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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 67 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +27 +28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 415 367 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.22% 2.97% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 3.68% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 131 260 214
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £40,625 £40,750 £38,870
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £67,968 £72,378
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +2.86%

All Process and 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 8,351 9,969 7,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.99% 80.58% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,576 4,702 5,530
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,450 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,469 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +32 342 £53,750 +16.85% 62
Yorkshire -43 51 £65,000 +41.30% 33
North East +7 22 £59,500 +32.22% 13
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 12 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.20%) IIS
4 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) AutoCAD
1 6 (1.45%) Civil 3D
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.73%) Azure
2 23 (5.54%) AWS
2 23 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (3.13%) IaaS
4 12 (2.89%) Entra ID
5 8 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (1.93%) SaaS
6 7 (1.69%) GCP
7 6 (1.45%) GitHub
7 6 (1.45%) PaaS
8 5 (1.20%) Azure AKS
8 5 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (0.96%) Serverless
10 3 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.72%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.72%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.48%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 271 (65.30%) VPN
2 251 (60.48%) Cisco IOS
3 22 (5.30%) Firewall
4 18 (4.34%) DNS
5 17 (4.10%) DHCP
6 16 (3.86%) VLAN
7 12 (2.89%) TCP/IP
7 12 (2.89%) TETRA
8 7 (1.69%) SSL
8 7 (1.69%) WAN
9 5 (1.20%) DMZ
9 5 (1.20%) LAN
9 5 (1.20%) STUN
9 5 (1.20%) VoIP
10 3 (0.72%) Network Security
11 2 (0.48%) HTTP
12 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.24%) SAN
12 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.48%) Data Hub
2 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.48%) MySQL
2 2 (0.48%) SQL CLR
3 1 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.24%) Power BI
3 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.45%) GitLab
2 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.48%) Git
2 2 (0.48%) JMeter
2 2 (0.48%) Locust
General
1 261 (62.89%) Analytical Skills
2 251 (60.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (6.99%) Social Skills
4 13 (3.13%) Finance
5 7 (1.69%) Legal
5 7 (1.69%) Local Government
6 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.20%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.20%) Military
7 5 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.72%) Banking
9 2 (0.48%) Back Office
9 2 (0.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.24%) Advertising
10 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.24%) Law
10 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 367 (88.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 45 (10.84%) Senior
3 41 (9.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (5.30%) Lead
6 21 (5.06%) Support Engineer
7 19 (4.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (4.34%) Infrastructure Support
8 18 (4.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 16 (3.86%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (3.13%) Applications Support
11 12 (2.89%) Design Engineer
11 12 (2.89%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
11 12 (2.89%) Senior Design Engineer
12 11 (2.65%) Civil Engineer
13 10 (2.41%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 10 (2.41%) Network Engineer
14 9 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (60.48%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.65%) OLE
3 6 (1.45%) .NET
4 5 (1.20%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.20%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.96%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.72%) DPDK
6 3 (0.72%) eBPF
7 2 (0.48%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.48%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (0.48%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.48%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.48%) WCF
7 2 (0.48%) YAML
8 1 (0.24%) Middleware
8 1 (0.24%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.24%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.24%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 251 (60.48%) Cyberattack
2 16 (3.86%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.13%) Driving Licence
4 12 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.45%) NHS
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.72%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.24%) Clustering
9 1 (0.24%) NVMe
9 1 (0.24%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.24%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 295 (71.08%) Windows
2 281 (67.71%) Linux
3 252 (60.72%) Android
4 37 (8.92%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.20%) Debian
6 5 (1.20%) Unix
6 5 (1.20%) VMS
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.72%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (67.23%) DevOps
2 271 (65.30%) Problem-Solving
3 259 (62.41%) Storage Management
4 257 (61.93%) Platform Engineering
5 256 (61.69%) Line Management
6 253 (60.96%) Task Automation
7 252 (60.72%) Risk Management
8 251 (60.48%) Mathematics
9 26 (6.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (5.54%) CI/CD
11 22 (5.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (5.06%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (4.82%) Mentoring
14 15 (3.61%) Agile
14 15 (3.61%) Containerisation
15 14 (3.37%) Disaster Recovery
15 14 (3.37%) Incident Response
16 13 (3.13%) Customer Service
17 12 (2.89%) High Availability
18 10 (2.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 278 (66.99%) PowerShell
2 269 (64.82%) Python
3 258 (62.17%) Bash
4 19 (4.58%) SQL
5 7 (1.69%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.96%) Bicep
6 4 (0.96%) C#
7 2 (0.48%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (3.86%) Degree
2 13 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.89%) CCNA
3 12 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
6 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.96%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.72%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) CEH
11 1 (0.24%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) GCIA
11 1 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.45%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.20%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.72%) GDPR
4 3 (0.72%) NIST
5 2 (0.48%) QA
5 2 (0.48%) WCAG
6 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 266 (64.10%) Docker
2 265 (63.86%) Hyper-V
3 259 (62.41%) vSphere
4 253 (60.96%) VMware NSX
5 29 (6.99%) Active Directory
6 16 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.20%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.72%) KVM
9 3 (0.72%) QEMU
10 1 (0.24%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.24%) Postfix
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 276 (66.51%) Terraform
2 272 (65.54%) Ansible
3 36 (8.67%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.93%) Grafana
6 7 (1.69%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.20%) Autotask
8 5 (1.20%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (1.20%) SCCM
8 5 (1.20%) SCOM
8 5 (1.20%) WSUS
9 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 268 (64.58%) Cisco
2 252 (60.72%) Splunk
3 251 (60.48%) 3PAR
3 251 (60.48%) Juniper
4 54 (13.01%) Microsoft
5 22 (5.30%) VMware
6 8 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.45%) Oracle
8 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.96%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.72%) Citrix
10 3 (0.72%) Google
10 3 (0.72%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.48%) Rapid7
12 1 (0.24%) Apple
12 1 (0.24%) Aruba
12 1 (0.24%) LogRhythm
12 1 (0.24%) Meraki
12 1 (0.24%) New Relic
12 1 (0.24%) Proofpoint