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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 68 67
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 590 415 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.45% 4.33% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.92% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 475 121 263
10th Percentile £35,100 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +16.85% -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,874
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +20.00% -7.41%

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 17,128 8,435 10,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.04% 88.09% 79.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,717 4,056 5,569
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -7 327 £52,500 +10.53% 163
Yorkshire +60 177 £51,500 -20.77% 75
North East +4 95 £50,000 -5.66% 43
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 24 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.85%) IIS
4 3 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.85%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.68%) Civil 3D
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.34%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 179 (30.34%) Azure
2 90 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (14.24%) AWS
4 65 (11.02%) Entra ID
5 27 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (3.73%) GCP
6 22 (3.73%) IaaS
7 21 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (3.39%) SaaS
9 18 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (3.05%) OCI
10 17 (2.88%) Amazon S3
10 17 (2.88%) Serverless
11 16 (2.71%) GitHub
12 15 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 91 (15.42%) Firewall
2 71 (12.03%) DNS
3 53 (8.98%) DHCP
4 38 (6.44%) TCP/IP
5 31 (5.25%) VPN
6 28 (4.75%) WAN
7 23 (3.90%) LAN
7 23 (3.90%) SAN
8 19 (3.22%) Network Security
9 17 (2.88%) VLAN
10 16 (2.71%) Internet
11 15 (2.54%) Wireless
12 13 (2.20%) VoIP
13 11 (1.86%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (1.69%) BGP
15 7 (1.19%) NGFW
15 7 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
16 6 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
16 6 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.17%) Db2
6 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.17%) Metabase
6 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.17%) OLAP
6 1 (0.17%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (0.17%) OLTP
6 1 (0.17%) Power BI
6 1 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (3.73%) Git
2 13 (2.20%) GitLab
3 11 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.86%) JIRA
4 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (10.85%) Social Skills
2 47 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (6.10%) Public Sector
4 23 (3.90%) Finance
5 21 (3.56%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.88%) Law
7 10 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.36%) Legal
9 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.85%) Local Government
11 4 (0.68%) Banking
11 4 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
11 4 (0.68%) Games
12 3 (0.51%) Retail
13 2 (0.34%) Automotive
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 398 (67.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 151 (25.59%) Senior
3 135 (22.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (10.34%) IT Engineer
5 55 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (5.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (5.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (5.42%) IT Support
8 32 (5.42%) Support Engineer
9 31 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
10 29 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (4.07%) Administrator
12 24 (4.07%) Security Engineer
13 23 (3.90%) Analyst
13 23 (3.90%) Lead
14 22 (3.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (3.39%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
17 18 (3.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.17%) Terraform
2 9 (1.53%) SAML
3 7 (1.19%) Kafka
4 4 (0.68%) OAuth
4 4 (0.68%) OpenID
5 3 (0.51%) .NET
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.51%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.34%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.34%) REST
6 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.17%) Node.js
7 1 (0.17%) NumPy
7 1 (0.17%) Pandas
7 1 (0.17%) pgvector
7 1 (0.17%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.17%) React
7 1 (0.17%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.93%) Data Centre
1 35 (5.93%) Driving Licence
1 35 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (4.75%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (2.54%) CCTV
4 14 (2.37%) Security Posture
5 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 11 (1.86%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.85%) Clustering
8 5 (0.85%) PKI
8 5 (0.85%) Replication
9 4 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.51%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 137 (23.22%) Windows
2 100 (16.95%) Windows Server
3 82 (13.90%) Linux
4 12 (2.03%) Unix
5 11 (1.86%) VMS
6 10 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.68%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
12 1 (0.17%) Android
12 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (13.90%) DevOps
3 80 (13.56%) CI/CD
3 80 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (11.53%) Platform Engineering
6 62 (10.51%) Disaster Recovery
7 55 (9.32%) Mentoring
7 55 (9.32%) Migration
8 54 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
8 54 (9.15%) Project Delivery
9 44 (7.46%) ITIL
10 43 (7.29%) Cloud Security
11 42 (7.12%) Infrastructure Automation
12 37 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (5.93%) Agile
14 31 (5.25%) Coaching
15 28 (4.75%) Business Continuity
16 27 (4.58%) Containerisation
17 26 (4.41%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (10.68%) PowerShell
2 51 (8.64%) Python
3 38 (6.44%) Bash
4 30 (5.08%) SQL
5 14 (2.37%) Bicep
6 12 (2.03%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.19%) VBScript
8 5 (0.85%) ActionScript
8 5 (0.85%) Java
9 4 (0.68%) Go
10 3 (0.51%) C++
10 3 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.34%) Groovy
11 2 (0.34%) VB
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) C#
12 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 22 (3.73%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.54%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.03%) Degree
8 11 (1.86%) CCNA
9 7 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (0.85%) CCNP
11 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.68%) MCSA
11 4 (0.68%) MCSE
11 4 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.34%) CCIE
13 2 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.53%) SLA
4 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.68%) QA
6 3 (0.51%) NIST
7 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.34%) GDPR
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 107 (18.14%) Active Directory
2 59 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (8.14%) Docker
4 37 (6.27%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.88%) vSphere
6 14 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.19%) Firmware
7 7 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.02%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.34%) iptables
10 2 (0.34%) UAG
11 1 (0.17%) Ceph
11 1 (0.17%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.17%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (8.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.92%) Ansible
4 16 (2.71%) SCCM
5 14 (2.37%) Puppet
6 9 (1.53%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.53%) WSUS
7 6 (1.02%) Grafana
7 6 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.02%) VxRail
8 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.68%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.34%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.34%) SCOM
11 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 158 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.56%) VMware
3 43 (7.29%) Cisco
4 22 (3.73%) Oracle
5 21 (3.56%) Google
6 20 (3.39%) Veeam
7 13 (2.20%) F5
8 11 (1.86%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.69%) HP
10 9 (1.53%) SonicWALL
11 8 (1.36%) Dell
11 8 (1.36%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.36%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.19%) Meraki
13 6 (1.02%) Arista
13 6 (1.02%) Commvault
13 6 (1.02%) Draytek
13 6 (1.02%) Zerto
14 5 (0.85%) Aderant