Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 38 17
Rank change year-on-year -24 -21 +33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 29 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 1.51% 5.23% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 5.85% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 23
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,442
25th Percentile - £38,438 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +34.62% -8.30%
75th Percentile - £53,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £47,250 £55,000 £47,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £48,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.63% +7.22% -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 839 496 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.58% 89.37% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 337 315 303
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,119 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,580 £31,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +4.94% -14.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,659 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £63,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stoke-on-Trent +17 7 £45,000 +20.00% 3
Tamworth -4 1 £47,500 -9.52%
Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 4 (26.67%) WinCC
2 2 (13.33%) FactoryTalk
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (20.00%) Datadog
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Modbus
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) LAN
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Law
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Civil Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) IT Support
3 3 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Junior
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Junior IT Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Junior IT Support
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Driving Licence
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Operational Technology
1 4 (26.67%) SCADA
2 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Presales
2 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Network Design
3 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
1 1 (6.67%) MCP
1 1 (6.67%) MCSA
1 1 (6.67%) MCSE
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) IEC 61508
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) SLA
3 2 (13.33%) IEC 61131
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Rockwell
2 4 (26.67%) Siemens
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet