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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	71	107	79
Rank change year-on-year	+36	-28	-13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering	328	146	256
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands	2.08%	2.64%	2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	2.92%	3.04%	3.47%
Number of salaries quoted	249	100	146
10^th Percentile	£37,250	£32,375	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£42,500	£33,438	£37,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£52,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	-4.76%	+5.00%	+0.88%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£73,750	£58,750
90^th Percentile	£68,000	£80,000	£65,000
England median annual salary	£60,000	£60,000	£50,948
% change year-on-year	-	+17.77%	-7.07%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	11,250	4,810	7,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands	71.25%	86.87%	80.80%
Number of salaries quoted	7,941	2,826	3,343
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£27,000	£30,000
25^th Percentile	£39,000	£32,125	£37,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£45,390	£51,251
Median % change year-on-year	+10.16%	-11.44%	-2.38%
75^th Percentile	£65,000	£63,688	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£77,500	£78,990
England median annual salary	£60,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-8.33%	-1.32%

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 Salary Trend in the Midlands

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 18 October 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 18 October 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	+6	171	£55,000	-21.43%	60
East Midlands	+41	157	£50,000	+42.86%	42
Infrastructure Engineering England

Infrastructure Engineering Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing Infrastructure Engineering also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	37.5%	123
2	Microsoft	35.4%	116
3	Windows	26.5%	87
4	Active Directory	23.2%	76
5	Windows Server	20.7%	68
6	Microsoft 365	18.9%	62
7	Firewall	17.4%	57
8	Problem-Solving	16.5%	54
9	VMware	14.6%	48
10	DevOps	13.4%	44
10	Infrastructure as Code	13.4%	44
10	VPN	13.4%	44
13	Entra ID	13.1%	43
13	VMware Infrastructure	13.1%	43
15	Disaster Recovery	12.5%	41
16	DNS	11.9%	39
16	Hyper-V	11.9%	39
18	PowerShell	11.6%	38
19	Linux	10.4%	34
19	Mentoring	10.4%	34
19	Microsoft Exchange	10.4%	34
22	Continuous Improvement	9.8%	32
22	Microsoft Intune	9.8%	32
24	AWS	9.5%	31
24	CI/CD	9.5%	31
24	Cloud Security	9.5%	31
27	Cybersecurity	9.1%	30
28	Platform Engineering	8.8%	29
28	Terraform	8.8%	29
30	Degree	7.9%	26

Infrastructure Engineering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Problem-Solving	16.5%	54
2	DevOps	13.4%	44
2	Infrastructure as Code	13.4%	44
4	Disaster Recovery	12.5%	41
5	Mentoring	10.4%	34
6	Continuous Improvement	9.8%	32
7	CI/CD	9.5%	31
7	Cloud Security	9.5%	31
9	Cybersecurity	9.1%	30
10	Platform Engineering	8.8%	29
11	Project Delivery	7.3%	24
12	Incident Management	6.4%	21
12	ITIL	6.4%	21
14	Containerisation	6.1%	20
14	Site Reliability Engineering	6.1%	20
16	Technical Leadership	5.8%	19
17	AI	5.5%	18
18	Root Cause Analysis	5.2%	17
19	Business Continuity	4.9%	16
19	Observability	4.9%	16