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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 54
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 82 21 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.40% 2.22% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 2.76% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 75 12 28
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,388 £35,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +23.89% -6.25%
75th Percentile £69,695 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £72,440 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 2,424 762 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.06% 80.38% 79.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,789 486 663
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,086 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.30% -9.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £61,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -15 75 £48,445 -10.29% 26
Durham -8 7 £40,000 -46.67% 6
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 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) IIS
2 1 (1.22%) nginx
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) AWS
2 21 (25.61%) Azure
3 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (12.20%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (9.76%) Amazon S3
6 8 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (9.76%) Serverless
7 7 (8.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.66%) OCI
9 2 (2.44%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.44%) GCP
10 1 (1.22%) PaaS
10 1 (1.22%) Route 53
10 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.07%) Firewall
2 6 (7.32%) VPN
3 5 (6.10%) DNS
3 5 (6.10%) LAN
3 5 (6.10%) WAN
4 4 (4.88%) DHCP
5 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.44%) Internet
7 1 (1.22%) BGP
7 1 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.22%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.22%) NGFW
7 1 (1.22%) OSPF
7 1 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.22%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.22%) VLAN
7 1 (1.22%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Git
1 3 (3.66%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.22%) JMeter
2 1 (1.22%) Locust
2 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Law
2 9 (10.98%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.22%) Games
4 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (75.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (23.17%) Senior
3 15 (18.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (15.85%) IT Engineer
4 13 (15.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Design Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) IT Security Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Administrator
11 2 (2.44%) Linux Administrator
11 2 (2.44%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 2 (2.44%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.22%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.22%) Kafka
2 1 (1.22%) OAuth
2 1 (1.22%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.22%) OpenID
2 1 (1.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (10.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.98%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.22%) PKI
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.17%) Windows
2 18 (21.95%) Linux
3 13 (15.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.88%) Unix
5 2 (2.44%) Debian
5 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.22%) VMS
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.61%) Continuous Improvement
1 21 (25.61%) Project Delivery
2 18 (21.95%) CI/CD
2 18 (21.95%) DevOps
2 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (21.95%) Technical Leadership
3 12 (14.63%) ITIL
3 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
4 10 (12.20%) Migration
5 9 (10.98%) Agile
5 9 (10.98%) Cloud Security
5 9 (10.98%) Cost Optimisation
5 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (9.76%) Cost Management
6 8 (9.76%) Identity Management
6 8 (9.76%) Service Management
7 7 (8.54%) Coaching
7 7 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.20%) Bash
1 10 (12.20%) Python
2 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Docker
2 9 (10.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.44%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.41%) Ansible
3 9 (10.98%) Puppet
4 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.44%) Grafana
6 1 (1.22%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.22%) Kibana
6 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) VMware
3 4 (4.88%) Veeam
4 2 (2.44%) Apple
4 2 (2.44%) Google
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (1.22%) Arista
5 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.22%) F5
5 1 (1.22%) Meraki
5 1 (1.22%) Okta
5 1 (1.22%) Palo Alto