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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 121 63
Rank change year-on-year +20 -58 -14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 173 88 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.64% 1.82% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.00% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 132 73 329
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -8.69%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £59,100 £60,050
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 8,037 4,408 8,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.39% 91.09% 83.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,610 2,575 6,751
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +32 112 £50,000 +11.11% 32
East Midlands -3 61 £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 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (36.42%) Azure
2 33 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (16.18%) Entra ID
4 18 (10.40%) SaaS
5 16 (9.25%) AWS
6 7 (4.05%) PaaS
7 6 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.47%) Datadog
7 6 (3.47%) IaaS
8 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.73%) dbt
8 3 (1.73%) GCP
8 3 (1.73%) Serverless
8 3 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.72%) Firewall
2 18 (10.40%) DNS
3 17 (9.83%) WAN
4 15 (8.67%) LAN
5 13 (7.51%) DHCP
6 12 (6.94%) VPN
7 10 (5.78%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (5.20%) Network Security
9 5 (2.89%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.89%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.31%) MPLS
10 4 (2.31%) VLAN
11 3 (1.73%) SAN
12 2 (1.16%) FTP
12 2 (1.16%) HTTP
12 2 (1.16%) SMTP
12 2 (1.16%) SNMP
12 2 (1.16%) SSH
12 2 (1.16%) SSL
12 2 (1.16%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.16%) MySQL
3 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Git
2 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
2 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.73%) JIRA
2 3 (1.73%) JMeter
2 3 (1.73%) Locust
3 2 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 19 (10.98%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (5.20%) Banking
3 9 (5.20%) Investment Banking
4 8 (4.62%) Retail
5 7 (4.05%) Finance
6 6 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.89%) Law
7 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Advertising
9 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (87.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (20.81%) Senior
3 35 (20.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (14.45%) IT Engineer
5 24 (13.87%) Support Engineer
6 20 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (10.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (10.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (9.83%) Infrastructure Support
9 17 (9.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 16 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (9.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (7.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (6.94%) Lead
12 12 (6.94%) Network Engineer
13 11 (6.36%) IT Support
13 11 (6.36%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (6.36%) VMware Engineer
13 11 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (5.20%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.73%) Gherkin
1 3 (1.73%) Middleware
1 3 (1.73%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.20%) Driving Licence
1 9 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.16%) CMDB
4 2 (1.16%) IoT
4 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.16%) Replication
4 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.58%) Clustering
5 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.58%) iPad
5 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.97%) Windows
2 30 (17.34%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.20%) Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (13.29%) ITIL
3 20 (11.56%) Mentoring
4 18 (10.40%) Migration
4 18 (10.40%) Service Delivery
5 15 (8.67%) CI/CD
5 15 (8.67%) DevOps
6 13 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (5.20%) Cloud Operations
7 9 (5.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (4.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (4.62%) Project Delivery
9 7 (4.05%) Agile
9 7 (4.05%) Cloud Security
9 7 (4.05%) Data Migration
9 7 (4.05%) Information Security
9 7 (4.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (4.05%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (4.05%) Roadmaps
9 7 (4.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.67%) SQL
2 8 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.73%) Java
3 3 (1.73%) Python
4 1 (0.58%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.31%) Degree
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) CCNA
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.16%) CISM
6 2 (1.16%) CISSP
6 2 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.58%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.31%) QA
4 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.73%) GDPR
4 3 (1.73%) SLA
4 3 (1.73%) WCAG
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 25 (14.45%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.05%) Hyper-V
3 7 (4.05%) vSphere
4 6 (3.47%) Docker
5 4 (2.31%) XenApp
6 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.16%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (10.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.78%) Terraform
3 6 (3.47%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.31%) Ansible
5 3 (1.73%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.73%) Grafana
6 2 (1.16%) Galera Cluster
6 2 (1.16%) SCCM
6 2 (1.16%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.45%) VMware
3 16 (9.25%) Cisco
4 13 (7.51%) Meraki
5 9 (5.20%) Veeam
6 5 (2.89%) Citrix
6 5 (2.89%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.31%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.31%) IBM
7 4 (2.31%) SonicWALL
8 3 (1.73%) Google
9 2 (1.16%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.16%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.58%) Avaya
10 1 (0.58%) Commvault
10 1 (0.58%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.58%) Tanium
10 1 (0.58%) Tenable