Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in County Antrim

Infrastructure Engineering
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 4 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 1.06% - 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% - 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £38,250
25th Percentile - - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile - - £48,750
90th Percentile - - £57,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary - £52,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year - +13.51% +23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 257 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 77.45% 86.24% 90.78%
Number of salaries quoted 155 85 197
10th Percentile £26,925 £37,700 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £77,906 £87,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £79,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £59,430 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.87% +18.86% -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Belfast - 4 - - 4
Infrastructure Engineering
Northern Ireland

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Benchmarking
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform