Infrastructure Support Job Trends in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Support
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Support salary in the West Midlands is £44,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 202 172
Rank change year-on-year +48 -30 +99
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 16 3 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.072% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.077% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile - £31,375 £32,894
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,563 £35,370
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £33,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.37% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £46,000 £36,563 £47,500
90th Percentile - £37,125 £49,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,713 3,884 3,535
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.72% 93.32% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,715 1,860 2,942
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,475 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,516
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.03% -5.68%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.69%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Support' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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 +37 11 £44,000 +35.38%
Staffordshire -9 3 - -
Coventry - 2 - -
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Infrastructure Support job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (87.50%) SaaS
3 12 (75.00%) Azure
4 11 (68.75%) SQL
4 11 (68.75%) Windows
5 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
5 9 (56.25%) Cloud Operations
5 9 (56.25%) DevOps
5 9 (56.25%) Mentoring
5 9 (56.25%) Migration
5 9 (56.25%) Service Delivery
5 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
5 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
6 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
6 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (18.75%) AWS
7 3 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (18.75%) Datadog
7 3 (18.75%) DNS
7 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
7 3 (18.75%) Firewall
7 3 (18.75%) GCP
7 3 (18.75%) Google
7 3 (18.75%) IaaS
7 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
7 3 (18.75%) ITIL
7 3 (18.75%) JIRA

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) SaaS
2 12 (75.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (18.75%) Datadog
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) IaaS
3 3 (18.75%) PaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Cloud Operations
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 9 (56.25%) Mentoring
2 9 (56.25%) Migration
2 9 (56.25%) Service Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (12.50%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
1 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
2 3 (18.75%) Google