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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 99 77
Rank change year-on-year -30 -22 +131
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 183 181 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.30% 2.62% 3.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 2.83% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 160 158 396
10th Percentile £41,125 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,625 £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 £65,224 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £68,683 £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 12,699 6,399 13,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 92.74% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,921 3,615 11,271
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,000
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 11 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 11 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 -32 87 £50,000 +5.26% 28
Yorkshire -14 78 £57,500 +9.52% 26
North East -9 18 £57,500 +43.75% 7
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 161 (87.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (38.25%) Azure
3 50 (27.32%) Microsoft
4 40 (21.86%) Active Directory
5 34 (18.58%) Entra ID
6 33 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.49%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (17.49%) Windows
8 31 (16.94%) PowerShell
9 28 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (13.11%) Firewall
10 24 (13.11%) VMware
11 23 (12.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (12.57%) ITIL
11 23 (12.57%) Mentoring
12 22 (12.02%) AWS
12 22 (12.02%) Coaching
13 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (10.93%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (10.93%) Windows Server
15 19 (10.38%) Bash
16 17 (9.29%) Azure Certification
16 17 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
17 16 (8.74%) Incident Management
17 16 (8.74%) Project Delivery
18 15 (8.20%) DNS
19 14 (7.65%) Cisco
19 14 (7.65%) Cyber Essentials
19 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
20 13 (7.10%) SQL Server

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 12 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.01%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (4.92%) AutoCAD
1 9 (4.92%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.25%) Azure
2 34 (18.58%) Entra ID
3 32 (17.49%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (12.02%) AWS
5 9 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (4.37%) SaaS
7 7 (3.83%) OCI
8 6 (3.28%) Google Workspace
8 6 (3.28%) IaaS
9 5 (2.73%) Intacct
10 4 (2.19%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.64%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.09%) iPaaS
13 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.55%) PaaS
13 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.11%) Firewall
2 15 (8.20%) DNS
3 10 (5.46%) VLAN
4 9 (4.92%) VPN
5 8 (4.37%) DMZ
5 8 (4.37%) VoIP
5 8 (4.37%) WAN
6 7 (3.83%) DHCP
7 6 (3.28%) LAN
8 5 (2.73%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.73%) STUN
9 4 (2.19%) NAS
9 4 (2.19%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.64%) SAN
11 2 (1.09%) Network Security
11 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.55%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.55%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.37%) Git
1 8 (4.37%) GitLab
2 5 (2.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (15.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.01%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.92%) Manufacturing
4 8 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.83%) Finance
6 6 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Legal
8 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.28%) OLE
2 5 (2.73%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (1.09%) Middleware
4 1 (0.55%) DPDK
4 1 (0.55%) eBPF
4 1 (0.55%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.55%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.83%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.73%) CCTV
2 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (1.64%) CMDB
3 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.64%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.64%) Social Media
4 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.55%) Clustering
5 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) NVMe
5 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.49%) Windows
2 20 (10.93%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.37%) Linux
4 7 (3.83%) Android
4 7 (3.83%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.73%) Debian
6 3 (1.64%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.09%) Unix
8 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (87.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (12.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (12.57%) ITIL
3 23 (12.57%) Mentoring
4 22 (12.02%) Coaching
5 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (10.93%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (8.74%) Incident Management
7 16 (8.74%) Project Delivery
8 12 (6.56%) Migration
9 11 (6.01%) Agile
9 11 (6.01%) Project Management
9 11 (6.01%) Roadmaps
9 11 (6.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (6.01%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (5.46%) CI/CD
10 10 (5.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (4.92%) Business Case
11 9 (4.92%) Manufacturing Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.94%) PowerShell
2 19 (10.38%) Bash
3 12 (6.56%) SQL
4 6 (3.28%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (9.29%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.92%) HNC
4 9 (4.92%) RIBA
5 8 (4.37%) Degree
6 6 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.28%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.64%) CCNA
8 3 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.64%) MCSA
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.65%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 40 (21.86%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.01%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.55%) Docker
7 1 (0.55%) Firmware
7 1 (0.55%) KVM
7 1 (0.55%) QEMU
7 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.55%) vSphere
7 1 (0.55%) XenApp
7 1 (0.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.56%) Terraform
3 5 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.64%) Ansible
4 3 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.09%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.09%) VxRail
5 2 (1.09%) WSUS
6 1 (0.55%) Kibana
6 1 (0.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (27.32%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.11%) VMware
3 14 (7.65%) Cisco
4 10 (5.46%) Apple
4 10 (5.46%) Veeam
5 8 (4.37%) Ubiquiti
6 7 (3.83%) Samsung
7 6 (3.28%) Google
7 6 (3.28%) Oracle
8 5 (2.73%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.73%) Meraki
8 5 (2.73%) Sage
9 4 (2.19%) Citrix
9 4 (2.19%) Commvault
9 4 (2.19%) IFS
10 3 (1.64%) Dell
10 3 (1.64%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.64%) Zerto
11 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.09%) Splunk