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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 59 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 97 18 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.71% 1.83% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 2.23% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 91 10 24
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,013 £35,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £41,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +17.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £69,695 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.98%

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 2,556 808 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.30% 82.36% 79.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,892 497 551
10th Percentile £32,525 £25,087 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £47,148
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -9.86% -5.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,520 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -1 89 £50,000 -3.85% 24
Durham -7 7 £40,000 -46.67% 3
Northumberland - 1 £59,900 - 3
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 (3.09%) nginx
2 1 (1.03%) IIS
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.68%) AWS
2 19 (19.59%) Azure
3 11 (11.34%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (10.31%) Amazon S3
4 10 (10.31%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.31%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (9.28%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (8.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (8.25%) Serverless
7 7 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (5.15%) SaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (3.09%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.09%) Kong
9 3 (3.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) Firewall
2 3 (3.09%) LAN
2 3 (3.09%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.09%) VPN
2 3 (3.09%) WAN
3 2 (2.06%) DNS
3 2 (2.06%) Internet
4 1 (1.03%) BGP
4 1 (1.03%) DHCP
4 1 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.03%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.03%) NGFW
4 1 (1.03%) OSPF
4 1 (1.03%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.03%) VLAN
4 1 (1.03%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) GitLab
2 3 (3.09%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.22%) Law
3 7 (7.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (75.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (21.65%) Senior
3 17 (17.53%) IT Engineer
3 17 (17.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (17.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Lead
9 4 (4.12%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Design Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) IT Security Engineer
11 2 (2.06%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.43%) Terraform
2 3 (3.09%) Kafka
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.03%) OpenID
3 1 (1.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (9.28%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.53%) Windows
2 15 (15.46%) Linux
3 11 (11.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.12%) Unix
5 2 (2.06%) Debian
5 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.77%) DevOps
1 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (24.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (24.74%) Project Delivery
3 21 (21.65%) Technical Leadership
4 20 (20.62%) CI/CD
5 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.40%) Agile
6 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (10.31%) ITIL
7 10 (10.31%) Migration
8 9 (9.28%) Cloud Security
8 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
8 9 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (8.25%) Cost Management
9 8 (8.25%) Cost Optimisation
9 8 (8.25%) Observability
9 8 (8.25%) SFIA
9 8 (8.25%) Test Automation
9 8 (8.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.37%) Bash
2 11 (11.34%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (15.46%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 19 (19.59%) Docker
2 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.06%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Ansible
2 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.28%) Puppet
4 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.09%) Grafana
5 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.06%) SCCM
7 1 (1.03%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) BMC
3 5 (5.15%) VMware
4 4 (4.12%) Peregrine
4 4 (4.12%) Veeam
5 3 (3.09%) Databricks
6 2 (2.06%) Apple
6 2 (2.06%) Google
6 2 (2.06%) Okta
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle
7 1 (1.03%) Arista
7 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.03%) F5
7 1 (1.03%) Meraki
7 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto