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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 110 66
Rank change year-on-year +10 -44 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 211 142 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.59% 2.53% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.96% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 176 103 375
10th Percentile £38,469 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 9,244 4,800 10,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.85% 85.65% 79.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6,564 2,857 7,032
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -11 111 £53,500 +7.00% 33
East Midlands +25 100 £50,000 +25.00% 25
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 26 (12.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (9.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) IIS
3 4 (1.90%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.90%) Revit
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.91%) Azure
2 40 (18.96%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (11.85%) Entra ID
4 19 (9.00%) AWS
5 9 (4.27%) PaaS
5 9 (4.27%) SaaS
6 6 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (2.37%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.90%) Serverless
9 3 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.42%) GCP
9 3 (1.42%) GitHub
9 3 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.42%) IaaS
10 2 (0.95%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.95%) Datadog
10 2 (0.95%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 45 (21.33%) Firewall
2 28 (13.27%) VPN
3 21 (9.95%) DNS
4 14 (6.64%) DHCP
4 14 (6.64%) VLAN
5 12 (5.69%) WAN
6 10 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.79%) LAN
7 8 (3.79%) MQTT
7 8 (3.79%) Network Security
7 8 (3.79%) SAN
8 4 (1.90%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.90%) Wireless
9 3 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.42%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.95%) HTTP
10 2 (0.95%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.95%) Internet
10 2 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.90%) MySQL
3 4 (1.90%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.95%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.95%) JMeter
2 2 (0.95%) Locust
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 38 (18.01%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (4.27%) Finance
3 9 (4.27%) Law
4 8 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.79%) Manufacturing
5 4 (1.90%) Local Government
5 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.90%) Retail
6 3 (1.42%) Automotive
6 3 (1.42%) Banking
6 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.42%) Legal
6 3 (1.42%) Social Housing
7 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (71.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (24.17%) Senior
3 41 (19.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (15.64%) IT Engineer
5 30 (14.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (11.37%) Network Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Senior Network Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Lead
11 10 (4.74%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Administrator
13 7 (3.32%) IT Administrator
13 7 (3.32%) VMware Engineer
13 7 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.84%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.84%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.90%) Flash
2 2 (0.95%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.95%) Middleware
2 2 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.95%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.00%) Driving Licence
2 12 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.79%) IoT
5 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.90%) Replication
7 3 (1.42%) CCTV
7 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.42%) Clustering
7 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.42%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) CMDB
8 2 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.95%) PKI
8 2 (0.95%) SCADA
8 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.85%) Windows
2 34 (16.11%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.53%) Linux
4 5 (2.37%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.37%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.90%) VMS
6 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (13.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 22 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (10.43%) ITIL
4 19 (9.00%) Mentoring
4 19 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (8.06%) Project Delivery
6 16 (7.58%) Roadmaps
7 15 (7.11%) CI/CD
7 15 (7.11%) Observability
8 14 (6.64%) Cloud Security
8 14 (6.64%) High Availability
9 12 (5.69%) Systems Engineering
10 11 (5.21%) Runbook
11 10 (4.74%) DevOps
11 10 (4.74%) Incident Management
11 10 (4.74%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 10 (4.74%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.90%) PowerShell
2 21 (9.95%) SQL
3 10 (4.74%) Python
4 5 (2.37%) Scala
5 4 (1.90%) Bicep
6 3 (1.42%) Java
7 2 (0.95%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (6.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.21%) Degree
3 10 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.90%) CCNA
6 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.42%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.42%) CCNP
7 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.95%) CISSP
8 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.47%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.90%) QA
4 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.95%) SLA
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) GRC
5 1 (0.47%) GxP
5 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (19.43%) Active Directory
2 35 (16.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (10.90%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.27%) Docker
4 9 (4.27%) vSphere
5 3 (1.42%) Firmware
6 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 18 (8.53%) Terraform
2 16 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (5.69%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.84%) Ansible
5 4 (1.90%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.90%) Grafana
5 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.95%) SCCM
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 59 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.96%) VMware
3 16 (7.58%) Cisco
4 8 (3.79%) Citrix
4 8 (3.79%) Veeam
5 7 (3.32%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.84%) Meraki
7 4 (1.90%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (1.42%) Dell
8 3 (1.42%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.95%) Avaya
9 2 (0.95%) Isilon
9 2 (0.95%) NetApp
9 2 (0.95%) Oracle
9 2 (0.95%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.95%) Zoho
9 2 (0.95%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.47%) Aruba
10 1 (0.47%) Nimble Storage