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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 100 77
Rank change year-on-year -26 -23 +108
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 221 164 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.42% 2.57% 3.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 2.79% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 182 156 396
10th Percentile £41,025 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £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 £57,813 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £69,059 £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 14,186 5,870 14,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 92.09% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9,139 3,754 12,016
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £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% -5.66%
75th Percentile £69,195 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,800 £85,000 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 April 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 April 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 -23 103 £50,000 +5.26% 37
Yorkshire -8 94 £58,750 +11.90% 22
North East -9 24 £49,222 +16.50% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 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.

1 198 (89.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (40.27%) Azure
3 66 (29.86%) Microsoft
4 47 (21.27%) Active Directory
5 44 (19.91%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (19.00%) Windows
7 38 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (16.74%) Entra ID
8 37 (16.74%) PowerShell
8 37 (16.74%) VMware
9 33 (14.93%) Firewall
9 33 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (14.03%) Windows Server
11 27 (12.22%) ITIL
12 26 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
14 24 (10.86%) AWS
14 24 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (10.86%) Mentoring
15 23 (10.41%) Coaching
16 21 (9.50%) Hyper-V
17 20 (9.05%) Bash
17 20 (9.05%) DNS
18 18 (8.14%) Azure Certification
19 17 (7.69%) Cisco
19 17 (7.69%) Incident Management
19 17 (7.69%) Project Delivery
20 16 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
20 16 (7.24%) Microsoft Exchange

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 (7.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.81%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (4.07%) AutoCAD
1 9 (4.07%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 89 (40.27%) Azure
2 44 (19.91%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (16.74%) Entra ID
4 24 (10.86%) AWS
5 10 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (4.07%) SaaS
7 8 (3.62%) OCI
8 6 (2.71%) Google Workspace
8 6 (2.71%) IaaS
9 5 (2.26%) Intacct
10 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.81%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.81%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.90%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.90%) iPaaS
12 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.93%) Firewall
2 20 (9.05%) DNS
3 12 (5.43%) DHCP
3 12 (5.43%) VLAN
4 11 (4.98%) VPN
4 11 (4.98%) WAN
5 9 (4.07%) LAN
5 9 (4.07%) VoIP
6 8 (3.62%) DMZ
7 6 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.26%) STUN
9 4 (1.81%) NAS
9 4 (1.81%) SAN
10 2 (0.90%) Network Security
10 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.45%) SSH
11 1 (0.45%) SSL
11 1 (0.45%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.07%) GitLab
2 8 (3.62%) Git
3 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 34 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.43%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.07%) Manufacturing
4 8 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.17%) Finance
6 6 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.26%) Legal
8 4 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.71%) OLE
2 5 (2.26%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.90%) Middleware
4 1 (0.45%) DPDK
4 1 (0.45%) eBPF
4 1 (0.45%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.45%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.26%) CCTV
2 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (1.81%) Social Media
4 3 (1.36%) CMDB
4 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.90%) Replication
6 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.45%) Clustering
6 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.45%) NVMe
6 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.00%) Windows
2 31 (14.03%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.52%) Linux
4 7 (3.17%) Android
4 7 (3.17%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.26%) Debian
5 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.81%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.90%) Unix
8 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (89.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (12.22%) ITIL
4 26 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (10.86%) Mentoring
7 23 (10.41%) Coaching
8 17 (7.69%) Incident Management
8 17 (7.69%) Project Delivery
9 16 (7.24%) Migration
10 13 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (5.43%) Agile
11 12 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (4.98%) CI/CD
12 11 (4.98%) Customer Service
12 11 (4.98%) Project Management
12 11 (4.98%) Roadmaps
12 11 (4.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (4.52%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.74%) PowerShell
2 20 (9.05%) Bash
3 13 (5.88%) SQL
4 7 (3.17%) Python
5 1 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (8.14%) Azure Certification
2 16 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.07%) Degree
4 9 (4.07%) HNC
4 9 (4.07%) RIBA
5 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.81%) CCNA
7 4 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.81%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.81%) MCSA
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (21.27%) Active Directory
2 25 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.36%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) Docker
7 1 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.45%) KVM
7 1 (0.45%) QEMU
7 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.45%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) XenApp
7 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (6.79%) Terraform
3 14 (6.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.81%) Ansible
5 4 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.36%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.90%) VxRail
7 2 (0.90%) WSUS
8 1 (0.45%) Kibana
8 1 (0.45%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (29.86%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.74%) VMware
3 17 (7.69%) Cisco
4 12 (5.43%) Veeam
5 11 (4.98%) Apple
6 9 (4.07%) Ubiquiti
7 7 (3.17%) Oracle
7 7 (3.17%) Samsung
8 6 (2.71%) Google
8 6 (2.71%) Meraki
9 5 (2.26%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.26%) Sage
10 4 (1.81%) Citrix
10 4 (1.81%) Commvault
10 4 (1.81%) IFS
11 3 (1.36%) Dell
11 3 (1.36%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.36%) Zerto
12 2 (0.90%) BMC
12 2 (0.90%) HP