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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 86 46
Rank change year-on-year -46 -40 +71
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 65 216 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.58% 2.76% 6.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.40% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 48 190 112
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,250 £38,775
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,268 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,063 £57,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £63,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 3,753 6,362 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 81.41% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 4,664 3,160
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,592
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
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 29 May 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 29 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
Birmingham +16 33 £46,000 -8.00% 17
Staffordshire -6 18 £35,000 -25.53% 12
Herefordshire - 6 £40,000 - 2
Coventry -19 3 £46,250 -11.90% 7
Warwickshire -21 2 £67,500 +67.44% 5
Worcestershire +16 1 - - 2
Solihull +7 1 - - 2
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 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.23%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) IIS
3 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.92%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) AWS
3 16 (24.62%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (16.92%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (10.77%) Amazon S3
5 7 (10.77%) AWS KMS
5 7 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (9.23%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (9.23%) Amazon Glacier
6 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
6 6 (9.23%) SaaS
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (6.15%) Route 53
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub
9 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.92%) Firewall
1 24 (36.92%) WAN
2 19 (29.23%) LAN
3 14 (21.54%) VPN
4 11 (16.92%) DNS
5 10 (15.38%) DHCP
6 6 (9.23%) VLAN
7 4 (6.15%) HTTPS
7 4 (6.15%) SAN
7 4 (6.15%) SD-WAN
7 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
7 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.62%) Network Security
9 1 (1.54%) 5G
9 1 (1.54%) BGP
9 1 (1.54%) LTE
9 1 (1.54%) NAS
9 1 (1.54%) Skype
9 1 (1.54%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.15%) Data Hub
3 4 (6.15%) SQL CLR
4 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.08%) Metadata
5 2 (3.08%) Power BI
6 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Git
1 8 (12.31%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.77%) JIRA
3 6 (9.23%) Vagrant
4 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (33.85%) Public Sector
2 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Finance
4 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.69%) Law
6 4 (6.15%) Back Office
6 4 (6.15%) Local Government
7 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Electronics
8 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.54%) Advertising
9 1 (1.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (86.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure Support
2 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Senior
4 6 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Civil Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Development Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) IT Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.08%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.08%) Dapper ORM
2 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.08%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.54%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Replication
2 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) NHS
2 4 (6.15%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.54%) Clustering
5 1 (1.54%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (67.69%) Windows
2 32 (49.23%) Windows Server
3 10 (15.38%) Linux
4 7 (10.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (9.23%) VMS
5 6 (9.23%) Windows 10
6 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.08%) Unix
7 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.54%) Android
8 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (18.46%) ITIL
3 11 (16.92%) DevOps
4 10 (15.38%) Change Management
4 10 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
4 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (13.85%) Agile
5 9 (13.85%) Cloud Security
5 9 (13.85%) Configuration Management
6 8 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (12.31%) High Availability
6 8 (12.31%) Project Management
6 8 (12.31%) Server Management
7 7 (10.77%) Cost Management
7 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (10.77%) Logistics
7 7 (10.77%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.77%) Release Management
8 6 (9.23%) Customer Service
8 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.85%) PowerShell
2 17 (26.15%) SQL
3 13 (20.00%) Python
4 5 (7.69%) Groovy
5 3 (4.62%) Bash
6 2 (3.08%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) Perl
6 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (43.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (24.62%) MCP
3 15 (23.08%) A+ Certification
3 15 (23.08%) MCSA
4 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
5 10 (15.38%) MCSE
6 8 (12.31%) Azure Certification
7 7 (10.77%) AWS Certification
7 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
8 5 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (7.69%) Degree
9 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
10 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (3.08%) CCNA
11 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Master
12 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 14 (21.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.23%) Hyper-V
3 6 (9.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.69%) DFS Replication
5 3 (4.62%) Docker
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Terraform
2 11 (16.92%) Ansible
3 6 (9.23%) Grafana
3 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.15%) Puppet
5 3 (4.62%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.62%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.62%) SCOM
6 2 (3.08%) Nessus
6 2 (3.08%) WSUS
7 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.54%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.54%) SCCM
7 1 (1.54%) SCOrch
7 1 (1.54%) SCSM
Vendors
1 42 (64.62%) Microsoft
2 19 (29.23%) VMware
3 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.77%) Juniper
5 4 (6.15%) Citrix
5 4 (6.15%) Dell
6 3 (4.62%) Isilon
6 3 (4.62%) Veeam
7 2 (3.08%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco
7 2 (3.08%) HP
7 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.54%) Apple
8 1 (1.54%) Aruba
8 1 (1.54%) NetApp
8 1 (1.54%) Netskope
8 1 (1.54%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle
8 1 (1.54%) Sophos