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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 80 48
Rank change year-on-year -18 -32 -17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 278 209 669
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 3.29% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.49% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 237 187 566
10th Percentile £34,820 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £69,390 £62,500 £59,688
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -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 11,686 5,991 13,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 74.12% 94.26% 83.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,081 3,677 10,654
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,500
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 £70,834 £65,603
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 4 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 4 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 -24 137 £50,000 - 59
Yorkshire -10 113 £50,000 -4.76% 32
North East -3 28 £57,500 +29.21% 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 18 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.80%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (40.29%) Azure
2 55 (19.78%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (16.19%) AWS
4 35 (12.59%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (3.60%) GitHub
7 9 (3.24%) GCP
7 9 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.24%) IaaS
7 9 (3.24%) SaaS
8 8 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.88%) OCI
9 7 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.52%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.52%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.16%) Google Workspace
10 6 (2.16%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.16%) PaaS
11 5 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.95%) DNS
2 33 (11.87%) Firewall
3 28 (10.07%) DHCP
4 17 (6.12%) TCP/IP
5 15 (5.40%) Network Security
6 13 (4.68%) VLAN
6 13 (4.68%) WAN
7 12 (4.32%) VPN
8 11 (3.96%) LAN
9 9 (3.24%) VoIP
10 8 (2.88%) DMZ
11 7 (2.52%) SAN
12 5 (1.80%) NAS
12 5 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.80%) STUN
13 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.36%) Fibre Channel
14 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
14 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
14 1 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.80%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.44%) MySQL
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.08%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.47%) GitLab
2 14 (5.04%) Git
3 5 (1.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.08%) JMeter
4 3 (1.08%) Locust
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (13.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (5.76%) Public Sector
3 12 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.80%) Legal
6 4 (1.44%) Finance
6 4 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.72%) Law
8 2 (0.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.36%) Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 210 (75.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (17.99%) Senior
3 43 (15.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (14.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (12.23%) Lead
6 33 (11.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (11.87%) Infrastructure Support
7 30 (10.79%) Support Engineer
8 28 (10.07%) IT Engineer
9 23 (8.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 23 (8.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 21 (7.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (7.55%) IT Support
10 21 (7.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (6.83%) Analyst
12 18 (6.47%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 18 (6.47%) Security Engineer
13 15 (5.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 15 (5.40%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.16%) OLE
2 5 (1.80%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.08%) Gherkin
3 3 (1.08%) RESTful
4 2 (0.72%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) .NET
5 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.36%) DPDK
5 1 (0.36%) eBPF
5 1 (0.36%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.36%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.36%) WCF
5 1 (0.36%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.60%) Driving Licence
2 9 (3.24%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.24%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.16%) CCTV
4 5 (1.80%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.44%) Social Media
6 3 (1.08%) CMDB
7 2 (0.72%) Replication
8 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.36%) Clustering
8 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.36%) NVMe
8 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.30%) Windows
2 48 (17.27%) Windows Server
3 19 (6.83%) Linux
4 10 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.52%) Android
5 7 (2.52%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.80%) Debian
6 5 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.08%) Unix
7 3 (1.08%) VMS
8 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (15.47%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (13.31%) Mentoring
5 36 (12.95%) CI/CD
6 33 (11.87%) DevOps
6 33 (11.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (8.99%) Agile
7 25 (8.99%) Incident Management
8 23 (8.27%) Coaching
8 23 (8.27%) ITIL
9 18 (6.47%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (6.12%) Migration
11 16 (5.76%) Containerisation
11 16 (5.76%) Observability
12 15 (5.40%) High Availability
12 15 (5.40%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (5.04%) Cloud Security
14 12 (4.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.19%) PowerShell
2 26 (9.35%) Bash
3 22 (7.91%) SQL
4 20 (7.19%) Python
5 6 (2.16%) Java
6 5 (1.80%) Bicep
7 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (5.76%) Azure Certification
2 14 (5.04%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.24%) Degree
5 8 (2.88%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.80%) CCNA
7 5 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.44%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.44%) MCSA
9 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.08%) QA
3 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 24 (8.63%) Hyper-V
2 24 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.19%) Docker
4 7 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.80%) vSphere
6 4 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) KVM
9 1 (0.36%) QEMU
9 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.36%) XenApp
9 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (14.03%) Terraform
2 36 (12.95%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (6.47%) Ansible
5 9 (3.24%) Grafana
6 6 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.08%) Argo
8 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.08%) Rancher
8 3 (1.08%) VxRail
8 3 (1.08%) WSUS
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Podman
9 1 (0.36%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (30.58%) Microsoft
2 49 (17.63%) VMware
3 20 (7.19%) Cisco
4 12 (4.32%) Citrix
5 11 (3.96%) Apple
6 7 (2.52%) Meraki
6 7 (2.52%) Oracle
6 7 (2.52%) Samsung
7 6 (2.16%) Google
8 5 (1.80%) Commvault
8 5 (1.80%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.80%) Veeam
9 4 (1.44%) Dell
9 4 (1.44%) HP
9 4 (1.44%) IFS
9 4 (1.44%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.44%) Zerto
10 3 (1.08%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.08%) Tenable
11 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace