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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 106 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 -29 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 249 146 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.66% 2.56% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 3.03% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 205 101 220
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% -9.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 10,440 4,819 7,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.65% 84.59% 77.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,460 2,876 4,345
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,371
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -15 125 £54,344 -16.39% 50
East Midlands +31 124 £46,500 +32.86% 28
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 28 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.21%) IIS
4 4 (1.61%) PowerFactory
5 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.61%) Revit
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 92 (36.95%) Azure
2 45 (18.07%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (12.45%) Entra ID
4 21 (8.43%) AWS
5 15 (6.02%) SaaS
6 11 (4.42%) PaaS
7 8 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.41%) GCP
8 6 (2.41%) IaaS
9 5 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.01%) Cloudflare
9 5 (2.01%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.61%) GitHub
10 4 (1.61%) Serverless
11 3 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.80%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 57 (22.89%) Firewall
2 40 (16.06%) VPN
3 31 (12.45%) DNS
4 19 (7.63%) DHCP
5 14 (5.62%) VLAN
6 10 (4.02%) Network Security
6 10 (4.02%) SAN
7 9 (3.61%) WAN
8 8 (3.21%) MQTT
8 8 (3.21%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.81%) LAN
10 6 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.01%) Wireless
12 4 (1.61%) LoRaWAN
13 3 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (1.20%) HTTP
13 3 (1.20%) Internet
13 3 (1.20%) NX-OS
13 3 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.61%) MySQL
3 4 (1.61%) Neo4j
3 4 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.80%) KNIME
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) Metadata
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.40%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.61%) JIRA
2 3 (1.20%) Git
2 3 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) JMeter
3 1 (0.40%) Locust
General
1 45 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.02%) Law
3 10 (4.02%) Manufacturing
4 9 (3.61%) Finance
5 7 (2.81%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.01%) Local Government
7 4 (1.61%) Automotive
7 4 (1.61%) Legal
7 4 (1.61%) Retail
8 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 159 (63.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 65 (26.10%) Senior
3 46 (18.47%) IT Engineer
4 43 (17.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (14.46%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (13.25%) Network Engineer
7 20 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.83%) Senior Network Engineer
9 14 (5.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) Senior IT Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Administrator
11 12 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.61%) Lead
14 7 (2.81%) IT Administrator
14 7 (2.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (2.81%) Support Engineer
14 7 (2.81%) Systems Administrator
15 6 (2.41%) Architect
15 6 (2.41%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.84%) Terraform
2 4 (1.61%) Flash
3 2 (0.80%) Middleware
3 2 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.80%) REST
4 1 (0.40%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.40%) Java SE
4 1 (0.40%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.84%) Driving Licence
2 12 (4.82%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.21%) IoT
5 6 (2.41%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.01%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.01%) Replication
7 4 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.61%) PKI
7 4 (1.61%) SCADA
8 3 (1.20%) CCTV
8 3 (1.20%) Clustering
8 3 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.80%) CMDB
9 2 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 66 (26.51%) Windows
2 46 (18.47%) Windows Server
3 25 (10.04%) Linux
4 7 (2.81%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.01%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.61%) VMS
6 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.20%) Android
7 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (12.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 28 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (8.43%) CI/CD
7 20 (8.03%) DevOps
7 20 (8.03%) Mentoring
8 19 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (7.23%) ITIL
9 18 (7.23%) Observability
9 18 (7.23%) Project Delivery
10 17 (6.83%) Cloud Security
10 17 (6.83%) High Availability
11 15 (6.02%) Vulnerability Management
12 13 (5.22%) Roadmaps
13 12 (4.82%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (4.82%) Systems Engineering
14 11 (4.42%) AI
14 11 (4.42%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.84%) PowerShell
2 22 (8.84%) SQL
3 12 (4.82%) Python
4 5 (2.01%) Scala
5 4 (1.61%) Java
6 3 (1.20%) Bash
6 3 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) R
7 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (7.63%) Degree
2 15 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.81%) CCNA
4 7 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.61%) CCNP
8 3 (1.20%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.20%) MCSE
8 3 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.80%) CISSP
9 2 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.40%) IISP
10 1 (0.40%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.01%) SLA
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) QA
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
5 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (23.69%) Active Directory
2 35 (14.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (12.85%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.61%) vSphere
5 8 (3.21%) Docker
6 5 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.20%) Firmware
7 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 23 (9.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.41%) Ansible
4 4 (1.61%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.61%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.20%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.20%) Grafana
5 3 (1.20%) SCCM
5 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.40%) Podman
Vendors
1 70 (28.11%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.26%) VMware
3 16 (6.43%) Cisco
4 8 (3.21%) Citrix
5 7 (2.81%) Fortinet
5 7 (2.81%) Veeam
6 5 (2.01%) Zoho
7 4 (1.61%) DIgSILENT
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle
8 3 (1.20%) Apple
8 3 (1.20%) Dell
8 3 (1.20%) NetApp
8 3 (1.20%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.80%) Acronis
9 2 (0.80%) FIS
9 2 (0.80%) Isilon
9 2 (0.80%) Meraki
9 2 (0.80%) Nimble Storage
9 2 (0.80%) Sage
9 2 (0.80%) Zscaler