Infrastructure Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management 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 169 225 111
Rank change year-on-year +56 -114 +146
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 27 22 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.60% 0.30% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.37% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26 17 18
10th Percentile £40,000 - £40,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £37,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -16.89% +32.35%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £55,250 - £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +3.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Infrastructure Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
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 Management 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 +47 21 £50,000 +7.24% 2
Herefordshire - 3 £40,000 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £37,500 - 4
Worcestershire - 1 £55,000 -
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
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 14 (51.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) Azure
2 15 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (29.63%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (14.81%) Route 53
5 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) Firewall
2 18 (66.67%) WAN
3 14 (51.85%) LAN
4 5 (18.52%) VLAN
4 5 (18.52%) VPN
5 4 (14.81%) HTTPS
5 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.70%) DHCP
6 1 (3.70%) DNS
6 1 (3.70%) NAS
6 1 (3.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Advertising
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Law
3 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Support Engineer
2 13 (48.15%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 13 (48.15%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 13 (48.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 13 (48.15%) 3rd Line Support
2 13 (48.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) ICT Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Head of IT
6 1 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
1 19 (70.37%) Windows Server
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Mentoring
2 14 (51.85%) Data Security
2 14 (51.85%) Network Design
3 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (25.93%) Cost Management
5 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (18.52%) Server Management
7 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (14.81%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (14.81%) Identity Management
7 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
7 4 (14.81%) Privileged Identity Management
7 4 (14.81%) Proactive Management
7 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
7 4 (14.81%) Project Management
7 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
7 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
7 4 (14.81%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (14.81%) Threat Management
7 4 (14.81%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) AWS Certification
1 7 (25.93%) Azure Certification
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.81%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (70.37%) Active Directory
2 15 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (51.85%) XenApp
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (7.41%) Docker
6 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Cisco
1 15 (55.56%) VMware
2 14 (51.85%) CheckPoint
2 14 (51.85%) Citrix
2 14 (51.85%) Meraki
2 14 (51.85%) SonicWALL
3 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) Google
5 1 (3.70%) Acronis
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) Veeam