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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 70 114
Rank change year-on-year -29 +44 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 341 415 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 4.33% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 4.90% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 283 126 239
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -
75th Percentile £69,391 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,125 £67,968
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -

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 21,170 8,464 14,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 88.30% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15,420 4,569 9,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -54 173 £52,500 +0.96% 28
Yorkshire +36 123 £51,500 -19.22% 14
North East -34 45 £45,000 -13.46% 13
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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.

1 333 (97.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 102 (29.91%) Azure
3 87 (25.51%) Microsoft
4 75 (21.99%) Windows
5 63 (18.48%) Windows Server
6 62 (18.18%) VMware
7 61 (17.89%) Active Directory
8 53 (15.54%) Firewall
9 52 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
10 50 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
11 36 (10.56%) PowerShell
12 34 (9.97%) Project Delivery
13 32 (9.38%) DHCP
13 32 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
13 32 (9.38%) DNS
13 32 (9.38%) Entra ID
13 32 (9.38%) Linux
14 31 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (8.21%) Microsoft Intune
17 27 (7.92%) AWS
17 27 (7.92%) Hyper-V
17 27 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (7.33%) Security Cleared
19 24 (7.04%) Cisco
20 22 (6.45%) SC Cleared
21 21 (6.16%) ITIL
21 21 (6.16%) LAN
22 20 (5.87%) Migration

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 10 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.76%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.88%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.88%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 102 (29.91%) Azure
2 52 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 27 (7.92%) AWS
5 14 (4.11%) OCI
6 11 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (2.64%) IaaS
8 7 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.05%) Azure AKS
9 6 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.47%) PaaS
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.17%) SaaS
11 4 (1.17%) Serverless
11 4 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.54%) Firewall
2 32 (9.38%) DHCP
2 32 (9.38%) DNS
3 21 (6.16%) LAN
4 20 (5.87%) SAN
5 19 (5.57%) WAN
6 18 (5.28%) VPN
7 16 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 13 (3.81%) VLAN
9 6 (1.76%) NAS
9 6 (1.76%) Network Security
10 4 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.17%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (1.17%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.17%) Wireless
11 3 (0.88%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.88%) NGFW
11 3 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.88%) VoIP
12 1 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.29%) Db2
Development Applications
1 3 (0.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) JIRA
General
1 30 (8.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (6.16%) Public Sector
3 16 (4.69%) Finance
4 12 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.93%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.05%) Law
7 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.17%) Fire and Rescue
9 3 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.59%) Automotive
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Games
11 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.40%) Terraform
2 4 (1.17%) OAuth
2 4 (1.17%) OpenID
2 4 (1.17%) SAML
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.29%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (4.69%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.23%) CCTV
4 11 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (2.64%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.05%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.76%) Clustering
7 6 (1.76%) Replication
8 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.17%) Social Media
10 3 (0.88%) PKI
11 2 (0.59%) IoT
12 1 (0.29%) CUDA
12 1 (0.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.29%) Life Science
12 1 (0.29%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 75 (21.99%) Windows
2 63 (18.48%) Windows Server
3 32 (9.38%) Linux
4 11 (3.23%) VMS
5 5 (1.47%) Unix
5 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (97.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (9.97%) Project Delivery
3 32 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 31 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (6.16%) ITIL
8 20 (5.87%) Migration
9 18 (5.28%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (4.69%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (4.11%) Mentoring
11 14 (4.11%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (3.81%) Storage Management
13 11 (3.23%) Coaching
13 11 (3.23%) High Availability
13 11 (3.23%) Identity Management
14 10 (2.93%) DevOps
14 10 (2.93%) Roadmaps
14 10 (2.93%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.56%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.11%) Bash
2 14 (4.11%) SQL
3 12 (3.52%) Python
4 7 (2.05%) Bicep
5 2 (0.59%) Java
6 1 (0.29%) C
6 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (7.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.93%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.35%) CCNA
5 8 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.05%) MCSA
7 5 (1.47%) CCNP
7 5 (1.47%) Degree
7 5 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.29%) HNC
9 1 (0.29%) HND
9 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.17%) SLA
5 3 (0.88%) NIST
6 2 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 61 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 50 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.92%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.05%) vSphere
5 6 (1.76%) Firmware
6 5 (1.47%) Docker
6 5 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.29%) Ceph
9 1 (0.29%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (8.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.35%) Ansible
3 8 (2.35%) WSUS
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.47%) VxRail
5 4 (1.17%) SCCM
6 3 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.59%) SCOM
7 2 (0.59%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.59%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.29%) Avamar
8 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.29%) Nessus
8 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.29%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 62 (18.18%) VMware
3 24 (7.04%) Cisco
4 20 (5.87%) Veeam
5 17 (4.99%) Oracle
6 10 (2.93%) HP
6 10 (2.93%) Meraki
7 8 (2.35%) Dell
8 7 (2.05%) Commvault
9 6 (1.76%) Zerto
10 5 (1.47%) Apple
11 4 (1.17%) Aruba
11 4 (1.17%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.17%) Tenable
12 3 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.88%) NetApp
12 3 (0.88%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.88%) Ubiquiti
13 2 (0.59%) Red Hat