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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 71 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 -36 +11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 14 16 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.39% 1.66% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.88% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 21
10th Percentile £46,446 £36,375 £35,920
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,662 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £44,274 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +69.40% +4.17% +6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £86,002 - £52,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 803 853 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 79.58% 88.39% 90.55%
Number of salaries quoted 532 371 517
10th Percentile £27,888 £30,750 £29,900
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £65,793 £68,750 £61,445
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,250
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 4 January 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 January 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 +11 11 £73,755 +66.59% 5
Durham +3 3 £75,000 +50.00%
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 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) Locust
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Lead
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
1 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Bicep
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CCNA
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) BMC
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
1 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Aruba
2 1 (7.14%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft