Infrastructure Engineer Jobs 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 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 84 195
Rank change year-on-year -11 +111 -29
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 393 484 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.40% 2.76% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.70% 2.91% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 128 395 249
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £32,950
25th Percentile £38,304 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £64,491 £60,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £67,968 £59,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,635 16,623 15,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 94.90% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,791 12,864 8,217
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,945 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,576 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 2025. 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 +13 337 £50,000 +11.11% 61
Yorkshire -15 46 £60,000 +35.52% 28
North East -17 10 £40,000 -9.65% 20
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 392 (99.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 295 (75.06%) Windows
3 277 (70.48%) Linux
4 275 (69.97%) Problem-Solving
5 270 (68.70%) Cisco
5 270 (68.70%) DevOps
6 268 (68.19%) Hyper-V
7 264 (67.18%) PowerShell
7 264 (67.18%) Terraform
8 260 (66.16%) Ansible
9 256 (65.14%) Python
9 256 (65.14%) VMware NSX
10 254 (64.63%) VPN
10 254 (64.63%) vSphere
11 253 (64.38%) Line Management
11 253 (64.38%) Analytical Skills
12 252 (64.12%) Bash
13 251 (63.87%) Docker
13 251 (63.87%) Risk Management
14 250 (63.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 249 (63.36%) Platform Engineering
15 249 (63.36%) Task Automation
15 249 (63.36%) Storage Management
15 249 (63.36%) Elastic Stack
15 249 (63.36%) Mathematics
15 249 (63.36%) Cisco IOS
15 249 (63.36%) Juniper
15 249 (63.36%) Cyberattack
15 249 (63.36%) 3PAR
15 249 (63.36%) Splunk

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) IIS
4 3 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (4.07%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.69%) Azure
2 29 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (3.31%) SaaS
4 12 (3.05%) AWS
5 10 (2.54%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.29%) GCP
7 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.27%) IaaS
9 5 (1.27%) PaaS
10 3 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.76%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.51%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.51%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.51%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.51%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.51%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 254 (64.63%) VPN
2 249 (63.36%) Cisco IOS
3 26 (6.62%) DNS
4 23 (5.85%) DHCP
4 23 (5.85%) Firewall
5 12 (3.05%) SMTP
6 10 (2.54%) SAN
7 8 (2.04%) DKIM
7 8 (2.04%) DMARC
7 8 (2.04%) DNSSEC
7 8 (2.04%) Internet
7 8 (2.04%) LAN
8 7 (1.78%) NAS
8 7 (1.78%) Network Security
9 6 (1.53%) IPv4
9 6 (1.53%) VLAN
10 5 (1.27%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.27%) VSAN
11 4 (1.02%) TETRA
11 4 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
2 5 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (0.51%) Power BI
3 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (0.51%) GitLab
3 1 (0.25%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Selenium
3 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 253 (64.38%) Analytical Skills
2 250 (63.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (6.62%) Finance
3 26 (6.62%) Social Skills
4 11 (2.80%) Banking
5 8 (2.04%) Legal
5 8 (2.04%) Retail
6 7 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.02%) Local Government
7 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.76%) Law
9 2 (0.51%) Games
9 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.51%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (63.36%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.27%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.27%) Middleware
3 4 (1.02%) OLE
4 2 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.25%) OpenCL
5 1 (0.25%) SAML
5 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 249 (63.36%) Cyberattack
2 21 (5.34%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.80%) Security Posture
4 8 (2.04%) Cyber Security Posture
5 7 (1.78%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.27%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.76%) CCTV
8 3 (0.76%) Clustering
9 2 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.25%) CUDA
10 1 (0.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.25%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.25%) PKI
10 1 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 295 (75.06%) Windows
2 277 (70.48%) Linux
3 249 (63.36%) Android
4 24 (6.11%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.78%) Unix
6 5 (1.27%) CentOS
7 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
9 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) AIX
10 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.25%) Solaris
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (99.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 275 (69.97%) Problem-Solving
3 270 (68.70%) DevOps
4 253 (64.38%) Line Management
5 251 (63.87%) Risk Management
6 249 (63.36%) Mathematics
6 249 (63.36%) Platform Engineering
6 249 (63.36%) Storage Management
6 249 (63.36%) Task Automation
7 26 (6.62%) Mentoring
8 18 (4.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (4.58%) ITIL
9 17 (4.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (3.56%) CI/CD
11 13 (3.31%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (3.31%) Project Delivery
12 11 (2.80%) Coaching
13 10 (2.54%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (2.29%) Test Automation
14 9 (2.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 264 (67.18%) PowerShell
2 256 (65.14%) Python
3 252 (64.12%) Bash
4 10 (2.54%) SQL
5 2 (0.51%) Bicep
6 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (5.85%) Degree
2 16 (4.07%) SC Cleared
2 16 (4.07%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.56%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.78%) RIBA
7 6 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.51%) CCNA
8 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.51%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (0.51%) MCSA
8 2 (0.51%) MCSE
8 2 (0.51%) RHCE
9 1 (0.25%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CEH
9 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.25%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.80%) GDPR
2 11 (2.80%) NIST
3 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 268 (68.19%) Hyper-V
2 256 (65.14%) VMware NSX
3 254 (64.63%) vSphere
4 251 (63.87%) Docker
5 32 (8.14%) Active Directory
6 15 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.51%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.51%) Postfix
8 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) NFS
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.25%) XenApp
9 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 264 (67.18%) Terraform
2 260 (66.16%) Ansible
3 9 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.76%) SCCM
7 2 (0.51%) WSUS
8 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) SCOM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 270 (68.70%) Cisco
2 249 (63.36%) 3PAR
2 249 (63.36%) Juniper
2 249 (63.36%) Splunk
3 47 (11.96%) Microsoft
4 33 (8.40%) VMware
5 13 (3.31%) Veeam
6 8 (2.04%) IronPort
6 8 (2.04%) Veritas
7 6 (1.53%) Google
7 6 (1.53%) Oracle
8 5 (1.27%) Meraki
9 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.76%) Sophos
10 3 (0.76%) Synology
11 2 (0.51%) Citrix
11 2 (0.51%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.51%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.51%) Varonis