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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 67 95
Rank change year-on-year -54 +28 +25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 170 365 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 2.99% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.66% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 138 261 205
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £38,870
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,100 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.48% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £72,433
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +2.86%

All Process and 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 8,152 9,967 7,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.63% 81.60% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,613 4,641 5,297
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,450
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -38 95 £53,750 +19.44% 35
Yorkshire -43 53 £65,000 +36.84% 30
North East +3 22 £59,500 +32.22% 9
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 14 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.94%) IIS
4 3 (1.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.53%) AutoCAD
1 6 (3.53%) Civil 3D
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.18%) Azure
2 24 (14.12%) AWS
2 24 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (8.24%) IaaS
4 13 (7.65%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.29%) SaaS
6 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.12%) GCP
6 7 (4.12%) PaaS
7 6 (3.53%) GitHub
8 5 (2.94%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.35%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.35%) Serverless
10 3 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.76%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.76%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.12%) Firewall
2 19 (11.18%) VPN
3 17 (10.00%) DNS
4 16 (9.41%) DHCP
5 15 (8.82%) VLAN
6 12 (7.06%) TCP/IP
6 12 (7.06%) TETRA
7 7 (4.12%) SSL
7 7 (4.12%) WAN
8 6 (3.53%) VoIP
9 5 (2.94%) DMZ
9 5 (2.94%) LAN
9 5 (2.94%) STUN
10 3 (1.76%) Network Security
11 2 (1.18%) HTTP
12 1 (0.59%) NAS
12 1 (0.59%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.59%) SAN
12 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.18%) Data Hub
2 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.18%) MySQL
2 2 (1.18%) SQL CLR
3 1 (0.59%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.59%) Power BI
3 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.53%) GitLab
2 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.18%) Git
2 2 (1.18%) JMeter
2 2 (1.18%) Locust
General
1 34 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.65%) Finance
3 11 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.71%) Legal
5 7 (4.12%) Local Government
5 7 (4.12%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.94%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.94%) Military
6 5 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.76%) Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Back Office
8 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Retail
9 1 (0.59%) Advertising
9 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (71.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (25.88%) Senior
3 41 (24.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (12.94%) Lead
6 19 (11.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (11.18%) Support Engineer
7 16 (9.41%) Infrastructure Support
7 16 (9.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 16 (9.41%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (8.24%) Applications Support
9 12 (7.06%) Design Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) Senior Design Engineer
10 11 (6.47%) Civil Engineer
11 10 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 10 (5.88%) Network Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.82%) OLE
2 6 (3.53%) .NET
3 5 (2.94%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (2.35%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.35%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.76%) DPDK
5 3 (1.76%) eBPF
6 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.18%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (1.18%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.18%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.18%) WCF
6 2 (1.18%) YAML
7 1 (0.59%) Middleware
7 1 (0.59%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.59%) RESTCONF
7 1 (0.59%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.65%) Driving Licence
2 13 (7.65%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.53%) NHS
5 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.76%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.59%) Clustering
7 1 (0.59%) NVMe
7 1 (0.59%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 48 (28.24%) Windows
2 41 (24.12%) Windows Server
3 30 (17.65%) Linux
4 7 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.94%) Debian
6 5 (2.94%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.94%) Unix
6 5 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.35%) VMS
8 3 (1.76%) CentOS
8 3 (1.76%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.59%) Android
9 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (15.88%) DevOps
2 25 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (13.53%) CI/CD
4 23 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 16 (9.41%) Agile
7 16 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (8.82%) Containerisation
8 15 (8.82%) Customer Service
9 13 (7.65%) High Availability
9 13 (7.65%) Incident Response
10 10 (5.88%) Data Protection
10 10 (5.88%) Observability
11 9 (5.29%) Project Delivery
12 8 (4.71%) Migration
12 8 (4.71%) Storage Management
13 7 (4.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (4.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.29%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.76%) SQL
3 18 (10.59%) Python
4 8 (4.71%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.12%) Bash
6 4 (2.35%) Bicep
6 4 (2.35%) C#
7 2 (1.18%) Java
8 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.00%) Degree
3 15 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.65%) CCNA
4 13 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (5.29%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.71%) DBS Check
6 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.12%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.35%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.35%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.59%) CCNP
11 1 (0.59%) CISSP
11 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.94%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.76%) GDPR
4 3 (1.76%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) WCAG
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (17.06%) Active Directory
2 17 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.82%) Docker
3 15 (8.82%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.71%) vSphere
5 7 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.94%) Kamailio
7 3 (1.76%) KVM
7 3 (1.76%) QEMU
8 2 (1.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.59%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.59%) Postfix
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.12%) Terraform
3 20 (11.76%) Ansible
4 14 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.71%) Grafana
6 7 (4.12%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.53%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.94%) Autotask
8 5 (2.94%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (2.94%) SCCM
8 5 (2.94%) SCOM
8 5 (2.94%) WSUS
9 2 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.59%) Kibana
10 1 (0.59%) Nessus
Vendors
1 53 (31.18%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.94%) VMware
3 18 (10.59%) Cisco
4 8 (4.71%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.53%) Oracle
6 5 (2.94%) Google
6 5 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.35%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.76%) Citrix
8 3 (1.76%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.18%) Apple
9 2 (1.18%) Meraki
9 2 (1.18%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.59%) Aruba
10 1 (0.59%) Dell
10 1 (0.59%) HP
10 1 (0.59%) NetApp
10 1 (0.59%) New Relic
10 1 (0.59%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.59%) Splunk