Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 50 35
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 -28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 56 22 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.05% 2.55% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 3.07% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 50 13 55
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,150 £40,245
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,875 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -8.63%
75th Percentile £68,918 £65,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £70,407 - £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -5.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,988 716 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.90% 82.87% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,490 463 1,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,074
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.41% -5.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,650 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North East over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the North East region over the 6 months to 25 July 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 -18 51 £45,500 -14.15% 13
Durham -8 5 £40,000 +35.59%
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.79%) IIS
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.07%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
2 12 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 11 (19.64%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.93%) IaaS
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.36%) Serverless
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.79%) Datadog
8 1 (1.79%) PaaS
8 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) Firewall
2 10 (17.86%) VPN
3 5 (8.93%) DNS
3 5 (8.93%) LAN
3 5 (8.93%) VLAN
3 5 (8.93%) WAN
4 4 (7.14%) DHCP
4 4 (7.14%) DMZ
4 4 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (7.14%) STUN
4 4 (7.14%) VoIP
5 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.79%) BGP
6 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.79%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.79%) NGFW
6 1 (1.79%) OSPF
6 1 (1.79%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) JMeter
2 1 (1.79%) Locust
2 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Law
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Games
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (80.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Senior
3 10 (17.86%) IT Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) VoIP Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) VoIP Support Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Design Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) IT Security Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (1.79%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.79%) OAuth
2 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.79%) OpenID
2 1 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) PKI
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Windows
2 14 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (23.21%) Linux
4 6 (10.71%) Debian
5 2 (3.57%) Android
5 2 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.79%) VMS
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.64%) Technical Leadership
2 10 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (17.86%) DevOps
2 10 (17.86%) ITIL
3 9 (16.07%) Project Delivery
4 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.71%) Coaching
6 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (8.93%) High Availability
7 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (7.14%) Agile
8 4 (7.14%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (7.14%) Migration
8 4 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 3 (5.36%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) Bash
2 8 (14.29%) Python
3 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.86%) Docker
3 6 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.57%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) Ansible
2 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (12.50%) Terraform
3 6 (10.71%) Puppet
4 1 (1.79%) Fluentd
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.79%) Kibana
4 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) VMware
3 4 (7.14%) Apple
3 4 (7.14%) Cisco
3 4 (7.14%) Veeam
4 2 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.57%) Samsung
5 1 (1.79%) Arista
5 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.79%) F5
5 1 (1.79%) Meraki
5 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto