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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 62 47
Rank change year-on-year -25 -15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 373 424 710
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.86% 5.34% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 5.65% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 305 141 595
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -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 14,183 7,506 14,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.58% 94.45% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,629 3,555 11,493
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,100 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.27% +5.64% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -41 202 £47,972 -7.75% 47
Yorkshire +31 138 £50,000 -16.67% 22
North East -19 33 £45,500 -12.50% 11
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 20 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.88%) IIS
4 2 (0.54%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 136 (36.46%) Azure
2 58 (15.55%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (10.99%) AWS
4 37 (9.92%) Entra ID
5 13 (3.49%) OCI
6 12 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (2.41%) GitHub
8 8 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.14%) IaaS
9 7 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.61%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.34%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.34%) GCP
11 5 (1.34%) SaaS
11 5 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.07%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.80%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 53 (14.21%) Firewall
2 48 (12.87%) DNS
3 38 (10.19%) DHCP
4 23 (6.17%) Network Security
5 22 (5.90%) TCP/IP
6 19 (5.09%) SAN
7 18 (4.83%) LAN
7 18 (4.83%) VPN
7 18 (4.83%) WAN
8 16 (4.29%) VLAN
9 8 (2.14%) DMZ
9 8 (2.14%) VoIP
10 7 (1.88%) NAS
10 7 (1.88%) NGFW
11 6 (1.61%) BGP
11 6 (1.61%) OSPF
12 5 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.34%) STUN
13 4 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.54%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.54%) MySQL
5 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.22%) GitLab
2 8 (2.14%) Git
3 5 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.27%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) JMeter
5 1 (0.27%) Locust
5 1 (0.27%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (11.53%) Social Skills
2 21 (5.63%) Public Sector
3 17 (4.56%) Finance
4 12 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.61%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.07%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.80%) Legal
9 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.54%) Law
9 2 (0.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.27%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 285 (76.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (22.79%) Senior
3 71 (19.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (9.92%) Support Engineer
5 36 (9.65%) Infrastructure Support
6 34 (9.12%) IT Engineer
7 28 (7.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (7.51%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 28 (7.51%) IT Support
7 28 (7.51%) Security Engineer
8 26 (6.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 24 (6.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (6.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
11 20 (5.36%) Lead
12 19 (5.09%) Analyst
13 17 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (4.29%) Network Analyst
14 16 (4.29%) Network Security Analyst
14 16 (4.29%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.34%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.54%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.54%) Middleware
3 2 (0.54%) RESTful
4 1 (0.27%) .NET
4 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.27%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.27%) Kafka
4 1 (0.27%) OAuth
4 1 (0.27%) OpenID
4 1 (0.27%) SAML
4 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.43%) Data Centre
2 21 (5.63%) Driving Licence
3 14 (3.75%) CCTV
4 9 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (1.34%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.34%) Clustering
7 5 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.80%) CMDB
8 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.80%) Social Media
9 2 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.54%) Replication
10 1 (0.27%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.27%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.27%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (21.98%) Windows
2 62 (16.62%) Windows Server
3 20 (5.36%) Linux
4 12 (3.22%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.88%) Android
5 7 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.61%) Debian
7 5 (1.34%) VMS
8 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.54%) Unix
10 2 (0.54%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.27%) Solaris
11 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (10.99%) Disaster Recovery
4 37 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (9.65%) Mentoring
6 31 (8.31%) CI/CD
7 29 (7.77%) DevOps
8 26 (6.97%) Coaching
8 26 (6.97%) Migration
9 24 (6.43%) Incident Management
9 24 (6.43%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (5.36%) ITIL
12 19 (5.09%) High Availability
13 16 (4.29%) Agile
13 16 (4.29%) Project Delivery
14 15 (4.02%) Business Continuity
15 14 (3.75%) Security Architecture
16 13 (3.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.35%) PowerShell
2 25 (6.70%) Bash
2 25 (6.70%) SQL
3 18 (4.83%) Python
4 8 (2.14%) Bicep
5 5 (1.34%) VBScript
6 3 (0.80%) Java
7 2 (0.54%) Go
7 2 (0.54%) VB
8 1 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 19 (5.09%) SC Cleared
1 19 (5.09%) Security Cleared
2 17 (4.56%) Azure Certification
3 13 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.88%) CCNA
5 7 (1.88%) MCSA
6 6 (1.61%) Degree
7 5 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.07%) CCNP
9 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.80%) NIST
3 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) QA
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 34 (9.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.43%) Hyper-V
4 14 (3.75%) Docker
5 8 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.61%) vSphere
7 5 (1.34%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.54%) Firmware
9 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.54%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.27%) iptables
10 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.27%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (8.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (7.51%) Terraform
3 22 (5.90%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.49%) Ansible
5 6 (1.61%) SCCM
5 6 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.61%) VxRail
5 6 (1.61%) WSUS
6 4 (1.07%) Argo
6 4 (1.07%) Grafana
6 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.54%) Rancher
9 1 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (26.54%) Microsoft
2 63 (16.89%) VMware
3 29 (7.77%) Cisco
4 13 (3.49%) Citrix
5 11 (2.95%) Oracle
6 10 (2.68%) HP
7 9 (2.41%) Apple
7 9 (2.41%) Meraki
8 8 (2.14%) Commvault
8 8 (2.14%) Veeam
9 7 (1.88%) Dell
9 7 (1.88%) Zerto
10 6 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.61%) Samsung
10 6 (1.61%) Tenable
11 5 (1.34%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.34%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.07%) Arista
12 4 (1.07%) Aruba
12 4 (1.07%) F5