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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 97 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 -49 -20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 327 205 673
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.80% 2.89% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.06% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 272 178 566
10th Percentile £34,595 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +10.87% -3.16%
75th Percentile £69,418 £65,000 £60,000
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 13,236 6,709 13,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 72.76% 94.43% 83.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,173 3,743 11,018
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,875 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,400 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +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 29 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 29 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 -3 166 £50,000 - 33
Yorkshire -10 131 £50,000 -9.09% 23
North East -19 30 £49,222 +16.50% 19
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 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 124 (37.92%) Azure
2 56 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (13.15%) AWS
4 37 (11.31%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (3.67%) GitHub
7 10 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.06%) Azure AKS
7 10 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.06%) IaaS
7 10 (3.06%) OCI
8 9 (2.75%) GCP
9 7 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.14%) SaaS
10 6 (1.83%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.83%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.53%) PaaS
11 5 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.46%) DNS
2 40 (12.23%) Firewall
3 36 (11.01%) DHCP
4 20 (6.12%) TCP/IP
5 19 (5.81%) Network Security
6 16 (4.89%) VPN
6 16 (4.89%) WAN
7 15 (4.59%) LAN
7 15 (4.59%) VLAN
8 12 (3.67%) SAN
9 9 (2.75%) VoIP
10 8 (2.45%) DMZ
11 6 (1.83%) NAS
12 5 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.53%) STUN
13 4 (1.22%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.61%) BGP
14 2 (0.61%) HTTP
14 2 (0.61%) OSPF
14 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.92%) DynamoDB
3 3 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.92%) MySQL
3 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.12%) GitLab
2 15 (4.59%) Git
3 5 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) JMeter
5 1 (0.31%) Locust
5 1 (0.31%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (12.84%) Social Skills
2 20 (6.12%) Public Sector
3 13 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.14%) Finance
6 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.22%) Legal
8 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.61%) Law
9 2 (0.61%) Local Government
9 2 (0.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 252 (77.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 76 (23.24%) Senior
3 67 (20.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (10.70%) Infrastructure Support
4 35 (10.70%) Support Engineer
5 34 (10.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (10.09%) IT Engineer
7 29 (8.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (7.95%) IT Support
8 26 (7.95%) Lead
9 25 (7.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 23 (7.03%) Analyst
10 23 (7.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (5.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 18 (5.50%) IT Support Engineer
11 18 (5.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.50%) Security Engineer
12 17 (5.20%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (4.89%) Network Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.83%) OLE
2 5 (1.53%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.22%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.92%) RESTful
5 2 (0.61%) Middleware
6 1 (0.31%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.31%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.36%) Driving Licence
2 10 (3.06%) CCTV
3 9 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.45%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.22%) Social Media
8 3 (0.92%) CMDB
9 2 (0.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.61%) Replication
10 1 (0.31%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.31%) Clustering
10 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.31%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (21.10%) Windows
2 56 (17.13%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.42%) Linux
4 10 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.83%) Android
5 6 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.53%) Debian
6 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.92%) Unix
8 2 (0.61%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.31%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (11.62%) Mentoring
5 36 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (11.01%) Disaster Recovery
6 34 (10.40%) CI/CD
7 31 (9.48%) DevOps
8 26 (7.95%) Coaching
9 25 (7.65%) Agile
10 24 (7.34%) Incident Management
11 23 (7.03%) ITIL
12 21 (6.42%) High Availability
13 20 (6.12%) Migration
13 20 (6.12%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (4.89%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (4.59%) Containerisation
15 15 (4.59%) Observability
15 15 (4.59%) Project Delivery
16 14 (4.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.68%) PowerShell
2 25 (7.65%) Bash
3 22 (6.73%) SQL
4 21 (6.42%) Python
5 10 (3.06%) Bicep
6 4 (1.22%) Java
6 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.92%) Go
8 1 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (4.89%) Azure Certification
2 12 (3.67%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.45%) Degree
5 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.83%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.22%) CCNA
7 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.22%) MCSA
8 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.92%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) QA
5 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (21.71%) Active Directory
2 27 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.65%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.81%) Docker
5 10 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.31%) Firmware
9 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.31%) XenApp
9 1 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (12.23%) Terraform
2 31 (9.48%) Kubernetes
3 30 (9.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (5.50%) Ansible
5 7 (2.14%) Grafana
6 6 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.22%) VxRail
8 4 (1.22%) WSUS
9 3 (0.92%) Argo
9 3 (0.92%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.92%) Rancher
10 1 (0.31%) Kibana
10 1 (0.31%) Podman
10 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.31%) SCCM
10 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 89 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 54 (16.51%) VMware
3 22 (6.73%) Cisco
4 12 (3.67%) Citrix
5 10 (3.06%) Apple
6 9 (2.75%) Oracle
7 8 (2.45%) Meraki
8 6 (1.83%) Commvault
8 6 (1.83%) Samsung
8 6 (1.83%) Veeam
9 5 (1.53%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.53%) Dell
9 5 (1.53%) Google
9 5 (1.53%) Zerto
10 4 (1.22%) HP
10 4 (1.22%) IFS
10 4 (1.22%) Tenable
10 4 (1.22%) Ubiquiti
11 3 (0.92%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.61%) Splunk