Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 108 154
Rank change year-on-year -24 +46 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 66 157 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.48% 2.17% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 2.31% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 53 137 85
10th Percentile £28,450 £35,652 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £53,688 £61,300 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 3,991 6,811 5,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 94.07% 89.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,795 5,153 3,352
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £29,775
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +7.48% -11.67% +0.95%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
Birmingham +14 27 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Staffordshire +11 19 £50,000 +25.00% 6
Herefordshire - 6 £40,000 - 5
Warwickshire -35 5 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Coventry -15 3 £45,000 -2.28% 4
Shropshire +10 2 £35,000 -
Worcestershire +20 1 - - 2
Solihull +3 1 £46,500 -13.49% 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £45,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (95.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (62.12%) Microsoft
3 40 (60.61%) Windows
4 37 (56.06%) Active Directory
5 35 (53.03%) Windows Server
6 31 (46.97%) Azure
7 29 (43.94%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (40.91%) Firewall
9 24 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (34.85%) VMware
11 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (31.82%) WAN
13 18 (27.27%) PowerShell
14 17 (25.76%) VMware Infrastructure
15 16 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
15 16 (24.24%) LAN
16 14 (21.21%) ITIL
16 14 (21.21%) VPN
16 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
17 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
17 13 (19.70%) Disaster Recovery
17 13 (19.70%) VLAN
18 12 (18.18%) Hyper-V
18 12 (18.18%) AWS
18 12 (18.18%) MCP
19 11 (16.67%) MCSA
19 11 (16.67%) DNS
19 11 (16.67%) DHCP
19 11 (16.67%) A+ Certification
20 10 (15.15%) Wi-Fi

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 16 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) CMS
3 1 (1.52%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) Azure
2 29 (43.94%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (18.18%) AWS
4 6 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.09%) SaaS
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (6.06%) IaaS
5 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (6.06%) OneDrive
5 4 (6.06%) PaaS
5 4 (6.06%) Route 53
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.52%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.52%) Dropbox
6 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.52%) Serverless
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (40.91%) Firewall
2 21 (31.82%) WAN
3 16 (24.24%) LAN
4 14 (21.21%) VPN
5 13 (19.70%) VLAN
6 11 (16.67%) DHCP
6 11 (16.67%) DNS
7 10 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (10.61%) SAN
9 4 (6.06%) HTTPS
9 4 (6.06%) Network Security
9 4 (6.06%) SD-WAN
9 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
10 2 (3.03%) NAS
11 1 (1.52%) 5G
11 1 (1.52%) LTE
11 1 (1.52%) Skype
11 1 (1.52%) SSL
11 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (12.12%) Law
4 4 (6.06%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Police
5 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Local Government
6 2 (3.03%) Electronics
7 1 (1.52%) Advertising
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.52%) ODBC
3 1 (1.52%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (4.55%) NHS
4 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Clustering
5 1 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) IoT
5 1 (1.52%) iPhone
5 1 (1.52%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (60.61%) Windows
2 35 (53.03%) Windows Server
3 8 (12.12%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (10.61%) Windows 10
4 7 (10.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (9.09%) Linux
6 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.52%) Android
8 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (95.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (21.21%) ITIL
4 13 (19.70%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (15.15%) Roadmaps
6 9 (13.64%) Server Management
7 8 (12.12%) Availability Management
7 8 (12.12%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (12.12%) Logistics
7 8 (12.12%) Release Management
8 7 (10.61%) Agile
8 7 (10.61%) Cloud Security
8 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.61%) Cost Management
9 6 (9.09%) Change Management
9 6 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (9.09%) Problem Management
9 6 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.12%) SQL
3 7 (10.61%) Python
4 3 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (3.03%) Perl
6 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (18.18%) MCP
3 11 (16.67%) A+ Certification
3 11 (16.67%) MCSA
4 8 (12.12%) Degree
5 7 (10.61%) AWS Certification
5 7 (10.61%) Azure Certification
6 6 (9.09%) MCSE
6 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
7 5 (7.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.03%) CCNA
9 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
9 2 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Master
10 1 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (56.06%) Active Directory
2 17 (25.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 6 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.52%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.52%) Docker
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.58%) Terraform
3 4 (6.06%) Ansible
4 3 (4.55%) Puppet
4 3 (4.55%) SCOM
5 2 (3.03%) Nessus
5 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.03%) WSUS
6 1 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.52%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.52%) SCCM
6 1 (1.52%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.52%) SCSM
6 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (62.12%) Microsoft
2 23 (34.85%) VMware
3 7 (10.61%) Acronis
4 6 (9.09%) Citrix
4 6 (9.09%) WatchGuard
5 4 (6.06%) Dell
6 3 (4.55%) Cisco
6 3 (4.55%) Isilon
6 3 (4.55%) Veeam
7 2 (3.03%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.03%) HP
7 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.03%) Splunk
8 1 (1.52%) Apple
8 1 (1.52%) EqualLogic
8 1 (1.52%) Juniper
8 1 (1.52%) NetApp
8 1 (1.52%) Netskope
8 1 (1.52%) Nimble Storage