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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 68 88
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 +74
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 328 424 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.56% 4.50% 2.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 5.10% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 271 137 343
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £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 £61,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -0.50%

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 19,947 8,315 16,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 88.19% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,535 4,478 11,850
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £79,000
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -48 169 £50,000 -3.85% 20
Yorkshire +20 116 £51,500 -20.77% 17
North East -25 43 £45,000 -13.46% 11
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 314 (95.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 114 (34.76%) Azure
3 84 (25.61%) Microsoft
4 67 (20.43%) Active Directory
5 64 (19.51%) Windows
6 55 (16.77%) VMware
7 53 (16.16%) Firewall
8 51 (15.55%) Windows Server
9 48 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (14.63%) PowerShell
10 45 (13.72%) Entra ID
11 43 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
12 33 (10.06%) Microsoft Intune
13 32 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
14 30 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (8.54%) Cisco
17 27 (8.23%) AWS
17 27 (8.23%) Hyper-V
18 26 (7.93%) ITIL
19 24 (7.32%) DHCP
19 24 (7.32%) DNS
20 22 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
21 21 (6.40%) Bash
21 21 (6.40%) LAN
21 21 (6.40%) Linux
21 21 (6.40%) Project Delivery
22 19 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
22 19 (5.79%) Migration
22 19 (5.79%) SAN

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 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.13%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.52%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.91%) Civil 3D
4 2 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (34.76%) Azure
2 48 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (13.72%) Entra ID
4 27 (8.23%) AWS
5 18 (5.49%) OCI
6 9 (2.74%) IaaS
7 8 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (2.13%) SaaS
9 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.22%) PaaS
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.91%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.91%) Intacct
11 2 (0.61%) GitHub
11 2 (0.61%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.61%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.30%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.30%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 53 (16.16%) Firewall
2 24 (7.32%) DHCP
2 24 (7.32%) DNS
3 21 (6.40%) LAN
4 19 (5.79%) SAN
4 19 (5.79%) VPN
4 19 (5.79%) WAN
5 16 (4.88%) TCP/IP
5 16 (4.88%) VLAN
6 8 (2.44%) NAS
6 8 (2.44%) VoIP
7 6 (1.83%) Network Security
8 5 (1.52%) DMZ
8 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.52%) STUN
9 4 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.91%) NGFW
10 3 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (0.91%) GitLab
General
1 38 (11.59%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.23%) Public Sector
3 16 (4.88%) Finance
4 8 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (1.83%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.22%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (0.91%) Local Government
7 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.61%) Law
8 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.52%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.22%) OAuth
2 4 (1.22%) OpenID
2 4 (1.22%) SAML
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.91%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.30%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.30%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.57%) Data Centre
1 15 (4.57%) Driving Licence
2 14 (4.27%) CCTV
3 13 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (2.74%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.52%) Clustering
8 4 (1.22%) Replication
9 3 (0.91%) PKI
9 3 (0.91%) Social Media
10 1 (0.30%) CMDB
10 1 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (19.51%) Windows
2 51 (15.55%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.40%) Linux
4 7 (2.13%) VMS
5 6 (1.83%) Android
5 6 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.52%) Debian
7 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.91%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (95.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (7.93%) ITIL
6 22 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (6.40%) Project Delivery
8 19 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (5.79%) Migration
9 17 (5.18%) Coaching
9 17 (5.18%) Mentoring
10 16 (4.88%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (4.88%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (3.96%) High Availability
11 13 (3.96%) Incident Management
12 12 (3.66%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (3.35%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (3.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 10 (3.05%) Customer Service
14 10 (3.05%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.63%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.40%) Bash
3 18 (5.49%) SQL
4 10 (3.05%) Python
5 6 (1.83%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (4.88%) Azure Certification
2 15 (4.57%) SC Cleared
2 15 (4.57%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.44%) CCNA
4 8 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.13%) MCSA
6 6 (1.83%) Degree
7 5 (1.52%) CCNP
7 5 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.91%) HNC
10 2 (0.61%) RIBA
11 1 (0.30%) HND
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.91%) NIST
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (20.43%) Active Directory
2 43 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (8.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.22%) Firmware
4 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.22%) vSphere
5 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.61%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.30%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (10.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.44%) Terraform
3 6 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.83%) VxRail
3 6 (1.83%) WSUS
4 4 (1.22%) Ansible
4 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.61%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.30%) Avamar
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) Nessus
7 1 (0.30%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.77%) VMware
3 28 (8.54%) Cisco
4 19 (5.79%) Veeam
5 14 (4.27%) Oracle
6 12 (3.66%) HP
7 10 (3.05%) Commvault
7 10 (3.05%) Dell
8 9 (2.74%) Apple
8 9 (2.74%) Meraki
9 8 (2.44%) CyberArk
9 8 (2.44%) Zerto
10 6 (1.83%) Samsung
10 6 (1.83%) Tenable
10 6 (1.83%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (1.22%) Aruba
12 3 (0.91%) NetApp
12 3 (0.91%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.91%) Sage
13 2 (0.61%) Google