Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 155 160
Rank change year-on-year +55 +5 -22
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 191 101 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.23% 1.75% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.37% 1.94% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 156 81 117
10th Percentile £35,125 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,139 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £59,000 £61,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 8,050 5,197 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.93% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 3,200 4,854
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

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 Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham -2 46 £55,000 - 4
Staffordshire -4 44 £46,000 +2.22% 7
Warwickshire +52 40 £45,000 -2.17% 1
Shropshire 0 11 £35,000 -
Coventry +14 9 £54,000 +2.86% 5
Solihull +4 7 £53,750 +26.47% 1
Worcestershire -25 4 £45,000 -2.17% 3
Wednesbury - 2 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 £35,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 180 (94.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 100 (52.36%) Azure
3 76 (39.79%) Microsoft
4 71 (37.17%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (34.03%) Windows
6 59 (30.89%) VMware
7 55 (28.80%) Active Directory
8 45 (23.56%) Hyper-V
9 41 (21.47%) VMware Infrastructure
10 38 (19.90%) Windows Server
11 35 (18.32%) Firewall
12 32 (16.75%) SAN
13 31 (16.23%) PowerShell
13 31 (16.23%) AWS
14 29 (15.18%) Social Skills
15 27 (14.14%) ITIL
16 25 (13.09%) Microsoft Exchange
16 25 (13.09%) DNS
16 25 (13.09%) Entra ID
17 24 (12.57%) Microsoft Intune
18 23 (12.04%) Citrix
18 23 (12.04%) DHCP
18 23 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
19 22 (11.52%) LAN
19 22 (11.52%) WAN
20 19 (9.95%) Dell
20 19 (9.95%) Roadmaps
21 17 (8.90%) SharePoint
21 17 (8.90%) Linux
22 16 (8.38%) Cisco

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 25 (13.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (8.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.66%) IIS
4 6 (3.14%) Apache
5 2 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (52.36%) Azure
2 71 (37.17%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (16.23%) AWS
4 25 (13.09%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.62%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.57%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.57%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.57%) Serverless
7 2 (1.05%) GitHub
7 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.05%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.05%) OpenDNS
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.52%) GCP
8 1 (0.52%) IaaS
8 1 (0.52%) PaaS
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.32%) Firewall
2 32 (16.75%) SAN
3 25 (13.09%) DNS
4 23 (12.04%) DHCP
5 22 (11.52%) LAN
5 22 (11.52%) WAN
6 15 (7.85%) VLAN
7 13 (6.81%) TCP/IP
8 11 (5.76%) Wireless
9 8 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.66%) VPN
11 6 (3.14%) FTP
11 6 (3.14%) HTTP
11 6 (3.14%) SMTP
11 6 (3.14%) SNMP
11 6 (3.14%) SSH
11 6 (3.14%) SSL
11 6 (3.14%) Telnet
11 6 (3.14%) WLAN
12 5 (2.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.09%) MySQL
3 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.09%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (1.05%) GitLab
1 2 (1.05%) JIRA
1 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.85%) Finance
3 9 (4.71%) Law
4 4 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.09%) Games
4 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.09%) Retail
5 3 (1.57%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (1.57%) Legal
5 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.05%) Advertising
6 2 (1.05%) Electronics
6 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.14%) .NET
1 6 (3.14%) .NET Framework
1 6 (3.14%) XML
2 2 (1.05%) CSS
2 2 (1.05%) LAMP
2 2 (1.05%) V-Ray
3 1 (0.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.81%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.14%) EFT
4 5 (2.62%) Clustering
5 4 (2.09%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.09%) Replication
6 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.05%) BYOD
7 2 (1.05%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.05%) NHS
7 2 (1.05%) PKI
7 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) CCTV
8 1 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 65 (34.03%) Windows
2 38 (19.90%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.90%) Linux
4 12 (6.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (5.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.62%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.57%) Unix
9 2 (1.05%) Android
9 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.05%) SUSE
9 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.05%) zOS
10 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (94.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (14.14%) ITIL
3 23 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (9.95%) Roadmaps
5 15 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (7.85%) Data Protection
6 12 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (5.76%) DevOps
7 11 (5.76%) Service Delivery
8 10 (5.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (5.24%) High Availability
8 10 (5.24%) Incident Response
8 10 (5.24%) Logistics
8 10 (5.24%) Strategic Roadmap
8 10 (5.24%) Virtual Environments
9 9 (4.71%) Migration
9 9 (4.71%) Server Management
10 8 (4.19%) Information Security
10 8 (4.19%) Infrastructure Management
11 7 (3.66%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.23%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.62%) Bash
3 4 (2.09%) SQL
4 3 (1.57%) Bicep
4 3 (1.57%) Python
5 2 (1.05%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.14%) CCNA
3 6 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.62%) Degree
4 5 (2.62%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.57%) CCNP
6 3 (1.57%) MCSE
6 3 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) MCP
8 1 (0.52%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) GDPR
2 4 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (28.80%) Active Directory
2 45 (23.56%) Hyper-V
3 41 (21.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (5.24%) vSphere
5 9 (4.71%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.09%) Docker
7 2 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.05%) pfSense
7 2 (1.05%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.52%) Firmware
8 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (12.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (8.38%) Terraform
3 12 (6.28%) SCCM
4 11 (5.76%) Ansible
4 11 (5.76%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.62%) VxRail
6 4 (2.09%) Data Guard
6 4 (2.09%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (2.09%) WSUS
7 2 (1.05%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.05%) SCOM
7 2 (1.05%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.52%) Nessus
8 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (39.79%) Microsoft
2 59 (30.89%) VMware
3 23 (12.04%) Citrix
4 19 (9.95%) Dell
5 16 (8.38%) Cisco
6 14 (7.33%) Veeam
7 10 (5.24%) HP
8 8 (4.19%) EqualLogic
9 7 (3.66%) Sophos
10 6 (3.14%) Globalscape
10 6 (3.14%) Oracle
11 5 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (2.62%) Meraki
11 5 (2.62%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.09%) NetApp
12 4 (2.09%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (1.57%) Aruba
13 3 (1.57%) Google
14 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 2 (1.05%) SonicWALL