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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 104 76
Rank change year-on-year +18 -28 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 275 150 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.76% 2.67% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 3.12% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 219 102 185
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% -9.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £61,625
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 10,923 4,807 7,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.87% 85.72% 78.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,743 2,883 3,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
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 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -12 141 £53,688 -17.40% 72
East Midlands +35 134 £50,000 +42.86% 46
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 31 (11.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.18%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.91%) IIS
4 4 (1.45%) PowerFactory
5 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.45%) Revit
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 104 (37.82%) Azure
2 51 (18.55%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (12.73%) Entra ID
4 27 (9.82%) AWS
5 14 (5.09%) SaaS
6 11 (4.00%) GCP
6 11 (4.00%) PaaS
7 9 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.55%) IaaS
9 6 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.82%) Cloudflare
10 5 (1.82%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.45%) GitHub
11 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.45%) Serverless
12 3 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (21.09%) Firewall
2 43 (15.64%) VPN
3 35 (12.73%) DNS
4 22 (8.00%) DHCP
5 14 (5.09%) VLAN
6 12 (4.36%) Network Security
7 11 (4.00%) SAN
8 10 (3.64%) WAN
9 8 (2.91%) Internet
9 8 (2.91%) LAN
9 8 (2.91%) TCP/IP
10 7 (2.55%) MQTT
11 6 (2.18%) Wireless
12 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (1.09%) HTTP
13 3 (1.09%) LoRaWAN
13 3 (1.09%) NX-OS
13 3 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.09%) MySQL
5 3 (1.09%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.73%) KNIME
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.36%) GIS
7 1 (0.36%) Metadata
7 1 (0.36%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) JIRA
3 3 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (4.36%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.27%) Law
5 9 (3.27%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.91%) Finance
7 6 (2.18%) Legal
8 5 (1.82%) Automotive
8 5 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.82%) Local Government
9 4 (1.45%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 171 (62.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 75 (27.27%) Senior
3 53 (19.27%) IT Engineer
4 49 (17.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 40 (14.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (12.73%) Network Engineer
7 27 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (6.91%) Senior Network Engineer
9 18 (6.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Senior IT Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Administrator
11 12 (4.36%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) IT Support
13 10 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.27%) Lead
15 8 (2.91%) Junior
15 8 (2.91%) Junior Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.36%) Terraform
2 4 (1.45%) Flash
3 2 (0.73%) Middleware
3 2 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.73%) REST
4 1 (0.36%) Java SE
4 1 (0.36%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.55%) Driving Licence
2 14 (5.09%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.55%) IoT
4 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.18%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.18%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.45%) PKI
7 4 (1.45%) Replication
7 4 (1.45%) SCADA
8 3 (1.09%) CCTV
8 3 (1.09%) Clustering
8 3 (1.09%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 74 (26.91%) Windows
2 54 (19.64%) Windows Server
3 31 (11.27%) Linux
4 7 (2.55%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.45%) VMS
7 3 (1.09%) Android
7 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (10.55%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (10.18%) Mentoring
6 26 (9.45%) DevOps
7 25 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 24 (8.73%) Cloud Security
9 23 (8.36%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (6.91%) ITIL
10 19 (6.91%) Project Delivery
11 17 (6.18%) Observability
12 16 (5.82%) High Availability
12 16 (5.82%) Incident Management
13 15 (5.45%) Containerisation
13 15 (5.45%) Roadmaps
13 15 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (5.45%) Vulnerability Management
14 14 (5.09%) AI
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.91%) PowerShell
2 24 (8.73%) SQL
3 11 (4.00%) Python
4 5 (1.82%) Scala
4 5 (1.82%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.09%) Bash
5 3 (1.09%) Bicep
5 3 (1.09%) Java
6 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.36%) R
6 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (7.64%) Degree
2 15 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.91%) CCNA
4 8 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.82%) CCNP
7 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.09%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.09%) MCSE
8 3 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CISSP
9 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.36%) IISP
10 1 (0.36%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.82%) SLA
3 3 (1.09%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.73%) QA
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) GxP
5 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 40 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (12.73%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.36%) Docker
5 9 (3.27%) vSphere
6 5 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.09%) Firmware
7 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (9.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.55%) Ansible
4 4 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.09%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.09%) SCCM
5 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.73%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 88 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.64%) VMware
3 18 (6.55%) Cisco
4 9 (3.27%) Citrix
4 9 (3.27%) Veeam
5 7 (2.55%) Fortinet
5 7 (2.55%) Google
6 5 (1.82%) Oracle
6 5 (1.82%) Zoho
7 4 (1.45%) DIgSILENT
7 4 (1.45%) NetApp
8 3 (1.09%) Apple
8 3 (1.09%) Dell
8 3 (1.09%) Meraki
8 3 (1.09%) Nimble Storage
8 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.09%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.73%) Acronis
9 2 (0.73%) Isilon
9 2 (0.73%) Sage