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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 84 48
Rank change year-on-year -25 -36 +33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 207 236 573
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.56% 3.13% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.33% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 187 176 513
10th Percentile £33,230 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £69,750 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -6.24%

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 10,168 7,077 10,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 76.76% 93.76% 86.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,803 3,419 8,908
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,021
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -35 97 £50,000 +5.26% 35
Yorkshire -16 90 £50,000 -4.76% 27
North East +3 20 £57,500 +47.56% 7
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 (8.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) IIS
3 3 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 87 (42.03%) Azure
2 40 (19.32%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (18.36%) AWS
4 35 (16.91%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.28%) IaaS
6 11 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (4.83%) GCP
8 9 (4.35%) SaaS
9 6 (2.90%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.90%) GitHub
9 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.90%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.42%) OCI
10 5 (2.42%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.04%) DNS
2 26 (12.56%) Firewall
3 19 (9.18%) DHCP
4 18 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 16 (7.73%) VPN
6 14 (6.76%) VLAN
7 8 (3.86%) DMZ
7 8 (3.86%) SSL
7 8 (3.86%) WAN
8 6 (2.90%) LAN
8 6 (2.90%) VoIP
9 5 (2.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.42%) STUN
10 4 (1.93%) NAS
11 3 (1.45%) HTTP
11 3 (1.45%) SAN
12 2 (0.97%) Network Security
12 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.48%) SSH
13 1 (0.48%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.42%) MySQL
4 3 (1.45%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (8.21%) GitLab
2 13 (6.28%) Git
3 5 (2.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.97%) JMeter
5 2 (0.97%) Locust
General
1 39 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.42%) Legal
6 4 (1.93%) Finance
6 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.45%) Banking
7 3 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.97%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 152 (73.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (16.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (15.46%) Senior
4 29 (14.01%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (14.01%) Infrastructure Support
4 29 (14.01%) Lead
5 27 (13.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 22 (10.63%) IT Engineer
8 20 (9.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 20 (9.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (9.66%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 18 (8.70%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (7.25%) IT Support
11 14 (6.76%) 3rd Line Support
12 13 (6.28%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 13 (6.28%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 12 (5.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.90%) OLE
2 5 (2.42%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.45%) DPDK
3 3 (1.45%) eBPF
3 3 (1.45%) RESTful
4 2 (0.97%) .NET
4 2 (0.97%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.97%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.97%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.97%) Middleware
4 2 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.97%) WCF
5 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.48%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.48%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.48%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.76%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.90%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.42%) CCTV
5 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.45%) CMDB
7 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.97%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.48%) Clustering
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.48%) NVMe
9 1 (0.48%) Replication
9 1 (0.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.74%) Windows
2 35 (16.91%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.21%) Linux
4 7 (3.38%) Android
4 7 (3.38%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.42%) Debian
6 3 (1.45%) VMS
6 3 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.97%) Unix
8 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (16.91%) CI/CD
3 35 (16.91%) Mentoring
4 32 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (14.49%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (13.53%) DevOps
7 24 (11.59%) Agile
8 23 (11.11%) Incident Management
9 22 (10.63%) Coaching
10 21 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (8.21%) ITIL
12 16 (7.73%) Containerisation
12 16 (7.73%) Customer Service
13 12 (5.80%) Cloud Security
13 12 (5.80%) Migration
14 11 (5.31%) Data Protection
14 11 (5.31%) High Availability
14 11 (5.31%) Roadmaps
14 11 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.91%) PowerShell
2 25 (12.08%) SQL
3 22 (10.63%) Bash
4 16 (7.73%) Python
5 9 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.42%) Java
7 3 (1.45%) Go
8 2 (0.97%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (7.25%) Azure Certification
2 13 (6.28%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.31%) Degree
4 7 (3.38%) CCNA
4 7 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.90%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.48%) MCSA
7 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.97%) QA
2 2 (0.97%) WCAG
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (24.64%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.21%) Docker
3 12 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.42%) vSphere
7 4 (1.93%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.93%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.45%) KVM
8 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.45%) QEMU
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.48%) Firmware
10 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.48%) XenApp
10 1 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (16.43%) Kubernetes
1 34 (16.43%) Terraform
2 27 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (9.18%) Ansible
4 8 (3.86%) Grafana
5 6 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.42%) Autotask
6 5 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.45%) Rancher
8 2 (0.97%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.97%) VxRail
8 2 (0.97%) WSUS
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Kibana
9 1 (0.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.04%) VMware
3 14 (6.76%) Cisco
4 11 (5.31%) Citrix
5 8 (3.86%) Apple
6 7 (3.38%) Samsung
7 6 (2.90%) Google
8 5 (2.42%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.93%) Commvault
9 4 (1.93%) IFS
9 4 (1.93%) Oracle
10 3 (1.45%) Dell
10 3 (1.45%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.45%) HP
10 3 (1.45%) Meraki
10 3 (1.45%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.45%) Veeam
10 3 (1.45%) Zerto
11 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.97%) Splunk