Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 46 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 -35 +96
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 177 41 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 7.67% 3.14% 14.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.77% 3.96% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 14 41 9
10th Percentile - £35,920 £46,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,238 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +15.79% +25.04%
75th Percentile £60,063 £67,968 £48,750
90th Percentile £79,000 - -
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,277 1,035 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 98.61% 79.25% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 870 352
10th Percentile £42,415 £28,000 £28,894
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,772 £69,875
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 15 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 - 11 £42,500 -
Accrington - 3 - -
Skelmersdale - 3 - -
Newton-le-Willows 0 2 - -
Preston -30 2 - - 6
Rossendale - 2 - -
Chorley - 2 - -
Clitheroe - 2 - -
Darwen - 2 - -
Blackpool -37 1 - - 4
Ormskirk - 1 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
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 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (2.82%) Azure
3 1 (0.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.56%) GCP
3 1 (0.56%) GitHub
3 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (0.56%) IaaS
3 1 (0.56%) PaaS
3 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 163 (92.09%) Cisco IOS
1 163 (92.09%) VPN
2 9 (5.08%) DHCP
2 9 (5.08%) DNS
3 8 (4.52%) Firewall
4 5 (2.82%) IPv4
4 5 (2.82%) LAN
4 5 (2.82%) VLAN
5 3 (1.69%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.69%) SAN
5 3 (1.69%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Git
1 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 165 (93.22%) Analytical Skills
2 163 (92.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (2.82%) Retail
4 2 (1.13%) Legal
5 1 (0.56%) Finance
5 1 (0.56%) Marketing
5 1 (0.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (98.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (2.82%) IT Engineer
2 5 (2.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (1.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (1.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (1.13%) Senior
4 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Lead
4 1 (0.56%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Managing Director
4 1 (0.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (0.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (92.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 163 (92.09%) Cyberattack
2 1 (0.56%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
2 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (97.18%) Windows
2 168 (94.92%) Linux
3 163 (92.09%) Android
4 6 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.82%) Unix
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (94.92%) Problem-Solving
2 165 (93.22%) DevOps
3 164 (92.66%) Line Management
4 163 (92.09%) Mathematics
4 163 (92.09%) Platform Engineering
4 163 (92.09%) Risk Management
4 163 (92.09%) Storage Management
4 163 (92.09%) Task Automation
5 5 (2.82%) Business Continuity
5 5 (2.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (2.82%) Incident Management
6 3 (1.69%) Patch Management
6 3 (1.69%) Project Delivery
7 2 (1.13%) CI/CD
7 2 (1.13%) Mentoring
8 1 (0.56%) Budgeting
8 1 (0.56%) Coaching
8 1 (0.56%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (0.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (0.56%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (94.92%) PowerShell
2 163 (92.09%) Bash
2 163 (92.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (0.56%) Degree
1 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
1 1 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.56%) GDPR
1 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 168 (94.92%) Hyper-V
2 164 (92.66%) Docker
2 164 (92.66%) vSphere
3 163 (92.09%) VMware NSX
4 9 (5.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 164 (92.66%) Ansible
2 163 (92.09%) Terraform
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 166 (93.79%) Cisco
2 163 (92.09%) 3PAR
2 163 (92.09%) Juniper
2 163 (92.09%) Splunk
3 9 (5.08%) Veeam
4 6 (3.39%) VMware
5 5 (2.82%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.69%) Meraki
6 3 (1.69%) Sophos
6 3 (1.69%) Synology