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 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 98 76
Rank change year-on-year -34 -22 +114
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 170 189 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.30% 2.50% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 2.70% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 147 149 370
10th Percentile £40,750 £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% -4.26%
75th Percentile £69,390 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -3.85%

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 11,733 7,010 12,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 92.80% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,204 3,532 9,879
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,050 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -33 82 £50,000 +11.11% 22
Yorkshire -17 70 £57,500 +9.52% 23
North East -1 18 £57,500 +47.56% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 February 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.

1 148 (87.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (37.65%) Azure
3 47 (27.65%) Microsoft
4 38 (22.35%) Active Directory
5 32 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (18.24%) Entra ID
7 30 (17.65%) PowerShell
8 29 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (17.06%) Windows
9 25 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (13.53%) Firewall
10 23 (13.53%) Mentoring
11 22 (12.94%) Coaching
11 22 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (12.35%) AWS
12 21 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (12.35%) ITIL
13 20 (11.76%) VMware
14 18 (10.59%) Bash
14 18 (10.59%) DNS
14 18 (10.59%) Windows Server
15 17 (10.00%) Azure Certification
15 17 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (10.00%) Project Delivery
16 15 (8.82%) Incident Management
16 15 (8.82%) Kubernetes
16 15 (8.82%) Terraform
16 15 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
17 14 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials
18 13 (7.65%) CI/CD

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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.76%) IIS
3 3 (1.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (5.88%) AutoCAD
1 10 (5.88%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 64 (37.65%) Azure
2 31 (18.24%) Entra ID
3 29 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (12.35%) AWS
5 8 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (4.71%) SaaS
6 6 (3.53%) Google Workspace
6 6 (3.53%) IaaS
7 5 (2.94%) Intacct
7 5 (2.94%) OCI
8 4 (2.35%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.76%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.18%) iPaaS
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.59%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.59%) GCP
11 1 (0.59%) PaaS
11 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.53%) Firewall
2 18 (10.59%) DNS
3 10 (5.88%) DHCP
3 10 (5.88%) VPN
4 8 (4.71%) DMZ
5 7 (4.12%) VLAN
5 7 (4.12%) WAN
6 6 (3.53%) VoIP
7 5 (2.94%) LAN
7 5 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.94%) STUN
8 4 (2.35%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.76%) HTTP
9 3 (1.76%) NAS
9 3 (1.76%) SSL
10 2 (1.18%) Network Security
10 2 (1.18%) SAN
10 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.59%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.59%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Git
1 8 (4.71%) GitLab
2 5 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.47%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 8 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.12%) Finance
6 6 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.94%) Legal
8 4 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.76%) Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.53%) OLE
2 5 (2.94%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.76%) DPDK
3 3 (1.76%) eBPF
4 2 (1.18%) Middleware
5 1 (0.59%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.59%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.59%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.35%) CCTV
3 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.76%) CMDB
4 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.76%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.59%) NVMe
6 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.06%) Windows
2 18 (10.59%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.29%) Linux
4 7 (4.12%) Android
4 7 (4.12%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.94%) Debian
6 2 (1.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (87.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (13.53%) Mentoring
4 22 (12.94%) Coaching
4 22 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (12.35%) ITIL
6 17 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 15 (8.82%) Incident Management
8 13 (7.65%) CI/CD
9 12 (7.06%) Project Management
9 12 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (6.47%) Agile
10 11 (6.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (6.47%) Migration
10 11 (6.47%) Roadmaps
10 11 (6.47%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (5.88%) Business Case
11 10 (5.88%) Manufacturing Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.59%) Bash
3 12 (7.06%) SQL
4 8 (4.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 12 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (5.88%) HNC
4 10 (5.88%) RIBA
5 6 (3.53%) Degree
5 6 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.53%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) CCNA
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 38 (22.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.29%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.76%) KVM
5 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.76%) QEMU
6 2 (1.18%) Docker
6 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.59%) Firmware
7 1 (0.59%) XenApp
7 1 (0.59%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.82%) Terraform
3 6 (3.53%) Ansible
4 5 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.18%) VxRail
5 2 (1.18%) WSUS
6 1 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.59%) Kibana
6 1 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (27.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.76%) VMware
3 12 (7.06%) Cisco
4 8 (4.71%) Apple
4 8 (4.71%) Veeam
5 7 (4.12%) Samsung
6 6 (3.53%) Google
6 6 (3.53%) Ubiquiti
7 5 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.94%) Sage
8 4 (2.35%) Citrix
8 4 (2.35%) IFS
8 4 (2.35%) Oracle
9 3 (1.76%) Commvault
9 3 (1.76%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.76%) Meraki
9 3 (1.76%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.18%) Splunk
10 2 (1.18%) Zerto