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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 87 67
Rank change year-on-year -45 -20 +33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 145 265 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.38% 2.85% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.17% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 134 187 264
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £81,875 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £68,871 £72,433
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 8,559 8,368 7,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.49% 90.10% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,765 5,537
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -1.87%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 January 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 -38 70 £50,000 +5.26% 32
Yorkshire -27 61 £62,500 +25.00% 52
North East +6 14 £75,000 +69.40% 10
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 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.07%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.69%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.69%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 63 (43.45%) Azure
2 29 (20.00%) AWS
3 27 (18.62%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (11.03%) Entra ID
5 14 (9.66%) IaaS
6 13 (8.97%) GCP
7 9 (6.21%) SaaS
8 7 (4.83%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.14%) Google Workspace
9 6 (4.14%) PaaS
10 5 (3.45%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.76%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.76%) GitHub
11 4 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.48%) Firewall
2 18 (12.41%) DNS
3 15 (10.34%) VPN
4 14 (9.66%) VLAN
5 10 (6.90%) DHCP
6 9 (6.21%) TCP/IP
7 8 (5.52%) DMZ
7 8 (5.52%) SSL
8 6 (4.14%) VoIP
8 6 (4.14%) WAN
9 5 (3.45%) STUN
10 4 (2.76%) LAN
11 3 (2.07%) HTTP
12 2 (1.38%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.69%) FTP
13 1 (0.69%) Network Security
13 1 (0.69%) SMTP
13 1 (0.69%) SNMP
13 1 (0.69%) SSH
13 1 (0.69%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.48%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.76%) MySQL
3 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (13.79%) GitLab
2 12 (8.28%) Git
3 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.38%) JMeter
3 2 (1.38%) Locust
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.45%) Legal
5 4 (2.76%) Finance
5 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Banking
6 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.38%) Retail
8 1 (0.69%) Advertising
8 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Marketing
8 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 96 (66.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (24.83%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (24.14%) Lead
4 31 (21.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (13.79%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 19 (13.10%) Senior
7 18 (12.41%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (11.72%) Support Engineer
9 16 (11.03%) Applications Support
9 16 (11.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure Support
10 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 13 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.90%) 1st Line Support
12 10 (6.90%) 1st Line Support Analyst
12 10 (6.90%) Analyst
12 10 (6.90%) Applications Support Analyst
12 10 (6.90%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (6.90%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) OLE
2 5 (3.45%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (2.76%) .NET
4 3 (2.07%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.07%) DPDK
4 3 (2.07%) eBPF
4 3 (2.07%) Middleware
5 2 (1.38%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.38%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.38%) RESTful
5 2 (1.38%) WCF
5 2 (1.38%) YAML
6 1 (0.69%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.69%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.52%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.69%) NVMe
7 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.14%) Windows
2 28 (19.31%) Windows Server
3 19 (13.10%) Linux
4 5 (3.45%) Debian
5 3 (2.07%) Unix
5 3 (2.07%) VMS
5 3 (2.07%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Android
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (22.76%) DevOps
2 32 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (21.38%) CI/CD
4 28 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (18.62%) Agile
6 26 (17.93%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (13.10%) Mentoring
9 16 (11.03%) Customer Service
9 16 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (11.03%) Roadmaps
10 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.66%) Incident Response
11 14 (9.66%) Observability
12 12 (8.28%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (7.59%) Coaching
13 11 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (6.90%) Data Protection
14 10 (6.90%) High Availability
14 10 (6.90%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.86%) SQL
2 17 (11.72%) PowerShell
3 13 (8.97%) Python
4 10 (6.90%) T-SQL
5 8 (5.52%) Bash
6 4 (2.76%) Bicep
6 4 (2.76%) Java
7 2 (1.38%) C#
7 2 (1.38%) Go
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.21%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.21%) Degree
3 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.83%) CCNA
4 7 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.14%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.69%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (3.45%) ISO 9001
1 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.38%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (15.86%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.79%) Docker
3 9 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.52%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.45%) Kamailio
5 5 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.76%) vSphere
7 3 (2.07%) KVM
7 3 (2.07%) QEMU
7 3 (2.07%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.69%) Firmware
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (27.59%) Terraform
2 38 (26.21%) Kubernetes
3 23 (15.86%) Ansible
4 15 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (8.28%) Grafana
6 10 (6.90%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.45%) Autotask
8 2 (1.38%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.38%) Rancher
9 1 (0.69%) Kibana
9 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.72%) VMware
3 8 (5.52%) Cisco
3 8 (5.52%) Google
4 5 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.07%) Citrix
5 3 (2.07%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.38%) Apple
6 2 (1.38%) BMC
6 2 (1.38%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.38%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.38%) Splunk
7 1 (0.69%) Aruba
7 1 (0.69%) Dell
7 1 (0.69%) HP
7 1 (0.69%) Meraki
7 1 (0.69%) New Relic
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle
7 1 (0.69%) Rapid7