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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 56 51
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 -27
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 403 461 719
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.97% 5.26% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 5.71% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 330 164 598
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -3.16%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -5.21%

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 14,254 8,078 15,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.75% 92.13% 79.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,646 3,863 11,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 June 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 June 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 -23 228 £47,500 -11.63% 56
Yorkshire +28 136 £50,750 -21.92% 29
North East -27 39 £45,000 -13.46% 16
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 21 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.74%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 145 (35.98%) Azure
2 68 (16.87%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (11.41%) AWS
4 44 (10.92%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.97%) OCI
6 12 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (2.48%) GitHub
7 10 (2.48%) IaaS
8 8 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.49%) SaaS
11 5 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.24%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.24%) PaaS
11 5 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.74%) GCP
13 3 (0.74%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 61 (15.14%) Firewall
2 43 (10.67%) DNS
3 36 (8.93%) DHCP
4 24 (5.96%) TCP/IP
5 23 (5.71%) Network Security
6 22 (5.46%) LAN
6 22 (5.46%) SAN
7 20 (4.96%) VPN
7 20 (4.96%) WAN
8 18 (4.47%) VLAN
9 10 (2.48%) VoIP
10 7 (1.74%) NAS
10 7 (1.74%) NGFW
11 6 (1.49%) BGP
11 6 (1.49%) OSPF
12 5 (1.24%) DMZ
12 5 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.24%) STUN
12 5 (1.24%) Wireless
13 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.24%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.25%) MySQL
5 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.24%) GitLab
1 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.74%) Git
3 2 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.25%) JIRA
4 1 (0.25%) JMeter
4 1 (0.25%) Locust
4 1 (0.25%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 21 (5.21%) Public Sector
3 17 (4.22%) Finance
4 11 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (0.99%) Fire and Rescue
8 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.50%) Law
9 2 (0.50%) Legal
9 2 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.25%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.25%) Games
10 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Retail
10 1 (0.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 293 (72.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 91 (22.58%) Senior
3 75 (18.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (10.42%) IT Engineer
5 37 (9.18%) Support Engineer
6 33 (8.19%) Infrastructure Support
6 33 (8.19%) Security Engineer
7 32 (7.94%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 31 (7.69%) IT Support
9 28 (6.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 23 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
11 23 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.71%) Analyst
14 16 (3.97%) Administrator
14 16 (3.97%) Network Analyst
14 16 (3.97%) Network Security Analyst
14 16 (3.97%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.24%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (0.74%) .NET
2 3 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.74%) Kafka
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.50%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.50%) Web Services
4 1 (0.25%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.25%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.25%) Middleware
4 1 (0.25%) OAuth
4 1 (0.25%) OpenID
4 1 (0.25%) RESTful
4 1 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.95%) Driving Licence
2 23 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.72%) CCTV
4 13 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.24%) Clustering
8 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.99%) Replication
10 3 (0.74%) CMDB
10 3 (0.74%) Social Media
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.25%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.25%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 91 (22.58%) Windows
2 68 (16.87%) Windows Server
3 30 (7.44%) Linux
4 13 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.74%) Android
5 7 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.74%) Debian
5 7 (1.74%) VMS
6 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.50%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (13.65%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (11.66%) Disaster Recovery
3 44 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (8.44%) Migration
6 34 (8.44%) Platform Engineering
7 32 (7.94%) CI/CD
7 32 (7.94%) Mentoring
8 30 (7.44%) DevOps
9 24 (5.96%) Incident Management
10 23 (5.71%) ITIL
11 22 (5.46%) Coaching
12 20 (4.96%) High Availability
12 20 (4.96%) Project Delivery
13 18 (4.47%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (4.22%) Business Continuity
15 15 (3.72%) Cloud Security
15 15 (3.72%) Observability
16 13 (3.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 27 (6.70%) Bash
3 23 (5.71%) SQL
4 18 (4.47%) Python
5 11 (2.73%) Bicep
6 6 (1.49%) VBScript
7 2 (0.50%) Groovy
7 2 (0.50%) Java
7 2 (0.50%) VB
8 1 (0.25%) C#
8 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (6.20%) SC Cleared
1 25 (6.20%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.72%) Azure Certification
3 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (1.99%) CCNA
6 7 (1.74%) MCSA
7 6 (1.49%) Degree
8 5 (1.24%) CCNP
8 5 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.74%) NIST
4 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (21.59%) Active Directory
2 44 (10.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (7.20%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.97%) Docker
5 10 (2.48%) vSphere
6 6 (1.49%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.99%) Firmware
8 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.50%) iptables
10 2 (0.50%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (6.95%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.20%) Terraform
4 13 (3.23%) Ansible
5 7 (1.74%) SCCM
6 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.49%) VxRail
6 6 (1.49%) WSUS
7 5 (1.24%) Argo
7 5 (1.24%) Puppet
8 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.50%) Grafana
10 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.25%) Nessus
11 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.25%) Rancher
11 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 71 (17.62%) VMware
3 33 (8.19%) Cisco
4 14 (3.47%) Oracle
4 14 (3.47%) Veeam
5 12 (2.98%) HP
6 10 (2.48%) Citrix
6 10 (2.48%) Commvault
7 9 (2.23%) Apple
7 9 (2.23%) Dell
7 9 (2.23%) Meraki
8 7 (1.74%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.74%) Zerto
9 6 (1.49%) Samsung
9 6 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.49%) Tenable
10 5 (1.24%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.99%) Arista
11 4 (0.99%) Aruba
11 4 (0.99%) F5