Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 43 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 19 25 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.97% 3.15% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.16% 3.23% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 12
10th Percentile £45,813 £35,000 £37,950
25th Percentile £52,000 £42,238 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -12.20% -12.39%
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,968 £61,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,375
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £53,000 £45,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +17.78% -12.20% +2.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 457 774 468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 97.48% 86.83%
Number of salaries quoted 318 589 351
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £30,584
25th Percentile £28,875 £37,500 £38,634
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £50,056
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -0.11% -4.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £78,400 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £42,500 £46,712 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.02% -6.58% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Local Government
2 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
3 5 (26.32%) AutoCAD
3 5 (26.32%) Cisco
3 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
3 5 (26.32%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
5 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (10.53%) GDPR
5 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (10.53%) SIEM
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (10.53%) Network Security
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (10.53%) VPN
5 2 (10.53%) NHS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Applications
1 5 (26.32%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) WLAN
General
1 6 (31.58%) Local Government
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) NHS
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) AIX
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Solaris
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
3 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.53%) BCP
4 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Due Diligence
4 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) SIEM
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Penetration Testing
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Postgraduate
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) VMware