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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 61 46
Rank change year-on-year -15 -15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 397 455 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.96% 5.39% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 5.79% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 326 160 629
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 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £58,750
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 14,027 7,854 15,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.43% 93.02% 79.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,452 3,734 11,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,963 £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 £79,250
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 23 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 23 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 -21 223 £47,500 -9.52% 58
Yorkshire +32 136 £50,000 -21.57% 26
North East -29 38 £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 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.76%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 145 (36.52%) Azure
2 68 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (11.34%) Entra ID
4 44 (11.08%) AWS
5 13 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (3.27%) OCI
6 10 (2.52%) GitHub
7 9 (2.27%) IaaS
8 8 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.51%) SaaS
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.26%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.01%) GCP
12 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.01%) PaaS
13 3 (0.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.86%) Firewall
2 45 (11.34%) DNS
3 38 (9.57%) DHCP
4 23 (5.79%) TCP/IP
5 22 (5.54%) Network Security
6 21 (5.29%) LAN
6 21 (5.29%) SAN
6 21 (5.29%) VPN
7 19 (4.79%) WAN
8 18 (4.53%) VLAN
9 9 (2.27%) VoIP
10 7 (1.76%) NAS
10 7 (1.76%) NGFW
11 6 (1.51%) BGP
11 6 (1.51%) OSPF
12 5 (1.26%) DMZ
12 5 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.26%) STUN
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (1.01%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.01%) 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 6 (1.51%) GitLab
2 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.76%) Git
4 2 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.25%) JIRA
5 1 (0.25%) JMeter
5 1 (0.25%) Locust
5 1 (0.25%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (12.09%) Social Skills
2 21 (5.29%) Public Sector
3 17 (4.28%) Finance
4 12 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.51%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.01%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.76%) Legal
9 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.50%) Law
9 2 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.25%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.25%) Games
10 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 292 (73.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 91 (22.92%) Senior
3 75 (18.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (10.58%) IT Engineer
5 37 (9.32%) Support Engineer
6 34 (8.56%) Infrastructure Support
7 33 (8.31%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 33 (8.31%) Security Engineer
8 30 (7.56%) IT Support
9 29 (7.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (6.05%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 22 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.54%) IT Support Engineer
12 20 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.79%) Analyst
14 18 (4.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (4.03%) Administrator
15 16 (4.03%) Network Analyst
15 16 (4.03%) Network Security Analyst
15 16 (4.03%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.26%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (0.76%) .NET
2 3 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.76%) Kafka
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.50%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.50%) Middleware
3 2 (0.50%) Web Services
4 1 (0.25%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.25%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.25%) OAuth
4 1 (0.25%) OpenID
4 1 (0.25%) RESTful
4 1 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.55%) Driving Licence
2 23 (5.79%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.53%) CCTV
4 13 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.26%) Clustering
8 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.26%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.01%) Replication
10 3 (0.76%) CMDB
10 3 (0.76%) 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 90 (22.67%) Windows
2 67 (16.88%) Windows Server
3 26 (6.55%) Linux
4 13 (3.27%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.76%) Android
5 7 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.76%) Debian
5 7 (1.76%) VMS
6 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
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 56 (14.11%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (12.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 41 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (8.31%) CI/CD
5 33 (8.31%) Migration
6 32 (8.06%) Mentoring
7 31 (7.81%) DevOps
8 30 (7.56%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (6.30%) Incident Management
10 22 (5.54%) Coaching
10 22 (5.54%) ITIL
11 20 (5.04%) Project Delivery
12 19 (4.79%) High Availability
13 18 (4.53%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (4.28%) Business Continuity
15 16 (4.03%) Observability
16 15 (3.78%) Cloud Security
17 14 (3.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 67 (16.88%) PowerShell
2 28 (7.05%) Bash
3 23 (5.79%) SQL
4 18 (4.53%) Python
5 10 (2.52%) Bicep
6 6 (1.51%) 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 24 (6.05%) SC Cleared
1 24 (6.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.78%) Azure Certification
3 11 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.76%) CCNA
5 7 (1.76%) MCSA
6 6 (1.51%) Degree
7 5 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.01%) CCNP
9 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.76%) NIST
4 3 (0.76%) 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 88 (22.17%) Active Directory
2 43 (10.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (7.05%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.03%) Docker
5 9 (2.27%) vSphere
6 7 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.51%) BitLocker
8 5 (1.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.76%) Firmware
10 3 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.50%) iptables
11 2 (0.50%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (9.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.30%) Terraform
4 13 (3.27%) Ansible
5 7 (1.76%) SCCM
6 6 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.51%) VxRail
6 6 (1.51%) WSUS
7 5 (1.26%) Argo
8 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (1.01%) Puppet
9 3 (0.76%) Grafana
9 3 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.25%) Podman
11 1 (0.25%) Rancher
11 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (27.71%) Microsoft
2 72 (18.14%) VMware
3 32 (8.06%) Cisco
4 14 (3.53%) Veeam
5 12 (3.02%) HP
6 11 (2.77%) Oracle
7 10 (2.52%) Citrix
7 10 (2.52%) Commvault
8 9 (2.27%) Apple
8 9 (2.27%) Dell
8 9 (2.27%) Meraki
9 7 (1.76%) Zerto
10 6 (1.51%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.51%) Samsung
10 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.51%) Tenable
11 5 (1.26%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.01%) Arista
12 4 (1.01%) Aruba
12 4 (1.01%) F5