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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 84 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 -36 -17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 306 205 679
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.80% 3.14% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 3.33% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 261 181 574
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -3.16%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £58,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 12,498 6,158 13,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 73.48% 94.19% 83.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,607 3,716 10,895
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -9 155 £50,000 - 40
Yorkshire -10 120 £50,000 -4.76% 27
North East -8 31 £65,576 +47.36% 16
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 18 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (38.24%) Azure
2 54 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (14.38%) AWS
4 37 (12.09%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (3.92%) GitHub
7 10 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.27%) Azure AKS
7 10 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.27%) IaaS
7 10 (3.27%) OCI
8 9 (2.94%) GCP
8 9 (2.94%) SaaS
9 7 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.29%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.29%) PaaS
10 6 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.96%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (12.75%) DNS
2 36 (11.76%) Firewall
3 31 (10.13%) DHCP
4 18 (5.88%) Network Security
5 17 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 14 (4.58%) VLAN
6 14 (4.58%) VPN
7 13 (4.25%) WAN
8 11 (3.59%) LAN
9 9 (2.94%) SAN
9 9 (2.94%) VoIP
10 8 (2.61%) DMZ
11 5 (1.63%) NAS
11 5 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.63%) STUN
12 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
13 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.31%) MySQL
4 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.54%) GitLab
2 15 (4.90%) Git
3 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.98%) JMeter
4 3 (0.98%) Locust
5 1 (0.33%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (13.07%) Social Skills
2 19 (6.21%) Public Sector
3 13 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.31%) Finance
6 4 (1.31%) Legal
7 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.65%) Law
8 2 (0.65%) Retail
9 1 (0.33%) Banking
9 1 (0.33%) Marketing
9 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 235 (76.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 64 (20.92%) Senior
3 57 (18.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (13.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (11.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 35 (11.44%) Lead
6 33 (10.78%) Infrastructure Support
7 31 (10.13%) Support Engineer
8 29 (9.48%) IT Engineer
9 25 (8.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 23 (7.52%) Analyst
10 23 (7.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 23 (7.52%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (7.19%) IT Support
12 21 (6.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (5.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 18 (5.88%) Security Engineer
14 16 (5.23%) Network Analyst
14 16 (5.23%) Network Security Analyst
14 16 (5.23%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.96%) OLE
2 5 (1.63%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (0.98%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.98%) Gherkin
3 3 (0.98%) RESTful
4 2 (0.65%) Middleware
5 1 (0.33%) .NET
5 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.33%) DPDK
5 1 (0.33%) eBPF
5 1 (0.33%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.33%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.33%) WCF
5 1 (0.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.94%) Cloud Native
1 9 (2.94%) Driving Licence
1 9 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 8 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (1.96%) CCTV
4 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (1.63%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.31%) Social Media
6 3 (0.98%) CMDB
7 2 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.33%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.33%) Clustering
8 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.33%) NVMe
8 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (21.24%) Windows
2 51 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.86%) Linux
4 10 (3.27%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.29%) Android
5 7 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.63%) Debian
6 5 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.98%) Unix
7 3 (0.98%) VMS
8 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.33%) Solaris
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
3 42 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (12.75%) CI/CD
4 39 (12.75%) Mentoring
5 37 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (11.11%) DevOps
7 33 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (9.15%) Agile
9 25 (8.17%) Coaching
9 25 (8.17%) Incident Management
10 24 (7.84%) ITIL
11 20 (6.54%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (6.21%) Migration
13 18 (5.88%) High Availability
14 17 (5.56%) Containerisation
14 17 (5.56%) Observability
15 15 (4.90%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (4.58%) Cloud Security
17 13 (4.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (15.36%) PowerShell
2 26 (8.50%) Bash
3 22 (7.19%) Python
3 22 (7.19%) SQL
4 7 (2.29%) Bicep
5 6 (1.96%) Java
6 4 (1.31%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.98%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (4.90%) Azure Certification
2 14 (4.58%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.61%) Degree
4 8 (2.61%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.31%) CCNA
6 4 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.31%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.31%) MCSA
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.98%) QA
3 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
3 3 (0.98%) WCAG
4 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 66 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 25 (8.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.84%) Hyper-V
4 21 (6.86%) Docker
5 9 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.63%) vSphere
7 4 (1.31%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.33%) Firmware
10 1 (0.33%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) QEMU
10 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.33%) XenApp
10 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (13.73%) Terraform
2 40 (13.07%) Kubernetes
3 30 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (6.54%) Ansible
5 9 (2.94%) Grafana
6 6 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.98%) Argo
9 3 (0.98%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.98%) Rancher
9 3 (0.98%) VxRail
9 3 (0.98%) WSUS
10 1 (0.33%) Kibana
10 1 (0.33%) Podman
10 1 (0.33%) SCCM
10 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (28.10%) Microsoft
2 51 (16.67%) VMware
3 18 (5.88%) Cisco
4 12 (3.92%) Citrix
5 11 (3.59%) Apple
6 9 (2.94%) Oracle
7 7 (2.29%) Meraki
7 7 (2.29%) Samsung
8 5 (1.63%) Commvault
8 5 (1.63%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.63%) Google
8 5 (1.63%) Veeam
9 4 (1.31%) Dell
9 4 (1.31%) IFS
9 4 (1.31%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.31%) Zerto
10 3 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.98%) HP
10 3 (0.98%) Tenable
11 2 (0.65%) BMC