Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 61 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 528 436 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.30% 4.68% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 5.34% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 441 137 287
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,200 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +29.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £55,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,687
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,157 8,159 11,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.43% 87.65% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,118 4,089 6,713
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 September 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 -10 287 £50,000 -5.44% 92
Yorkshire +41 167 £50,911 -21.68% 50
North East -15 74 £47,000 -15.70% 31
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 24 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.14%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) Confluence
4 2 (0.38%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.57%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.57%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 160 (30.30%) Azure
2 91 (17.23%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (12.50%) AWS
4 53 (10.04%) Entra ID
5 23 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (3.41%) OCI
8 17 (3.22%) SaaS
9 16 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (2.84%) Serverless
11 14 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.65%) IaaS
12 12 (2.27%) GitHub
13 9 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.52%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 85 (16.10%) Firewall
2 58 (10.98%) DNS
3 48 (9.09%) DHCP
4 34 (6.44%) TCP/IP
5 29 (5.49%) WAN
6 27 (5.11%) VPN
7 25 (4.73%) LAN
8 24 (4.55%) SAN
9 22 (4.17%) Network Security
10 18 (3.41%) VLAN
11 14 (2.65%) VoIP
11 14 (2.65%) Wireless
12 10 (1.89%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.52%) BGP
13 8 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (1.33%) NGFW
15 6 (1.14%) OSPF
16 5 (0.95%) NAS
16 5 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
17 4 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.19%) Db2
6 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.19%) Metabase
6 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.19%) OLAP
6 1 (0.19%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (0.19%) OLTP
6 1 (0.19%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Git
2 5 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.95%) JIRA
3 4 (0.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.19%) JMeter
5 1 (0.19%) Locust
5 1 (0.19%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (10.61%) Social Skills
2 26 (4.92%) Public Sector
3 24 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.36%) Finance
5 17 (3.22%) Law
6 15 (2.84%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.14%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.95%) Legal
9 5 (0.95%) Local Government
10 4 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (0.76%) Games
11 2 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.38%) Automotive
11 2 (0.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.19%) Advertising
12 1 (0.19%) Banking
12 1 (0.19%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 364 (68.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 129 (24.43%) Senior
3 114 (21.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 49 (9.28%) IT Engineer
6 32 (6.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (6.06%) Support Engineer
7 30 (5.68%) IT Support
7 30 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
9 27 (5.11%) Analyst
10 24 (4.55%) Administrator
11 23 (4.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (4.36%) Security Engineer
12 22 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 22 (4.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 22 (4.17%) Lead
13 21 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 15 (2.84%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.66%) Terraform
2 8 (1.52%) SAML
3 4 (0.76%) OAuth
3 4 (0.76%) OpenID
4 3 (0.57%) .NET
4 3 (0.57%) Kafka
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.57%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.38%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.38%) REST
5 2 (0.38%) Web Services
6 1 (0.19%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.19%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.19%) NumPy
6 1 (0.19%) Pandas
6 1 (0.19%) pgvector
6 1 (0.19%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.06%) Driving Licence
1 32 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (4.92%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (2.46%) CCTV
5 11 (2.08%) Security Posture
6 10 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.33%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.14%) Replication
9 5 (0.95%) Clustering
10 4 (0.76%) PKI
11 3 (0.57%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.57%) Social Media
12 2 (0.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.38%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 128 (24.24%) Windows
2 98 (18.56%) Windows Server
3 62 (11.74%) Linux
4 12 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.08%) Unix
5 11 (2.08%) VMS
6 8 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.38%) Debian
10 2 (0.38%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.19%) Android
11 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.19%) Solaris
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 62 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 61 (11.55%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (10.61%) DevOps
5 53 (10.04%) CI/CD
5 53 (10.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 53 (10.04%) Migration
6 49 (9.28%) Project Delivery
7 48 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
8 38 (7.20%) ITIL
9 33 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 30 (5.68%) Infrastructure Automation
11 28 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (5.11%) Cloud Security
13 24 (4.55%) Coaching
13 24 (4.55%) Identity Management
14 23 (4.36%) Business Continuity
14 23 (4.36%) High Availability
15 22 (4.17%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.55%) PowerShell
2 40 (7.58%) Python
3 35 (6.63%) Bash
4 27 (5.11%) SQL
5 14 (2.65%) Bicep
6 7 (1.33%) VBScript
7 5 (0.95%) Java
8 3 (0.57%) C++
8 3 (0.57%) Go
9 2 (0.38%) Groovy
9 2 (0.38%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.38%) VB
10 1 (0.19%) C
10 1 (0.19%) C#
Qualifications
1 39 (7.39%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 18 (3.41%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.27%) CCNA
7 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.14%) MCSA
9 5 (0.95%) CCNP
9 5 (0.95%) Degree
9 5 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.38%) CCIE
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.19%) HP ASE
13 1 (0.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (0.95%) QA
3 5 (0.95%) SLA
4 3 (0.57%) NIST
5 2 (0.38%) GDPR
5 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (18.94%) Active Directory
2 59 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (8.52%) Hyper-V
4 38 (7.20%) Docker
5 15 (2.84%) vSphere
6 11 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.33%) Firmware
8 6 (1.14%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.14%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.38%) iptables
12 1 (0.19%) Ceph
12 1 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.19%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.55%) Ansible
4 12 (2.27%) Puppet
5 11 (2.08%) SCCM
6 8 (1.52%) WSUS
7 6 (1.14%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.14%) VxRail
8 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.76%) Argo
9 4 (0.76%) Grafana
9 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.38%) Nessus
11 2 (0.38%) SCOM
11 2 (0.38%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 138 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 79 (14.96%) VMware
3 39 (7.39%) Cisco
4 22 (4.17%) Oracle
5 18 (3.41%) Veeam
6 10 (1.89%) HP
7 9 (1.70%) Meraki
8 8 (1.52%) Dell
8 8 (1.52%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.52%) SonicWALL
9 7 (1.33%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.14%) Commvault
10 6 (1.14%) F5
10 6 (1.14%) Google
10 6 (1.14%) Zerto
11 5 (0.95%) Apple
11 5 (0.95%) Draytek
11 5 (0.95%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.76%) Aruba