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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 79 48
Rank change year-on-year -31 -31 -13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 244 211 659
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.61% 3.32% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.50% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 214 192 559
10th Percentile £34,550 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -1.05%
75th Percentile £69,390 £60,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £84,625 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,160 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.29% +10.32% -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 11,327 6,023 13,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 74.71% 94.81% 84.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,746 3,640 10,467
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,396 £65,546
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,040 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.27% +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -29 117 £50,000 +5.26% 59
Yorkshire -24 101 £50,000 -4.76% 32
North East -8 26 £50,000 +12.36% 9
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 19 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 102 (41.80%) Azure
2 50 (20.49%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (18.44%) AWS
4 35 (14.34%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (3.69%) GCP
6 9 (3.69%) IaaS
7 8 (3.28%) GitHub
7 8 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.28%) OCI
7 8 (3.28%) SaaS
8 7 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.87%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.46%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.46%) Google Workspace
9 6 (2.46%) OneDrive
9 6 (2.46%) PaaS
10 5 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.64%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.70%) DNS
2 29 (11.89%) Firewall
3 23 (9.43%) DHCP
4 16 (6.56%) TCP/IP
5 14 (5.74%) VLAN
6 13 (5.33%) VPN
7 12 (4.92%) WAN
8 10 (4.10%) LAN
8 10 (4.10%) Network Security
9 9 (3.69%) VoIP
10 8 (3.28%) DMZ
11 5 (2.05%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.05%) STUN
12 4 (1.64%) NAS
12 4 (1.64%) SAN
13 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.82%) SSL
14 1 (0.41%) FTP
14 1 (0.41%) HTTP
14 1 (0.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.46%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.05%) MySQL
4 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.97%) GitLab
2 14 (5.74%) Git
3 5 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.23%) JMeter
4 3 (1.23%) Locust
5 1 (0.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.41%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (15.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (4.92%) Public Sector
3 11 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.05%) Legal
6 4 (1.64%) Finance
6 4 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.82%) Law
8 2 (0.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.41%) Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 184 (75.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (15.98%) Cloud Engineer
3 36 (14.75%) Senior
4 33 (13.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (13.52%) Lead
5 32 (13.11%) Infrastructure Support
6 29 (11.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (11.07%) Support Engineer
8 25 (10.25%) IT Engineer
9 23 (9.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 22 (9.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 21 (8.61%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (8.20%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (7.79%) IT Support
14 16 (6.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 16 (6.56%) Security Engineer
15 14 (5.74%) Analyst
16 13 (5.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.46%) OLE
2 5 (2.05%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.23%) Gherkin
3 3 (1.23%) RESTful
4 2 (0.82%) .NET
4 2 (0.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.82%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.82%) Middleware
4 2 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.82%) WCF
5 1 (0.41%) DPDK
5 1 (0.41%) eBPF
5 1 (0.41%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.41%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.41%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.10%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.69%) Driving Licence
2 9 (3.69%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.05%) CCTV
3 5 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.05%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.05%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.64%) Social Media
5 3 (1.23%) CMDB
6 2 (0.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.41%) Clustering
7 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) NVMe
7 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (23.36%) Windows
2 43 (17.62%) Windows Server
3 19 (7.79%) Linux
4 9 (3.69%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.87%) Android
5 7 (2.87%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.05%) Debian
6 5 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.23%) Unix
7 3 (1.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (14.34%) CI/CD
4 35 (14.34%) Mentoring
5 34 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (13.52%) DevOps
7 30 (12.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (10.25%) Incident Management
9 24 (9.84%) Agile
10 22 (9.02%) Coaching
10 22 (9.02%) ITIL
11 17 (6.97%) Containerisation
11 17 (6.97%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (6.15%) Migration
12 15 (6.15%) Observability
13 14 (5.74%) Cloud Security
13 14 (5.74%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (5.33%) High Availability
15 12 (4.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.98%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.25%) Bash
3 20 (8.20%) SQL
4 17 (6.97%) Python
5 6 (2.46%) Java
6 4 (1.64%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.23%) Go
8 2 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (6.15%) Azure Certification
2 14 (5.74%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.10%) Degree
3 10 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.46%) CCNA
5 6 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.64%) MCSA
8 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.23%) QA
2 3 (1.23%) WCAG
3 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (23.77%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.20%) Docker
3 19 (7.79%) Hyper-V
3 19 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.46%) vSphere
6 5 (2.05%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.41%) Firmware
9 1 (0.41%) KVM
9 1 (0.41%) QEMU
9 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.41%) XenApp
9 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (15.16%) Terraform
2 34 (13.93%) Kubernetes
3 30 (12.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (7.38%) Ansible
5 9 (3.69%) Grafana
6 6 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.23%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.23%) Rancher
9 2 (0.82%) Argo
9 2 (0.82%) VxRail
9 2 (0.82%) WSUS
10 1 (0.41%) Autotask
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) Podman
10 1 (0.41%) SCCM
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (31.56%) Microsoft
2 40 (16.39%) VMware
3 18 (7.38%) Cisco
4 12 (4.92%) Citrix
5 11 (4.51%) Apple
6 7 (2.87%) Oracle
6 7 (2.87%) Samsung
7 6 (2.46%) Google
7 6 (2.46%) Meraki
8 5 (2.05%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.64%) Commvault
9 4 (1.64%) IFS
9 4 (1.64%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.64%) Veeam
10 3 (1.23%) Dell
10 3 (1.23%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.23%) HP
10 3 (1.23%) Zerto
11 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.82%) Splunk