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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 70 78
Rank change year-on-year -34 +8 +106
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 304 378 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.57% 4.90% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 5.46% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 246 108 396
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,563 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £69,390 £63,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -

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 18,034 6,922 16,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.81% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,348 3,482 12,942
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,024 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%

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 22 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 22 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 -53 146 £50,000 -1.96% 22
Yorkshire +33 126 £57,500 - 10
North East -13 32 £45,250 -6.22% 10
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 283 (93.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 112 (36.84%) Azure
3 79 (25.99%) Microsoft
4 65 (21.38%) Active Directory
5 55 (18.09%) Windows
6 51 (16.78%) PowerShell
7 50 (16.45%) VMware
8 48 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
9 46 (15.13%) Firewall
10 42 (13.82%) Windows Server
11 41 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (12.50%) Entra ID
13 36 (11.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 35 (11.51%) Disaster Recovery
14 35 (11.51%) VMware Infrastructure
15 33 (10.86%) DNS
16 31 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (8.55%) Cisco
17 26 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (8.55%) ITIL
18 25 (8.22%) DHCP
18 25 (8.22%) Mentoring
19 24 (7.89%) Coaching
19 24 (7.89%) Hyper-V
20 22 (7.24%) AWS
21 20 (6.58%) Azure Certification
21 20 (6.58%) Bash
21 20 (6.58%) Migration
22 18 (5.92%) Project Delivery
22 18 (5.92%) SQL

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 14 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.30%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.97%) AutoCAD
2 6 (1.97%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (36.84%) Azure
2 48 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 22 (7.24%) AWS
5 13 (4.28%) OCI
6 11 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (2.96%) SaaS
8 7 (2.30%) IaaS
9 5 (1.64%) Intacct
10 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.32%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.99%) Azure AKS
11 3 (0.99%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.99%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.66%) GitHub
12 2 (0.66%) iPaaS
12 2 (0.66%) PaaS
13 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (15.13%) Firewall
2 33 (10.86%) DNS
3 25 (8.22%) DHCP
4 17 (5.59%) LAN
4 17 (5.59%) WAN
5 15 (4.93%) VLAN
5 15 (4.93%) VPN
6 13 (4.28%) SAN
6 13 (4.28%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.63%) DMZ
7 8 (2.63%) VoIP
8 7 (2.30%) NAS
9 6 (1.97%) Network Security
10 5 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.64%) STUN
11 4 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.99%) NGFW
12 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.62%) GitLab
2 8 (2.63%) Git
3 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (10.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (6.91%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.26%) Finance
4 10 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Legal
10 2 (0.66%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.64%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.66%) Middleware
3 2 (0.66%) OLE
4 1 (0.33%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.33%) Flash
4 1 (0.33%) OAuth
4 1 (0.33%) OpenID
4 1 (0.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.61%) CCTV
1 14 (4.61%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.29%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.32%) Clustering
5 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (0.99%) CMDB
6 3 (0.99%) Social Media
7 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.66%) Replication
8 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.09%) Windows
2 42 (13.82%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.95%) Linux
4 6 (1.97%) Android
4 6 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.64%) Debian
6 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.99%) VMS
7 3 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) Unix
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (93.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (11.51%) Disaster Recovery
4 31 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (8.55%) ITIL
6 25 (8.22%) Mentoring
7 24 (7.89%) Coaching
8 20 (6.58%) Migration
9 18 (5.92%) Project Delivery
10 17 (5.59%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (5.26%) Incident Management
11 16 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (4.28%) Agile
13 12 (3.95%) Customer Service
13 12 (3.95%) High Availability
13 12 (3.95%) Roadmaps
13 12 (3.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 11 (3.62%) CI/CD
14 11 (3.62%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.78%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.58%) Bash
3 18 (5.92%) SQL
4 9 (2.96%) Python
5 5 (1.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (6.58%) Azure Certification
2 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.63%) Degree
5 7 (2.30%) CCNA
5 7 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.30%) HNC
5 7 (2.30%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.97%) MCSA
6 6 (1.97%) RIBA
7 4 (1.32%) CCNP
7 4 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) HND
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.99%) NIST
4 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (21.38%) Active Directory
2 35 (11.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.89%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) Docker
7 1 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.33%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) XenApp
7 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (11.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (5.26%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.97%) VxRail
3 6 (1.97%) WSUS
4 5 (1.64%) Ansible
5 3 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.33%) SCCM
7 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 50 (16.45%) VMware
3 26 (8.55%) Cisco
4 16 (5.26%) Veeam
5 11 (3.62%) Oracle
6 10 (3.29%) HP
7 9 (2.96%) Apple
7 9 (2.96%) Meraki
8 8 (2.63%) Commvault
8 8 (2.63%) Ubiquiti
9 7 (2.30%) Dell
9 7 (2.30%) Zerto
10 6 (1.97%) Samsung
10 6 (1.97%) Tenable
11 5 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.64%) Sage
12 4 (1.32%) Aruba
12 4 (1.32%) Citrix
13 3 (0.99%) Google
13 3 (0.99%) IFS