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 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 121 84
Rank change year-on-year +12 -37 +95
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 277 161 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 2.27% 2.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 2.53% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 224 145 398
10th Percentile £40,300 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £69,391 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £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 16,838 6,359 15,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.63% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10,907 3,811 12,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.13%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +7 133 £50,000 +5.26% 31
Yorkshire -7 116 £57,500 +4.55% 20
North East -20 28 £48,445 +21.11% 14
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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.

1 253 (91.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (37.55%) Azure
3 76 (27.44%) Microsoft
4 57 (20.58%) Active Directory
5 52 (18.77%) Windows
6 48 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (16.61%) VMware
8 45 (16.25%) PowerShell
9 43 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (14.80%) Firewall
10 41 (14.80%) Windows Server
11 39 (14.08%) Entra ID
12 35 (12.64%) Microsoft Intune
13 32 (11.55%) VMware Infrastructure
14 31 (11.19%) DNS
15 29 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
16 28 (10.11%) ITIL
17 26 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (9.39%) Hyper-V
18 25 (9.03%) Mentoring
19 24 (8.66%) Coaching
20 23 (8.30%) AWS
20 23 (8.30%) DHCP
21 22 (7.94%) Cisco
22 20 (7.22%) Bash
22 20 (7.22%) Migration
23 19 (6.86%) Project Delivery
24 18 (6.50%) Azure Certification
25 17 (6.14%) Terraform

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 16 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.17%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) AutoCAD
1 9 (3.25%) SOLIDWORKS
2 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 104 (37.55%) Azure
2 48 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (14.08%) Entra ID
4 23 (8.30%) AWS
5 11 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (3.61%) OCI
6 10 (3.61%) SaaS
7 8 (2.89%) IaaS
8 5 (1.81%) Google Workspace
8 5 (1.81%) Intacct
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.44%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.44%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.08%) PaaS
11 2 (0.72%) GitHub
11 2 (0.72%) iPaaS
12 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.80%) Firewall
2 31 (11.19%) DNS
3 23 (8.30%) DHCP
4 17 (6.14%) WAN
5 16 (5.78%) LAN
6 15 (5.42%) VLAN
6 15 (5.42%) VPN
7 11 (3.97%) TCP/IP
8 9 (3.25%) SAN
8 9 (3.25%) VoIP
9 8 (2.89%) DMZ
10 7 (2.53%) NAS
11 5 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.81%) STUN
12 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.72%) HTTP
13 2 (0.72%) Network Security
14 1 (0.36%) BGP
14 1 (0.36%) OSPF
14 1 (0.36%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.97%) GitLab
2 8 (2.89%) Git
3 5 (1.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 38 (13.72%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (3.61%) Manufacturing
4 8 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (2.89%) Finance
5 7 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.44%) Legal
7 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.36%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.17%) OLE
2 5 (1.81%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.72%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.36%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.97%) CCTV
2 8 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.44%) Social Media
7 3 (1.08%) CMDB
7 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.72%) Replication
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.36%) Clustering
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (18.77%) Windows
2 41 (14.80%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.33%) Linux
4 6 (2.17%) Android
4 6 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.81%) Debian
5 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.72%) Unix
7 2 (0.72%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (91.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (10.11%) ITIL
5 26 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (9.03%) Mentoring
7 24 (8.66%) Coaching
8 20 (7.22%) Migration
9 19 (6.86%) Project Delivery
10 16 (5.78%) Incident Management
10 16 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (5.05%) Agile
11 14 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (4.69%) Customer Service
13 12 (4.33%) High Availability
13 12 (4.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 11 (3.97%) CI/CD
14 11 (3.97%) Roadmaps
14 11 (3.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.25%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.22%) Bash
3 15 (5.42%) SQL
4 9 (3.25%) Python
5 5 (1.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (6.50%) Azure Certification
2 16 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.61%) Degree
4 10 (3.61%) HNC
5 9 (3.25%) RIBA
6 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.17%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.44%) CCNA
7 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.44%) MCSA
8 1 (0.36%) HND
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (20.58%) Active Directory
2 32 (11.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (9.39%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) Docker
7 1 (0.36%) Firmware
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) XenApp
7 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (12.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (6.14%) Terraform
3 8 (2.89%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.81%) Ansible
4 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.81%) VxRail
4 5 (1.81%) WSUS
5 4 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.36%) Kibana
7 1 (0.36%) SCCM
7 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 76 (27.44%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.61%) VMware
3 22 (7.94%) Cisco
4 15 (5.42%) Veeam
5 10 (3.61%) Apple
6 9 (3.25%) Meraki
6 9 (3.25%) Oracle
6 9 (3.25%) Ubiquiti
7 7 (2.53%) Commvault
8 6 (2.17%) Dell
8 6 (2.17%) Samsung
8 6 (2.17%) Zerto
9 5 (1.81%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.81%) Google
9 5 (1.81%) HP
9 5 (1.81%) Sage
9 5 (1.81%) Tenable
10 4 (1.44%) Citrix
10 4 (1.44%) IFS
11 3 (1.08%) Fortinet