Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 269 253
Rank change year-on-year +23 -16 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 15 57 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.48% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.51% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 8 45 27
10th Percentile - £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £55,375 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £57,400 £60,250 £58,500
England median annual salary £61,644 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.74% +4.35% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,521 11,204 8,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 94.29% 89.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,866 8,337 4,644
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,123 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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 +35 9 £45,000 -18.18% 10
East Midlands +27 6 £56,000 +17.89% 2
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
4 10 (66.67%) Azure
5 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (60.00%) Firewall
6 8 (53.33%) Windows
6 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (46.67%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (40.00%) ITIL
9 5 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (33.33%) VLAN
9 5 (33.33%) WatchGuard
9 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
9 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (33.33%) Acronis
10 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
10 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
10 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
11 3 (20.00%) VPN
11 3 (20.00%) Legal
11 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 3 (20.00%) PaaS
11 3 (20.00%) Degree
11 3 (20.00%) VMware
11 3 (20.00%) Agile
11 3 (20.00%) High Availability
11 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) IaaS
3 3 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) VLAN
2 5 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) DHCP
4 2 (13.33%) DNS
4 2 (13.33%) LAN
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security
4 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) WAN
5 1 (6.67%) Internet
5 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Law
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (53.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (40.00%) ITIL
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Cost Management
7 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (13.33%) DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (13.33%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Perl
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) MCITP
2 1 (6.67%) MCSA
2 1 (6.67%) MCSE
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) SCOM
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Acronis
2 5 (33.33%) WatchGuard
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) Isilon
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk