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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 80 49
Rank change year-on-year -35 -31 +48
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 190 247 553
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 3.11% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 3.37% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 175 175 497
10th Percentile £32,570 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £71,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -5.66%

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 9,693 7,339 10,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 77.46% 92.47% 86.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,463 3,470 8,746
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,050 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 14 February 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 14 February 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
Yorkshire -27 86 £50,000 -4.76% 29
North West -37 84 £50,000 +5.26% 50
North East +3 20 £65,576 +68.28% 10
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 17 (8.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.58%) IIS
3 3 (1.58%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 82 (43.16%) Azure
2 38 (20.00%) AWS
2 38 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (17.37%) Entra ID
4 11 (5.79%) IaaS
5 10 (5.26%) GCP
6 9 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (4.74%) SaaS
7 8 (4.21%) Azure AKS
8 7 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.16%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.63%) GitHub
10 5 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.63%) OCI
10 5 (2.63%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.16%) DNS
2 24 (12.63%) Firewall
3 17 (8.95%) DHCP
4 16 (8.42%) TCP/IP
5 14 (7.37%) VPN
6 11 (5.79%) VLAN
7 8 (4.21%) SSL
7 8 (4.21%) WAN
8 6 (3.16%) DMZ
8 6 (3.16%) LAN
9 4 (2.11%) VoIP
10 3 (1.58%) HTTP
10 3 (1.58%) NAS
10 3 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.58%) STUN
11 2 (1.05%) Network Security
11 2 (1.05%) SAN
11 2 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.53%) SNMP
12 1 (0.53%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.63%) MySQL
4 3 (1.58%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (8.95%) GitLab
2 13 (6.84%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.05%) JMeter
4 2 (1.05%) Locust
General
1 38 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.63%) Legal
6 4 (2.11%) Finance
6 4 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.58%) Banking
7 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.05%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 135 (71.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (17.37%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (16.32%) Lead
3 31 (16.32%) Senior
4 27 (14.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (13.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (12.11%) Infrastructure Support
7 20 (10.53%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 19 (10.00%) Support Engineer
9 18 (9.47%) IT Engineer
9 18 (9.47%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (8.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 16 (8.42%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (7.37%) 3rd Line Support
12 12 (6.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (6.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (6.32%) Analyst
12 12 (6.32%) Support Analyst
13 11 (5.79%) Applications Support
14 10 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.16%) OLE
2 4 (2.11%) .NET
3 3 (1.58%) DPDK
3 3 (1.58%) eBPF
3 3 (1.58%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.58%) RESTful
4 2 (1.05%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.05%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.05%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.05%) Middleware
4 2 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.05%) WCF
4 2 (1.05%) YAML
5 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.53%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.53%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.53%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.16%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.58%) CMDB
7 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.05%) CCTV
8 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.53%) NVMe
9 1 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.58%) Windows
2 31 (16.32%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.42%) Linux
4 7 (3.68%) Android
4 7 (3.68%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.58%) Debian
5 3 (1.58%) VMS
5 3 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.05%) Unix
7 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (18.95%) CI/CD
3 35 (18.42%) Mentoring
4 34 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (15.26%) DevOps
6 27 (14.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (12.63%) Agile
8 23 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (11.58%) Coaching
10 19 (10.00%) Incident Management
11 17 (8.95%) Customer Service
11 17 (8.95%) ITIL
12 16 (8.42%) Containerisation
13 12 (6.32%) Cloud Security
13 12 (6.32%) Roadmaps
14 11 (5.79%) Observability
14 11 (5.79%) Project Delivery
14 11 (5.79%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (5.26%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.37%) PowerShell
2 24 (12.63%) SQL
3 20 (10.53%) Bash
4 16 (8.42%) Python
5 10 (5.26%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.63%) Java
7 4 (2.11%) Bicep
8 3 (1.58%) Go
9 2 (1.05%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (6.84%) Azure Certification
1 13 (6.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.79%) Degree
3 7 (3.68%) CCNA
3 7 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.16%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.16%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.05%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) WCAG
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.95%) Docker
3 11 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.74%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.11%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.11%) vSphere
7 3 (1.58%) KVM
7 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.58%) QEMU
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.53%) Firmware
9 1 (0.53%) XenApp
9 1 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (18.42%) Kubernetes
1 35 (18.42%) Terraform
2 25 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (10.00%) Ansible
4 8 (4.21%) Grafana
5 6 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.63%) Autotask
6 5 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.58%) Rancher
8 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.05%) VxRail
8 2 (1.05%) WSUS
9 1 (0.53%) Argo
9 1 (0.53%) Kibana
9 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.63%) VMware
3 12 (6.32%) Cisco
4 9 (4.74%) Citrix
5 8 (4.21%) Apple
6 7 (3.68%) Samsung
7 6 (3.16%) Google
8 5 (2.63%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.11%) IFS
9 4 (2.11%) Oracle
10 3 (1.58%) Commvault
10 3 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.58%) HP
10 3 (1.58%) Meraki
10 3 (1.58%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.05%) BMC
11 2 (1.05%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.05%) Splunk
11 2 (1.05%) Veeam
11 2 (1.05%) Zerto