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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 61 66
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 576 430 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.40% 4.53% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 5.17% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 465 133 264
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -1.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,827
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 17,035 8,311 11,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.86% 87.59% 79.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,671 4,097 5,804
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -6 316 £52,000 +4.00% 162
Yorkshire +48 178 £50,911 -21.68% 81
North East -9 88 £47,000 -15.70% 48
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 23 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.87%) IIS
4 2 (0.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.35%) nginx
4 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.87%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.69%) Civil 3D
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.35%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 178 (30.90%) Azure
2 92 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (14.76%) AWS
4 61 (10.59%) Entra ID
5 25 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (3.65%) GCP
8 18 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (3.13%) IaaS
8 18 (3.13%) OCI
9 17 (2.95%) SaaS
10 16 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (2.78%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.78%) Serverless
11 15 (2.60%) GitHub
12 14 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 92 (15.97%) Firewall
2 67 (11.63%) DNS
3 52 (9.03%) DHCP
4 37 (6.42%) TCP/IP
5 29 (5.03%) VPN
6 27 (4.69%) WAN
7 23 (3.99%) LAN
7 23 (3.99%) SAN
8 19 (3.30%) Network Security
9 16 (2.78%) Internet
9 16 (2.78%) VLAN
10 15 (2.60%) Wireless
11 13 (2.26%) VoIP
12 10 (1.74%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (1.56%) BGP
14 7 (1.22%) NGFW
14 7 (1.22%) Structured Cabling
15 6 (1.04%) OSPF
16 5 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.17%) Db2
6 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.17%) Metabase
6 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.17%) OLAP
6 1 (0.17%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (0.17%) OLTP
6 1 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (3.65%) Git
2 10 (1.74%) JIRA
3 9 (1.56%) GitLab
3 9 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.17%) JMeter
5 1 (0.17%) Locust
5 1 (0.17%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (10.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (5.73%) Public Sector
4 23 (3.99%) Finance
5 19 (3.30%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.13%) Law
7 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.22%) Legal
8 7 (1.22%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.87%) Local Government
10 4 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (0.69%) Games
11 3 (0.52%) Banking
11 3 (0.52%) Retail
12 2 (0.35%) Automotive
13 1 (0.17%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 389 (67.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 147 (25.52%) Senior
3 131 (22.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 57 (9.90%) IT Engineer
5 54 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 31 (5.38%) IT Support
8 30 (5.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (5.21%) IT Support Engineer
8 30 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (4.17%) Administrator
9 24 (4.17%) Security Engineer
10 23 (3.99%) Analyst
10 23 (3.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (3.65%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 21 (3.65%) Lead
12 18 (3.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.90%) Terraform
2 8 (1.39%) SAML
3 5 (0.87%) Kafka
4 4 (0.69%) OAuth
4 4 (0.69%) OpenID
5 3 (0.52%) .NET
5 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.52%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.35%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.35%) REST
6 2 (0.35%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.17%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.17%) NumPy
7 1 (0.17%) Pandas
7 1 (0.17%) pgvector
7 1 (0.17%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 34 (5.90%) Driving Licence
3 32 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 28 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.60%) CCTV
6 13 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.91%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.87%) Clustering
9 5 (0.87%) PKI
9 5 (0.87%) Replication
10 3 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.52%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.52%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.52%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.35%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 136 (23.61%) Windows
2 100 (17.36%) Windows Server
3 81 (14.06%) Linux
4 13 (2.26%) Unix
5 12 (2.08%) VMS
6 10 (1.74%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.69%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.35%) Debian
11 1 (0.17%) Android
11 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (13.19%) DevOps
3 75 (13.02%) CI/CD
3 75 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 71 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (11.46%) Platform Engineering
6 59 (10.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 56 (9.72%) Migration
8 55 (9.55%) Project Delivery
9 54 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (9.20%) Mentoring
11 41 (7.12%) Cloud Security
11 41 (7.12%) ITIL
12 36 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
13 35 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (5.38%) Agile
15 30 (5.21%) Coaching
16 28 (4.86%) Containerisation
17 26 (4.51%) Business Continuity
18 25 (4.34%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 62 (10.76%) PowerShell
2 47 (8.16%) Python
3 37 (6.42%) Bash
4 29 (5.03%) SQL
5 15 (2.60%) Bicep
6 12 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.22%) VBScript
8 6 (1.04%) Java
9 3 (0.52%) ActionScript
9 3 (0.52%) C++
9 3 (0.52%) Go
10 2 (0.35%) Groovy
10 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.35%) VB
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 52 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 40 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 21 (3.65%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.91%) CCNA
8 9 (1.56%) Degree
9 7 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (0.87%) CCNP
11 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.69%) MCSA
11 4 (0.69%) MCSE
11 4 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.35%) CCIE
12 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.17%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.39%) SLA
3 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (0.87%) QA
4 3 (0.52%) NIST
5 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (18.23%) Active Directory
2 63 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (8.51%) Docker
4 41 (7.12%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.95%) vSphere
6 13 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.22%) Firmware
7 7 (1.22%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.04%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.35%) iptables
10 2 (0.35%) UAG
11 1 (0.17%) Ceph
11 1 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.17%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.86%) Ansible
4 16 (2.78%) SCCM
5 13 (2.26%) Puppet
6 9 (1.56%) WSUS
7 7 (1.22%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.04%) Grafana
8 6 (1.04%) VxRail
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.52%) Argo
11 3 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.35%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.35%) SCOM
12 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 156 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 84 (14.58%) VMware
3 41 (7.12%) Cisco
4 22 (3.82%) Oracle
5 20 (3.47%) Google
5 20 (3.47%) Veeam
6 11 (1.91%) F5
7 10 (1.74%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.74%) HP
8 9 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.56%) SonicWALL
9 8 (1.39%) Dell
9 8 (1.39%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.22%) Meraki
10 7 (1.22%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.04%) Commvault
11 6 (1.04%) Draytek
11 6 (1.04%) Zerto
12 5 (0.87%) Apple
12 5 (0.87%) Arista