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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 72 36
Rank change year-on-year +5 -36 +10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 20 9 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.56% 1.10% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.21% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 59
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £46,334 £36,563 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,288 £38,968 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +67.54% -11.99% +4.17%
75th Percentile £79,375 £46,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,125 £48,250 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -5.66%

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 967 743 1,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 75.43% 91.05% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 652 297 996
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 £57,500 +43.75% 7
Durham - 2 £72,539 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) IaaS
3 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Datadog
5 1 (5.00%) dbt
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DMZ
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
1 4 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (20.00%) STUN
1 4 (20.00%) VLAN
1 4 (20.00%) VoIP
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Locust
General
1 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (35.00%) Lead
4 5 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) VoIP Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) VoIP Support Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
1 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
3 4 (20.00%) Debian
4 2 (10.00%) Android
4 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (35.00%) Coaching
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) High Availability
5 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
7 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Bash
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCNA
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) BMC
3 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.00%) Samsung
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Aruba
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) HP