Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Blackburn

Infrastructure Engineer
Lancashire > Blackburn

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Blackburn is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 3.65% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.66% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,000 - -
90th Percentile £53,400 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £42,500 £62,783 £46,250
% change year-on-year -32.31% +35.75% +21.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Blackburn

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Blackburn. 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 Blackburn with a recognized job title 273 73 25
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.64% 79.35% 92.59%
Number of salaries quoted 225 73 19
10th Percentile - £22,489 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £23,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -35.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £54,793 £45,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,943 £63,000 £62,000
Lancashire median annual salary £50,055 £45,249 £47,250
% change year-on-year +10.62% -4.24% +8.62%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackburn

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Blackburn

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Blackburn

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Blackburn

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Blackburn

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Blackburn over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Blackburn

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 Blackburn region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (90.00%) Veeam
2 9 (90.00%) DHCP
2 9 (90.00%) DNS
2 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (90.00%) Firewall
3 7 (70.00%) Linux
3 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (70.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity
4 6 (60.00%) Retail
4 6 (60.00%) Incident Management
4 6 (60.00%) VLAN
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (60.00%) LAN
4 6 (60.00%) Unix
4 6 (60.00%) IPv4
4 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (50.00%) VMware
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco
6 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (30.00%) Meraki
7 3 (30.00%) Azure
7 3 (30.00%) Synology
7 3 (30.00%) Patch Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackburn 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 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DHCP
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
1 9 (90.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) IPv4
2 6 (60.00%) LAN
2 6 (60.00%) VLAN
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (30.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 6 (60.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Linux
3 6 (60.00%) Unix
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Server Building
5 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (70.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Docker
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Veeam
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco
4 3 (30.00%) Meraki
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) Sophos
4 3 (30.00%) Synology
5 1 (10.00%) 3PAR
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk