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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 70 36
Rank change year-on-year -104 -34 +102
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 88 420 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.30% 3.35% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 4.16% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 59 367 151
10th Percentile £30,550 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,147 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -8.16% +8.89%
75th Percentile £54,694 £56,043 £57,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 6,208 10,091 8,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.62% 80.59% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,414 7,332 4,445
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,213 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 27 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 27 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 -41 62 £45,000 - 120
East Midlands -83 26 £47,500 +5.56% 96
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 (21.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.68%) Confluence
4 3 (3.41%) IIS
5 1 (1.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.91%) Azure
2 24 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (20.45%) AWS
4 10 (11.36%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.82%) AWS KMS
6 6 (6.82%) SaaS
6 6 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (4.55%) IaaS
8 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.55%) Nutanix
8 4 (4.55%) Route 53
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub
9 3 (3.41%) Mimecast
9 3 (3.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (35.23%) Firewall
2 29 (32.95%) WAN
3 26 (29.55%) VPN
4 21 (23.86%) LAN
5 19 (21.59%) DHCP
5 19 (21.59%) DNS
6 10 (11.36%) VLAN
7 9 (10.23%) SD-WAN
7 9 (10.23%) TCP/IP
8 8 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (6.82%) Network Security
10 5 (5.68%) SAN
11 4 (4.55%) HTTPS
12 2 (2.27%) 5G
12 2 (2.27%) Bluetooth
12 2 (2.27%) LTE
12 2 (2.27%) Wireless
13 1 (1.14%) PBX
13 1 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.55%) Data Hub
3 4 (4.55%) SQL CLR
4 2 (2.27%) Metadata
4 2 (2.27%) Power BI
4 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
1 7 (7.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.68%) JIRA
2 5 (5.68%) Vagrant
3 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.23%) Finance
6 5 (5.68%) Law
7 4 (4.55%) Back Office
7 4 (4.55%) Legal
7 4 (4.55%) Local Government
8 3 (3.41%) Electronics
8 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (88.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (20.45%) Infrastructure Support
2 18 (20.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 18 (20.45%) Support Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Senior
4 10 (11.36%) IT Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Civil Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Development Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.27%) .NET
3 2 (2.27%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.27%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.27%) Dapper ORM
3 2 (2.27%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.14%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Cyberattack
1 8 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.68%) Replication
3 4 (4.55%) NHS
3 4 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.41%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Clustering
5 2 (2.27%) IoT
5 2 (2.27%) NB-IoT
5 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) PKI
6 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (73.86%) Windows
2 46 (52.27%) Windows Server
3 20 (22.73%) Linux
4 11 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (11.36%) Android
6 6 (6.82%) Windows 10
6 6 (6.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (5.68%) VMS
8 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.14%) Unix
9 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (22.73%) DevOps
3 16 (18.18%) ITIL
4 13 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
5 11 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 11 (12.50%) Line Management
6 10 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (10.23%) Agile
7 9 (10.23%) Change Management
7 9 (10.23%) Cost Management
7 9 (10.23%) High Availability
7 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Management
7 9 (10.23%) Project Management
7 9 (10.23%) Server Management
7 9 (10.23%) Storage Management
7 9 (10.23%) Task Automation
8 8 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 8 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.05%) PowerShell
2 21 (23.86%) Python
3 15 (17.05%) SQL
4 12 (13.64%) Bash
5 4 (4.55%) Groovy
6 2 (2.27%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) Perl
6 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (17.05%) MCP
2 15 (17.05%) MCSA
3 14 (15.91%) A+ Certification
4 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
5 11 (12.50%) Azure Certification
6 10 (11.36%) MCSE
7 8 (9.09%) Degree
8 7 (7.95%) AWS Certification
8 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
9 6 (6.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
11 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (2.27%) CCNA
12 2 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (1.14%) MCITP
13 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.27%) SLA
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) GRC
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 45 (51.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (21.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (20.45%) Hyper-V
4 11 (12.50%) Docker
5 10 (11.36%) vSphere
6 8 (9.09%) VMware NSX
7 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (4.55%) DFS Replication
9 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) Terraform
2 19 (21.59%) Ansible
3 7 (7.95%) SCCM
4 6 (6.82%) SCOM
5 5 (5.68%) Grafana
5 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.68%) Puppet
6 4 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.41%) WSUS
8 2 (2.27%) Nessus
9 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.14%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.14%) SCOrch
9 1 (1.14%) SCSM
Vendors
1 54 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 25 (28.41%) VMware
3 15 (17.05%) Cisco
4 14 (15.91%) Juniper
5 10 (11.36%) Splunk
6 8 (9.09%) 3PAR
7 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.55%) Citrix
8 4 (4.55%) Dell
8 4 (4.55%) Isilon
8 4 (4.55%) Meraki
8 4 (4.55%) Veeam
9 3 (3.41%) HP
9 3 (3.41%) Nasuni
9 3 (3.41%) Rapid7
9 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.27%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.14%) Apple
11 1 (1.14%) Netskope
11 1 (1.14%) Nimble Storage