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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 58 52
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 427 480 664
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.05% 5.09% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 5.63% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 353 175 550
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.65% -1.58%
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% -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 14,630 8,532 14,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.21% 90.53% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10,960 4,226 10,745
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,803 £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 £71,235 £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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -24 242 £47,500 -11.63% 46
Yorkshire +21 138 £50,000 -23.08% 36
North East -26 47 £45,000 -13.46% 17
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 20 (4.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.64%) IIS
4 2 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.47%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.47%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 147 (34.43%) Azure
2 70 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (11.01%) AWS
4 46 (10.77%) Entra ID
5 18 (4.22%) OCI
6 10 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (2.34%) GitHub
6 10 (2.34%) IaaS
7 8 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.41%) SaaS
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.17%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.17%) PaaS
10 5 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) GCP
11 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 67 (15.69%) Firewall
2 43 (10.07%) DNS
3 36 (8.43%) DHCP
4 28 (6.56%) TCP/IP
5 24 (5.62%) LAN
5 24 (5.62%) WAN
6 23 (5.39%) Network Security
7 22 (5.15%) SAN
8 21 (4.92%) VPN
9 18 (4.22%) VLAN
10 12 (2.81%) VoIP
11 9 (2.11%) Wireless
12 8 (1.87%) BGP
13 7 (1.64%) DMZ
13 7 (1.64%) NAS
13 7 (1.64%) NGFW
14 6 (1.41%) OSPF
15 5 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (1.17%) SD-WAN
15 5 (1.17%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.23%) MySQL
4 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (0.94%) GitLab
3 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.70%) Git
3 3 (0.70%) JIRA
4 2 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.23%) JMeter
5 1 (0.23%) Locust
5 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (12.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (5.62%) Public Sector
3 19 (4.45%) Finance
4 10 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.41%) Telecoms
7 4 (0.94%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (0.94%) Local Government
8 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.47%) Law
8 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.23%) Games
9 1 (0.23%) Legal
9 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.23%) Retail
9 1 (0.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 305 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (22.25%) Senior
3 78 (18.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (10.54%) IT Engineer
5 36 (8.43%) Support Engineer
6 33 (7.73%) IT Support
7 30 (7.03%) Infrastructure Support
7 30 (7.03%) Security Engineer
8 29 (6.79%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 29 (6.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.85%) IT Support Engineer
12 23 (5.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (4.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 19 (4.45%) Analyst
15 18 (4.22%) Administrator
16 17 (3.98%) Design Engineer
16 17 (3.98%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
16 17 (3.98%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.17%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (0.70%) .NET
2 3 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.70%) Kafka
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.47%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.47%) OAuth
3 2 (0.47%) OpenID
3 2 (0.47%) SAML
3 2 (0.47%) Web Services
4 1 (0.23%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.23%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.32%) Driving Licence
2 25 (5.85%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.51%) CCTV
4 13 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.17%) Clustering
11 4 (0.94%) Replication
12 3 (0.70%) Social Media
13 2 (0.47%) CMDB
13 2 (0.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
14 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.23%) PKI
14 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 94 (22.01%) Windows
2 71 (16.63%) Windows Server
3 38 (8.90%) Linux
4 13 (3.04%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.64%) Android
5 7 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.64%) Debian
5 7 (1.64%) VMS
6 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.23%) Solaris
9 1 (0.23%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (10.07%) Disaster Recovery
5 40 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (8.67%) Migration
8 33 (7.73%) CI/CD
8 33 (7.73%) Mentoring
9 31 (7.26%) DevOps
10 24 (5.62%) ITIL
11 23 (5.39%) Coaching
12 22 (5.15%) Incident Management
13 21 (4.92%) Project Delivery
14 20 (4.68%) High Availability
15 19 (4.45%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (3.98%) Business Continuity
17 16 (3.75%) Observability
18 15 (3.51%) Cloud Security
18 15 (3.51%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 28 (6.56%) Bash
3 22 (5.15%) Python
3 22 (5.15%) SQL
4 12 (2.81%) Bicep
5 6 (1.41%) VBScript
6 3 (0.70%) Go
7 2 (0.47%) Groovy
7 2 (0.47%) Java
7 2 (0.47%) VB
8 1 (0.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (5.85%) SC Cleared
1 25 (5.85%) Security Cleared
2 16 (3.75%) Azure Certification
3 13 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (2.34%) CCNA
5 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.64%) MCSA
7 5 (1.17%) CCNP
7 5 (1.17%) Degree
7 5 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.47%) CCIE
9 2 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.70%) NIST
4 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) QA
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (20.61%) Active Directory
2 46 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (7.49%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.75%) Docker
5 11 (2.58%) vSphere
6 6 (1.41%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.17%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.94%) Firmware
8 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.47%) iptables
10 2 (0.47%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.23%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (7.03%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.79%) Terraform
4 15 (3.51%) Ansible
5 7 (1.64%) SCCM
6 6 (1.41%) Puppet
6 6 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.41%) VxRail
6 6 (1.41%) WSUS
7 5 (1.17%) Argo
8 4 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.70%) Grafana
10 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.23%) Nessus
11 1 (0.23%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 72 (16.86%) VMware
3 36 (8.43%) Cisco
4 15 (3.51%) Oracle
4 15 (3.51%) Veeam
5 12 (2.81%) HP
6 10 (2.34%) Apple
6 10 (2.34%) Citrix
6 10 (2.34%) Commvault
7 9 (2.11%) Dell
7 9 (2.11%) Meraki
8 7 (1.64%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.64%) Zerto
9 6 (1.41%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.41%) F5
9 6 (1.41%) Samsung
9 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.41%) Tenable
10 4 (0.94%) Arista
10 4 (0.94%) Aruba