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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 96 133
Rank change year-on-year +30 +37 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 372 276 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.79% 2.23% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 2.35% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 94 212 146
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £31,188
25th Percentile £45,375 £40,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.17% +2.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £65,000 £68,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +0.96%

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 8,734 11,754 7,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 95.00% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,066 6,226 5,680
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +47 320 £53,750 +19.44% 44
Yorkshire -35 34 £65,000 +41.30% 19
North East +6 18 £53,000 +17.78% 10
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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.

1 367 (98.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 284 (76.34%) Windows
3 276 (74.19%) Linux
4 270 (72.58%) PowerShell
5 266 (71.51%) Cisco
5 266 (71.51%) VPN
6 263 (70.70%) Hyper-V
6 263 (70.70%) Problem-Solving
7 261 (70.16%) Ansible
7 261 (70.16%) DevOps
7 261 (70.16%) Python
8 259 (69.62%) Terraform
9 257 (69.09%) vSphere
10 256 (68.82%) Storage Management
11 254 (68.28%) Docker
12 253 (68.01%) Bash
12 253 (68.01%) Task Automation
13 252 (67.74%) Android
14 251 (67.47%) 3PAR
14 251 (67.47%) Cisco IOS
14 251 (67.47%) Elastic Stack
14 251 (67.47%) Juniper
14 251 (67.47%) Line Management
14 251 (67.47%) Mathematics
14 251 (67.47%) Platform Engineering
14 251 (67.47%) Risk Management
14 251 (67.47%) Splunk
14 251 (67.47%) VMware NSX
15 34 (9.14%) Azure
16 33 (8.87%) Microsoft

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 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.81%) IIS
3 3 (0.81%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.88%) AutoCAD
2 6 (1.61%) Civil 3D
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.14%) Azure
2 14 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.15%) AWS
4 6 (1.61%) IaaS
5 5 (1.34%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.54%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.54%) PaaS
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.27%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.27%) GCP
7 1 (0.27%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.27%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 266 (71.51%) VPN
2 251 (67.47%) Cisco IOS
3 16 (4.30%) Firewall
4 15 (4.03%) DNS
5 14 (3.76%) DHCP
6 12 (3.23%) TETRA
7 10 (2.69%) VLAN
8 6 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.61%) VoIP
8 6 (1.61%) WAN
9 5 (1.34%) DMZ
9 5 (1.34%) STUN
10 4 (1.08%) LAN
11 2 (0.54%) HTTP
11 2 (0.54%) Network Security
11 2 (0.54%) SSL
12 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.27%) SAN
12 1 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (0.27%) Power BI
2 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 252 (67.74%) Analytical Skills
2 251 (67.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (3.23%) Social Skills
4 8 (2.15%) Manufacturing
5 7 (1.88%) Finance
5 7 (1.88%) Legal
5 7 (1.88%) Local Government
6 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.34%) Military
7 4 (1.08%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.81%) Banking
9 1 (0.27%) Law
9 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (67.47%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (2.69%) OLE
3 5 (1.34%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (0.81%) DPDK
4 3 (0.81%) eBPF
5 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.27%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.27%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.27%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 251 (67.47%) Cyberattack
2 10 (2.69%) Driving Licence
3 6 (1.61%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.61%) NHS
4 5 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.27%) Clustering
7 1 (0.27%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 284 (76.34%) Windows
2 276 (74.19%) Linux
3 252 (67.74%) Android
4 28 (7.53%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.34%) Debian
6 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.08%) Unix
8 3 (0.81%) CentOS
8 3 (0.81%) VMS
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (98.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 263 (70.70%) Problem-Solving
3 261 (70.16%) DevOps
4 256 (68.82%) Storage Management
5 253 (68.01%) Task Automation
6 251 (67.47%) Line Management
6 251 (67.47%) Mathematics
6 251 (67.47%) Platform Engineering
6 251 (67.47%) Risk Management
7 15 (4.03%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (3.49%) Mentoring
9 11 (2.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (2.42%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (2.15%) High Availability
11 8 (2.15%) Migration
11 8 (2.15%) Project Delivery
11 8 (2.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (1.88%) Containerisation
12 7 (1.88%) Project Management
13 6 (1.61%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 270 (72.58%) PowerShell
2 261 (70.16%) Python
3 253 (68.01%) Bash
4 9 (2.42%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (2.69%) DV Cleared
1 10 (2.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (2.15%) Degree
4 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.61%) CCNA
4 6 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
7 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) HNC
8 2 (0.54%) RIBA
9 1 (0.27%) CCNP
9 1 (0.27%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.34%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 263 (70.70%) Hyper-V
2 257 (69.09%) vSphere
3 254 (68.28%) Docker
4 251 (67.47%) VMware NSX
5 19 (5.11%) Active Directory
6 14 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.34%) Kamailio
8 5 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.81%) KVM
9 3 (0.81%) QEMU
10 1 (0.27%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.27%) Postfix
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 261 (70.16%) Ansible
2 259 (69.62%) Terraform
3 18 (4.84%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.88%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.34%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 4 (1.08%) SCCM
6 4 (1.08%) SCOM
6 4 (1.08%) WSUS
7 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 266 (71.51%) Cisco
2 251 (67.47%) 3PAR
2 251 (67.47%) Juniper
2 251 (67.47%) Splunk
3 33 (8.87%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.57%) VMware
5 6 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.34%) Oracle
6 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.08%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.81%) Google
8 3 (0.81%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.27%) IFS
9 1 (0.27%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.27%) Meraki
9 1 (0.27%) New Relic
9 1 (0.27%) Okta
9 1 (0.27%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.27%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.27%) Samsung