Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Knutsford

Infrastructure Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Knutsford is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Knutsford 5.97% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £73,100 - -
25th Percentile £74,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £88,250 - -
90th Percentile £88,700 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £40,000 £46,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year -13.98% +6.90% +2.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 59 63 23
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24 18 16
10th Percentile £32,750 £25,500 £41,875
25th Percentile £41,313 £40,500 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,875 £51,250 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.83% -36.92% +142.54%
75th Percentile £86,375 £60,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £93,650 £88,075 -
Cheshire median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.25% +6.67%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Knutsford

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DPDK
2 3 (75.00%) eBPF
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) KVM
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
2 3 (75.00%) QEMU
2 3 (75.00%) SaltStack
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (25.00%) 3PAR
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) DPDK
1 3 (75.00%) eBPF
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (25.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (25.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (25.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) KVM
1 3 (75.00%) QEMU
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (25.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk