Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 80 46
Rank change year-on-year -46 -34 +78
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 72 209 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.61% 2.89% 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 3.47% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 58 186 132
10th Percentile £31,075 £36,085 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,268 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £53,300 £57,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £56,500 £62,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,071 6,019 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.14% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,532 3,272
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,510
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -1 32 £45,000 -10.00% 11
Staffordshire +4 22 £50,000 +17.65% 10
Herefordshire - 6 £40,000 - 6
Warwickshire -38 5 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Coventry -19 3 £45,000 -2.28% 6
Worcestershire +14 1 - - 3
Solihull +3 1 £46,500 -13.49% 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £45,000 -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 19 (26.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.78%) IIS
4 1 (1.39%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 35 (48.61%) Azure
2 28 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (16.67%) AWS
4 10 (13.89%) SaaS
5 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.56%) IaaS
6 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.56%) PaaS
6 4 (5.56%) Route 53
7 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.39%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (37.50%) Firewall
2 21 (29.17%) WAN
3 16 (22.22%) LAN
4 15 (20.83%) VPN
5 13 (18.06%) VLAN
6 12 (16.67%) DNS
7 11 (15.28%) DHCP
8 10 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (9.72%) SAN
10 4 (5.56%) HTTPS
10 4 (5.56%) Network Security
10 4 (5.56%) SD-WAN
10 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
11 2 (2.78%) NAS
12 1 (1.39%) 5G
12 1 (1.39%) BGP
12 1 (1.39%) LTE
12 1 (1.39%) Skype
12 1 (1.39%) Unified Communications
12 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) Data Hub
2 3 (4.17%) SQL CLR
3 2 (2.78%) Metadata
3 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (1.39%) Git
General
1 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (11.11%) Law
4 7 (9.72%) Finance
5 4 (5.56%) Police
6 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Back Office
6 3 (4.17%) Local Government
7 2 (2.78%) Electronics
8 1 (1.39%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (18.06%) Senior
3 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 11 (15.28%) Support Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Civil Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Development Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) ICT Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.39%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.39%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (1.39%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.39%) ODBC
3 1 (1.39%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (4.17%) NHS
3 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Clustering
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) NB-IoT
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
4 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (55.56%) Windows
2 36 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (9.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (8.33%) Linux
5 6 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.39%) Android
8 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (19.44%) ITIL
3 13 (18.06%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (13.89%) Roadmaps
5 9 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
5 9 (12.50%) Project Management
5 9 (12.50%) Release Management
5 9 (12.50%) Server Management
6 8 (11.11%) Agile
6 8 (11.11%) Availability Management
6 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
6 8 (11.11%) Logistics
7 7 (9.72%) Cloud Security
7 7 (9.72%) Cost Management
7 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (8.33%) Customer Service
8 6 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (15.28%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) Python
4 3 (4.17%) Bash
5 2 (2.78%) Perl
5 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.39%) C#
6 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (16.67%) MCP
3 11 (15.28%) A+ Certification
3 11 (15.28%) MCSA
4 8 (11.11%) Degree
5 7 (9.72%) AWS Certification
5 7 (9.72%) Azure Certification
5 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
6 6 (8.33%) MCSE
7 5 (6.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.78%) CCNA
10 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Master
11 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (26.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 6 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.78%) Docker
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (9.72%) Terraform
3 4 (5.56%) Ansible
4 3 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.17%) Puppet
4 3 (4.17%) SCOM
5 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.78%) Nessus
5 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.78%) WSUS
5 2 (2.78%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.39%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.39%) SCCM
6 1 (1.39%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.39%) SCSM
6 1 (1.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (59.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (37.50%) VMware
3 7 (9.72%) Acronis
4 6 (8.33%) Citrix
4 6 (8.33%) WatchGuard
5 5 (6.94%) Veeam
6 4 (5.56%) Dell
7 3 (4.17%) Cisco
7 3 (4.17%) Isilon
8 2 (2.78%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.78%) HP
8 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.78%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.78%) Splunk
9 1 (1.39%) Aruba
9 1 (1.39%) EqualLogic
9 1 (1.39%) Juniper
9 1 (1.39%) Netskope
9 1 (1.39%) Nimble Storage