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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 60 48
Rank change year-on-year -27 -12 -21
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 344 436 681
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.86% 5.70% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 6.00% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 281 158 572
10th Percentile £34,550 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,875 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -3.16%
75th Percentile £69,391 £65,000 £57,813
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -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 13,113 7,265 13,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.05% 95.05% 82.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,603 3,712 11,109
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -41 175 £50,000 -3.85% 53
Yorkshire +7 139 £50,000 -13.04% 16
North East -19 30 £48,445 +14.66% 15
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 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.03%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 129 (37.50%) Azure
2 53 (15.41%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (11.92%) AWS
4 33 (9.59%) Entra ID
5 13 (3.78%) OCI
6 12 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (2.62%) GitHub
7 9 (2.62%) IaaS
8 8 (2.33%) GCP
9 7 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.03%) Azure AKS
9 7 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.74%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.74%) SaaS
11 5 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.16%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.16%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (13.66%) DNS
2 41 (11.92%) Firewall
3 38 (11.05%) DHCP
4 22 (6.40%) TCP/IP
5 21 (6.10%) Network Security
6 18 (5.23%) LAN
6 18 (5.23%) WAN
7 17 (4.94%) VPN
8 16 (4.65%) SAN
8 16 (4.65%) VLAN
9 8 (2.33%) DMZ
9 8 (2.33%) VoIP
10 7 (2.03%) NAS
11 5 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.45%) STUN
12 4 (1.16%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.87%) BGP
13 3 (0.87%) NGFW
13 3 (0.87%) OSPF
14 2 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.16%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.87%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.87%) MySQL
4 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (5.52%) GitLab
2 13 (3.78%) Git
3 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) JIRA
5 1 (0.29%) JMeter
5 1 (0.29%) Locust
5 1 (0.29%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (11.05%) Social Skills
2 21 (6.10%) Public Sector
3 12 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.20%) Finance
5 10 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.74%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.87%) Fire and Rescue
8 3 (0.87%) Legal
9 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.58%) Law
9 2 (0.58%) Local Government
10 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 270 (78.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 77 (22.38%) Senior
3 66 (19.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (10.47%) Infrastructure Support
5 34 (9.88%) Support Engineer
6 32 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (9.01%) IT Engineer
8 28 (8.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (7.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 25 (7.27%) IT Support
10 25 (7.27%) Lead
11 23 (6.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (6.40%) Analyst
12 22 (6.40%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 22 (6.40%) Security Engineer
13 18 (5.23%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 18 (5.23%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
14 17 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (4.65%) Network Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.45%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.16%) OLE
3 3 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.87%) RESTful
4 2 (0.58%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.58%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.29%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.36%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.07%) CCTV
3 13 (3.78%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.87%) Clustering
6 3 (0.87%) CMDB
6 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.87%) Social Media
7 2 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.58%) Replication
8 1 (0.29%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.64%) Windows
2 56 (16.28%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.10%) Linux
4 8 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.74%) Android
5 6 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.45%) Debian
7 4 (1.16%) VMS
7 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.87%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) Solaris
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (11.05%) Mentoring
4 37 (10.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 37 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (9.01%) CI/CD
7 27 (7.85%) Coaching
7 27 (7.85%) DevOps
8 24 (6.98%) Incident Management
9 23 (6.69%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (6.40%) Agile
10 22 (6.40%) ITIL
11 19 (5.52%) High Availability
11 19 (5.52%) Migration
12 17 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (4.07%) Roadmaps
14 13 (3.78%) Cloud Security
15 12 (3.49%) Containerisation
15 12 (3.49%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.12%) PowerShell
2 24 (6.98%) Bash
3 23 (6.69%) SQL
4 19 (5.52%) Python
5 8 (2.33%) Bicep
6 4 (1.16%) Java
7 3 (0.87%) Go
7 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.29%) Groovy
8 1 (0.29%) VB
8 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (4.36%) Azure Certification
2 14 (4.07%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.74%) Degree
6 5 (1.45%) CCNA
6 5 (1.45%) MCSA
7 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.58%) CCNP
10 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.58%) GDPR
4 2 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) QA
5 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (21.51%) Active Directory
2 30 (8.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.98%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.65%) Docker
5 8 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.16%) vSphere
7 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.29%) XenApp
8 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (10.47%) Terraform
2 30 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 17 (4.94%) Ansible
5 6 (1.74%) Grafana
5 6 (1.74%) VxRail
5 6 (1.74%) WSUS
6 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.87%) Argo
7 3 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.87%) Rancher
8 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.58%) SCCM
9 1 (0.29%) Podman
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 57 (16.57%) VMware
3 25 (7.27%) Cisco
4 12 (3.49%) Citrix
5 11 (3.20%) Oracle
6 9 (2.62%) Apple
6 9 (2.62%) Meraki
7 8 (2.33%) Commvault
7 8 (2.33%) HP
7 8 (2.33%) Veeam
8 7 (2.03%) Dell
8 7 (2.03%) Zerto
9 6 (1.74%) Samsung
9 6 (1.74%) Tenable
10 5 (1.45%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.16%) Google
12 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.87%) IFS
12 3 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.87%) Ubiquiti