Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Cheshire is £46,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 61 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -20
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 49 31 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.20% 3.34% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.30% 3.74% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 38 29 24
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +1.62% +25.85%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £58,750 £58,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £43,150
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.08% +0.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,485 829 982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.24% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 477 530
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £24,963
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,074 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Warrington -4 33 £46,000 +33.33% 2
Chester - 10 - - 2
Winsford - 1 £52,500 -
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Cheshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (65.31%) Microsoft
3 30 (61.22%) Azure
4 26 (53.06%) ITIL
5 24 (48.98%) Active Directory
6 21 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (36.73%) Hyper-V
7 18 (36.73%) Citrix
7 18 (36.73%) Windows
8 17 (34.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (34.69%) DHCP
8 17 (34.69%) DNS
8 17 (34.69%) AWS
9 16 (32.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (32.65%) Capacity Planning
9 16 (32.65%) Incident Management
9 16 (32.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (32.65%) Proactive Monitoring
9 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (28.57%) Windows Server
11 13 (26.53%) Server Management
12 12 (24.49%) SQL
13 11 (22.45%) SaaS
14 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
15 9 (18.37%) Swift
15 9 (18.37%) Apple iOS
15 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Management
15 9 (18.37%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 9 (18.37%) Android
15 9 (18.37%) Mathematics

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 17 (34.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) Azure
2 21 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (34.69%) AWS
4 11 (22.45%) SaaS
5 4 (8.16%) IaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.12%) PaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.69%) DHCP
1 17 (34.69%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) BGP
2 3 (6.12%) OSPF
2 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.08%) Firewall
4 1 (2.04%) DMZ
4 1 (2.04%) LAN
4 1 (2.04%) Network Security
4 1 (2.04%) VLAN
4 1 (2.04%) VPN
4 1 (2.04%) WAN
4 1 (2.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) MySQL
2 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.73%) Windows
2 14 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 9 (18.37%) Android
3 9 (18.37%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.08%) VMS
5 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (53.06%) ITIL
3 16 (32.65%) Capacity Planning
3 16 (32.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (32.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (32.65%) Incident Management
3 16 (32.65%) Proactive Monitoring
3 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (26.53%) Server Management
5 9 (18.37%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Management
5 9 (18.37%) Logistics
5 9 (18.37%) Mathematics
5 9 (18.37%) Migration
5 9 (18.37%) Service Management
5 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.16%) Converged Infrastructure
6 4 (8.16%) Presales
7 3 (6.12%) DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) Swift
3 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (48.98%) Active Directory
2 18 (36.73%) Hyper-V
3 5 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (65.31%) Microsoft
2 18 (36.73%) Citrix
3 9 (18.37%) VMware
4 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
24 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in the North West