Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Durham

Infrastructure Engineer
North East > Durham

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Durham is £43,500 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 26 44 38
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 24 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 5.70% 2.54% 2.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.17% 3.46% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 6
10th Percentile £38,500 £32,157 £26,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,360 £26,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £39,750 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +7.43% -35.65%
75th Percentile £45,250 £43,063 £46,250
90th Percentile £47,500 £46,500 -
North East median annual salary £44,274 £42,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.11% -2.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Durham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 389 231 239
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 73.33% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 269 121 178
10th Percentile £27,395 £27,500 £19,294
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £57,633 £52,500 £43,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £48,750
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,672 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.36% +19.18% -9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Durham

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Durham

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Durham 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
Stockton-on-Tees +2 12 £42,500 +6.92%
Darlington - 6 £45,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
North East

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

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 Durham region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
3 13 (54.17%) Azure
4 12 (50.00%) Windows
4 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 11 (45.83%) Energy Management
5 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (45.83%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (45.83%) DHCP
5 11 (45.83%) Operations Management
6 10 (41.67%) DNS
7 9 (37.50%) SQL
7 9 (37.50%) VMware
7 9 (37.50%) Entra ID
7 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
8 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (33.33%) Firewall
9 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
10 6 (25.00%) AWS
11 5 (20.83%) SaaS
11 5 (20.83%) PaaS
11 5 (20.83%) LAN
11 5 (20.83%) WAN
11 5 (20.83%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (20.83%) IaaS
12 4 (16.67%) Data Transformation

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (20.83%) IaaS
5 5 (20.83%) PaaS
5 5 (20.83%) SaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Cloudflare
6 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) DHCP
2 10 (41.67%) DNS
3 8 (33.33%) Firewall
4 5 (20.83%) LAN
4 5 (20.83%) WAN
5 3 (12.50%) VPN
5 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (8.33%) Network Security
6 2 (8.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
1 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (45.83%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (45.83%) Energy Management
2 11 (45.83%) Operations Management
3 8 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 4 (16.67%) Server Management
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.50%) Information Security
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Observability
6 3 (12.50%) Security Operations
7 2 (8.33%) Coaching
7 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
8 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security
8 1 (4.17%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (20.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) VMware
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) IBM