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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 120 68
Rank change year-on-year +29 -52 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 205 118 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.64% 2.34% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.64% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 162 82 395
10th Percentile £40,050 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,938 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -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 8,657 4,474 11,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.44% 88.79% 78.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,058 2,550 7,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 18 June 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 June 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 +10 120 £52,500 +14.13% 27
East Midlands +21 85 £45,000 +12.50% 25
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 26 (12.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (9.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.95%) PowerFactory
4 3 (1.46%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.95%) AutoCAD
1 4 (1.95%) Revit
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (36.59%) Azure
2 36 (17.56%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (10.73%) AWS
4 20 (9.76%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.90%) PaaS
6 6 (2.93%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.44%) IaaS
7 5 (2.44%) Serverless
8 4 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.95%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.95%) SaaS
9 3 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.46%) GCP
9 3 (1.46%) GitHub
9 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.98%) Datadog
10 2 (0.98%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.00%) Firewall
2 25 (12.20%) VPN
3 16 (7.80%) DNS
4 13 (6.34%) VLAN
4 13 (6.34%) WAN
5 11 (5.37%) DHCP
5 11 (5.37%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (4.88%) Network Security
7 9 (4.39%) LAN
8 8 (3.90%) MQTT
8 8 (3.90%) SAN
9 4 (1.95%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.46%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.98%) Internet
11 2 (0.98%) Wireless
12 1 (0.49%) BGP
12 1 (0.49%) DMZ
12 1 (0.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.95%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.95%) MySQL
3 4 (1.95%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.49%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Git
2 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.98%) JMeter
2 2 (0.98%) Locust
General
1 31 (15.12%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.90%) Banking
4 8 (3.90%) Investment Banking
4 8 (3.90%) Law
5 6 (2.93%) Finance
5 6 (2.93%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.95%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.95%) Retail
7 3 (1.46%) Legal
7 3 (1.46%) Social Housing
8 2 (0.98%) Advertising
8 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (26.34%) Senior
3 46 (22.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (13.66%) IT Engineer
5 26 (12.68%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.80%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.80%) Network Engineer
8 12 (5.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.37%) VMware Engineer
9 11 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.90%) Administrator
11 8 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.90%) Lead
11 8 (3.90%) Senior Network Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.95%) Flash
2 2 (0.98%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.98%) Middleware
2 2 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.34%) Driving Licence
2 11 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.90%) IoT
5 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.95%) Replication
7 3 (1.46%) CCTV
7 3 (1.46%) Clustering
7 3 (1.46%) CMDB
7 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.98%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.98%) SCADA
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.49%) iPad
9 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (20.49%) Windows
2 34 (16.59%) Windows Server
3 19 (9.27%) Linux
4 5 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.44%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.95%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (9.76%) ITIL
5 18 (8.78%) Mentoring
6 17 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (7.80%) Roadmaps
8 15 (7.32%) High Availability
9 14 (6.83%) CI/CD
10 13 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (6.34%) Observability
10 13 (6.34%) Project Delivery
10 13 (6.34%) Service Delivery
11 12 (5.85%) Systems Engineering
12 11 (5.37%) Cloud Security
13 9 (4.39%) Agile
13 9 (4.39%) Containerisation
13 9 (4.39%) Incident Management
13 9 (4.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.78%) PowerShell
2 17 (8.29%) SQL
3 9 (4.39%) Python
4 3 (1.46%) Bicep
4 3 (1.46%) Scala
5 2 (0.98%) Bash
5 2 (0.98%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (6.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.37%) Degree
2 11 (5.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.46%) A+ Certification
5 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.46%) CCNA
5 3 (1.46%) CCNP
5 3 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (0.98%) CISSP
6 2 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.49%) IISP
7 1 (0.49%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.98%) WCAG
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (17.56%) Active Directory
1 36 (17.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (9.27%) Hyper-V
3 10 (4.88%) vSphere
4 9 (4.39%) Docker
5 3 (1.46%) Firmware
6 2 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.49%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (8.29%) Terraform
2 15 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (5.37%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.41%) Ansible
5 4 (1.95%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.95%) Grafana
5 4 (1.95%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.46%) SCCM
6 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.49%) Argo
8 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 41 (20.00%) VMware
3 14 (6.83%) Cisco
4 8 (3.90%) Citrix
4 8 (3.90%) Veeam
5 7 (3.41%) Fortinet
5 7 (3.41%) Meraki
6 4 (1.95%) DIgSILENT
6 4 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.46%) Dell
7 3 (1.46%) SonicWALL
8 2 (0.98%) Avaya
8 2 (0.98%) Isilon
8 2 (0.98%) NetApp
8 2 (0.98%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.98%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.49%) Apple
9 1 (0.49%) Aruba
9 1 (0.49%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow