Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Cheshire is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 45 52 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.76% 3.36% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.54% 3.47% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6 41 25
10th Percentile - £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -2.13% -1.05%
75th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £78,500 £57,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.26% +10.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 597 1,500 815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.44% 96.84% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 264 1,125 476
10th Percentile - £25,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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
Chester +18 5 £40,000 - 1
Warrington +1 5 - - 2
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Lymm - 2 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Ellesmere Port - 1 £55,000 - 1
Knutsford - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Cheshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (86.67%) Storage Management
2 39 (86.67%) Task Automation
2 39 (86.67%) VMware NSX
2 39 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (86.67%) Ansible
2 39 (86.67%) Docker
2 39 (86.67%) DevOps
2 39 (86.67%) Line Management
2 39 (86.67%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (86.67%) Cyberattack
2 39 (86.67%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (86.67%) Terraform
2 39 (86.67%) Windows
2 39 (86.67%) Linux
2 39 (86.67%) Python
2 39 (86.67%) VPN
2 39 (86.67%) Cisco
2 39 (86.67%) Juniper
2 39 (86.67%) Risk Management
2 39 (86.67%) Mathematics
2 39 (86.67%) Cisco IOS
2 39 (86.67%) PowerShell
2 39 (86.67%) Android
2 39 (86.67%) Hyper-V
2 39 (86.67%) vSphere
2 39 (86.67%) Bash
2 39 (86.67%) 3PAR
2 39 (86.67%) Splunk
2 39 (86.67%) Inclusion and Diversity

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:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.22%) IaaS
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (86.67%) Cisco IOS
1 39 (86.67%) VPN
General
1 39 (86.67%) Analytical Skills
1 39 (86.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (86.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 39 (86.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (86.67%) Android
1 39 (86.67%) Linux
1 39 (86.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (86.67%) DevOps
2 39 (86.67%) Line Management
2 39 (86.67%) Mathematics
2 39 (86.67%) Platform Engineering
2 39 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (86.67%) Risk Management
2 39 (86.67%) Storage Management
2 39 (86.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (2.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (86.67%) Bash
1 39 (86.67%) PowerShell
1 39 (86.67%) Python
System Software
1 39 (86.67%) Docker
1 39 (86.67%) Hyper-V
1 39 (86.67%) VMware NSX
1 39 (86.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (86.67%) Ansible
1 39 (86.67%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (86.67%) 3PAR
1 39 (86.67%) Cisco
1 39 (86.67%) Juniper
1 39 (86.67%) Splunk
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft