Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 133 147
Rank change year-on-year +45 +14 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 170 94 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.43% 1.85% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 2.06% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 115 83 143
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,200 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +11.80%
75th Percentile £58,750 £54,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £59,000 £60,800
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,598 4,571 8,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 90.05% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,468 3,109 5,288
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,600 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Birmingham +6 45 £55,000 +10.97% 2
Staffordshire 0 41 £50,000 +12.04% 4
Warwickshire +34 29 £45,000 -2.17% 1
Shropshire - 11 £35,000 -
Coventry -1 8 £54,500 +9.00% 2
Solihull +11 7 £53,750 +26.47%
Worcestershire -19 4 £45,000 -18.18%
Wednesbury - 2 - -
Wolverhampton +4 1 £45,000 -16.67% 1
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 £35,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 160 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (41.76%) Azure
3 60 (35.29%) Microsoft
4 58 (34.12%) Windows
5 57 (33.53%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (30.00%) Active Directory
7 47 (27.65%) VMware
8 41 (24.12%) Hyper-V
9 35 (20.59%) Windows Server
10 31 (18.24%) VMware Infrastructure
11 27 (15.88%) Firewall
12 25 (14.71%) Games
12 25 (14.71%) PowerShell
13 21 (12.35%) 5G
13 21 (12.35%) Radio Access Network
13 21 (12.35%) Telecoms
13 21 (12.35%) 3GPP
14 20 (11.76%) AWS
14 20 (11.76%) Entra ID
14 20 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (11.18%) Dell
15 19 (11.18%) DNS
16 18 (10.59%) SAN
16 18 (10.59%) Microsoft Exchange
16 18 (10.59%) ITIL
17 17 (10.00%) DHCP
17 17 (10.00%) Social Skills
18 15 (8.82%) Roadmaps
18 15 (8.82%) SharePoint
18 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 18 (10.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.35%) IIS
4 3 (1.76%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 71 (41.76%) Azure
2 57 (33.53%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (11.76%) AWS
3 20 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.76%) SaaS
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.18%) Serverless
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.59%) GCP
6 1 (0.59%) GitHub
6 1 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.59%) IaaS
6 1 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.88%) Firewall
2 21 (12.35%) 3GPP
2 21 (12.35%) 5G
2 21 (12.35%) Radio Access Network
3 19 (11.18%) DNS
4 18 (10.59%) SAN
5 17 (10.00%) DHCP
6 14 (8.24%) WAN
7 12 (7.06%) LAN
8 11 (6.47%) VLAN
9 10 (5.88%) TCP/IP
10 6 (3.53%) Network Security
11 5 (2.94%) FTP
11 5 (2.94%) SMTP
11 5 (2.94%) SSH
11 5 (2.94%) SSL
11 5 (2.94%) Telnet
11 5 (2.94%) VPN
11 5 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.18%) MySQL
3 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Postman
1 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (14.71%) Games
2 21 (12.35%) Telecoms
3 17 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.53%) Finance
5 5 (2.94%) Law
5 5 (2.94%) Retail
6 4 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.76%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.18%) Advertising
8 2 (1.18%) Electronics
8 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.76%) .NET
1 3 (1.76%) .NET Framework
1 3 (1.76%) XML
2 1 (0.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.06%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.94%) Clustering
2 5 (2.94%) EFT
3 4 (2.35%) Client/Server
3 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.18%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.18%) Replication
5 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.59%) IoT
6 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 58 (34.12%) Windows
2 35 (20.59%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.24%) Linux
4 9 (5.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.76%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.18%) Unix
8 2 (1.18%) zOS
9 1 (0.59%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (10.59%) ITIL
4 15 (8.82%) Roadmaps
5 11 (6.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (5.88%) Information Security
6 10 (5.88%) Logistics
7 9 (5.29%) Data Protection
8 8 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (4.71%) Service Delivery
9 7 (4.12%) Incident Response
9 7 (4.12%) Line Management
9 7 (4.12%) Server Management
9 7 (4.12%) Strategic Roadmap
9 7 (4.12%) Virtual Environments
10 6 (3.53%) Business Continuity
11 5 (2.94%) High Availability
11 5 (2.94%) Process Improvement
11 5 (2.94%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.35%) SQL
3 2 (1.18%) Bash
3 2 (1.18%) Python
4 1 (0.59%) Bicep
4 1 (0.59%) Java
4 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.59%) Perl
4 1 (0.59%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.94%) Degree
4 5 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.35%) CCNA
5 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.76%) MCSE
6 3 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) CCNP
8 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.59%) MCP
8 1 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.94%) GDPR
2 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 51 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 41 (24.12%) Hyper-V
3 31 (18.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.88%) vSphere
5 7 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.59%) Docker
8 1 (0.59%) Firmware
8 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.88%) SCCM
2 10 (5.88%) vCenter Server
3 6 (3.53%) Terraform
4 5 (2.94%) Ansible
4 5 (2.94%) VxRail
4 5 (2.94%) WSUS
5 4 (2.35%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.18%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.18%) SCOM
7 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.59%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 60 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 47 (27.65%) VMware
3 19 (11.18%) Dell
4 12 (7.06%) Citrix
5 10 (5.88%) Cisco
6 8 (4.71%) EqualLogic
7 5 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (2.94%) Globalscape
7 5 (2.94%) Meraki
7 5 (2.94%) Veeam
8 4 (2.35%) NetApp
8 4 (2.35%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (1.76%) HP
10 2 (1.18%) Commvault
10 2 (1.18%) IBM
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle
10 2 (1.18%) Ruckus Wireless
10 2 (1.18%) Zerto
11 1 (0.59%) Aruba
11 1 (0.59%) SolarWinds