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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 81 46
Rank change year-on-year -24 -35 -1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 236 214 654
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.61% 3.22% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.39% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 212 189 561
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% -2.06%
75th Percentile £69,390 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 11,070 6,313 12,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.48% 95.00% 84.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6,468 3,622 10,167
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £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 £65,603
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 21 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 21 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 -34 113 £50,000 +5.26% 43
Yorkshire -11 100 £50,000 -4.76% 33
North East -9 23 £50,000 +25.00% 9
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 19 (8.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 96 (40.68%) Azure
2 47 (19.92%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (17.80%) AWS
4 36 (15.25%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (4.24%) IaaS
7 9 (3.81%) GCP
7 9 (3.81%) SaaS
8 8 (3.39%) OCI
9 7 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.97%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.97%) GitHub
9 7 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.54%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.54%) Google Workspace
10 6 (2.54%) OneDrive
11 5 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.12%) PaaS
12 4 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.29%) DNS
2 28 (11.86%) Firewall
3 21 (8.90%) DHCP
4 17 (7.20%) TCP/IP
5 15 (6.36%) VLAN
6 13 (5.51%) VPN
7 11 (4.66%) WAN
8 10 (4.24%) Network Security
9 9 (3.81%) LAN
9 9 (3.81%) VoIP
10 8 (3.39%) DMZ
11 5 (2.12%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (2.12%) STUN
12 4 (1.69%) NAS
12 4 (1.69%) SAN
13 3 (1.27%) SSL
14 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
15 1 (0.42%) FTP
15 1 (0.42%) HTTP
15 1 (0.42%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.54%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.12%) MySQL
4 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (7.20%) GitLab
2 13 (5.51%) Git
3 5 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.85%) JMeter
5 2 (0.85%) Locust
General
1 38 (16.10%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.12%) Legal
6 4 (1.69%) Finance
6 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.42%) Banking
9 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.42%) Law
9 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 175 (74.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (16.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (14.83%) Senior
4 33 (13.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (13.56%) Lead
6 31 (13.14%) Infrastructure Support
7 29 (12.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (11.02%) Support Engineer
9 24 (10.17%) IT Engineer
10 23 (9.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 21 (8.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 21 (8.90%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (8.47%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (7.63%) IT Support
14 16 (6.78%) Analyst
15 14 (5.93%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
15 14 (5.93%) Security Engineer
16 13 (5.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 13 (5.51%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.54%) OLE
2 5 (2.12%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.27%) RESTful
4 2 (0.85%) .NET
4 2 (0.85%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.85%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.85%) Middleware
4 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.85%) WCF
5 1 (0.42%) DPDK
5 1 (0.42%) eBPF
5 1 (0.42%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.42%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.42%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.24%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.81%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.39%) Driving Licence
3 8 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.12%) CCTV
4 5 (2.12%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.12%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.69%) Social Media
6 3 (1.27%) CMDB
7 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Replication
8 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.42%) Clustering
8 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.42%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.88%) Windows
2 40 (16.95%) Windows Server
3 18 (7.63%) Linux
4 8 (3.39%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.97%) Android
5 7 (2.97%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.12%) Debian
6 5 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.27%) VMS
8 2 (0.85%) Unix
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (14.83%) Mentoring
4 34 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (13.98%) CI/CD
6 32 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (13.14%) DevOps
7 31 (13.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (10.59%) Incident Management
9 23 (9.75%) Agile
10 22 (9.32%) Coaching
11 21 (8.90%) ITIL
12 16 (6.78%) Containerisation
13 14 (5.93%) Cloud Security
13 14 (5.93%) Migration
13 14 (5.93%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (5.51%) Customer Service
14 13 (5.51%) Observability
15 12 (5.08%) High Availability
15 12 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (16.10%) PowerShell
2 24 (10.17%) Bash
3 22 (9.32%) SQL
4 15 (6.36%) Python
5 6 (2.54%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.12%) Java
7 3 (1.27%) Go
8 2 (0.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (6.36%) Azure Certification
2 13 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.66%) Degree
4 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.97%) CCNA
5 7 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.97%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.54%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.69%) MCSA
9 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (23.73%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.63%) Docker
3 16 (6.78%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.54%) vSphere
6 5 (2.12%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.42%) Firmware
9 1 (0.42%) KVM
9 1 (0.42%) QEMU
9 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.42%) XenApp
9 1 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (14.41%) Terraform
2 33 (13.98%) Kubernetes
3 30 (12.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (7.20%) Ansible
5 8 (3.39%) Grafana
6 6 (2.54%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.12%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.27%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.27%) Rancher
9 2 (0.85%) Argo
9 2 (0.85%) Autotask
9 2 (0.85%) VxRail
9 2 (0.85%) WSUS
10 1 (0.42%) Kibana
10 1 (0.42%) SCCM
10 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.25%) VMware
3 18 (7.63%) Cisco
4 12 (5.08%) Citrix
5 11 (4.66%) Apple
6 7 (2.97%) Oracle
6 7 (2.97%) Samsung
7 6 (2.54%) Google
7 6 (2.54%) Meraki
8 5 (2.12%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.69%) Commvault
9 4 (1.69%) IFS
9 4 (1.69%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.69%) Veeam
10 3 (1.27%) Dell
10 3 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.27%) HP
10 3 (1.27%) Zerto
11 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.85%) Splunk