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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 105 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 -40 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 154 173 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.00% 2.48% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.80% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 120 91 164
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,993
25th Percentile £42,375 £40,000 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £57,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £53,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.57% +1.52% -

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 6,351 6,188 4,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.45% 88.74% 92.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,498 2,789 3,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £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 17 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 17 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 +6 92 £55,000 +10.00% 26
East Midlands +3 61 £45,000 - 11
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 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (15.58%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.84%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.25%) CMS
5 4 (2.60%) WinCC
6 3 (1.95%) Confluence
7 2 (1.30%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (46.10%) Azure
2 46 (29.87%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 26 (16.88%) SaaS
5 24 (15.58%) AWS
6 14 (9.09%) GCP
7 12 (7.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.90%) Azure Stack
8 6 (3.90%) iPaaS
8 6 (3.90%) PaaS
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.25%) IaaS
10 4 (2.60%) Datadog
10 4 (2.60%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.30%) AWS KMS
12 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 40 (25.97%) Firewall
2 32 (20.78%) DNS
3 27 (17.53%) DHCP
4 19 (12.34%) VPN
5 17 (11.04%) WAN
6 14 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 14 (9.09%) VLAN
7 12 (7.79%) LAN
8 9 (5.84%) SAN
8 9 (5.84%) Skype
9 7 (4.55%) Network Security
10 5 (3.25%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.60%) Modbus
11 4 (2.60%) MPLS
12 3 (1.95%) HTTP
12 3 (1.95%) Softphone
12 3 (1.95%) SSL
12 3 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (1.30%) SNMP
13 2 (1.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.84%) DTS
1 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (3.90%) JIRA
2 5 (3.25%) Git
3 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.30%) GitLab
4 2 (1.30%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.65%) JMeter
5 1 (0.65%) Locust
5 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (15.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.39%) Retail
3 15 (9.74%) Law
4 13 (8.44%) Manufacturing
4 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.90%) Back Office
5 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.25%) Finance
7 4 (2.60%) Legal
8 3 (1.95%) Publishing
9 2 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (80.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (33.12%) Support Engineer
3 42 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support
3 42 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 39 (25.32%) IT Engineer
5 32 (20.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (14.29%) IT Support
7 18 (11.69%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (11.69%) Senior
8 17 (11.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (7.14%) Lead
11 10 (6.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.84%) Analyst
13 8 (5.19%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.19%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
14 7 (4.55%) Network Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Support Analyst
15 6 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.60%) OLE
2 3 (1.95%) EDI
2 3 (1.95%) Middleware
3 2 (1.30%) OAuth
3 2 (1.30%) SAML
4 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.58%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.49%) CMDB
2 10 (6.49%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.84%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.90%) Clustering
5 6 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.90%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.25%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.60%) SCADA
8 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.30%) Replication
10 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 72 (46.75%) Windows
2 52 (33.77%) Windows Server
3 16 (10.39%) Linux
4 15 (9.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (5.84%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (4.55%) Windows 10
8 6 (3.90%) Rocky
9 5 (3.25%) Mac OS
10 4 (2.60%) VMS
11 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (15.58%) ITIL
3 23 (14.94%) DevOps
4 21 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (12.99%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (11.04%) CI/CD
7 16 (10.39%) Mentoring
8 15 (9.74%) Containerisation
9 14 (9.09%) Migration
9 14 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (8.44%) Customer Service
11 11 (7.14%) Agile
11 11 (7.14%) Cloud Operations
11 11 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
11 11 (7.14%) Server Management
11 11 (7.14%) Service Delivery
12 9 (5.84%) Problem Management
13 8 (5.19%) CRM
13 8 (5.19%) Data Security
13 8 (5.19%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.39%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.74%) SQL
3 4 (2.60%) Python
4 2 (1.30%) Groovy
5 1 (0.65%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (10.39%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) Azure Certification
3 10 (6.49%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.84%) Degree
4 9 (5.84%) Network+ Certification
5 8 (5.19%) MCP
6 7 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.25%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.95%) CCNA
8 3 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.95%) MCSA
8 3 (1.95%) MCSE
9 2 (1.30%) CISM
9 2 (1.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.65%) CCNP
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) GDPR
2 7 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 7 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.25%) QA
4 4 (2.60%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.95%) SLA
6 2 (1.30%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (37.66%) Active Directory
2 24 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.60%) XenApp
6 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.95%) vSphere
7 2 (1.30%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.30%) Docker
7 2 (1.30%) Firmware
7 2 (1.30%) vCloud
7 2 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (7.14%) Terraform
2 9 (5.84%) Nagios
2 9 (5.84%) ZABBIX
3 7 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.90%) Ansible
4 6 (3.90%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.95%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.95%) Grafana
6 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.30%) SCCM
6 2 (1.30%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.65%) Nessus
7 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (32.47%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.53%) VMware
3 14 (9.09%) Citrix
3 14 (9.09%) Veeam
4 13 (8.44%) Cisco
5 12 (7.79%) Google
6 11 (7.14%) Darktrace
6 11 (7.14%) Tanium
7 10 (6.49%) Meraki
7 10 (6.49%) SolarWinds
8 9 (5.84%) BMC
8 9 (5.84%) Proofpoint
8 9 (5.84%) Red Hat
8 9 (5.84%) Trend Micro
9 6 (3.90%) Dell
9 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.60%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.60%) IBM
10 4 (2.60%) Siemens
10 4 (2.60%) SonicWALL