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 to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 154 149
Rank change year-on-year +55 -5 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 185 103 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.24% 1.78% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 1.98% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 154 78 117
10th Percentile £35,250 £38,616 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,268 £43,125 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,750 £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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 7,827 5,196 7,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 89.90% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,721 3,205 4,843
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,756
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 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +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 7 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 7 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 -5 45 £55,000 - 5
Staffordshire 0 43 £46,000 +2.22% 6
Warwickshire - 38 £45,000 - 4
Shropshire +3 11 £35,000 -
Coventry +13 9 £54,000 +2.86% 3
Solihull 0 7 £53,750 +26.47% 1
Worcestershire -26 4 £45,000 -2.17% 3
Wednesbury - 1 - - 1
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 7 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.

1 175 (94.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 99 (53.51%) Azure
3 75 (40.54%) Microsoft
4 70 (37.84%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (33.51%) Windows
6 57 (30.81%) VMware
7 54 (29.19%) Active Directory
8 45 (24.32%) Hyper-V
9 39 (21.08%) VMware Infrastructure
10 35 (18.92%) Windows Server
11 34 (18.38%) Firewall
12 32 (17.30%) SAN
13 30 (16.22%) PowerShell
13 30 (16.22%) AWS
14 27 (14.59%) ITIL
14 27 (14.59%) Social Skills
15 25 (13.51%) DNS
15 25 (13.51%) Entra ID
16 24 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
16 24 (12.97%) Microsoft Exchange
17 23 (12.43%) DHCP
17 23 (12.43%) Citrix
18 21 (11.35%) LAN
18 21 (11.35%) WAN
18 21 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (10.27%) Dell
20 18 (9.73%) Roadmaps
21 17 (9.19%) Linux
22 16 (8.65%) SharePoint
22 16 (8.65%) Terraform

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 24 (12.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (8.65%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.78%) IIS
4 6 (3.24%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 99 (53.51%) Azure
2 70 (37.84%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (16.22%) AWS
4 25 (13.51%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.62%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.62%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.62%) Serverless
7 2 (1.08%) GitHub
7 2 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.08%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.08%) OpenDNS
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.54%) GCP
8 1 (0.54%) IaaS
8 1 (0.54%) PaaS
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (18.38%) Firewall
2 32 (17.30%) SAN
3 25 (13.51%) DNS
4 23 (12.43%) DHCP
5 21 (11.35%) LAN
5 21 (11.35%) WAN
6 14 (7.57%) VLAN
7 13 (7.03%) TCP/IP
8 10 (5.41%) Wireless
9 8 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.78%) VPN
11 6 (3.24%) FTP
11 6 (3.24%) HTTP
11 6 (3.24%) SMTP
11 6 (3.24%) SNMP
11 6 (3.24%) SSH
11 6 (3.24%) SSL
11 6 (3.24%) Telnet
11 6 (3.24%) WLAN
12 5 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.16%) MySQL
3 4 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.16%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (1.08%) GitLab
1 2 (1.08%) JIRA
1 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (14.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.11%) Finance
3 9 (4.86%) Law
4 4 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.16%) Games
4 4 (2.16%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.16%) Retail
5 3 (1.62%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (1.62%) Legal
6 2 (1.08%) Advertising
6 2 (1.08%) Electronics
6 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.08%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.24%) .NET
1 6 (3.24%) .NET Framework
1 6 (3.24%) XML
2 2 (1.08%) CSS
2 2 (1.08%) LAMP
2 2 (1.08%) V-Ray
3 1 (0.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.03%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.24%) EFT
4 5 (2.70%) Clustering
5 4 (2.16%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.16%) Replication
6 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) BYOD
7 2 (1.08%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.08%) NHS
7 2 (1.08%) PKI
7 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) CCTV
8 1 (0.54%) IoT
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (33.51%) Windows
2 35 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 17 (9.19%) Linux
4 12 (6.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.62%) Unix
9 2 (1.08%) Android
9 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.08%) SUSE
9 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.08%) zOS
10 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (94.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (14.59%) ITIL
3 21 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (9.73%) Roadmaps
5 15 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (7.57%) Data Protection
7 12 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (5.95%) DevOps
8 11 (5.95%) Service Delivery
9 10 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (5.41%) Incident Response
9 10 (5.41%) Strategic Roadmap
10 9 (4.86%) High Availability
10 9 (4.86%) Migration
10 9 (4.86%) Virtual Environments
11 8 (4.32%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (4.32%) Logistics
11 8 (4.32%) Server Management
12 7 (3.78%) CI/CD
12 7 (3.78%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.22%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.70%) Bash
3 4 (2.16%) SQL
4 3 (1.62%) Bicep
4 3 (1.62%) Python
5 2 (1.08%) Java
6 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.24%) CCNA
3 6 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.70%) Degree
4 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.62%) CCNP
6 3 (1.62%) MCSE
6 3 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.54%) MCP
8 1 (0.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.70%) GDPR
2 3 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (29.19%) Active Directory
2 45 (24.32%) Hyper-V
3 39 (21.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (4.86%) vSphere
6 7 (3.78%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.16%) Docker
8 2 (1.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.08%) pfSense
8 2 (1.08%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (8.65%) Terraform
3 11 (5.95%) Ansible
3 11 (5.95%) SCCM
3 11 (5.95%) vCenter Server
4 5 (2.70%) VxRail
5 4 (2.16%) Data Guard
5 4 (2.16%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (2.16%) WSUS
6 2 (1.08%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.08%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.08%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 1 (0.54%) Nessus
7 1 (0.54%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.54%) SCOM
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 57 (30.81%) VMware
3 23 (12.43%) Citrix
4 19 (10.27%) Dell
5 15 (8.11%) Cisco
6 13 (7.03%) Veeam
7 10 (5.41%) HP
8 8 (4.32%) EqualLogic
9 7 (3.78%) Sophos
10 6 (3.24%) Globalscape
10 6 (3.24%) Oracle
11 5 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (2.70%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.16%) Meraki
12 4 (2.16%) NetApp
12 4 (2.16%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (1.62%) Aruba
13 3 (1.62%) Google
14 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
14 2 (1.08%) SonicWALL