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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 96 19 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.72% 1.93% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 2.36% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 90 10 25
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,013 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +17.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £69,848 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £73,875 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £59,200 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +20.00% -4.76%

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 2,527 806 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.59% 82.08% 79.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,866 486 592
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,087 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -7.61% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,913 £62,399
90th Percentile £93,634 £74,629 £79,563
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -3 88 £50,000 -3.85% 31
Durham -8 7 £40,000 -46.67% 9
Northumberland - 1 £59,900 - 4
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 (3.13%) nginx
2 1 (1.04%) IIS
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.92%) AWS
2 20 (20.83%) Azure
3 12 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (11.46%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (11.46%) Entra ID
5 10 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (10.42%) Amazon S3
5 10 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (8.33%) Serverless
7 7 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (3.13%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.13%) Kong
8 3 (3.13%) Route 53
8 3 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) Firewall
2 4 (4.17%) VPN
3 3 (3.13%) DNS
3 3 (3.13%) LAN
3 3 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.13%) WAN
4 2 (2.08%) DHCP
4 2 (2.08%) Internet
5 1 (1.04%) BGP
5 1 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.04%) NGFW
5 1 (1.04%) OSPF
5 1 (1.04%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.04%) VLAN
5 1 (1.04%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) GitLab
2 3 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Law
5 1 (1.04%) Games
5 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (22.92%) Senior
3 18 (18.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (17.71%) IT Engineer
4 17 (17.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Design Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) IT Security Engineer
12 2 (2.08%) Linux Administrator
12 2 (2.08%) Senior Linux Administrator
12 2 (2.08%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) Terraform
2 3 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.04%) OpenID
3 1 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (9.38%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.75%) Windows
2 16 (16.67%) Linux
3 12 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.17%) Unix
5 2 (2.08%) Debian
5 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.04%) VMS
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 24 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (23.96%) DevOps
2 23 (23.96%) Project Delivery
3 21 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 19 (19.79%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (12.50%) Agile
8 11 (11.46%) ITIL
8 11 (11.46%) Migration
9 10 (10.42%) Mentoring
10 9 (9.38%) Cloud Security
10 9 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (8.33%) Cost Management
11 8 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
11 8 (8.33%) Identity Management
11 8 (8.33%) Observability
11 8 (8.33%) SFIA
11 8 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.50%) Bash
2 11 (11.46%) Python
3 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 19 (19.79%) Docker
2 8 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.08%) iptables
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) Ansible
2 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.38%) Puppet
4 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.13%) Grafana
5 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.08%) SCCM
7 1 (1.04%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.25%) VMware
3 4 (4.17%) BMC
3 4 (4.17%) Veeam
4 3 (3.13%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Apple
5 2 (2.08%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Okta
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle
5 2 (2.08%) Peregrine
6 1 (1.04%) Arista
6 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.04%) F5
6 1 (1.04%) Meraki
6 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto