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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 107 82
Rank change year-on-year +34 -25 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 308 145 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.95% 2.57% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.96% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 238 97 155
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% +0.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £58,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £64,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11,092 4,897 7,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.40% 86.83% 80.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,832 2,827 3,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,175 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,949
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +13 162 £55,000 -21.43% 83
East Midlands +35 146 £50,000 +25.00% 53
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 31 (10.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.60%) IIS
4 4 (1.30%) PowerFactory
5 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.30%) Revit
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 116 (37.66%) Azure
2 55 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (12.01%) Entra ID
4 33 (10.71%) AWS
5 20 (6.49%) SaaS
6 17 (5.52%) GCP
7 15 (4.87%) PaaS
8 12 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.57%) IaaS
10 10 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.95%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.62%) Cloudflare
13 5 (1.62%) GitHub
13 5 (1.62%) Nutanix
13 5 (1.62%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.62%) Serverless
14 4 (1.30%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 53 (17.21%) Firewall
2 41 (13.31%) VPN
3 36 (11.69%) DNS
4 22 (7.14%) DHCP
5 14 (4.55%) Network Security
6 13 (4.22%) Internet
6 13 (4.22%) VLAN
7 11 (3.57%) SAN
8 10 (3.25%) LAN
9 8 (2.60%) TCP/IP
9 8 (2.60%) WAN
9 8 (2.60%) Wireless
10 5 (1.62%) MQTT
11 3 (0.97%) BGP
11 3 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.97%) EIGRP
11 3 (0.97%) HTTP
11 3 (0.97%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.97%) OSPF
11 3 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.65%) KNIME
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.32%) GIS
6 1 (0.32%) Metadata
6 1 (0.32%) MySQL
6 1 (0.32%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.32%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (4.55%) Git
2 5 (1.62%) JIRA
3 3 (0.97%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (18.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.25%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.60%) Finance
7 6 (1.95%) Law
7 6 (1.95%) Legal
8 5 (1.62%) Automotive
8 5 (1.62%) Local Government
9 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Retail
10 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.97%) Social Housing
10 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 194 (62.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 86 (27.92%) Senior
3 58 (18.83%) IT Engineer
4 55 (17.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (14.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 38 (12.34%) Network Engineer
7 33 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (7.47%) Senior Network Engineer
10 17 (5.52%) Senior IT Engineer
10 17 (5.52%) Support Engineer
11 16 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.19%) IT Support
12 14 (4.55%) Lead
13 12 (3.90%) Administrator
13 12 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.25%) Trainee
15 9 (2.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.77%) Terraform
2 4 (1.30%) Flash
3 2 (0.65%) Middleware
3 2 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.65%) REST
4 1 (0.32%) Java SE
4 1 (0.32%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.06%) Driving Licence
2 15 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.95%) Operational Technology
6 6 (1.95%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.62%) IoT
7 5 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.30%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.30%) PKI
8 4 (1.30%) SCADA
9 3 (0.97%) CCTV
9 3 (0.97%) Clustering
9 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 81 (26.30%) Windows
2 61 (19.81%) Windows Server
3 34 (11.04%) Linux
4 7 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.95%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.30%) VMS
7 3 (0.97%) Android
7 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (12.99%) DevOps
2 40 (12.99%) Disaster Recovery
2 40 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (10.71%) Mentoring
4 32 (10.39%) CI/CD
4 32 (10.39%) Cloud Security
5 30 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (7.14%) Project Delivery
8 21 (6.82%) Containerisation
8 21 (6.82%) Incident Management
9 20 (6.49%) ITIL
9 20 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (5.84%) Observability
11 17 (5.52%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (5.19%) Business Continuity
13 15 (4.87%) AI
13 15 (4.87%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.04%) PowerShell
2 25 (8.12%) SQL
3 12 (3.90%) Python
4 10 (3.25%) Shell Script
5 5 (1.62%) Scala
6 4 (1.30%) Bicep
7 3 (0.97%) Bash
7 3 (0.97%) Java
8 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.32%) R
8 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (7.14%) Degree
1 22 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.25%) CCNA
3 10 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.27%) CCNP
6 6 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.97%) A+ Certification
8 3 (0.97%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.97%) MCSE
8 3 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.32%) IISP
10 1 (0.32%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.62%) SLA
3 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.32%) GRC
4 1 (0.32%) GxP
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.32%) QA
4 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 40 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.52%) Docker
5 8 (2.60%) vSphere
6 6 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.65%) Firmware
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 27 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.27%) Ansible
4 6 (1.95%) Backup Exec
5 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.97%) SCCM
7 2 (0.65%) Grafana
7 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.32%) Galera Cluster
8 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.32%) Podman
8 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (32.79%) Microsoft
2 44 (14.29%) VMware
3 21 (6.82%) Cisco
4 16 (5.19%) Google
5 13 (4.22%) Veeam
6 9 (2.92%) Citrix
7 7 (2.27%) BMC
8 6 (1.95%) Datto
8 6 (1.95%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.62%) Oracle
9 5 (1.62%) Zoho
10 4 (1.30%) DIgSILENT
10 4 (1.30%) NetApp
11 3 (0.97%) Apple
11 3 (0.97%) Dell
11 3 (0.97%) Meraki
11 3 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (0.97%) SonicWALL
12 2 (0.65%) Acronis
12 2 (0.65%) Isilon