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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 52 35
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 -29
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 58 21 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.07% 2.41% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.92% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 52 12 50
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,313 £40,864
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,719 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +17.78% -7.22%
75th Percentile £69,390 £65,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £73,660 - £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 2,048 720 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 73.06% 82.76% 80.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,538 465 970
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £45,000 £46,984
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -4.22% -6.03%
75th Percentile £70,250 £62,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,150 £73,850
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -23 53 £45,500 -15.74% 8
Durham -9 5 £40,000 +35.59% 2
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 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) AWS
3 11 (18.97%) Entra ID
3 11 (18.97%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.90%) IaaS
5 4 (6.90%) Serverless
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.72%) Datadog
7 1 (1.72%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.59%) Firewall
2 9 (15.52%) VPN
3 5 (8.62%) DNS
3 5 (8.62%) LAN
3 5 (8.62%) WAN
4 4 (6.90%) DHCP
4 4 (6.90%) VLAN
5 3 (5.17%) DMZ
5 3 (5.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (5.17%) STUN
5 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.17%) VoIP
6 1 (1.72%) BGP
6 1 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.72%) NGFW
6 1 (1.72%) OSPF
6 1 (1.72%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.72%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) JMeter
2 1 (1.72%) Locust
2 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Law
3 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Games
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (79.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) Senior
3 9 (15.52%) IT Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Design Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) IT Security Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) VoIP Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) VoIP Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (1.72%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.72%) OAuth
2 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.72%) OpenID
2 1 (1.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.62%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) PKI
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.59%) Windows
2 13 (22.41%) Linux
2 13 (22.41%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.62%) Debian
4 2 (3.45%) Android
4 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.41%) Technical Leadership
2 12 (20.69%) Project Delivery
3 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (18.97%) DevOps
3 11 (18.97%) ITIL
4 9 (15.52%) CI/CD
5 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
7 5 (8.62%) Coaching
7 5 (8.62%) Cost Optimisation
7 5 (8.62%) Migration
7 5 (8.62%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (6.90%) Agile
8 4 (6.90%) Cost Management
8 4 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (6.90%) Identity Management
8 4 (6.90%) Service Management
8 4 (6.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Bash
1 8 (13.79%) Python
2 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) SQL
4 1 (1.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 11 (18.97%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.45%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.79%) Ansible
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (12.07%) Puppet
4 1 (1.72%) Fluentd
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) VMware
3 4 (6.90%) Apple
3 4 (6.90%) Veeam
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco
5 2 (3.45%) Samsung
6 1 (1.72%) Arista
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) F5
6 1 (1.72%) Meraki
6 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto