Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +43
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 50 69 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.49% 4.46% 8.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 5.61% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8 58 25
10th Percentile - £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +1.06% -1.05%
75th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,750 £78,500 £57,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 1,229 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.70% 79.50% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 240 928 462
10th Percentile £20,280 £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,782 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Warrington -5 5 - - 2
Northwich - 5 £39,500 -
Chester +14 4 £40,000 -38.46% 1
Knutsford - 2 £80,000 - 1
Lymm - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Ellesmere Port - 1 £55,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
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 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 1 (2.00%) AWS
2 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.00%) GCP
2 1 (2.00%) IaaS
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (78.00%) Cisco IOS
1 39 (78.00%) VPN
General
1 39 (78.00%) Analytical Skills
1 39 (78.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (78.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 39 (78.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (78.00%) Android
1 39 (78.00%) Linux
1 39 (78.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (80.00%) DevOps
1 40 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 40 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (78.00%) Line Management
2 39 (78.00%) Mathematics
2 39 (78.00%) Risk Management
2 39 (78.00%) Storage Management
2 39 (78.00%) Task Automation
3 5 (10.00%) Change Management
3 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (2.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (2.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (2.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (2.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) Bash
1 39 (78.00%) PowerShell
1 39 (78.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 40 (80.00%) Docker
2 39 (78.00%) Hyper-V
2 39 (78.00%) VMware NSX
2 39 (78.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (78.00%) Ansible
1 39 (78.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (78.00%) 3PAR
1 39 (78.00%) Cisco
1 39 (78.00%) Juniper
1 39 (78.00%) Splunk
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.00%) Citrix