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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 84 52
Rank change year-on-year -39 -32 +44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 160 259 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.40% 2.91% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.18% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 145 181 425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,886 £71,350
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 8,996 8,132 9,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 78.54% 91.38% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,905 3,603 7,655
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -24 73 £50,000 -4.76% 48
North West -37 73 £50,000 +5.26% 50
North East +4 14 £72,539 +86.15% 20
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 16 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.88%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.63%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.63%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 70 (43.75%) Azure
2 33 (20.63%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (19.38%) AWS
4 22 (13.75%) Entra ID
5 13 (8.13%) IaaS
6 11 (6.88%) GCP
7 9 (5.63%) SaaS
8 8 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.75%) Google Workspace
10 6 (3.75%) PaaS
11 5 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.13%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.50%) GitHub
12 4 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.50%) Mimecast
12 4 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.38%) Firewall
2 20 (12.50%) DNS
3 14 (8.75%) VPN
4 13 (8.13%) VLAN
5 12 (7.50%) DHCP
6 11 (6.88%) TCP/IP
7 8 (5.00%) SSL
8 7 (4.38%) DMZ
9 6 (3.75%) WAN
10 5 (3.13%) VoIP
11 4 (2.50%) LAN
11 4 (2.50%) STUN
12 3 (1.88%) HTTP
13 2 (1.25%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.63%) FTP
14 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
14 1 (0.63%) SMTP
14 1 (0.63%) SNMP
14 1 (0.63%) SSH
14 1 (0.63%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.38%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.13%) MySQL
4 3 (1.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (11.25%) GitLab
2 13 (8.13%) Git
3 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.25%) JMeter
4 2 (1.25%) Locust
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.13%) Legal
4 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.88%) Banking
6 3 (1.88%) Finance
6 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Advertising
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 110 (68.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (21.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (20.00%) Lead
4 28 (17.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 20 (12.50%) Senior
5 20 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 19 (11.88%) Infrastructure Support
7 18 (11.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 16 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (8.75%) 3rd Line Support
10 14 (8.75%) Applications Support
11 13 (8.13%) IT Engineer
12 12 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (7.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (6.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (6.25%) 1st Line Support Analyst
14 10 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
14 10 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.38%) OLE
2 4 (2.50%) .NET
2 4 (2.50%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.88%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.88%) DPDK
3 3 (1.88%) eBPF
3 3 (1.88%) RESTful
4 2 (1.25%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.25%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.25%) Middleware
4 2 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.25%) WCF
4 2 (1.25%) YAML
5 1 (0.63%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.63%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 15 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.63%) Driving Licence
3 8 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.88%) CMDB
6 3 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.63%) NVMe
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.75%) Windows
2 27 (16.88%) Windows Server
3 19 (11.88%) Linux
4 4 (2.50%) Debian
5 3 (1.88%) VMS
5 3 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) Android
7 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 33 (20.63%) DevOps
2 33 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 28 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (15.63%) Agile
5 25 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 21 (13.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 16 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 15 (9.38%) Coaching
9 14 (8.75%) Roadmaps
10 11 (6.88%) Incident Response
10 11 (6.88%) ITIL
10 11 (6.88%) Observability
10 11 (6.88%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (6.25%) Data Protection
11 10 (6.25%) Project Delivery
12 9 (5.63%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.88%) PowerShell
2 26 (16.25%) SQL
3 15 (9.38%) Python
4 14 (8.75%) Bash
5 10 (6.25%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.13%) Java
7 4 (2.50%) Bicep
8 3 (1.88%) Go
9 2 (1.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (6.88%) Degree
1 11 (6.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 7 (4.38%) CCNA
3 7 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.75%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.88%) ISO 9001
1 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.25%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.25%) Docker
3 10 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.13%) vSphere
7 4 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.50%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.88%) Kamailio
8 3 (1.88%) KVM
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.88%) QEMU
9 1 (0.63%) Firmware
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (23.75%) Terraform
2 36 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.75%) Ansible
4 17 (10.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (5.63%) Grafana
6 7 (4.38%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.13%) Autotask
8 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.88%) Rancher
10 2 (1.25%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.63%) Kibana
11 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.50%) VMware
3 8 (5.00%) Cisco
4 6 (3.75%) Google
5 5 (3.13%) Citrix
6 4 (2.50%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.50%) IFS
6 4 (2.50%) Oracle
7 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.88%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.25%) Apple
8 2 (1.25%) BMC
8 2 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.25%) Splunk
9 1 (0.63%) Aruba
9 1 (0.63%) Meraki
9 1 (0.63%) New Relic
9 1 (0.63%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.63%) Red Hat