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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 118 58
Rank change year-on-year +19 -60 +25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 169 127 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.95% 2.12% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.31% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 129 67 274
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,625 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £57,000
90th Percentile £75,809 £61,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -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 6,875 5,492 7,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.38% 91.72% 85.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 2,456 5,787
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,027 £34,571
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 £66,967 £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 12 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 12 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 +34 106 £50,000 +11.11% 31
East Midlands -3 62 £45,000 -14.29% 18
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 (16.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (13.02%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.37%) CMS
3 4 (2.37%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.46%) Azure
2 35 (20.71%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (14.79%) SaaS
4 24 (14.20%) Entra ID
5 23 (13.61%) AWS
6 7 (4.14%) GCP
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.55%) iPaaS
8 5 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.96%) IaaS
9 4 (2.37%) Datadog
9 4 (2.37%) PaaS
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.78%) Serverless
10 3 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.38%) Firewall
2 22 (13.02%) DNS
3 17 (10.06%) DHCP
4 14 (8.28%) WAN
5 13 (7.69%) LAN
6 10 (5.92%) Network Security
6 10 (5.92%) TCP/IP
7 9 (5.33%) VPN
8 8 (4.73%) VLAN
9 7 (4.14%) SAN
10 6 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.37%) MPLS
11 4 (2.37%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.37%) Skype
12 2 (1.18%) FTP
12 2 (1.18%) HTTP
12 2 (1.18%) SMTP
12 2 (1.18%) SNMP
12 2 (1.18%) SSH
12 2 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.37%) DTS
3 3 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Git
2 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.78%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.59%) JMeter
4 1 (0.59%) Locust
General
1 21 (12.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.51%) Retail
3 10 (5.92%) Law
4 9 (5.33%) Banking
4 9 (5.33%) Investment Banking
5 7 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Finance
8 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.78%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.59%) Back Office
11 1 (0.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (85.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (20.12%) Senior
2 34 (20.12%) Support Engineer
3 33 (19.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (17.75%) IT Engineer
5 25 (14.79%) Infrastructure Support
5 25 (14.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 23 (13.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (9.47%) IT Support
9 15 (8.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (8.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (8.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) VMware Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (5.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.78%) Middleware
1 3 (1.78%) OLE
2 1 (0.59%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.55%) Clustering
3 6 (3.55%) CMDB
3 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.96%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (27.22%) Windows
2 36 (21.30%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.92%) Linux
4 5 (2.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.37%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.18%) VMS
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.59%) Rocky
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (13.61%) ITIL
3 19 (11.24%) DevOps
4 17 (10.06%) CI/CD
4 17 (10.06%) Mentoring
4 17 (10.06%) Migration
4 17 (10.06%) Service Delivery
5 14 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (6.51%) Cloud Operations
7 10 (5.92%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (5.33%) Containerisation
8 9 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (4.73%) Customer Service
9 8 (4.73%) Project Delivery
10 7 (4.14%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (3.55%) Data Migration
11 6 (3.55%) Information Security
11 6 (3.55%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (3.55%) Risk Management
11 6 (3.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.69%) SQL
2 10 (5.92%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.59%) Java
3 1 (0.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (6.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (5.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.96%) Degree
6 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.78%) CCNA
7 3 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CISM
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.59%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CCNP
9 1 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.33%) GDPR
3 6 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.78%) SLA
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) QA
6 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (17.16%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.92%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.55%) vSphere
6 4 (2.37%) Docker
6 4 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.37%) XenApp
7 3 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.18%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.18%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 14 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.33%) Terraform
3 6 (3.55%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (2.96%) Ansible
4 5 (2.96%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.37%) Nagios
5 4 (2.37%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.78%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.18%) SCCM
7 2 (1.18%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.59%) Grafana
8 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.79%) VMware
3 15 (8.88%) Cisco
4 14 (8.28%) Veeam
5 12 (7.10%) Meraki
6 9 (5.33%) Citrix
7 7 (4.14%) Google
8 6 (3.55%) Darktrace
9 5 (2.96%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.96%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.96%) Tanium
10 4 (2.37%) BMC
10 4 (2.37%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.37%) IBM
10 4 (2.37%) Proofpoint
10 4 (2.37%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.37%) SonicWALL
10 4 (2.37%) Trend Micro
11 2 (1.18%) Zerto