IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North East

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > North East

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North East is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 106 113
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 3 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.37% 0.53% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.55% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 1
10th Percentile £34,250 £36,125 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £51,250 £40,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £57,250 £41,100 -
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 729 1,802 1,007
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 95.75% 79.98%
Number of salaries quoted 400 1,447 602
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,600
25th Percentile £26,500 £35,500 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,641
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.30% +19.10%
75th Percentile £65,526 £62,500 £60,899
90th Percentile £75,945 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

IT Infrastructure Engineer
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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +34 2 £47,500 +26.67%
Northumberland - 1 £37,500 -
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, IT Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) MCSA
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam