Infrastructure Security Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Security Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £48,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 September 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 219 197
Rank change year-on-year +45 -22 +109
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 2 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.060% 0.033% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.035% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £46,625 - -
25th Percentile £47,188 £54,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +26.67% -30.77%
75th Percentile £49,688 £59,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £49,875 - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 3,004 5,764 3,683
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.94% 92.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,010 3,445 2,854
10th Percentile £27,975 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,350
Median % change year-on-year - -4.49% +4.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 September 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 £50,000 -
Staffordshire - 1 £47,500 - 1
Infrastructure Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 2025, Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Tanium
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing

Infrastructure Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Tanium
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler