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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 112 60
Rank change year-on-year +21 -52 +19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 156 151 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.00% 2.26% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.52% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 118 78 178
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,313
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,313 £39,451
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,750 £47,100
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -2.87% -0.84%
75th Percentile £59,688 £53,750 £56,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £58,975 £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 6,373 5,992 4,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.74% 89.69% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,512 2,650 3,662
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +19 93 £50,000 +3.63% 126
East Midlands +2 62 £45,000 - 94
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 34 (21.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (16.03%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.77%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.21%) CMS
5 4 (2.56%) WinCC
6 2 (1.28%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (41.67%) Azure
2 44 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (16.67%) SaaS
4 24 (15.38%) AWS
4 24 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 13 (8.33%) GCP
6 11 (7.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.85%) iPaaS
8 5 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.21%) IaaS
8 5 (3.21%) PaaS
9 4 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.56%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.56%) Datadog
10 3 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.92%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.28%) Serverless
12 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (21.79%) Firewall
2 30 (19.23%) DNS
3 25 (16.03%) DHCP
4 16 (10.26%) VPN
5 15 (9.62%) WAN
6 13 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 13 (8.33%) VLAN
7 11 (7.05%) LAN
8 9 (5.77%) SAN
8 9 (5.77%) Skype
9 8 (5.13%) Network Security
10 4 (2.56%) Modbus
10 4 (2.56%) MPLS
10 4 (2.56%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.92%) HTTP
11 3 (1.92%) Softphone
11 3 (1.92%) SSL
11 3 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.28%) SNMP
12 2 (1.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.77%) DTS
1 9 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Git
1 4 (2.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.28%) GitLab
2 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.64%) JMeter
3 1 (0.64%) Locust
3 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (14.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.26%) Retail
3 12 (7.69%) Law
3 12 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.21%) Back Office
5 5 (3.21%) Finance
6 3 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Banking
6 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.92%) Publishing
7 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Advertising
8 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 47 (30.13%) Support Engineer
3 38 (24.36%) Infrastructure Support
3 38 (24.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 37 (23.72%) IT Engineer
5 30 (19.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (14.10%) Senior
7 21 (13.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (12.82%) IT Support
9 18 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (6.41%) Lead
12 10 (6.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (5.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (5.13%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (5.13%) Network Engineer
15 7 (4.49%) Analyst
15 7 (4.49%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.92%) EDI
1 3 (1.92%) Middleware
1 3 (1.92%) OLE
2 1 (0.64%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.64%) OAuth
2 1 (0.64%) SAML
2 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.46%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.05%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.41%) CMDB
3 10 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.77%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (3.85%) Clustering
5 6 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.21%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.56%) SCADA
8 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 64 (41.03%) Windows
2 48 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 13 (8.33%) Linux
4 10 (6.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (3.21%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.21%) Windows 10
8 4 (2.56%) Rocky
9 2 (1.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (15.38%) ITIL
3 20 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (12.82%) DevOps
4 17 (10.90%) CI/CD
4 17 (10.90%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (10.26%) Mentoring
6 15 (9.62%) Migration
7 14 (8.97%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 13 (8.33%) Customer Service
8 13 (8.33%) Service Delivery
9 11 (7.05%) Agile
9 11 (7.05%) Cloud Operations
10 10 (6.41%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (6.41%) Server Management
11 9 (5.77%) Problem Management
11 9 (5.77%) Project Delivery
12 8 (5.13%) Data Security
12 8 (5.13%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.97%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (1.28%) Python
4 1 (0.64%) Java
4 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.41%) Degree
4 8 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.49%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.85%) MCP
7 3 (1.92%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.92%) CCNA
7 3 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.28%) CISM
8 2 (1.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.64%) CCNP
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.64%) MCSA
9 1 (0.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) GDPR
2 8 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.92%) SLA
6 2 (1.28%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (29.49%) Active Directory
2 26 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (11.54%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.56%) vSphere
5 4 (2.56%) XenApp
6 3 (1.92%) Docker
6 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.28%) vCloud
8 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.77%) Nagios
2 9 (5.77%) ZABBIX
3 8 (5.13%) Terraform
4 6 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.85%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.56%) Ansible
6 3 (1.92%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.28%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.64%) Grafana
8 1 (0.64%) Nessus
8 1 (0.64%) Puppet
8 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (30.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.59%) VMware
3 14 (8.97%) Citrix
3 14 (8.97%) Veeam
4 13 (8.33%) Cisco
5 12 (7.69%) Google
6 11 (7.05%) Darktrace
6 11 (7.05%) Tanium
7 10 (6.41%) Meraki
7 10 (6.41%) SolarWinds
8 9 (5.77%) BMC
8 9 (5.77%) Proofpoint
8 9 (5.77%) Red Hat
8 9 (5.77%) Trend Micro
9 4 (2.56%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.56%) Dell
9 4 (2.56%) IBM
9 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.56%) Siemens
9 4 (2.56%) SonicWALL