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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 -29 +15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 20 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.96% 2.27% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.74% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 13
10th Percentile £46,178 £35,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £36,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £44,274 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.81% -6.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £56,400 £65,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +2.86%

All Process and 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 830 948 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.13% 82.65% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 556 442 407
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,614
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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 +4 16 £65,000 +46.81% 16
Durham +3 4 £72,539 +45.08%
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (5.00%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) Datadog
3 1 (5.00%) dbt
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) JMeter
1 1 (5.00%) Locust
General
1 2 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Lead
3 6 (30.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Civil Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Development Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) IT Security Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
1 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (10.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) B2C
4 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.00%) Coaching
4 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CCNA
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Aruba
2 1 (5.00%) BMC
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk