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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 57 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -44 +37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 21 38 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.22% 2.68% 10.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 3.39% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12 28 14
10th Percentile £47,388 £35,875 £34,395
25th Percentile £52,000 £41,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% -6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £62,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £68,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +0.96%

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 757 1,120 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.19% 79.04% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 481 664 466
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering 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 September 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 18 September 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 +16 18 £54,000 +21.97% 13
Durham -9 3 £75,000 +66.67%
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 5 (23.81%) AutoCAD
1 5 (23.81%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
1 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (9.52%) Network Security
1 2 (9.52%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) WLAN
General
1 6 (28.57%) Local Government
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
2 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Civil Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior
4 6 (28.57%) Development Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
1 2 (9.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) NHS
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (9.52%) B2C
4 2 (9.52%) BCP
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
4 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
4 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.52%) Due Diligence
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.52%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (9.52%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Bash
1 2 (9.52%) Bicep
1 2 (9.52%) C#
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Postgraduate
3 1 (4.76%) CCNA
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco