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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 61 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 436 476 641
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.09% 5.05% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 5.60% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 363 172 528
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.65% -1.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,497 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 14,608 8,501 14,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.12% 90.26% 79.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,963 4,212 10,327
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 July 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 July 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 -22 243 £47,500 -11.63% 36
Yorkshire +23 142 £50,000 -23.08% 32
North East -29 51 £45,000 -13.46% 17
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 21 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.61%) IIS
4 2 (0.46%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.46%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 150 (34.40%) Azure
2 72 (16.51%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (11.47%) Entra ID
4 47 (10.78%) AWS
5 18 (4.13%) OCI
6 11 (2.52%) IaaS
7 10 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (2.29%) GitHub
8 8 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.61%) SaaS
10 6 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.15%) PaaS
12 4 (0.92%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.92%) Azure AKS
12 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.69%) GCP
14 2 (0.46%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 71 (16.28%) Firewall
2 43 (9.86%) DNS
3 36 (8.26%) DHCP
4 29 (6.65%) TCP/IP
5 26 (5.96%) WAN
6 25 (5.73%) LAN
7 23 (5.28%) Network Security
8 22 (5.05%) SAN
9 21 (4.82%) VPN
10 18 (4.13%) VLAN
11 14 (3.21%) VoIP
12 12 (2.75%) Wireless
13 8 (1.83%) BGP
14 7 (1.61%) DMZ
14 7 (1.61%) NAS
14 7 (1.61%) NGFW
15 6 (1.38%) OSPF
15 6 (1.38%) SD-WAN
16 5 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
16 5 (1.15%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (0.69%) GitLab
2 3 (0.69%) JIRA
3 2 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.46%) Git
3 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.23%) JMeter
4 1 (0.23%) Locust
4 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (11.47%) Social Skills
2 26 (5.96%) Public Sector
3 19 (4.36%) Finance
4 10 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.92%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (0.92%) Local Government
9 2 (0.46%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.46%) Law
9 2 (0.46%) Legal
9 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.23%) Games
10 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.23%) Retail
10 1 (0.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 313 (71.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 94 (21.56%) Senior
3 78 (17.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (11.47%) IT Engineer
5 37 (8.49%) Support Engineer
6 34 (7.80%) IT Support
7 32 (7.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (6.88%) Security Engineer
9 29 (6.65%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 28 (6.42%) Infrastructure Support
11 27 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
12 26 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 25 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (5.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.59%) Analyst
16 19 (4.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 18 (4.13%) Administrator
18 17 (3.90%) Design Engineer
18 17 (3.90%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
18 17 (3.90%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.15%) FreeSWITCH
1 5 (1.15%) SAML
2 4 (0.92%) OAuth
2 4 (0.92%) OpenID
3 3 (0.69%) .NET
3 3 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.69%) Kafka
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.69%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.46%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.46%) Web Services
5 1 (0.23%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.23%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.96%) Driving Licence
2 25 (5.73%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.44%) CCTV
4 13 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (2.06%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.15%) Clustering
10 4 (0.92%) Replication
11 3 (0.69%) PKI
11 3 (0.69%) Social Media
12 2 (0.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.23%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.23%) CMDB
13 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 95 (21.79%) Windows
2 73 (16.74%) Windows Server
3 37 (8.49%) Linux
4 13 (2.98%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.61%) Android
5 7 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.61%) Debian
5 7 (1.61%) VMS
6 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) Solaris
9 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 40 (9.17%) Migration
6 39 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (8.49%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (7.80%) Mentoring
9 31 (7.11%) CI/CD
10 28 (6.42%) DevOps
11 25 (5.73%) Coaching
12 24 (5.50%) ITIL
13 21 (4.82%) High Availability
13 21 (4.82%) Incident Management
14 20 (4.59%) Project Delivery
15 18 (4.13%) Identity Access Management
15 18 (4.13%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (3.67%) Business Continuity
16 16 (3.67%) Observability
17 15 (3.44%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (14.91%) PowerShell
2 31 (7.11%) Bash
3 22 (5.05%) Python
4 20 (4.59%) SQL
5 12 (2.75%) Bicep
6 6 (1.38%) VBScript
7 2 (0.46%) Go
7 2 (0.46%) Groovy
7 2 (0.46%) VB
8 1 (0.23%) C#
8 1 (0.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (6.19%) SC Cleared
1 27 (6.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (4.13%) Azure Certification
3 13 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (2.29%) CCNA
5 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.61%) MCSA
7 6 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.15%) CCNP
8 5 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.92%) Degree
10 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.46%) CCIE
11 2 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.69%) NIST
4 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) QA
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (21.10%) Active Directory
2 47 (10.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (8.26%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.44%) Docker
5 11 (2.52%) vSphere
6 6 (1.38%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.92%) Firmware
8 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.46%) iptables
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.46%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.23%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 41 (9.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (6.65%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.42%) Terraform
4 14 (3.21%) Ansible
5 7 (1.61%) SCCM
5 7 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.38%) Puppet
6 6 (1.38%) VxRail
6 6 (1.38%) WSUS
7 5 (1.15%) Argo
8 4 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.69%) Grafana
10 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.46%) Nessus
10 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.46%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 117 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 72 (16.51%) VMware
3 37 (8.49%) Cisco
4 15 (3.44%) Veeam
5 14 (3.21%) Oracle
6 12 (2.75%) HP
7 10 (2.29%) Apple
7 10 (2.29%) Commvault
8 9 (2.06%) Citrix
8 9 (2.06%) Dell
8 9 (2.06%) Meraki
9 8 (1.83%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.61%) Zerto
11 6 (1.38%) F5
11 6 (1.38%) Samsung
11 6 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.38%) Tenable
12 4 (0.92%) Aruba
12 4 (0.92%) Google