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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 65 46
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 +7
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 20 30 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.96% 2.30% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.89% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 11
10th Percentile £46,263 £35,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £40,988 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £44,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.96% -10.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £76,642 £52,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £82,750 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +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 837 1,037 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 82.22% 79.40% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 534 509 421
10th Percentile £25,025 £24,992 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +9 16 £53,000 +19.71% 7
Durham -1 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 5 (25.00%) AutoCAD
1 5 (25.00%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Datadog
2 1 (5.00%) dbt
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
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%) JMeter
1 1 (5.00%) Locust
General
1 3 (15.00%) Local Government
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Legal
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Civil Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
3 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Development Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Operations 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
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) B2C
3 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (10.00%) Due Diligence
3 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
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
1 2 (10.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) 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 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Aruba
2 1 (5.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft