4 16 (8.70%) Migration
5 15 (8.15%) Service Delivery
6 12 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (6.52%) DevOps
7 11 (5.98%) Cloud Security
7 11 (5.98%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (5.98%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (5.43%) High Availability
9 9 (4.89%) Containerisation
9 9 (4.89%) Roadmaps
10 8 (4.35%) Observability
10 8 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (3.80%) Cloud Operations
11 7 (3.80%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.24%) SQL
2 9 (4.89%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.26%) Python
4 2 (1.09%) Java
5 1 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (7.61%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.17%) Degree
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.09%) CCNA
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.54%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.54%) IISP
8 1 (0.54%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.17%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.09%) WCAG
4 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.80%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.80%) vSphere
4 6 (3.26%) Docker
5 2 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.09%) Firmware
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (5.98%) Terraform
3 8 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.17%) Ansible
5 3 (1.63%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.63%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.63%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) SCCM
7 1 (0.54%) Podman
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.50%) VMware
3 14 (7.61%) Cisco
4 9 (4.89%) Meraki
5 7 (3.80%) Citrix
6 5 (2.72%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.17%) Veeam
8 3 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.63%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.09%) Avaya
9 2 (1.09%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.54%) Apple
10 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.54%) Commvault
10 1 (0.54%) Dell
10 1 (0.54%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) Isilon
10 1 (0.54%) NetApp
10 1 (0.54%) SonicWALL