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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 77 52
Rank change year-on-year -44 -25 +45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 166 261 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.42% 3.01% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 3.28% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 152 184 448
10th Percentile £34,595 £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 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,886 £70,000
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 9,159 7,953 9,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 78.24% 91.81% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,014 3,578 7,985
10th Percentile £28,075 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £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 £66,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -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 31 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 31 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
North West -40 76 £50,000 +5.26% 44
Yorkshire -18 74 £50,000 -4.76% 34
North East +6 16 £67,539 +68.85% 13
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 17 (10.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.81%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.20%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 74 (44.58%) Azure
2 35 (21.08%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (19.88%) AWS
4 26 (15.66%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.83%) IaaS
6 11 (6.63%) GCP
7 9 (5.42%) SaaS
8 8 (4.82%) Azure AKS
9 7 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.61%) Google Workspace
10 6 (3.61%) PaaS
11 5 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.01%) OCI
11 5 (3.01%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.41%) GitHub
12 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.41%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.06%) Firewall
2 21 (12.65%) DNS
3 15 (9.04%) VPN
4 13 (7.83%) DHCP
4 13 (7.83%) VLAN
5 12 (7.23%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.82%) SSL
7 7 (4.22%) DMZ
7 7 (4.22%) WAN
8 5 (3.01%) LAN
8 5 (3.01%) VoIP
9 4 (2.41%) STUN
10 3 (1.81%) HTTP
11 2 (1.20%) NAS
11 2 (1.20%) Network Security
11 2 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.60%) SNMP
12 1 (0.60%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.01%) MySQL
4 3 (1.81%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (10.84%) GitLab
2 13 (7.83%) Git
3 3 (1.81%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.20%) JMeter
4 2 (1.20%) Locust
4 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (23.49%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (4.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.01%) Legal
4 5 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.41%) Finance
6 3 (1.81%) Banking
6 3 (1.81%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.20%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 116 (69.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (20.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (19.28%) Lead
4 28 (16.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (12.65%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (12.65%) Senior
5 21 (12.65%) Support Engineer
6 20 (12.05%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 18 (10.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 18 (10.84%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (10.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (9.04%) IT Engineer
10 14 (8.43%) 3rd Line Support
11 13 (7.83%) Applications Support
11 13 (7.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (7.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (7.23%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (6.63%) Analyst
13 11 (6.63%) Support Analyst
14 10 (6.02%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.61%) OLE
2 4 (2.41%) .NET
2 4 (2.41%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.81%) DPDK
3 3 (1.81%) eBPF
3 3 (1.81%) RESTful
4 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.20%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.20%) Middleware
4 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.20%) WCF
4 2 (1.20%) YAML
5 1 (0.60%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.60%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.60%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.04%) Cloud Native
1 15 (9.04%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.82%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.81%) CMDB
6 3 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.60%) CCTV
8 1 (0.60%) NVMe
8 1 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.49%) Windows
2 28 (16.87%) Windows Server
3 19 (11.45%) Linux
4 4 (2.41%) Debian
5 3 (1.81%) VMS
5 3 (1.81%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.20%) Android
6 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) CentOS
7 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (19.28%) DevOps
4 31 (18.67%) CI/CD
5 29 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (16.27%) Mentoring
7 25 (15.06%) Agile
7 25 (15.06%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (14.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (10.24%) Coaching
9 17 (10.24%) Customer Service
10 16 (9.64%) Containerisation
11 13 (7.83%) Roadmaps
12 12 (7.23%) ITIL
13 11 (6.63%) Incident Response
13 11 (6.63%) Observability
13 11 (6.63%) Project Delivery
13 11 (6.63%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (6.02%) High Availability
14 10 (6.02%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.67%) PowerShell
2 25 (15.06%) SQL
3 17 (10.24%) Bash
4 15 (9.04%) Python
5 10 (6.02%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.01%) Java
7 4 (2.41%) Bicep
8 3 (1.81%) Go
9 2 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (7.23%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.63%) Degree
2 11 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.22%) CCNA
3 7 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.61%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.60%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.20%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.20%) QA
1 2 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (22.89%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.84%) Docker
3 12 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.42%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.41%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.41%) vSphere
7 3 (1.81%) KVM
7 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.81%) QEMU
8 2 (1.20%) Kamailio
8 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.60%) Firmware
9 1 (0.60%) XenApp
9 1 (0.60%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (22.29%) Terraform
2 36 (21.69%) Kubernetes
3 21 (12.65%) Ansible
4 18 (10.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (5.42%) Grafana
6 7 (4.22%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.01%) Autotask
7 5 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.81%) Rancher
9 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.60%) Kibana
10 1 (0.60%) SCCM
10 1 (0.60%) VxRail
10 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (28.31%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.86%) VMware
3 10 (6.02%) Cisco
4 6 (3.61%) Citrix
4 6 (3.61%) Google
5 5 (3.01%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.41%) IFS
6 4 (2.41%) Oracle
7 3 (1.81%) Apple
7 3 (1.81%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.81%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.20%) BMC
8 2 (1.20%) Commvault
8 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.20%) HP
8 2 (1.20%) Meraki
8 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.20%) Samsung
8 2 (1.20%) Splunk
9 1 (0.60%) Extreme Networks