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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 122 63
Rank change year-on-year +17 -59 -28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 177 93 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.54% 1.94% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.16% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 135 78 348
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,554 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,074 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% +0.16% -8.69%
75th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £60,288 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -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 8,554 4,313 9,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 74.60% 89.85% 82.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,034 2,596 6,973
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,650 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +8.74% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +16 113 £50,000 +11.11% 32
East Midlands -13 64 £45,000 -14.29% 12
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 19 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.29%) Azure
2 33 (18.64%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (15.82%) Entra ID
4 19 (10.73%) AWS
5 17 (9.60%) SaaS
6 7 (3.95%) PaaS
7 6 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.39%) Datadog
7 6 (3.39%) IaaS
8 4 (2.26%) GCP
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.69%) dbt
9 3 (1.69%) Serverless
9 3 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.99%) Firewall
2 18 (10.17%) WAN
3 16 (9.04%) DNS
3 16 (9.04%) LAN
4 15 (8.47%) VPN
5 11 (6.21%) DHCP
5 11 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.52%) Network Security
7 4 (2.26%) MPLS
7 4 (2.26%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.69%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (1.69%) MQTT
9 2 (1.13%) NAS
9 2 (1.13%) SAN
9 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.13%) VLAN
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.56%) SSH
10 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.69%) MySQL
2 3 (1.69%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
2 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.69%) JIRA
2 3 (1.69%) JMeter
2 3 (1.69%) Locust
3 2 (1.13%) GitLab
General
1 19 (10.73%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (5.08%) Banking
3 9 (5.08%) Investment Banking
4 8 (4.52%) Retail
5 7 (3.95%) Finance
6 6 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.39%) Law
7 5 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Advertising
8 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (87.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (20.90%) Senior
3 36 (20.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (12.99%) IT Engineer
5 22 (12.43%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (12.43%) Support Engineer
6 20 (11.30%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (9.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (9.60%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (9.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Support
8 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 14 (7.91%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (7.34%) Network Engineer
11 12 (6.78%) Lead
12 11 (6.21%) VMware Engineer
12 11 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (5.08%) IT Support
13 9 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.69%) Gherkin
1 3 (1.69%) Middleware
1 3 (1.69%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.65%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.69%) IoT
4 3 (1.69%) Replication
5 2 (1.13%) CMDB
5 2 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) iPad
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.34%) Windows
2 28 (15.82%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.21%) Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (11.86%) ITIL
3 20 (11.30%) Mentoring
4 19 (10.73%) Migration
5 18 (10.17%) Service Delivery
6 17 (9.60%) CI/CD
7 16 (9.04%) DevOps
8 14 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (5.65%) Cloud Operations
10 9 (5.08%) Cloud Security
10 9 (5.08%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (5.08%) Project Delivery
10 9 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (4.52%) Containerisation
11 8 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (4.52%) High Availability
12 7 (3.95%) Agile
12 7 (3.95%) Information Security
12 7 (3.95%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.04%) SQL
2 7 (3.95%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.69%) Java
3 3 (1.69%) Python
4 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (7.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.26%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.26%) Degree
5 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.13%) CCNA
7 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.13%) CISM
7 2 (1.13%) CISSP
7 2 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.26%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) SLA
4 3 (1.69%) WCAG
5 2 (1.13%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 25 (14.12%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.52%) vSphere
4 7 (3.95%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.39%) Docker
6 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.69%) XenApp
7 2 (1.13%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (6.21%) Terraform
3 7 (3.95%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.26%) Ansible
5 3 (1.69%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.69%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.69%) Grafana
5 3 (1.69%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.13%) SCCM
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.12%) VMware
3 15 (8.47%) Cisco
4 11 (6.21%) Meraki
5 7 (3.95%) Veeam
6 5 (2.82%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.26%) Citrix
8 3 (1.69%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.69%) Google
8 3 (1.69%) IBM
8 3 (1.69%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.13%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.56%) Avaya
10 1 (0.56%) Commvault
10 1 (0.56%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.56%) Tanium
10 1 (0.56%) Tenable