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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 489 468 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.19% 4.84% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 5.45% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 404 165 345
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -3.16%
75th Percentile £69,098 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,968
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 15,705 8,595 11,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.36% 88.92% 78.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,755 4,292 7,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -18 268 £50,000 -3.85% 61
Yorkshire +46 159 £50,000 -23.08% 34
North East -23 62 £47,000 -12.96% 16
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 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.23%) IIS
4 2 (0.41%) Confluence
4 2 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.61%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.61%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 156 (31.90%) Azure
2 88 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (12.07%) AWS
4 50 (10.22%) Entra ID
5 20 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (3.07%) SaaS
8 14 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.86%) IaaS
8 14 (2.86%) OCI
8 14 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (2.66%) Serverless
10 12 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.45%) GitHub
11 9 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 79 (16.16%) Firewall
2 52 (10.63%) DNS
3 44 (9.00%) DHCP
4 31 (6.34%) TCP/IP
5 29 (5.93%) WAN
6 26 (5.32%) LAN
7 25 (5.11%) SAN
8 23 (4.70%) Network Security
9 21 (4.29%) VPN
10 17 (3.48%) VLAN
11 14 (2.86%) Wireless
12 12 (2.45%) VoIP
13 9 (1.84%) SD-WAN
14 8 (1.64%) BGP
15 7 (1.43%) NGFW
16 6 (1.23%) NAS
16 6 (1.23%) OSPF
17 4 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
17 4 (0.82%) Internet
17 4 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.61%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.20%) Db2
6 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (1.64%) Git
2 5 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.82%) JIRA
4 3 (0.61%) GitLab
5 2 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.20%) JMeter
6 1 (0.20%) Locust
6 1 (0.20%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (11.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (4.29%) Finance
3 20 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (4.09%) Public Sector
4 14 (2.86%) Law
5 10 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.84%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.23%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.02%) Local Government
9 4 (0.82%) Fire and Rescue
9 4 (0.82%) Games
9 4 (0.82%) Legal
10 2 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.41%) Retail
11 1 (0.20%) Advertising
11 1 (0.20%) Automotive
11 1 (0.20%) Banking
11 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 333 (68.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 100 (20.45%) Senior
3 85 (17.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (9.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 46 (9.41%) IT Engineer
6 32 (6.54%) IT Support
6 32 (6.54%) Support Engineer
7 31 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (6.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (5.73%) IT Support Engineer
10 26 (5.32%) Security Engineer
11 25 (5.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 24 (4.91%) Administrator
12 24 (4.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (4.70%) Analyst
13 23 (4.70%) Lead
14 22 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
16 17 (3.48%) Design Engineer
16 17 (3.48%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.43%) SAML
2 4 (0.82%) OAuth
2 4 (0.82%) OpenID
3 3 (0.61%) .NET
3 3 (0.61%) Kafka
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.61%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.41%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.41%) REST
4 2 (0.41%) Web Services
5 1 (0.20%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.20%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.20%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (5.73%) Driving Licence
3 25 (5.11%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.86%) CCTV
4 14 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.84%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.43%) Replication
9 6 (1.23%) Clustering
9 6 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.82%) Social Media
11 3 (0.61%) PKI
12 2 (0.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.41%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.41%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 115 (23.52%) Windows
2 91 (18.61%) Windows Server
3 55 (11.25%) Linux
4 14 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.25%) VMS
6 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.02%) Unix
8 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.61%) Debian
9 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.20%) Android
11 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Solaris
11 1 (0.20%) SUSE
11 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (10.63%) Migration
6 50 (10.22%) DevOps
6 50 (10.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 47 (9.61%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (9.20%) CI/CD
9 42 (8.59%) Project Delivery
10 35 (7.16%) ITIL
11 29 (5.93%) Mentoring
12 25 (5.11%) Cloud Security
12 25 (5.11%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (5.11%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (4.91%) High Availability
13 24 (4.91%) Identity Management
14 20 (4.09%) Business Continuity
14 20 (4.09%) Observability
14 20 (4.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.07%) PowerShell
2 35 (7.16%) Python
3 34 (6.95%) Bash
4 25 (5.11%) SQL
5 14 (2.86%) Bicep
6 6 (1.23%) VBScript
7 5 (1.02%) Java
8 3 (0.61%) C++
8 3 (0.61%) Go
9 2 (0.41%) Groovy
9 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.41%) VB
10 1 (0.20%) C
10 1 (0.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (6.95%) Security Cleared
2 31 (6.34%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.27%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.45%) CCNA
7 11 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.43%) MCSA
9 6 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.02%) CCNP
11 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.82%) Degree
11 4 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.41%) CCIE
13 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.20%) HP ASE
13 1 (0.20%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.82%) QA
4 4 (0.82%) SLA
5 3 (0.61%) NIST
6 2 (0.41%) GDPR
6 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (19.63%) Active Directory
2 57 (11.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (8.79%) Hyper-V
4 36 (7.36%) Docker
5 15 (3.07%) vSphere
6 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.43%) Firmware
8 6 (1.23%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.41%) iptables
12 1 (0.20%) Ceph
12 1 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.20%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (9.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 48 (9.82%) Terraform
2 42 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.91%) Ansible
4 12 (2.45%) Puppet
5 10 (2.04%) SCCM
6 8 (1.64%) WSUS
7 6 (1.23%) VxRail
8 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.82%) Argo
9 4 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.82%) Grafana
9 4 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.41%) SCOM
11 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 132 (26.99%) Microsoft
2 80 (16.36%) VMware
3 38 (7.77%) Cisco
4 18 (3.68%) Oracle
4 18 (3.68%) Veeam
5 10 (2.04%) HP
5 10 (2.04%) Meraki
6 9 (1.84%) Dell
7 8 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.43%) Commvault
8 7 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.43%) Zerto
9 6 (1.23%) Apple
9 6 (1.23%) F5
9 6 (1.23%) Google
10 4 (0.82%) Arista
10 4 (0.82%) Aruba
10 4 (0.82%) Citrix
10 4 (0.82%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.82%) SolarWinds