Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 190 174
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 +75
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 9 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.51% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.53% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3 24 35
10th Percentile £49,740 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,775 £40,625 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -2.87%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,500 £60,000 £58,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%

All DemandTrendPermanent 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,697 6,171 4,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 94.95% 90.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,079 3,984 2,991
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,119 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,656 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Infrastructure 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +29 4 £52,300 -14.61% 2
Staffordshire -8 2 - - 3
Warwickshire +6 1 £65,000 +85.71%
Coventry +1 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 2025, Senior Infrastructure 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 4 (44.44%) VMware
4 4 (44.44%) Firewall
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 2 (22.22%) Siemens
6 2 (22.22%) DHCP
6 2 (22.22%) DNS
6 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 2 (22.22%) Unix
6 2 (22.22%) NHS
6 2 (22.22%) Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) Legal
6 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) AWS
6 2 (22.22%) High Availability
6 2 (22.22%) Network Design
6 2 (22.22%) Local Government
6 2 (22.22%) SCADA
6 2 (22.22%) QA
6 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence

Senior Infrastructure 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Modbus
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Local Government
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
1 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
1 2 (22.22%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (22.22%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) Presales
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) IEC 61131
1 2 (22.22%) IEC 61508
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Rockwell
3 2 (22.22%) Siemens
4 1 (11.11%) ArcSight
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam