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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 112 64
Rank change year-on-year +21 -48 +33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 175 127 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.93% 2.18% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.36% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 133 67 268
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,625 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £57,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -5.66%

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 7,114 5,370 7,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.43% 92.30% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,022 2,466 5,914
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,751 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.02% -4.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,538 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +38 110 £50,000 +11.11% 28
East Midlands -8 65 £45,000 -14.29% 8
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 29 (16.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (13.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.29%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.14%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.43%) Azure
2 38 (21.71%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 23 (13.14%) SaaS
5 21 (12.00%) AWS
6 7 (4.00%) GCP
7 6 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.43%) iPaaS
8 5 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.86%) IaaS
9 4 (2.29%) Datadog
9 4 (2.29%) PaaS
10 3 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.71%) Serverless
10 3 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.43%) Firewall
2 23 (13.14%) DNS
3 18 (10.29%) DHCP
4 15 (8.57%) WAN
5 14 (8.00%) LAN
6 10 (5.71%) Network Security
6 10 (5.71%) TCP/IP
6 10 (5.71%) VPN
7 8 (4.57%) VLAN
8 7 (4.00%) SAN
8 7 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.29%) MPLS
9 4 (2.29%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.29%) Skype
10 2 (1.14%) FTP
10 2 (1.14%) HTTP
10 2 (1.14%) SMTP
10 2 (1.14%) SNMP
10 2 (1.14%) SSL
10 2 (1.14%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.29%) DTS
3 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Git
2 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.71%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.57%) JMeter
4 1 (0.57%) Locust
General
1 22 (12.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.29%) Retail
3 10 (5.71%) Law
4 9 (5.14%) Banking
4 9 (5.14%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Finance
8 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.71%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 154 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (21.14%) Senior
3 36 (20.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (19.43%) Support Engineer
5 31 (17.71%) IT Engineer
6 25 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
6 25 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 24 (13.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (10.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (8.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (8.57%) IT Support
11 15 (8.57%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (8.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (6.86%) Network Engineer
14 11 (6.29%) VMware Engineer
14 11 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (5.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (5.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.71%) Middleware
1 3 (1.71%) OLE
2 1 (0.57%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.43%) Clustering
2 6 (3.43%) CMDB
2 6 (3.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.43%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.29%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.71%) Windows
2 36 (20.57%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.00%) Linux
4 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.14%) VMS
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (13.71%) ITIL
3 19 (10.86%) Migration
4 18 (10.29%) Mentoring
4 18 (10.29%) Service Delivery
5 17 (9.71%) DevOps
6 15 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 15 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (6.29%) Cloud Operations
8 10 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (4.57%) Customer Service
9 8 (4.57%) Project Delivery
9 8 (4.57%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (4.00%) Cloud Security
10 7 (4.00%) Data Migration
10 7 (4.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (4.00%) Roadmaps
10 7 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (3.43%) Information Security
11 6 (3.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.43%) SQL
2 10 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.57%) Java
3 1 (0.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.86%) Degree
6 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (1.71%) CCNA
6 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) CISM
7 2 (1.14%) CISSP
7 2 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) CCNP
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.14%) GDPR
3 7 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.71%) SLA
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) QA
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (16.57%) Active Directory
2 24 (13.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.71%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.86%) vSphere
6 4 (2.29%) Docker
6 4 (2.29%) XenApp
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.14%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.14%) Terraform
3 6 (3.43%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (2.86%) Ansible
5 4 (2.29%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.29%) Nagios
5 4 (2.29%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.71%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.57%) Grafana
8 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.86%) VMware
3 16 (9.14%) Cisco
4 13 (7.43%) Meraki
4 13 (7.43%) Veeam
5 9 (5.14%) Citrix
6 7 (4.00%) Google
7 6 (3.43%) Darktrace
8 5 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.86%) Tanium
9 4 (2.29%) BMC
9 4 (2.29%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.29%) IBM
9 4 (2.29%) Proofpoint
9 4 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.29%) SonicWALL
9 4 (2.29%) Trend Micro
10 2 (1.14%) Fortinet