Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 93 133
Rank change year-on-year -57 +40 +29
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 128 288 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.31% 2.32% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 2.44% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 100 223 140
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £45,375 £40,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £65,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +0.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 8,567 11,789 7,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 94.96% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,087 6,209 5,597
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,168 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% -4.17% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
North West -35 75 £53,750 +19.44% 24
Yorkshire -33 35 £65,000 +39.04% 13
North East 0 18 £53,000 +17.78% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 15 November 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 122 (95.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (28.13%) Windows
3 35 (27.34%) Azure
3 35 (27.34%) Microsoft
4 31 (24.22%) Windows Server
5 25 (19.53%) Linux
6 20 (15.63%) Active Directory
7 19 (14.84%) PowerShell
8 18 (14.06%) Firewall
8 18 (14.06%) Kubernetes
8 18 (14.06%) VMware
9 17 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (13.28%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (12.50%) Cisco
10 16 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.72%) DNS
11 15 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
11 15 (11.72%) VPN
12 14 (10.94%) DHCP
12 14 (10.94%) Hyper-V
13 13 (10.16%) Mentoring
14 12 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.38%) DV Cleared
14 12 (9.38%) OLE
14 12 (9.38%) Security Cleared
14 12 (9.38%) TETRA
15 11 (8.59%) VLAN
16 10 (7.81%) Ansible
16 10 (7.81%) DevOps
16 10 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.34%) IIS
3 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (6.25%) AutoCAD
2 6 (4.69%) Civil 3D
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.34%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.34%) Azure
2 17 (13.28%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.03%) AWS
4 7 (5.47%) IaaS
5 6 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (2.34%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.34%) PaaS
8 2 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.56%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.78%) GCP
9 1 (0.78%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.78%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.06%) Firewall
2 15 (11.72%) DNS
2 15 (11.72%) VPN
3 14 (10.94%) DHCP
4 12 (9.38%) TETRA
5 11 (8.59%) VLAN
6 7 (5.47%) VoIP
6 7 (5.47%) WAN
7 6 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.91%) DMZ
8 5 (3.91%) LAN
8 5 (3.91%) STUN
9 2 (1.56%) HTTP
9 2 (1.56%) Network Security
9 2 (1.56%) SSL
10 1 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.78%) NAS
10 1 (0.78%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.78%) SAN
10 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (0.78%) Power BI
2 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 16 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.03%) Manufacturing
3 8 (6.25%) Legal
4 7 (5.47%) Finance
4 7 (5.47%) Local Government
5 5 (3.91%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.91%) Military
6 4 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.34%) Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.38%) OLE
2 5 (3.91%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (2.34%) DPDK
3 3 (2.34%) eBPF
4 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.78%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.78%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.78%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.81%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.69%) NHS
3 5 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.78%) Clustering
6 1 (0.78%) NVMe
6 1 (0.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.13%) Windows
2 31 (24.22%) Windows Server
3 25 (19.53%) Linux
4 7 (5.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.91%) Debian
5 5 (3.91%) Mac OS
5 5 (3.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.13%) Unix
7 3 (2.34%) CentOS
7 3 (2.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.78%) Android
8 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (95.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (10.16%) Mentoring
5 12 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (7.81%) DevOps
6 10 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (7.03%) High Availability
7 9 (7.03%) Project Delivery
7 9 (7.03%) Project Management
8 8 (6.25%) Migration
9 7 (5.47%) Containerisation
10 6 (4.69%) CI/CD
10 6 (4.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (4.69%) Patch Management
10 6 (4.69%) Virtual Environments
11 5 (3.91%) Network Management
11 5 (3.91%) Network Virtualisation
11 5 (3.91%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.84%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.81%) Python
3 9 (7.03%) SQL
4 2 (1.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (9.38%) DV Cleared
1 12 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.03%) Degree
2 9 (7.03%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.47%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.47%) CCNA
4 7 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.13%) Postgraduate
7 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.34%) HNC
7 3 (2.34%) RIBA
8 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.78%) CCNP
9 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.78%) MCSA
9 1 (0.78%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.91%) ISO 9001
3 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.34%) GDPR
5 2 (1.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (10.94%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.47%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.69%) vSphere
6 5 (3.91%) Kamailio
6 5 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.34%) Docker
7 3 (2.34%) KVM
7 3 (2.34%) QEMU
8 1 (0.78%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.78%) Postfix
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.81%) Ansible
3 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.25%) Terraform
4 7 (5.47%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.91%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 4 (3.13%) SCCM
6 4 (3.13%) SCOM
6 4 (3.13%) WSUS
7 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.06%) VMware
3 16 (12.50%) Cisco
4 6 (4.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.91%) Google
5 5 (3.91%) Oracle
5 5 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.34%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.56%) Apple
8 2 (1.56%) Meraki
9 1 (0.78%) Citrix
9 1 (0.78%) IFS
9 1 (0.78%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.78%) NetApp
9 1 (0.78%) New Relic
9 1 (0.78%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.78%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.78%) Samsung
9 1 (0.78%) Ubiquiti