Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Staffordshire is £47,574 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 58 54
Rank change year-on-year +18 -4 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 19 31 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.35% 3.15% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.76% 3.28% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18 26 16
10th Percentile - £37,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,574 £41,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -8.33% +8.43%
75th Percentile £53,591 £49,375 £48,750
90th Percentile £54,082 £55,000 £60,000
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 399 944 502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 70.25% 95.93% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 280 698 378
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,127 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,688 £53,750 £55,188
90th Percentile £62,500 £61,800 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stafford +3 9 £53,300 +25.41%
Stoke-on-Trent +15 7 £35,000 -12.50% 3
Tamworth +7 1 £50,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Staffordshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (89.47%) Windows
3 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
4 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
4 12 (63.16%) Azure
5 11 (57.89%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (57.89%) VMware
5 11 (57.89%) Public Sector
6 10 (52.63%) Windows Server
7 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
8 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (36.84%) MCP
9 7 (36.84%) Release Management
9 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
9 7 (36.84%) Availability Management
10 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
10 6 (31.58%) Server Management
10 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
10 6 (31.58%) LAN
10 6 (31.58%) WAN
10 6 (31.58%) MCSE
10 6 (31.58%) MCSA
10 6 (31.58%) SQL
10 6 (31.58%) A+ Certification
11 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
11 5 (26.32%) SaaS
12 4 (21.05%) Change Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (26.32%) SaaS
4 3 (15.79%) IaaS
4 3 (15.79%) OneDrive
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) LAN
1 6 (31.58%) WAN
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (5.26%) DNS
3 1 (5.26%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (57.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Police
3 2 (10.53%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) Availability Management
2 7 (36.84%) Release Management
3 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
3 6 (31.58%) Server Management
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) Business Case
5 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) Matrix Management
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Management
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (36.84%) MCP
3 6 (31.58%) A+ Certification
3 6 (31.58%) MCSA
3 6 (31.58%) MCSE
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (5.26%) Nessus
1 1 (5.26%) VxRail
1 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (57.89%) VMware
3 4 (21.05%) Citrix
3 4 (21.05%) Dell
4 3 (15.79%) Isilon
5 1 (5.26%) Acronis
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) EqualLogic
5 1 (5.26%) HP
5 1 (5.26%) NetApp
5 1 (5.26%) Netskope
5 1 (5.26%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (5.26%) Veeam