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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 110 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 -50 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 157 152 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.00% 2.26% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.53% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 118 80 177
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,938 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £47,100
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -0.21% -0.84%
75th Percentile £62,550 £53,750 £55,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £58,825 £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.50% +3.81% -

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 6,399 6,010 4,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.52% 89.54% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 2,661 3,680
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 28 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 28 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 +21 96 £51,250 +6.22% 62
East Midlands +4 60 £45,000 -2.70% 46
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 (22.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (15.92%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.73%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.18%) CMS
5 4 (2.55%) WinCC
6 2 (1.27%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (42.68%) Azure
2 45 (28.66%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (16.56%) Entra ID
3 26 (16.56%) SaaS
4 24 (15.29%) AWS
5 13 (8.28%) GCP
6 11 (7.01%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.82%) iPaaS
8 5 (3.18%) Azure Stack
8 5 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.18%) IaaS
8 5 (3.18%) PaaS
9 4 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.55%) Datadog
10 3 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.91%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.27%) Serverless
12 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (21.66%) Firewall
2 30 (19.11%) DNS
3 25 (15.92%) DHCP
4 16 (10.19%) VPN
4 16 (10.19%) WAN
5 13 (8.28%) TCP/IP
5 13 (8.28%) VLAN
6 12 (7.64%) LAN
7 9 (5.73%) SAN
7 9 (5.73%) Skype
8 8 (5.10%) Network Security
9 4 (2.55%) Modbus
9 4 (2.55%) MPLS
9 4 (2.55%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.91%) HTTP
10 3 (1.91%) Softphone
10 3 (1.91%) SSL
10 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.27%) SNMP
11 2 (1.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) DTS
1 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Git
1 4 (2.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) GitLab
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.64%) JMeter
3 1 (0.64%) Locust
3 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (14.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.19%) Retail
3 13 (8.28%) Manufacturing
4 12 (7.64%) Law
5 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.82%) Back Office
6 6 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.18%) Finance
8 3 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Banking
8 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.91%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.91%) Publishing
9 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (83.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 48 (30.57%) Support Engineer
3 39 (24.84%) Infrastructure Support
3 39 (24.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 38 (24.20%) IT Engineer
5 31 (19.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (14.01%) Senior
7 21 (13.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (12.74%) IT Support
9 18 (11.46%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (6.37%) Lead
12 10 (6.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (5.10%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (5.10%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (5.10%) Network Engineer
15 7 (4.46%) Analyst
15 7 (4.46%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.55%) OLE
2 3 (1.91%) EDI
2 3 (1.91%) Middleware
3 1 (0.64%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.64%) OAuth
3 1 (0.64%) SAML
3 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.64%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.37%) CMDB
3 10 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.73%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (3.82%) Clustering
5 6 (3.82%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.82%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.82%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.55%) SCADA
8 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 66 (42.04%) Windows
2 50 (31.85%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.92%) Linux
4 11 (7.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (5.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (3.18%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.18%) Rocky
7 5 (3.18%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (15.29%) ITIL
3 21 (13.38%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (12.74%) DevOps
5 17 (10.83%) CI/CD
5 17 (10.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (10.19%) Mentoring
7 15 (9.55%) Migration
8 14 (8.92%) Containerisation
8 14 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (8.28%) Customer Service
9 13 (8.28%) Service Delivery
10 11 (7.01%) Agile
10 11 (7.01%) Cloud Operations
10 11 (7.01%) Server Management
11 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Management
12 9 (5.73%) Problem Management
12 9 (5.73%) Project Delivery
13 8 (5.10%) Incident Management
13 8 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.92%) PowerShell
1 14 (8.92%) SQL
2 2 (1.27%) Python
3 1 (0.64%) Java
3 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (10.19%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) Degree
4 9 (5.73%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.10%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.10%) Network+ Certification
6 7 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.46%) MCP
7 4 (2.55%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.91%) CCNA
8 3 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.27%) CISM
9 2 (1.27%) CISSP
9 2 (1.27%) MCSA
9 2 (1.27%) MCSE
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.64%) CCNP
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.73%) GDPR
2 8 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.18%) QA
4 4 (2.55%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.91%) SLA
6 2 (1.27%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (31.21%) Active Directory
2 27 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (12.10%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.55%) vSphere
5 4 (2.55%) XenApp
6 3 (1.91%) Docker
6 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.27%) Firmware
7 2 (1.27%) vCloud
8 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.73%) Nagios
2 9 (5.73%) ZABBIX
3 8 (5.10%) Terraform
4 7 (4.46%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.82%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (2.55%) Ansible
7 3 (1.91%) FlexNet
8 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.64%) Grafana
9 1 (0.64%) Nessus
9 1 (0.64%) Puppet
9 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (19.11%) VMware
3 14 (8.92%) Citrix
3 14 (8.92%) Veeam
4 13 (8.28%) Cisco
5 12 (7.64%) Google
6 11 (7.01%) Darktrace
6 11 (7.01%) Tanium
7 10 (6.37%) Meraki
7 10 (6.37%) SolarWinds
8 9 (5.73%) BMC
8 9 (5.73%) Proofpoint
8 9 (5.73%) Red Hat
8 9 (5.73%) Trend Micro
9 5 (3.18%) Dell
10 4 (2.55%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.55%) IBM
10 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.55%) Siemens
10 4 (2.55%) SonicWALL