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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 122 62
Rank change year-on-year +27 -60 +20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 157 139 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.00% 2.13% 3.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.37% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 117 69 185
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £46,674
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -0.37% -1.74%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £58,900 £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,170
% change year-on-year +4.55% +5.42% -0.63%

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 6,401 5,860 4,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.41% 89.96% 87.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,542 2,565 3,848
10th Percentile £28,250 £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 £75,000
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 7 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 7 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 +15 94 £50,000 +11.11% 28
East Midlands +16 62 £45,000 -10.00% 24
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 (21.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (14.65%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.73%) Skype for Business
4 5 (3.18%) CMS
5 4 (2.55%) WinCC
6 2 (1.27%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.76%) Azure
2 41 (26.11%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (16.56%) SaaS
4 25 (15.92%) AWS
5 24 (15.29%) Entra ID
6 13 (8.28%) GCP
7 11 (7.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.82%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.18%) IaaS
10 4 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.55%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.55%) Datadog
10 4 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.55%) PaaS
11 3 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.91%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.64%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.38%) Firewall
2 26 (16.56%) DNS
3 21 (13.38%) DHCP
4 12 (7.64%) VPN
4 12 (7.64%) WAN
5 11 (7.01%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.37%) LAN
6 10 (6.37%) VLAN
7 9 (5.73%) Network Security
7 9 (5.73%) SAN
7 9 (5.73%) Skype
8 4 (2.55%) Modbus
8 4 (2.55%) MPLS
8 4 (2.55%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.91%) HTTP
9 3 (1.91%) SSL
9 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.27%) FTP
10 2 (1.27%) SNMP
10 2 (1.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) DTS
1 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Git
1 4 (2.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) GitLab
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.64%) JMeter
3 1 (0.64%) Locust
3 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (14.01%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.19%) Retail
3 12 (7.64%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.01%) Law
5 6 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Banking
7 4 (2.55%) Finance
7 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.91%) Back Office
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (84.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (27.39%) Support Engineer
3 34 (21.66%) Infrastructure Support
3 34 (21.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 33 (21.02%) IT Engineer
5 26 (16.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (15.92%) Senior
7 24 (15.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (11.46%) IT Support
9 16 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (10.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (8.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (6.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Lead
13 8 (5.10%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Network Engineer
14 7 (4.46%) Infrastructure Manager
15 6 (3.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.91%) Middleware
1 3 (1.91%) OLE
2 1 (0.64%) EDI
2 1 (0.64%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.64%) OAuth
2 1 (0.64%) SAML
2 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.37%) CMDB
2 10 (6.37%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.73%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.82%) Clustering
4 6 (3.82%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.18%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.55%) SCADA
6 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 62 (39.49%) Windows
2 47 (29.94%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.92%) Linux
4 10 (6.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (5.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.55%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.55%) Rocky
7 4 (2.55%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.27%) VMS
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (15.29%) ITIL
3 19 (12.10%) DevOps
4 18 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (10.83%) CI/CD
6 16 (10.19%) Mentoring
7 14 (8.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (8.92%) Migration
7 14 (8.92%) Service Delivery
8 13 (8.28%) Containerisation
8 13 (8.28%) Customer Service
9 12 (7.64%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (7.01%) Cloud Operations
11 10 (6.37%) Agile
11 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (6.37%) Server Management
12 9 (5.73%) Problem Management
12 9 (5.73%) Project Delivery
13 8 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (4.46%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.92%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.64%) SQL
3 2 (1.27%) Python
4 1 (0.64%) Java
4 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (8.28%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) Degree
4 8 (5.10%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.82%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (2.55%) MCP
8 3 (1.91%) CCNA
8 3 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.27%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.27%) CISM
9 2 (1.27%) CISSP
9 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.64%) CCNP
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.73%) GDPR
2 8 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.18%) QA
5 4 (2.55%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.91%) SLA
7 2 (1.27%) IEC 61131
7 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (26.75%) Active Directory
2 27 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.83%) Hyper-V
4 12 (7.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.18%) vSphere
6 4 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.55%) XenApp
7 3 (1.91%) Docker
7 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.27%) vCloud
9 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.73%) Nagios
2 9 (5.73%) ZABBIX
3 7 (4.46%) Terraform
4 6 (3.82%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.82%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.55%) Ansible
6 3 (1.91%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.64%) Grafana
8 1 (0.64%) Nessus
8 1 (0.64%) Puppet
8 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (19.11%) VMware
3 14 (8.92%) Citrix
4 13 (8.28%) Veeam
5 12 (7.64%) Cisco
5 12 (7.64%) Google
6 11 (7.01%) Darktrace
6 11 (7.01%) Tanium
7 10 (6.37%) Meraki
7 10 (6.37%) SolarWinds
8 9 (5.73%) BMC
8 9 (5.73%) Proofpoint
8 9 (5.73%) Red Hat
8 9 (5.73%) Trend Micro
9 5 (3.18%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.55%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.55%) Dell
10 4 (2.55%) IBM
10 4 (2.55%) Rockwell
10 4 (2.55%) Siemens