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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 142 69
Rank change year-on-year +46 -73 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 195 87 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.47% 1.77% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.98% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 156 58 362
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,574 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% +1.27% -8.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,847 £55,844
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -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 9,567 4,404 9,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.29% 89.64% 80.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,849 2,358 7,265
10th Percentile £29,950 £26,990 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,374
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £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 24 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 24 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 +20 124 £51,250 +13.89% 31
East Midlands +15 71 £45,000 -10.00% 26
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 (11.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (8.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.54%) PowerFactory
4 2 (1.03%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.54%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 69 (35.38%) Azure
2 34 (17.44%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (10.77%) AWS
3 21 (10.77%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (3.59%) PaaS
5 5 (2.56%) Serverless
6 4 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.05%) IaaS
6 4 (2.05%) SaaS
7 3 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.54%) GCP
7 3 (1.54%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Datadog
8 2 (1.03%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.95%) Firewall
2 21 (10.77%) VPN
3 19 (9.74%) DNS
4 17 (8.72%) WAN
5 12 (6.15%) DHCP
5 12 (6.15%) LAN
5 12 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.10%) Network Security
7 7 (3.59%) MQTT
7 7 (3.59%) VLAN
8 6 (3.08%) SAN
9 3 (1.54%) LoRaWAN
9 3 (1.54%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.54%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.03%) Internet
10 2 (1.03%) NAS
10 2 (1.03%) Wireless
11 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.05%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.54%) MySQL
4 3 (1.54%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.51%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Git
2 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.03%) GitLab
3 2 (1.03%) JMeter
3 2 (1.03%) Locust
General
1 31 (15.90%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.62%) Banking
4 9 (4.62%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.59%) Retail
6 6 (3.08%) Law
7 4 (2.05%) Finance
8 3 (1.54%) Advertising
8 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.54%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.54%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (80.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 45 (23.08%) Senior
3 38 (19.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (10.77%) IT Engineer
5 21 (10.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (8.72%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (8.72%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) Network Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Lead
9 9 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.59%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.54%) Flash
2 2 (1.03%) Gherkin
2 2 (1.03%) Middleware
3 1 (0.51%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.59%) IoT
5 3 (1.54%) CCTV
5 3 (1.54%) Clustering
5 3 (1.54%) CMDB
5 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.54%) Replication
5 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.51%) iPad
7 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) PKI
7 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.92%) Windows
2 26 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.69%) Linux
4 5 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.05%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.05%) VMS
5 4 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (9.74%) ITIL
3 17 (8.72%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (8.72%) Mentoring
4 16 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (6.67%) Service Delivery
6 12 (6.15%) Agile
6 12 (6.15%) CI/CD
6 12 (6.15%) High Availability
6 12 (6.15%) Roadmaps
7 11 (5.64%) Cloud Security
7 11 (5.64%) Migration
7 11 (5.64%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (5.13%) Project Delivery
8 10 (5.13%) Systems Engineering
9 9 (4.62%) Observability
10 8 (4.10%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.69%) SQL
2 14 (7.18%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.59%) Python
4 2 (1.03%) Bicep
4 2 (1.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.13%) Degree
4 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.05%) CCNA
6 4 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.03%) CCNP
9 1 (0.51%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.51%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) IISP
9 1 (0.51%) ISACA
9 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.05%) QA
3 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (14.36%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.15%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.10%) vSphere
5 7 (3.59%) Docker
6 3 (1.54%) Firmware
7 2 (1.03%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (8.21%) Terraform
3 9 (4.62%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.56%) Ansible
5 3 (1.54%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.54%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.03%) Grafana
6 2 (1.03%) SCCM
6 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.36%) VMware
3 15 (7.69%) Cisco
4 8 (4.10%) Citrix
5 7 (3.59%) Meraki
6 6 (3.08%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.08%) Veeam
7 5 (2.56%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.54%) Dell
8 3 (1.54%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (1.54%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.03%) Avaya
9 2 (1.03%) Isilon
9 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.03%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.51%) Apple
10 1 (0.51%) Commvault
10 1 (0.51%) NetApp
10 1 (0.51%) Tenable