Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Lancashire is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 56 75
Rank change year-on-year -73 +19 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 13 29 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.63% 2.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 2.43% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 13 29 2
10th Percentile £38,423 £35,000 £45,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,238 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,783 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +35.75% +21.75%
75th Percentile £53,000 £67,968 £47,813
90th Percentile £54,600 £68,374 £48,375
North West median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.76% +9.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 1,950 1,194 572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 92.85% 82.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 1,018 365
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £27,100
25th Percentile £47,683 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -4.26% +10.59%
75th Percentile £54,793 £60,741 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,000 £64,500
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Lancashire over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Blackburn - 9 £42,500 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

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

1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) DHCP
2 10 (76.92%) DNS
2 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 10 (76.92%) Veeam
3 9 (69.23%) Firewall
4 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (46.15%) IPv4
5 6 (46.15%) Unix
5 6 (46.15%) Linux
5 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (46.15%) LAN
5 6 (46.15%) Hyper-V
5 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
5 6 (46.15%) VMware
5 6 (46.15%) Business Continuity
5 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (46.15%) Retail
5 6 (46.15%) Incident Management
5 6 (46.15%) VLAN
6 4 (30.77%) Azure
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (23.08%) Meraki
7 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (23.08%) Synology

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DHCP
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
2 9 (69.23%) Firewall
3 6 (46.15%) IPv4
3 6 (46.15%) LAN
3 6 (46.15%) VLAN
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (23.08%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (23.08%) SAN
4 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
General
1 6 (46.15%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Security Posture
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 6 (46.15%) Unix
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Business Continuity
2 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Management
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Patch Management
4 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) Hyper-V
3 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Veeam
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 3 (23.08%) Meraki
4 3 (23.08%) Sophos
4 3 (23.08%) Synology