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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 109 72
Rank change year-on-year +22 -37 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 241 148 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.67% 2.55% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 3.00% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 203 102 263
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £72,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 10,092 4,931 8,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.86% 85.12% 77.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,194 2,983 5,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £28,000
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 £65,000 £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% - -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 15 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 15 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
West Midlands -10 121 £53,688 - 47
East Midlands +40 120 £47,500 +35.71% 21
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 28 (11.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.49%) IIS
4 4 (1.66%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.66%) Revit
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 92 (38.17%) Azure
2 47 (19.50%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (12.45%) Entra ID
4 21 (8.71%) AWS
5 15 (6.22%) SaaS
6 12 (4.98%) PaaS
7 7 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.49%) IaaS
9 5 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.07%) Cloudflare
9 5 (2.07%) GCP
9 5 (2.07%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.66%) GitHub
10 4 (1.66%) Serverless
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.83%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.83%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 50 (20.75%) Firewall
2 35 (14.52%) VPN
3 27 (11.20%) DNS
4 15 (6.22%) DHCP
5 14 (5.81%) VLAN
6 11 (4.56%) SAN
7 9 (3.73%) WAN
8 8 (3.32%) MQTT
8 8 (3.32%) Network Security
8 8 (3.32%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.90%) LAN
9 7 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.07%) Wireless
11 4 (1.66%) LoRaWAN
12 3 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (1.24%) HTTP
12 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.83%) Internet
13 2 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.66%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.66%) MySQL
3 4 (1.66%) Neo4j
3 4 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.83%) KNIME
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.41%) GIS
5 1 (0.41%) Metadata
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.41%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Git
2 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) JMeter
2 2 (0.83%) Locust
3 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.15%) Finance
4 8 (3.32%) Law
4 8 (3.32%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.07%) Local Government
7 4 (1.66%) Retail
8 3 (1.24%) Automotive
8 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 156 (64.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (25.31%) Senior
3 44 (18.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (17.43%) IT Engineer
5 36 (14.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (14.11%) Network Engineer
7 17 (7.05%) Senior Network Engineer
8 16 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.98%) Administrator
9 12 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (4.56%) Lead
11 9 (3.73%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Senior IT Engineer
12 7 (2.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.90%) IT Administrator
12 7 (2.90%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (2.49%) Architect
13 6 (2.49%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.66%) Flash
2 2 (0.83%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.83%) Middleware
2 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.83%) REST
3 1 (0.41%) Java SE
3 1 (0.41%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.54%) Driving Licence
2 12 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.15%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.32%) IoT
5 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.07%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.07%) Replication
5 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.66%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.24%) CCTV
7 3 (1.24%) Clustering
7 3 (1.24%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.24%) PKI
8 2 (0.83%) CMDB
8 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.83%) NHS
8 2 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (25.73%) Windows
2 44 (18.26%) Windows Server
3 24 (9.96%) Linux
4 7 (2.90%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.66%) VMS
6 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.83%) Android
7 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (13.28%) Disaster Recovery
3 27 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (8.30%) CI/CD
6 20 (8.30%) Observability
6 20 (8.30%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (7.47%) DevOps
7 18 (7.47%) ITIL
7 18 (7.47%) Mentoring
8 17 (7.05%) High Availability
9 16 (6.64%) Cloud Security
9 16 (6.64%) Project Delivery
10 15 (6.22%) Roadmaps
10 15 (6.22%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (5.39%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (4.98%) Containerisation
12 12 (4.98%) Systems Engineering
13 11 (4.56%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.79%) PowerShell
2 21 (8.71%) SQL
3 11 (4.56%) Python
4 5 (2.07%) Java
4 5 (2.07%) Scala
5 4 (1.66%) Bicep
6 3 (1.24%) Bash
7 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.41%) R
7 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (6.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.81%) Degree
3 12 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.07%) CCNA
5 5 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.66%) CCNP
6 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.24%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.83%) CISSP
8 2 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.41%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.66%) QA
4 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.83%) SLA
5 2 (0.83%) WCAG
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) GxP
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (23.24%) Active Directory
2 32 (13.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (12.86%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.73%) Docker
5 8 (3.32%) vSphere
6 3 (1.24%) Firmware
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.41%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (8.71%) Microsoft Intune
1 21 (8.71%) Terraform
2 11 (4.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.90%) Ansible
4 4 (1.66%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.66%) Grafana
4 4 (1.66%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.24%) SCCM
6 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (28.22%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.94%) VMware
3 15 (6.22%) Cisco
4 9 (3.73%) Veeam
5 8 (3.32%) Citrix
6 7 (2.90%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.07%) Zoho
8 4 (1.66%) DIgSILENT
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle
9 3 (1.24%) Apple
9 3 (1.24%) Dell
9 3 (1.24%) Meraki
9 3 (1.24%) NetApp
9 3 (1.24%) SonicWALL
10 2 (0.83%) Acronis
10 2 (0.83%) Isilon
10 2 (0.83%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (0.83%) Sage
10 2 (0.83%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.83%) Zscaler