Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North East is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 52 44
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 32 16 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.25% 2.26% 3.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 2.58% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28 10 68
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £43,563 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £44,637
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +16.50% -4.01%
75th Percentile £55,180 £64,063 £67,968
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,433 620 2,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.11% 87.45% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,776 381 1,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £28,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -0.55% -9.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,875 £77,500 £75,225
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 29 June 2026.

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 29 June 2026. 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 -39 30 £45,000 -13.46% 8
Durham -15 2 £40,000 +35.59% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 29 June 2026, 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 North East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (43.75%) Windows
5 12 (37.50%) Firewall
5 12 (37.50%) Windows Server
6 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
7 10 (31.25%) VPN
8 8 (25.00%) Entra ID
8 8 (25.00%) Linux
9 7 (21.88%) ITIL
9 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (18.75%) Bash
10 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
10 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (15.63%) AWS
11 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
11 5 (15.63%) Cisco
11 5 (15.63%) Debian
11 5 (15.63%) DMZ
11 5 (15.63%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (15.63%) High Availability
11 5 (15.63%) IaaS
11 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (15.63%) Python
11 5 (15.63%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (15.63%) SQL
11 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
11 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (15.63%) STUN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (15.63%) AWS
4 5 (15.63%) IaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Firewall
2 10 (31.25%) VPN
3 5 (15.63%) DMZ
3 5 (15.63%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (15.63%) STUN
3 5 (15.63%) VLAN
3 5 (15.63%) VoIP
4 4 (12.50%) LAN
4 4 (12.50%) WAN
5 3 (9.38%) DHCP
5 3 (9.38%) DNS
6 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Security Posture
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (15.63%) Debian
5 2 (6.25%) Android
5 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (21.88%) ITIL
3 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (15.63%) High Availability
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) Coaching
5 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
6 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (9.38%) DevOps
7 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.25%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (6.25%) Patch Management
7 2 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (6.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Bash
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) Apple
3 2 (6.25%) Samsung
3 2 (6.25%) Veeam
4 1 (3.13%) CyberArk