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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 107 78
Rank change year-on-year -10 -29 +107
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 254 162 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 2.50% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 2.73% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 207 149 401
10th Percentile £41,150 £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% -
75th Percentile £69,391 £58,750 £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% -

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 15,312 5,933 15,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 91.70% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,911 3,776 12,367
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,700 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.59% -9.13%

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 12 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 12 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 -17 122 £50,000 +5.26% 27
Yorkshire -7 104 £60,000 +14.29% 21
North East -12 28 £57,500 +36.09% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 231 (90.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 96 (37.80%) Azure
3 71 (27.95%) Microsoft
4 52 (20.47%) Active Directory
5 48 (18.90%) Windows
6 45 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (16.93%) VMware
8 42 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (16.14%) PowerShell
10 39 (15.35%) Entra ID
11 38 (14.96%) Firewall
12 37 (14.57%) Windows Server
13 35 (13.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 29 (11.42%) ITIL
14 29 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
15 27 (10.63%) Disaster Recovery
16 26 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (10.24%) Mentoring
17 25 (9.84%) Coaching
17 25 (9.84%) DNS
18 24 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
18 24 (9.45%) Hyper-V
19 23 (9.06%) AWS
20 20 (7.87%) Bash
21 19 (7.48%) Migration
22 18 (7.09%) Cisco
23 17 (6.69%) Azure Certification
23 17 (6.69%) DHCP
23 17 (6.69%) Incident Management
23 17 (6.69%) Kubernetes

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 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.97%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (3.54%) AutoCAD
1 9 (3.54%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 96 (37.80%) Azure
2 45 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (15.35%) Entra ID
4 23 (9.06%) AWS
5 10 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (3.54%) OCI
6 9 (3.54%) SaaS
7 7 (2.76%) IaaS
8 5 (1.97%) Google Workspace
8 5 (1.97%) Intacct
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.57%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.57%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.57%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.79%) GitHub
10 2 (0.79%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.79%) PaaS
11 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.96%) Firewall
2 25 (9.84%) DNS
3 17 (6.69%) DHCP
4 13 (5.12%) VLAN
4 13 (5.12%) VPN
4 13 (5.12%) WAN
5 11 (4.33%) LAN
6 9 (3.54%) VoIP
7 8 (3.15%) DMZ
8 7 (2.76%) SAN
8 7 (2.76%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.97%) NAS
9 5 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.97%) STUN
10 2 (0.79%) Network Security
10 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.39%) FTP
11 1 (0.39%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.39%) SSH
11 1 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.33%) GitLab
2 8 (3.15%) Git
3 5 (1.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 37 (14.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.48%) Public Sector
3 9 (3.54%) Manufacturing
4 8 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.76%) Finance
6 5 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.57%) Legal
8 2 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.39%) Banking
9 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.39%) Marketing
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.36%) OLE
2 5 (1.97%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.79%) Middleware
4 1 (0.39%) DPDK
4 1 (0.39%) eBPF
4 1 (0.39%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.39%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.39%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (2.76%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.36%) CCTV
4 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.57%) Social Media
6 3 (1.18%) CMDB
6 3 (1.18%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Replication
8 1 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.39%) Clustering
8 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.39%) NVMe
8 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.90%) Windows
2 37 (14.57%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.72%) Linux
4 7 (2.76%) Android
4 7 (2.76%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.97%) Debian
5 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.79%) Unix
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) VMS
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (90.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (11.42%) ITIL
4 27 (10.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (10.24%) Mentoring
6 25 (9.84%) Coaching
7 24 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (7.48%) Migration
9 17 (6.69%) Incident Management
9 17 (6.69%) Project Delivery
10 16 (6.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (5.91%) Agile
12 13 (5.12%) CI/CD
12 13 (5.12%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (4.72%) Customer Service
14 11 (4.33%) Project Management
14 11 (4.33%) Roadmaps
14 11 (4.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (4.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 41 (16.14%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.87%) Bash
3 15 (5.91%) SQL
4 9 (3.54%) Python
5 3 (1.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (6.69%) Azure Certification
2 15 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.54%) Degree
4 9 (3.54%) HNC
4 9 (3.54%) RIBA
5 6 (2.36%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.36%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.57%) CCNA
6 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.57%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.57%) MCSA
7 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (20.47%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (9.45%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) Docker
7 1 (0.39%) Firmware
7 1 (0.39%) KVM
7 1 (0.39%) QEMU
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.39%) vSphere
7 1 (0.39%) XenApp
7 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (13.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.69%) Terraform
3 6 (2.36%) Ansible
4 5 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.18%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.18%) VxRail
6 3 (1.18%) WSUS
7 1 (0.39%) Kibana
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.93%) VMware
3 18 (7.09%) Cisco
4 13 (5.12%) Veeam
5 11 (4.33%) Apple
6 9 (3.54%) Ubiquiti
7 8 (3.15%) Oracle
8 7 (2.76%) Meraki
8 7 (2.76%) Samsung
9 5 (1.97%) Commvault
9 5 (1.97%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.97%) Google
9 5 (1.97%) Sage
10 4 (1.57%) Citrix
10 4 (1.57%) Dell
10 4 (1.57%) IFS
10 4 (1.57%) Zerto
11 3 (1.18%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.18%) HP
11 3 (1.18%) Tenable