Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 171 184
Rank change year-on-year +81 +13 -65
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 350 150 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.68% 1.75% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.83% 1.96% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 302 107 158
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,650 £32,475
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,125 £38,387
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £54,688
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £61,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 12,357 7,658 10,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.51% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,004 4,510 7,073
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,250 £67,425 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
East Midlands +73 180 £45,000 -10.00% 18
West Midlands +46 170 £45,000 -5.26% 26
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 342 (97.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 169 (48.29%) Azure
3 142 (40.57%) Windows
4 124 (35.43%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (35.14%) Microsoft
5 123 (35.14%) VMware
6 108 (30.86%) Active Directory
7 94 (26.86%) Windows Server
8 90 (25.71%) Firewall
9 88 (25.14%) VMware Infrastructure
10 87 (24.86%) Hyper-V
11 69 (19.71%) Social Skills
12 61 (17.43%) DNS
13 58 (16.57%) AWS
14 52 (14.86%) SAN
15 50 (14.29%) Linux
16 48 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
17 47 (13.43%) Microsoft Exchange
17 47 (13.43%) DHCP
17 47 (13.43%) PowerShell
18 44 (12.57%) WAN
19 43 (12.29%) Microsoft Intune
19 43 (12.29%) Data Centre
20 39 (11.14%) Veeam
20 39 (11.14%) SharePoint
21 38 (10.86%) Cisco
21 38 (10.86%) Entra ID
22 36 (10.29%) LAN
23 34 (9.71%) ITIL

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 47 (13.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (11.14%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.43%) IIS
4 6 (1.71%) Apache
5 2 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) CATIA
2 2 (0.57%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 169 (48.29%) Azure
2 124 (35.43%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (16.57%) AWS
4 38 (10.86%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.14%) Google Workspace
6 10 (2.86%) SaaS
7 8 (2.29%) Mimecast
7 8 (2.29%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.71%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.43%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (1.43%) IaaS
9 5 (1.43%) PaaS
10 4 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.14%) GCP
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.86%) Azure Stack
11 3 (0.86%) Serverless
12 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.57%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (25.71%) Firewall
2 61 (17.43%) DNS
3 52 (14.86%) SAN
4 47 (13.43%) DHCP
5 44 (12.57%) WAN
6 36 (10.29%) LAN
7 34 (9.71%) TCP/IP
8 33 (9.43%) VLAN
9 27 (7.71%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (4.00%) VPN
11 13 (3.71%) SD-WAN
11 13 (3.71%) Wireless
12 10 (2.86%) SSL
12 10 (2.86%) WLAN
13 8 (2.29%) Network Security
14 7 (2.00%) NAS
15 6 (1.71%) FTP
15 6 (1.71%) SMTP
15 6 (1.71%) SNMP
15 6 (1.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.71%) MySQL
4 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.14%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (2.57%) Git
2 2 (0.57%) GitLab
2 2 (0.57%) JIRA
2 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (19.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.14%) Finance
3 15 (4.29%) Retail
4 12 (3.43%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.14%) Law
6 6 (1.71%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.43%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.43%) Automotive
7 5 (1.43%) Legal
8 4 (1.14%) Aviation
8 4 (1.14%) Avionics
8 4 (1.14%) Games
9 3 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Advertising
10 2 (0.57%) Electronics
10 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.57%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.71%) .NET
1 6 (1.71%) .NET Framework
1 6 (1.71%) XML
2 2 (0.57%) CSS
2 2 (0.57%) LAMP
2 2 (0.57%) V-Ray
3 1 (0.29%) JSON
3 1 (0.29%) LDAP
3 1 (0.29%) Middleware
3 1 (0.29%) SAML
3 1 (0.29%) ServiceStack
3 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.29%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.00%) CCTV
3 12 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.29%) Replication
6 7 (2.00%) Clustering
6 7 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.71%) EFT
8 5 (1.43%) NHS
8 5 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.14%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.86%) IBM Mainframe
10 3 (0.86%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.86%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.57%) BYOD
11 2 (0.57%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 142 (40.57%) Windows
2 94 (26.86%) Windows Server
3 50 (14.29%) Linux
4 23 (6.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (6.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.71%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.71%) Unix
8 3 (0.86%) Android
8 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.86%) CentOS
8 3 (0.86%) zOS
9 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.57%) SUSE
9 2 (0.57%) VMS
9 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (97.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (9.71%) ITIL
4 28 (8.00%) DevOps
5 26 (7.43%) CI/CD
5 26 (7.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 25 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (6.86%) Roadmaps
8 23 (6.57%) Agile
8 23 (6.57%) Migration
9 19 (5.43%) Infrastructure Management
10 16 (4.57%) Project Management
11 15 (4.29%) Change Management
12 14 (4.00%) Analytics
12 14 (4.00%) Customer Service
13 13 (3.71%) Data Protection
13 13 (3.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (3.43%) Logistics
14 12 (3.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (13.43%) PowerShell
2 8 (2.29%) Bash
2 8 (2.29%) SQL
3 4 (1.14%) Python
4 3 (0.86%) Bicep
5 2 (0.57%) Java
6 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (5.14%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (4.00%) CCNA
2 14 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.14%) Degree
5 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.29%) MCSE
6 8 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.14%) CCA
9 4 (1.14%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (0.86%) CCDA
10 3 (0.86%) CCNP
10 3 (0.86%) MCITP
11 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.29%) MCP
12 1 (0.29%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (2.86%) QA
2 5 (1.43%) GDPR
2 5 (1.43%) SOC 2
3 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.86%) NIST
4 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 108 (30.86%) Active Directory
2 88 (25.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (24.86%) Hyper-V
4 23 (6.57%) Docker
5 14 (4.00%) vSphere
6 10 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
6 10 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.43%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.57%) pfSense
10 1 (0.29%) Firmware
10 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (12.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.29%) Ansible
3 20 (5.71%) Terraform
4 17 (4.86%) SCCM
5 14 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 10 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (2.86%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.71%) WSUS
8 5 (1.43%) VxRail
9 4 (1.14%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.14%) SCOM
10 2 (0.57%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.57%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.29%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.29%) Nessus
11 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (35.14%) Microsoft
1 123 (35.14%) VMware
2 39 (11.14%) Veeam
3 38 (10.86%) Cisco
4 34 (9.71%) Citrix
5 27 (7.71%) Dell
6 24 (6.86%) HP
7 13 (3.71%) Meraki
8 11 (3.14%) Google
8 11 (3.14%) Sophos
9 10 (2.86%) Acronis
9 10 (2.86%) Globalscape
10 8 (2.29%) EqualLogic
11 7 (2.00%) Commvault
11 7 (2.00%) NetApp
11 7 (2.00%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.71%) IBM
12 6 (1.71%) Nasuni
12 6 (1.71%) Oracle
12 6 (1.71%) Rapid7