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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 79 45
Rank change year-on-year -29 -34 +8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 225 220 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.59% 3.20% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.36% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 204 188 561
10th Percentile £34,550 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £69,390 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,886 £70,000
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 10,770 6,543 12,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.91% 95.16% 85.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,258 3,564 10,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,325 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,973 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,033
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 13 March 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 March 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 -33 107 £50,000 +5.26% 39
Yorkshire -22 97 £50,000 -4.76% 37
North East -11 21 £57,500 +43.75% 8
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 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 92 (40.89%) Azure
2 43 (19.11%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (17.78%) AWS
4 35 (15.56%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (4.89%) IaaS
6 9 (4.00%) GCP
6 9 (4.00%) SaaS
7 8 (3.56%) OCI
8 7 (3.11%) GitHub
8 7 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.67%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.67%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.67%) Google Workspace
9 6 (2.67%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.22%) PaaS
11 4 (1.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.00%) DNS
2 26 (11.56%) Firewall
3 19 (8.44%) DHCP
4 18 (8.00%) TCP/IP
5 15 (6.67%) VLAN
6 13 (5.78%) VPN
7 9 (4.00%) Network Security
7 9 (4.00%) WAN
8 8 (3.56%) DMZ
8 8 (3.56%) VoIP
9 7 (3.11%) LAN
10 5 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.22%) STUN
11 4 (1.78%) NAS
11 4 (1.78%) SAN
11 4 (1.78%) SSL
12 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
13 1 (0.44%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.44%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.22%) MySQL
4 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (7.56%) GitLab
2 13 (5.78%) Git
3 5 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.89%) JMeter
5 2 (0.89%) Locust
General
1 39 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.22%) Legal
6 4 (1.78%) Finance
6 4 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.44%) Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 165 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (17.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 33 (14.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (14.22%) Lead
4 32 (14.22%) Senior
5 30 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 27 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (10.67%) Support Engineer
8 23 (10.22%) IT Engineer
8 23 (10.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 21 (9.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 20 (8.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (7.56%) IT Support
12 16 (7.11%) Analyst
13 13 (5.78%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 13 (5.78%) Security Engineer
14 12 (5.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 12 (5.33%) 3rd Line Support
14 12 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.67%) OLE
2 5 (2.22%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.33%) RESTful
4 2 (0.89%) .NET
4 2 (0.89%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.89%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.89%) Middleware
4 2 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.89%) WCF
5 1 (0.44%) DPDK
5 1 (0.44%) eBPF
5 1 (0.44%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.44%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.44%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.11%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.22%) CCTV
4 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.33%) CMDB
5 3 (1.33%) Social Media
6 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.89%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.89%) Replication
7 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.44%) Clustering
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.44%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.22%) Windows
2 38 (16.89%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.11%) Linux
4 7 (3.11%) Android
4 7 (3.11%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.22%) Debian
7 4 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.33%) VMS
9 2 (0.89%) Unix
10 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (15.56%) Mentoring
4 32 (14.22%) CI/CD
5 31 (13.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (12.89%) DevOps
8 24 (10.67%) Incident Management
9 23 (10.22%) Agile
10 22 (9.78%) Coaching
11 20 (8.89%) ITIL
12 15 (6.67%) Containerisation
13 14 (6.22%) Customer Service
14 13 (5.78%) Cloud Security
15 12 (5.33%) Migration
15 12 (5.33%) Observability
15 12 (5.33%) Platform Engineering
16 11 (4.89%) High Availability
16 11 (4.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 23 (10.22%) Bash
2 23 (10.22%) SQL
3 15 (6.67%) Python
4 7 (3.11%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.22%) Java
6 3 (1.33%) Go
7 2 (0.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 13 (5.78%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.89%) Degree
4 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.11%) CCNA
5 7 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.11%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.67%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.33%) MCSA
9 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.89%) QA
3 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (23.56%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.56%) Docker
3 13 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.33%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.22%) vSphere
7 4 (1.78%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.44%) Firmware
10 1 (0.44%) KVM
10 1 (0.44%) QEMU
10 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.44%) XenApp
10 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (14.67%) Terraform
2 32 (14.22%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (7.11%) Ansible
5 8 (3.56%) Grafana
6 6 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.33%) Autotask
9 3 (1.33%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.33%) Rancher
10 2 (0.89%) Argo
10 2 (0.89%) VxRail
10 2 (0.89%) WSUS
11 1 (0.44%) Kibana
11 1 (0.44%) SCCM
11 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (29.78%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.78%) VMware
3 17 (7.56%) Cisco
4 12 (5.33%) Citrix
5 10 (4.44%) Apple
6 7 (3.11%) Oracle
6 7 (3.11%) Samsung
7 6 (2.67%) Google
8 5 (2.22%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.22%) Meraki
9 4 (1.78%) Commvault
9 4 (1.78%) IFS
9 4 (1.78%) Veeam
10 3 (1.33%) Dell
10 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.33%) HP
10 3 (1.33%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (1.33%) Zerto
11 2 (0.89%) BMC
11 2 (0.89%) Splunk