Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North East is £52,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 46 89
Rank change year-on-year -12 +43 -11
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 10 76 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.17% 3.95% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 4.13% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6 67 24
10th Percentile £38,500 £35,920 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,563 £39,250 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £44,274 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -0.51% +4.71%
75th Percentile £58,938 £67,968 £58,438
90th Percentile £63,125 - £61,425
England median annual salary £55,320 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 725 1,842 1,014
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.09% 95.79% 80.03%
Number of salaries quoted 379 1,473 603
10th Percentile £24,570 £27,500 £30,800
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,920 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,075
90th Percentile £74,407 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Tyne and Wear +1 10 £52,000 +17.45% 11
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 28 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 North East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Local Government
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (30.00%) AutoCAD
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (10.00%) GDPR
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
5 1 (10.00%) NIST
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (30.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) NAS
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Local Government
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) BCP
4 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware