Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 68 35
Rank change year-on-year -85 -33 +112
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 92 402 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.32% 3.44% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 4.18% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 72 354 173
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,864 £60,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 6,342 9,627 9,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.30% 82.47% 96.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,662 7,118 4,613
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,002 £34,750 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,950 £75,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -44 72 £45,000 - 37
East Midlands -77 20 £52,500 +16.67% 19
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (20.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (10.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.26%) IIS
4 1 (1.09%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 50 (54.35%) Azure
2 35 (38.04%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (15.22%) AWS
4 10 (10.87%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.87%) SaaS
5 6 (6.52%) IaaS
5 6 (6.52%) PaaS
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.35%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.35%) Route 53
7 3 (3.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.17%) GCP
8 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.09%) GitHub
9 1 (1.09%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (38.04%) Firewall
2 27 (29.35%) WAN
3 21 (22.83%) VPN
4 19 (20.65%) DNS
4 19 (20.65%) LAN
5 18 (19.57%) DHCP
6 17 (18.48%) VLAN
7 12 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (9.78%) SD-WAN
9 8 (8.70%) Network Security
9 8 (8.70%) SAN
10 7 (7.61%) TCP/IP
11 4 (4.35%) HTTPS
12 2 (2.17%) 5G
12 2 (2.17%) Bluetooth
12 2 (2.17%) LTE
12 2 (2.17%) NAS
13 1 (1.09%) PBX
13 1 (1.09%) Unified Communications
13 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.26%) Data Hub
2 3 (3.26%) SQL CLR
3 2 (2.17%) Metadata
3 2 (2.17%) Power BI
3 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (1.09%) Git
General
1 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.70%) Law
5 7 (7.61%) Finance
6 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Legal
7 3 (3.26%) Back Office
7 3 (3.26%) Electronics
7 3 (3.26%) Local Government
7 3 (3.26%) Police
7 3 (3.26%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.09%) Advertising
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (89.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (21.74%) Senior
3 17 (18.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
4 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Support Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) IT Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.09%) .NET
3 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.09%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (1.09%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.09%) ODBC
3 1 (1.09%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.26%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (3.26%) NHS
3 3 (3.26%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) Clustering
4 2 (2.17%) IoT
4 2 (2.17%) NB-IoT
4 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.09%) PKI
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
5 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (61.96%) Windows
2 53 (57.61%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (8.70%) Linux
5 7 (7.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (6.52%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.17%) Android
8 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (18.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (18.48%) ITIL
3 12 (13.04%) Project Management
4 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (11.96%) Server Management
5 10 (10.87%) Collaborative Culture
5 10 (10.87%) High Availability
5 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Management
6 9 (9.78%) Cost Management
6 9 (9.78%) Roadmaps
7 8 (8.70%) Agile
7 8 (8.70%) Cloud Security
7 8 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (8.70%) Identity Management
7 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.70%) Logistics
7 8 (8.70%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (8.70%) Project Delivery
7 8 (8.70%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.04%) SQL
3 8 (8.70%) Python
4 4 (4.35%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Perl
5 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (14.13%) MCP
2 13 (14.13%) MCSA
3 12 (13.04%) A+ Certification
3 12 (13.04%) Azure Certification
3 12 (13.04%) Degree
4 8 (8.70%) MCSE
4 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 7 (7.61%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.17%) CCNA
9 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.09%) CCNP
10 1 (1.09%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.17%) GDPR
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
4 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (54.35%) Active Directory
2 25 (27.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (20.65%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.17%) Docker
5 2 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (8.70%) Terraform
3 6 (6.52%) SCOM
4 5 (5.43%) Ansible
4 5 (5.43%) SCCM
5 4 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (4.35%) Puppet
6 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.17%) Nessus
6 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.17%) WSUS
6 2 (2.17%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.09%) SCOrch
7 1 (1.09%) SCSM
7 1 (1.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (61.96%) Microsoft
2 34 (36.96%) VMware
3 7 (7.61%) Acronis
3 7 (7.61%) Cisco
4 6 (6.52%) Citrix
4 6 (6.52%) Veeam
4 6 (6.52%) WatchGuard
5 4 (4.35%) Dell
5 4 (4.35%) Isilon
6 3 (3.26%) HP
7 2 (2.17%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.17%) Google
7 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.17%) Sophos
7 2 (2.17%) Splunk
7 2 (2.17%) TP-LINK
8 1 (1.09%) Netskope