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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 103 79
Rank change year-on-year -26 -24 +117
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 193 174 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.34% 2.58% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 2.79% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 166 159 394
10th Percentile £41,125 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,108 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £68,495 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 13,063 6,238 14,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 92.50% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,210 3,706 11,442
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,163 £84,575 £79,600
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 18 March 2026.

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 18 March 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
North West -31 92 £50,000 +5.26% 24
Yorkshire -14 81 £58,750 +11.90% 21
North East -9 20 £57,500 +43.75% 9
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 2026, 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.

1 171 (88.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 75 (38.86%) Azure
3 54 (27.98%) Microsoft
4 42 (21.76%) Active Directory
5 36 (18.65%) Windows
6 35 (18.13%) Entra ID
6 35 (18.13%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (17.10%) PowerShell
9 31 (16.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (14.51%) VMware
11 27 (13.99%) Firewall
12 25 (12.95%) ITIL
13 24 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (12.44%) Windows Server
14 23 (11.92%) Mentoring
15 22 (11.40%) AWS
15 22 (11.40%) Coaching
15 22 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (11.40%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (9.84%) Bash
16 19 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
17 17 (8.81%) Azure Certification
18 16 (8.29%) Cisco
18 16 (8.29%) DNS
18 16 (8.29%) Incident Management
18 16 (8.29%) Project Delivery
19 15 (7.77%) Hyper-V
19 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
20 14 (7.25%) Cyber Essentials

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 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.07%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (4.66%) AutoCAD
1 9 (4.66%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.86%) Azure
2 35 (18.13%) Entra ID
2 35 (18.13%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (11.40%) AWS
4 9 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (4.15%) OCI
5 8 (4.15%) SaaS
6 6 (3.11%) Google Workspace
6 6 (3.11%) IaaS
7 5 (2.59%) Intacct
8 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.07%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.07%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.04%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.52%) PaaS
10 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.99%) Firewall
2 16 (8.29%) DNS
3 12 (6.22%) VLAN
4 9 (4.66%) VoIP
4 9 (4.66%) VPN
4 9 (4.66%) WAN
5 8 (4.15%) DHCP
5 8 (4.15%) DMZ
6 7 (3.63%) LAN
7 5 (2.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.59%) STUN
7 5 (2.59%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.07%) NAS
8 4 (2.07%) SAN
9 2 (1.04%) Network Security
9 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.52%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.52%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Git
1 8 (4.15%) GitLab
2 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.70%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.66%) Manufacturing
4 8 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.63%) Finance
6 6 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.59%) Legal
8 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.11%) OLE
2 5 (2.59%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (1.04%) Middleware
4 1 (0.52%) DPDK
4 1 (0.52%) eBPF
4 1 (0.52%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.52%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.52%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.63%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.59%) CCTV
2 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.07%) Social Media
4 3 (1.55%) CMDB
4 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.52%) Clustering
6 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) NVMe
6 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.65%) Windows
2 24 (12.44%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.15%) Linux
4 7 (3.63%) Android
4 7 (3.63%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.59%) Debian
5 5 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.07%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.04%) Unix
8 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (88.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.95%) ITIL
4 24 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (11.92%) Mentoring
6 22 (11.40%) Coaching
6 22 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (11.40%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (8.29%) Incident Management
7 16 (8.29%) Project Delivery
8 13 (6.74%) Migration
9 11 (5.70%) Agile
9 11 (5.70%) Project Management
9 11 (5.70%) Roadmaps
9 11 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (5.18%) CI/CD
10 10 (5.18%) Customer Service
10 10 (5.18%) High Availability
10 10 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.10%) PowerShell
2 19 (9.84%) Bash
3 12 (6.22%) SQL
4 6 (3.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (8.81%) Azure Certification
2 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.66%) Degree
4 9 (4.66%) HNC
4 9 (4.66%) RIBA
5 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.11%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.07%) CCNA
7 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.07%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.07%) MCSA
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (21.76%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.77%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) Docker
7 1 (0.52%) Firmware
7 1 (0.52%) KVM
7 1 (0.52%) QEMU
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.52%) vSphere
7 1 (0.52%) XenApp
7 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (16.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.74%) Terraform
3 12 (6.22%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.55%) Ansible
6 3 (1.55%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.04%) VxRail
7 2 (1.04%) WSUS
8 1 (0.52%) Kibana
8 1 (0.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.51%) VMware
3 16 (8.29%) Cisco
4 11 (5.70%) Apple
4 11 (5.70%) Veeam
5 9 (4.66%) Ubiquiti
6 7 (3.63%) Oracle
6 7 (3.63%) Samsung
7 6 (3.11%) Google
7 6 (3.11%) Meraki
8 5 (2.59%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.59%) Sage
9 4 (2.07%) Citrix
9 4 (2.07%) Commvault
9 4 (2.07%) IFS
10 3 (1.55%) Dell
10 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.55%) Zerto
11 2 (1.04%) BMC
11 2 (1.04%) HP