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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 62 53
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 444 470 592
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.11% 4.98% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 5.52% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 368 167 483
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,800 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
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 14,799 8,508 13,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.20% 90.06% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 4,241 9,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £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 23 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 23 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 -19 248 £47,500 -11.63% 44
Yorkshire +30 143 £50,750 -21.92% 38
North East -24 53 £45,000 -13.46% 14
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 22 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.58%) IIS
4 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.68%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 151 (34.01%) Azure
2 75 (16.89%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (11.04%) Entra ID
4 48 (10.81%) AWS
5 16 (3.60%) OCI
6 13 (2.93%) IaaS
7 10 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (2.25%) GitHub
8 9 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (2.03%) SaaS
9 8 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.13%) PaaS
12 4 (0.90%) Azure AKS
12 4 (0.90%) GCP
12 4 (0.90%) Mimecast
12 4 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (15.77%) Firewall
2 45 (10.14%) DNS
3 38 (8.56%) DHCP
4 29 (6.53%) TCP/IP
5 27 (6.08%) WAN
6 25 (5.63%) LAN
7 23 (5.18%) Network Security
7 23 (5.18%) SAN
8 20 (4.50%) VPN
9 17 (3.83%) VLAN
10 13 (2.93%) VoIP
11 12 (2.70%) Wireless
12 8 (1.80%) BGP
12 8 (1.80%) NAS
13 7 (1.58%) NGFW
13 7 (1.58%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.35%) DMZ
14 6 (1.35%) OSPF
15 4 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
15 4 (0.90%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (2.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (0.68%) Git
2 3 (0.68%) GitLab
2 3 (0.68%) JIRA
3 2 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.23%) JMeter
4 1 (0.23%) Locust
4 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (11.49%) Social Skills
2 25 (5.63%) Public Sector
3 19 (4.28%) Finance
4 12 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.13%) Law
8 5 (1.13%) Local Government
9 4 (0.90%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (0.68%) Legal
11 2 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.23%) Games
12 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.23%) Retail
12 1 (0.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 312 (70.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (21.40%) Senior
3 79 (17.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (10.14%) IT Engineer
5 36 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 33 (7.43%) IT Support
7 29 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (6.53%) Security Engineer
8 28 (6.31%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 27 (6.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (6.08%) IT Support Engineer
10 26 (5.86%) Infrastructure Support
11 25 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (4.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (4.73%) Administrator
13 21 (4.73%) Analyst
14 18 (4.05%) Design Engineer
14 18 (4.05%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
14 18 (4.05%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 17 (3.83%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.35%) SAML
2 4 (0.90%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (0.90%) OAuth
2 4 (0.90%) OpenID
3 3 (0.68%) .NET
3 3 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.68%) Kafka
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.68%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.45%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.45%) Web Services
5 1 (0.23%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.23%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.86%) Driving Licence
2 25 (5.63%) Data Centre
3 17 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (3.38%) CCTV
5 11 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.35%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.13%) Clustering
9 5 (1.13%) Replication
10 3 (0.68%) PKI
10 3 (0.68%) Social Media
11 2 (0.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.23%) CMDB
12 1 (0.23%) Housing Association
12 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 98 (22.07%) Windows
2 76 (17.12%) Windows Server
3 40 (9.01%) Linux
4 13 (2.93%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.80%) VMS
6 7 (1.58%) Android
6 7 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.35%) Debian
8 5 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.23%) Solaris
11 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (9.91%) Disaster Recovery
4 43 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (9.46%) Migration
6 38 (8.56%) Platform Engineering
7 36 (8.11%) CI/CD
8 33 (7.43%) DevOps
9 31 (6.98%) Mentoring
10 28 (6.31%) ITIL
11 25 (5.63%) Project Delivery
12 23 (5.18%) Coaching
13 22 (4.95%) High Availability
14 19 (4.28%) Incident Management
14 19 (4.28%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (4.05%) Cloud Security
15 18 (4.05%) Identity Access Management
16 17 (3.83%) Identity Management
16 17 (3.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.19%) PowerShell
2 31 (6.98%) Bash
3 26 (5.86%) Python
4 20 (4.50%) SQL
5 12 (2.70%) Bicep
6 6 (1.35%) VBScript
7 3 (0.68%) Go
8 2 (0.45%) Groovy
8 2 (0.45%) VB
9 1 (0.23%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (6.08%) SC Cleared
1 27 (6.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (4.05%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (2.48%) CCNA
5 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.58%) MCSA
7 5 (1.13%) CCNP
7 5 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (0.90%) Degree
9 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) CCIE
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.68%) NIST
4 3 (0.68%) SLA
4 3 (0.68%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) QA
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (20.27%) Active Directory
2 50 (11.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (8.56%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.05%) Docker
5 12 (2.70%) vSphere
6 7 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.35%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.90%) Firmware
8 4 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.45%) iptables
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.23%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (9.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (7.43%) Terraform
3 30 (6.76%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.60%) Ansible
5 8 (1.80%) SCCM
6 7 (1.58%) Puppet
6 7 (1.58%) WSUS
7 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.35%) VxRail
8 5 (1.13%) Argo
9 4 (0.90%) Grafana
9 4 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.45%) Nessus
11 2 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.23%) Avamar
Vendors
1 119 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 75 (16.89%) VMware
3 37 (8.33%) Cisco
4 17 (3.83%) Veeam
5 14 (3.15%) Oracle
6 12 (2.70%) Apple
6 12 (2.70%) HP
7 11 (2.48%) Meraki
8 10 (2.25%) Commvault
8 10 (2.25%) Dell
9 8 (1.80%) Citrix
9 8 (1.80%) Zerto
10 7 (1.58%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.35%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.35%) F5
11 6 (1.35%) Samsung
11 6 (1.35%) Tenable
12 5 (1.13%) Google
13 4 (0.90%) Aruba