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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 127 60
Rank change year-on-year +34 -67 +17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 162 126 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.01% 2.00% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.20% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 120 68 236
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +1.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £61,250
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 6,485 5,716 5,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.47% 90.93% 86.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,613 2,539 4,895
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +33 102 £50,000 +11.11% 29
East Midlands +8 59 £45,000 -10.00% 43
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 32 (19.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (13.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.32%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.09%) CMS
5 4 (2.47%) WinCC
6 2 (1.23%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.04%) Azure
2 38 (23.46%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (16.67%) AWS
4 26 (16.05%) SaaS
5 23 (14.20%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.17%) GCP
7 8 (4.94%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.70%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.09%) IaaS
10 4 (2.47%) Datadog
10 4 (2.47%) PaaS
11 3 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.23%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (18.52%) Firewall
2 24 (14.81%) DNS
3 19 (11.73%) DHCP
4 13 (8.02%) WAN
5 12 (7.41%) LAN
6 10 (6.17%) Network Security
6 10 (6.17%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.17%) VPN
7 9 (5.56%) VLAN
8 8 (4.94%) SAN
9 7 (4.32%) Skype
10 5 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.47%) Modbus
11 4 (2.47%) MPLS
11 4 (2.47%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.85%) HTTP
12 3 (1.85%) SSL
13 2 (1.23%) FTP
13 2 (1.23%) SMTP
13 2 (1.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.32%) DTS
3 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) JIRA
3 3 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.62%) JMeter
5 1 (0.62%) Locust
5 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.64%) Retail
3 10 (6.17%) Manufacturing
4 9 (5.56%) Law
5 8 (4.94%) Banking
5 8 (4.94%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.47%) Finance
9 2 (1.23%) Advertising
9 2 (1.23%) Back Office
9 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (85.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (24.07%) Support Engineer
3 30 (18.52%) Infrastructure Support
3 30 (18.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 30 (18.52%) Senior
4 29 (17.90%) IT Engineer
4 29 (17.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (13.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (10.49%) IT Support
7 16 (9.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (9.26%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (8.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.56%) Lead
12 8 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.94%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.94%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.94%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.85%) Middleware
1 3 (1.85%) OLE
2 1 (0.62%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.79%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.56%) CMDB
4 8 (4.94%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (3.70%) Clustering
7 5 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.09%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (2.47%) SCADA
9 3 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (33.95%) Windows
2 41 (25.31%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.79%) Linux
4 8 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.23%) VMS
6 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.62%) Rocky
7 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (14.81%) ITIL
3 19 (11.73%) DevOps
4 17 (10.49%) CI/CD
5 16 (9.88%) Mentoring
5 16 (9.88%) Migration
5 16 (9.88%) Service Delivery
6 15 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (8.02%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (6.79%) Cloud Operations
8 11 (6.79%) Customer Service
9 10 (6.17%) Containerisation
10 9 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (4.94%) Agile
11 8 (4.94%) Project Delivery
11 8 (4.94%) Server Management
11 8 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure Management
12 7 (4.32%) Problem Management
13 6 (3.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.41%) PowerShell
1 12 (7.41%) SQL
2 2 (1.23%) Python
3 1 (0.62%) Java
3 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.32%) Degree
4 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.85%) CCNA
7 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.23%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.23%) CISM
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
8 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.23%) MCP
9 1 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.56%) GDPR
3 7 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.09%) QA
5 4 (2.47%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.85%) SLA
7 2 (1.23%) IEC 61131
7 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (21.60%) Active Directory
2 26 (16.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.64%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.09%) vSphere
6 4 (2.47%) Docker
6 4 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.47%) XenApp
7 3 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.23%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.23%) vCloud
9 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.32%) Nagios
2 7 (4.32%) Terraform
2 7 (4.32%) ZABBIX
3 6 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (2.47%) Ansible
4 4 (2.47%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.85%) FlexNet
6 2 (1.23%) SCCM
6 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.62%) Grafana
7 1 (0.62%) Nessus
7 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.90%) VMware
3 14 (8.64%) Cisco
4 13 (8.02%) Veeam
5 12 (7.41%) Citrix
6 11 (6.79%) Meraki
7 10 (6.17%) Google
8 9 (5.56%) Darktrace
9 8 (4.94%) SolarWinds
9 8 (4.94%) Tanium
10 7 (4.32%) BMC
10 7 (4.32%) Proofpoint
10 7 (4.32%) Red Hat
10 7 (4.32%) Trend Micro
11 5 (3.09%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.09%) ServiceNow
12 4 (2.47%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.47%) Rockwell
12 4 (2.47%) Siemens
12 4 (2.47%) SonicWALL