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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 123 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 -59 -30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 182 94 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.45% 1.92% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.15% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 139 73 353
10th Percentile £41,850 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,768 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -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 9,165 4,364 9,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.22% 88.99% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,423 2,608 7,117
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,189 £34,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +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 April 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 April 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 +8 119 £51,250 +13.89% 33
East Midlands -17 63 £45,000 -14.29% 15
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 17 (9.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 66 (36.26%) Azure
2 29 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (12.64%) Entra ID
4 21 (11.54%) AWS
5 14 (7.69%) SaaS
6 6 (3.30%) IaaS
6 6 (3.30%) PaaS
7 5 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.75%) GCP
8 4 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.20%) Datadog
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.65%) Serverless
9 3 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.10%) dbt
10 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.74%) Firewall
2 19 (10.44%) WAN
3 18 (9.89%) DNS
4 17 (9.34%) VPN
5 15 (8.24%) LAN
6 11 (6.04%) DHCP
6 11 (6.04%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (3.30%) Network Security
8 5 (2.75%) MQTT
9 4 (2.20%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.65%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (1.65%) MPLS
10 3 (1.65%) SAN
10 3 (1.65%) VLAN
11 2 (1.10%) NAS
11 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.55%) SMTP
12 1 (0.55%) SSL
12 1 (0.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.65%) MySQL
2 3 (1.65%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.10%) GitLab
3 2 (1.10%) JIRA
3 2 (1.10%) JMeter
3 2 (1.10%) Locust
General
1 23 (12.64%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (4.95%) Banking
3 9 (4.95%) Investment Banking
4 8 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.40%) Retail
5 6 (3.30%) Finance
5 6 (3.30%) Law
6 3 (1.65%) Advertising
6 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Back Office
8 1 (0.55%) Legal
8 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (86.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (21.98%) Senior
3 37 (20.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (10.44%) IT Engineer
5 19 (10.44%) Support Engineer
6 18 (9.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (9.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (8.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 14 (7.69%) Network Engineer
9 14 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) Lead
10 11 (6.04%) VMware Engineer
10 11 (6.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.95%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.40%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.65%) Middleware
1 3 (1.65%) OLE
2 2 (1.10%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.75%) IoT
4 3 (1.65%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.65%) Replication
5 2 (1.10%) CMDB
5 2 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.55%) Clustering
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) iPad
6 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.55%) PKI
6 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.68%) Windows
2 27 (14.84%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.14%) Linux
4 4 (2.20%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.10%) VMS
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (10.99%) ITIL
3 17 (9.34%) Mentoring
3 17 (9.34%) Migration
4 16 (8.79%) CI/CD
4 16 (8.79%) Service Delivery
5 13 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (7.14%) DevOps
6 11 (6.04%) Cloud Security
6 11 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (5.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (5.49%) High Availability
7 10 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (4.95%) Containerisation
9 8 (4.40%) Cloud Operations
10 7 (3.85%) Observability
10 7 (3.85%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (3.85%) Project Delivery
10 7 (3.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.34%) SQL
2 8 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.75%) Python
4 2 (1.10%) Java
5 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.30%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.20%) Degree
6 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.10%) CCNA
7 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CISM
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.55%) IISP
8 1 (0.55%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.20%) QA
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.10%) SLA
4 2 (1.10%) WCAG
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (12.64%) Active Directory
2 22 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.40%) vSphere
4 7 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.30%) Docker
6 2 (1.10%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.10%) XenApp
7 1 (0.55%) Firmware
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (8.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.49%) Terraform
3 8 (4.40%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.20%) Ansible
5 3 (1.65%) FlexNet
5 3 (1.65%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (1.65%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.10%) Grafana
6 2 (1.10%) SCCM
7 1 (0.55%) Podman
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.19%) VMware
3 14 (7.69%) Cisco
4 9 (4.95%) Meraki
5 6 (3.30%) Veeam
6 5 (2.75%) Citrix
6 5 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.65%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.10%) Avaya
9 2 (1.10%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.10%) Google
9 2 (1.10%) IBM
9 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.10%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.55%) Commvault
10 1 (0.55%) NetApp
10 1 (0.55%) Tanium
10 1 (0.55%) Tenable