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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 60 57
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -40
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 460 466 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.15% 4.90% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 5.46% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 380 163 406
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,150 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,972 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £66,563 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £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 15,031 8,539 12,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.30% 89.73% 78.55%
Number of salaries quoted 11,244 4,261 8,604
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,495
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

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 30 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 30 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 -17 252 £45,000 -16.28% 50
Yorkshire +38 149 £50,750 -21.92% 33
North East -13 59 £45,000 -15.09% 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 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.43%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.65%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.65%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 150 (32.61%) Azure
2 78 (16.96%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (11.09%) AWS
4 45 (9.78%) Entra ID
5 14 (3.04%) OCI
6 13 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (2.83%) IaaS
7 12 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (2.61%) GitHub
8 11 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (1.96%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (1.96%) SaaS
10 9 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.52%) Serverless
12 6 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 74 (16.09%) Firewall
2 46 (10.00%) DNS
3 39 (8.48%) DHCP
4 30 (6.52%) TCP/IP
5 27 (5.87%) WAN
6 25 (5.43%) LAN
6 25 (5.43%) SAN
7 23 (5.00%) Network Security
8 20 (4.35%) VPN
9 18 (3.91%) VLAN
10 14 (3.04%) VoIP
10 14 (3.04%) Wireless
11 8 (1.74%) BGP
12 7 (1.52%) NAS
12 7 (1.52%) NGFW
12 7 (1.52%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.30%) DMZ
13 6 (1.30%) OSPF
14 4 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (0.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.83%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Git
1 4 (0.87%) Jenkins
1 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (0.65%) GitLab
2 3 (0.65%) JIRA
3 2 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.22%) JMeter
4 1 (0.22%) Locust
4 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (11.96%) Social Skills
2 21 (4.57%) Public Sector
3 19 (4.13%) Finance
4 13 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.52%) Law
7 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.09%) Local Government
9 4 (0.87%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (0.65%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.43%) Games
11 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.22%) Advertising
12 1 (0.22%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 318 (69.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 94 (20.43%) Senior
3 78 (16.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (9.78%) IT Engineer
5 36 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (7.61%) Support Engineer
7 34 (7.39%) IT Support
8 28 (6.09%) IT Support Engineer
8 28 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (6.09%) Security Engineer
9 27 (5.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.87%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 26 (5.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (5.22%) Administrator
11 24 (5.22%) Infrastructure Support
12 21 (4.57%) Analyst
13 19 (4.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.13%) Lead
14 18 (3.91%) Design Engineer
14 18 (3.91%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.30%) SAML
2 4 (0.87%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (0.87%) OAuth
2 4 (0.87%) OpenID
3 3 (0.65%) .NET
3 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.65%) Kafka
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.65%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.43%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.43%) Web Services
5 1 (0.22%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.22%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.65%) Driving Licence
2 25 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (3.26%) CCTV
5 10 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 9 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.30%) Replication
10 5 (1.09%) Clustering
11 3 (0.65%) PKI
11 3 (0.65%) Social Media
12 2 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.43%) Housing Association
13 1 (0.22%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.22%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 103 (22.39%) Windows
2 82 (17.83%) Windows Server
3 44 (9.57%) Linux
4 13 (2.83%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.96%) VMS
6 6 (1.30%) Android
6 6 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.30%) Debian
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Solaris
9 1 (0.22%) SUSE
9 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (11.96%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (9.57%) Migration
6 43 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (9.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 40 (8.70%) CI/CD
9 38 (8.26%) DevOps
10 31 (6.74%) Project Delivery
11 30 (6.52%) ITIL
12 29 (6.30%) Mentoring
13 23 (5.00%) High Availability
14 21 (4.57%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (4.13%) Cloud Security
15 19 (4.13%) Coaching
15 19 (4.13%) Identity Management
16 18 (3.91%) Business Continuity
16 18 (3.91%) Identity Access Management
16 18 (3.91%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.83%) PowerShell
2 31 (6.74%) Bash
3 29 (6.30%) Python
4 19 (4.13%) SQL
5 14 (3.04%) Bicep
6 6 (1.30%) VBScript
7 3 (0.65%) Go
8 2 (0.43%) Groovy
8 2 (0.43%) VB
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (6.30%) SC Cleared
1 29 (6.30%) Security Cleared
2 19 (4.13%) Azure Certification
3 15 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (2.61%) CCNA
5 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.52%) MCSA
8 6 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.09%) CCNP
10 4 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.65%) Degree
12 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.43%) CCIE
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.22%) HP ASE
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.65%) NIST
4 3 (0.65%) SLA
4 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.43%) GDPR
5 2 (0.43%) QA
6 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 53 (11.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (8.48%) Hyper-V
4 24 (5.22%) Docker
5 14 (3.04%) vSphere
6 8 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.30%) BitLocker
7 6 (1.30%) Firmware
8 5 (1.09%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.43%) iptables
11 2 (0.43%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.22%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (8.48%) Terraform
3 34 (7.39%) Kubernetes
4 18 (3.91%) Ansible
5 8 (1.74%) Puppet
5 8 (1.74%) SCCM
6 6 (1.30%) VxRail
6 6 (1.30%) WSUS
7 5 (1.09%) Argo
8 4 (0.87%) Grafana
8 4 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.43%) Nessus
10 2 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 123 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 77 (16.74%) VMware
3 36 (7.83%) Cisco
4 18 (3.91%) Veeam
5 15 (3.26%) Oracle
6 11 (2.39%) Apple
6 11 (2.39%) HP
7 10 (2.17%) Dell
7 10 (2.17%) Meraki
8 9 (1.96%) Commvault
9 8 (1.74%) Citrix
9 8 (1.74%) Zerto
10 7 (1.52%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.30%) F5
12 5 (1.09%) Google
12 5 (1.09%) Samsung
12 5 (1.09%) Tenable
13 4 (0.87%) Arista
13 4 (0.87%) Aruba