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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 91 66
Rank change year-on-year +9 -25 +28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 148 242 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.58% 2.74% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 3.33% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 111 134 173
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +2.86%

All Process and 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 4,749 7,274 4,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.76% 82.32% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,167 3,204 3,647
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +11 94 £62,800 +17.82% 50
East Midlands -15 53 £37,500 -16.67% 21
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 (23.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (14.19%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.11%) Confluence
4 9 (6.08%) Skype for Business
5 5 (3.38%) CMS
6 4 (2.70%) WinCC
7 2 (1.35%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (1.35%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (51.35%) Azure
2 47 (31.76%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (25.00%) AWS
4 29 (19.59%) Entra ID
5 26 (17.57%) SaaS
6 14 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (9.46%) GCP
7 12 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (8.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (7.43%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (7.43%) Amazon Glacier
8 11 (7.43%) Amazon S3
8 11 (7.43%) AWS KMS
8 11 (7.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (5.41%) Azure Stack
10 7 (4.73%) Nutanix
10 7 (4.73%) PaaS
11 6 (4.05%) IaaS
11 6 (4.05%) iPaaS
12 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (35.81%) Firewall
2 33 (22.30%) DNS
3 30 (20.27%) DHCP
4 20 (13.51%) VPN
4 20 (13.51%) WAN
5 17 (11.49%) TCP/IP
5 17 (11.49%) VLAN
6 13 (8.78%) LAN
7 9 (6.08%) Skype
8 8 (5.41%) SAN
8 8 (5.41%) SD-WAN
9 6 (4.05%) Network Security
10 5 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.70%) Modbus
11 4 (2.70%) MPLS
12 3 (2.03%) Softphone
13 2 (1.35%) HTTP
13 2 (1.35%) SSL
14 1 (0.68%) FTP
14 1 (0.68%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.08%) DTS
4 2 (1.35%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.35%) SQL CLR
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) JIRA
2 12 (8.11%) Git
2 12 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.43%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) Locust
General
1 29 (19.59%) Public Sector
2 25 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.46%) Law
4 13 (8.78%) Finance
4 13 (8.78%) Manufacturing
4 13 (8.78%) Retail
5 8 (5.41%) Back Office
6 6 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Legal
6 6 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Local Government
8 3 (2.03%) Publishing
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (78.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 62 (41.89%) Support Engineer
3 53 (35.81%) Infrastructure Support
3 53 (35.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 40 (27.03%) IT Engineer
5 33 (22.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (14.86%) IT Support
7 18 (12.16%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) Senior
8 16 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Analyst
10 9 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Lead
11 7 (4.73%) Support Analyst
12 6 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Network Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.03%) EDI
1 3 (2.03%) OLE
2 2 (1.35%) .NET
2 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.35%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.35%) Dapper ORM
2 2 (1.35%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.35%) OAuth
2 2 (1.35%) SAML
3 1 (0.68%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.57%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.43%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.43%) Replication
3 9 (6.08%) CMDB
3 9 (6.08%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.73%) Operational Technology
5 7 (4.73%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.05%) Clustering
6 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.38%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.38%) SCADA
8 4 (2.70%) NHS
9 3 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 90 (60.81%) Windows
2 61 (41.22%) Windows Server
3 29 (19.59%) Linux
4 21 (14.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (10.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (8.78%) VMS
7 9 (6.08%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (5.41%) Rocky
9 7 (4.73%) Windows 10
10 5 (3.38%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.35%) Unix
12 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.95%) DevOps
2 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (14.19%) ITIL
4 20 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (11.49%) Cloud Security
6 16 (10.81%) Containerisation
6 16 (10.81%) Mentoring
7 15 (10.14%) CI/CD
8 14 (9.46%) Change Management
9 12 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (7.43%) Configuration Management
10 11 (7.43%) Customer Service
10 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (7.43%) Migration
10 11 (7.43%) Server Management
11 10 (6.76%) Agile
12 9 (6.08%) Cloud Operations
12 9 (6.08%) Problem Management
12 9 (6.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.57%) PowerShell
2 19 (12.84%) SQL
3 14 (9.46%) Python
4 12 (8.11%) Groovy
5 2 (1.35%) C#
6 1 (0.68%) Bash
6 1 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (9.46%) Azure Certification
5 12 (8.11%) MCP
5 12 (8.11%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (7.43%) Degree
6 11 (7.43%) DV Cleared
7 9 (6.08%) A+ Certification
8 8 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (4.73%) MCSA
9 7 (4.73%) MCSE
10 3 (2.03%) CISM
10 3 (2.03%) CISSP
10 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.68%) CCNP
11 1 (0.68%) CISA
11 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.68%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.43%) GDPR
2 8 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (3.38%) QA
6 4 (2.70%) IEC 61508
7 3 (2.03%) SLA
8 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.35%) IEC 61131
8 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.68%) NIST
9 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (51.35%) Active Directory
2 26 (17.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (15.54%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.43%) DFS Replication
5 10 (6.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.70%) XenApp
7 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.03%) vSphere
8 2 (1.35%) Docker
8 2 (1.35%) Firmware
8 2 (1.35%) vCloud
8 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (14.19%) Terraform
2 15 (10.14%) Ansible
3 12 (8.11%) Grafana
4 11 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (7.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.08%) Kubernetes
5 9 (6.08%) Nagios
5 9 (6.08%) ZABBIX
6 6 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (2.70%) SCCM
8 2 (1.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.68%) Nessus
9 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (39.19%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.59%) VMware
3 14 (9.46%) Cisco
3 14 (9.46%) Citrix
3 14 (9.46%) ServiceNow
3 14 (9.46%) Veeam
4 12 (8.11%) Google
4 12 (8.11%) Meraki
5 11 (7.43%) Darktrace
5 11 (7.43%) Juniper
6 10 (6.76%) SolarWinds
6 10 (6.76%) Tanium
7 9 (6.08%) BMC
7 9 (6.08%) Proofpoint
7 9 (6.08%) Red Hat
7 9 (6.08%) Trend Micro
8 8 (5.41%) Dell
9 5 (3.38%) Rapid7
10 4 (2.70%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.70%) SonicWALL