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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 107 60
Rank change year-on-year +10 -47 +26
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 152 161 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.95% 2.37% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.65% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 119 83 165
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £33,994
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,350 £62,500
England median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.81% +1.90% -

All Process and 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 6,377 6,078 4,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.01% 89.49% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,517 2,682 3,432
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 +17 92 £52,500 +5.00% 49
East Midlands -3 59 £45,000 - 33
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 35 (23.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (16.45%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.92%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.29%) CMS
5 4 (2.63%) WinCC
6 2 (1.32%) Confluence
6 2 (1.32%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (44.74%) Azure
2 45 (29.61%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (17.76%) Entra ID
4 26 (17.11%) SaaS
5 24 (15.79%) AWS
6 14 (9.21%) GCP
7 11 (7.24%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.95%) iPaaS
8 6 (3.95%) PaaS
9 5 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.29%) Azure Stack
9 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.29%) IaaS
10 4 (2.63%) Datadog
11 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.97%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.97%) Serverless
12 2 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 36 (23.68%) Firewall
2 31 (20.39%) DNS
3 26 (17.11%) DHCP
4 18 (11.84%) VPN
5 16 (10.53%) WAN
6 13 (8.55%) TCP/IP
6 13 (8.55%) VLAN
7 12 (7.89%) LAN
8 9 (5.92%) SAN
8 9 (5.92%) Skype
9 7 (4.61%) Network Security
10 4 (2.63%) Modbus
10 4 (2.63%) MPLS
10 4 (2.63%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.97%) HTTP
11 3 (1.97%) Softphone
11 3 (1.97%) SSL
11 3 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.32%) SNMP
12 2 (1.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.92%) DTS
1 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Git
1 5 (3.29%) JIRA
2 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.66%) JMeter
4 1 (0.66%) Locust
4 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.66%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.53%) Retail
3 14 (9.21%) Law
4 13 (8.55%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.95%) Back Office
6 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Finance
8 3 (1.97%) Legal
8 3 (1.97%) Publishing
9 2 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (81.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (32.24%) Support Engineer
3 40 (26.32%) Infrastructure Support
3 40 (26.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 38 (25.00%) IT Engineer
5 31 (20.39%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (13.82%) IT Support
7 18 (11.84%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (11.18%) Senior
9 16 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (7.24%) Lead
13 9 (5.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (5.26%) Analyst
14 8 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (4.61%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (4.61%) Infrastructure Manager
15 7 (4.61%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.63%) OLE
2 3 (1.97%) EDI
2 3 (1.97%) Middleware
3 2 (1.32%) OAuth
3 2 (1.32%) SAML
4 1 (0.66%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.13%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.58%) CMDB
2 10 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.92%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.92%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.95%) Clustering
4 6 (3.95%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.95%) Operational Technology
4 6 (3.95%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.63%) SCADA
7 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 65 (42.76%) Windows
2 47 (30.92%) Windows Server
3 14 (9.21%) Linux
4 12 (7.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.92%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (5.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.95%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.29%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.29%) Rocky
8 3 (1.97%) VMS
9 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (15.79%) ITIL
3 23 (15.13%) DevOps
4 20 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (11.84%) CI/CD
6 16 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 15 (9.87%) Migration
8 14 (9.21%) Containerisation
8 14 (9.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (8.55%) Customer Service
10 12 (7.89%) Service Delivery
11 11 (7.24%) Agile
11 11 (7.24%) Cloud Operations
11 11 (7.24%) Infrastructure Management
11 11 (7.24%) Server Management
12 9 (5.92%) Problem Management
13 8 (5.26%) CRM
13 8 (5.26%) Data Security
13 8 (5.26%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.87%) PowerShell
2 14 (9.21%) SQL
3 3 (1.97%) Python
4 1 (0.66%) Groovy
4 1 (0.66%) Java
4 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.58%) Degree
5 9 (5.92%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.92%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (4.61%) MCP
8 4 (2.63%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.97%) CCNA
9 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.32%) CISM
10 2 (1.32%) CISSP
10 2 (1.32%) MCSA
10 2 (1.32%) MCSE
11 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.66%) CCNP
11 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) GDPR
2 8 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.29%) QA
4 4 (2.63%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.97%) SLA
6 2 (1.32%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (33.55%) Active Directory
2 25 (16.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.63%) XenApp
6 3 (1.97%) Docker
6 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.97%) vSphere
7 2 (1.32%) Firmware
7 2 (1.32%) vCloud
7 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.66%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.66%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 11 (7.24%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (7.24%) Terraform
2 9 (5.92%) Nagios
2 9 (5.92%) ZABBIX
3 7 (4.61%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.95%) Ansible
4 6 (3.95%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.97%) FlexNet
6 2 (1.32%) Grafana
6 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.66%) Nessus
7 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.66%) Puppet
7 1 (0.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.42%) VMware
3 14 (9.21%) Citrix
3 14 (9.21%) Veeam
4 13 (8.55%) Cisco
5 12 (7.89%) Google
6 11 (7.24%) Darktrace
6 11 (7.24%) Tanium
7 10 (6.58%) Meraki
7 10 (6.58%) SolarWinds
8 9 (5.92%) BMC
8 9 (5.92%) Proofpoint
8 9 (5.92%) Red Hat
8 9 (5.92%) Trend Micro
9 5 (3.29%) Dell
9 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.63%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.63%) IBM
10 4 (2.63%) Siemens
10 4 (2.63%) SonicWALL