Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North of England is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 90 178
Rank change year-on-year 0 +88 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 428 455 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.24% 2.42% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.75% 2.54% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 140 384 219
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,968 £60,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

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 11,410 17,904 12,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.48% 95.17% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,086 13,145 7,841
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,421
Median % change year-on-year - -8.12% +8.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +23 356 £52,000 +15.56% 35
Yorkshire -19 51 £65,000 +44.44% 21
North East -7 21 £52,000 +15.56% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, 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 of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 424 (99.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 297 (69.39%) Windows
3 288 (67.29%) Linux
4 277 (64.72%) Cisco
5 276 (64.49%) PowerShell
6 274 (64.02%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (62.85%) Hyper-V
8 264 (61.68%) Ansible
8 264 (61.68%) VPN
8 264 (61.68%) Terraform
9 263 (61.45%) DevOps
10 261 (60.98%) Python
11 258 (60.28%) vSphere
12 257 (60.05%) VMware NSX
13 256 (59.81%) Storage Management
14 255 (59.58%) Bash
15 254 (59.35%) Docker
16 253 (59.11%) Analytical Skills
16 253 (59.11%) Risk Management
17 252 (58.88%) Task Automation
17 252 (58.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 251 (58.64%) Platform Engineering
18 251 (58.64%) Elastic Stack
18 251 (58.64%) Cyberattack
18 251 (58.64%) Juniper
18 251 (58.64%) Line Management
18 251 (58.64%) Splunk
18 251 (58.64%) 3PAR
18 251 (58.64%) Android
18 251 (58.64%) Mathematics

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.87%) IIS
4 3 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (3.97%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 42 (9.81%) Azure
2 20 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (3.04%) AWS
4 11 (2.57%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.64%) SaaS
6 6 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.17%) GCP
7 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.93%) IaaS
8 4 (0.93%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.47%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.47%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.47%) PaaS
9 2 (0.47%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.23%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.23%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.23%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 264 (61.68%) VPN
2 251 (58.64%) Cisco IOS
3 27 (6.31%) DNS
4 24 (5.61%) DHCP
5 20 (4.67%) Firewall
6 16 (3.74%) TETRA
7 8 (1.87%) SMTP
8 7 (1.64%) LAN
8 7 (1.64%) Network Security
8 7 (1.64%) SAN
9 6 (1.40%) NAS
9 6 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.40%) VLAN
9 6 (1.40%) WAN
10 5 (1.17%) DKIM
10 5 (1.17%) DMARC
10 5 (1.17%) DNSSEC
10 5 (1.17%) Internet
11 4 (0.93%) VSAN
12 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
2 4 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.23%) Power BI
3 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.23%) Git
2 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 253 (59.11%) Analytical Skills
2 252 (58.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (5.61%) Finance
4 23 (5.37%) Social Skills
5 10 (2.34%) Local Government
6 8 (1.87%) Banking
7 6 (1.40%) Legal
7 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.17%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.17%) Military
8 5 (1.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.93%) Retail
10 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Games
10 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (58.64%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (3.27%) OLE
3 5 (1.17%) ARM Templates
4 4 (0.93%) Middleware
5 1 (0.23%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.23%) OpenCL
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 251 (58.64%) Cyberattack
2 19 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.10%) Driving Licence
5 7 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.40%) NHS
7 4 (0.93%) Clustering
8 2 (0.47%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.23%) CCTV
9 1 (0.23%) CUDA
9 1 (0.23%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.23%) PKI
9 1 (0.23%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 297 (69.39%) Windows
2 288 (67.29%) Linux
3 251 (58.64%) Android
4 33 (7.71%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.64%) CentOS
6 7 (1.64%) Unix
7 6 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.17%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.70%) Debian
10 3 (0.70%) VMS
11 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.23%) AIX
12 1 (0.23%) Solaris
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (99.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 274 (64.02%) Problem-Solving
3 263 (61.45%) DevOps
4 256 (59.81%) Storage Management
5 253 (59.11%) Risk Management
6 252 (58.88%) Task Automation
7 251 (58.64%) Line Management
7 251 (58.64%) Mathematics
7 251 (58.64%) Platform Engineering
8 26 (6.07%) Mentoring
9 17 (3.97%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (3.97%) ITIL
10 12 (2.80%) Migration
10 12 (2.80%) Project Delivery
11 10 (2.34%) Project Management
11 10 (2.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (2.10%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (2.10%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (1.87%) Containerisation
13 8 (1.87%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 276 (64.49%) PowerShell
2 261 (60.98%) Python
3 255 (59.58%) Bash
4 9 (2.10%) SQL
5 1 (0.23%) Bicep
5 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (6.07%) Degree
2 25 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.10%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.64%) CCNA
9 7 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.40%) RIBA
11 4 (0.93%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.70%) RHCE
13 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.23%) CEH
14 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.23%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.40%) GDPR
3 5 (1.17%) NIST
4 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 269 (62.85%) Hyper-V
2 258 (60.28%) vSphere
3 257 (60.05%) VMware NSX
4 254 (59.35%) Docker
5 36 (8.41%) Active Directory
6 18 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.70%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.70%) Postfix
9 1 (0.23%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.23%) NFS
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.23%) XenApp
9 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 264 (61.68%) Ansible
1 264 (61.68%) Terraform
2 11 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.64%) SCCM
5 6 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 5 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.17%) SCOM
6 5 (1.17%) WSUS
7 4 (0.93%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.23%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 277 (64.72%) Cisco
2 251 (58.64%) 3PAR
2 251 (58.64%) Juniper
2 251 (58.64%) Splunk
3 54 (12.62%) Microsoft
4 31 (7.24%) VMware
5 9 (2.10%) Oracle
5 9 (2.10%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.17%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.17%) Google
6 5 (1.17%) IronPort
6 5 (1.17%) Veritas
7 3 (0.70%) Okta
7 3 (0.70%) Ping Identity
7 3 (0.70%) Veeam
8 2 (0.47%) Citrix
8 2 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.47%) NetApp
8 2 (0.47%) Tenable
8 2 (0.47%) Varonis