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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 57 47
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 383 451 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.93% 5.56% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 5.94% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 312 159 620
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £59,063
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 13,647 7,594 15,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.85% 93.55% 79.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,117 3,646 11,830
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,960 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -26 212 £47,500 -8.65% 46
Yorkshire +19 139 £50,000 -18.37% 15
North East -27 32 £45,000 -13.46% 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 20 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.83%) IIS
4 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 136 (35.51%) Azure
2 61 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (10.97%) AWS
4 39 (10.18%) Entra ID
5 13 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (3.39%) OCI
6 10 (2.61%) GitHub
7 9 (2.35%) IaaS
8 8 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.57%) SaaS
11 5 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.31%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.04%) GCP
12 4 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (13.32%) Firewall
2 43 (11.23%) DNS
3 37 (9.66%) DHCP
4 22 (5.74%) Network Security
5 20 (5.22%) SAN
5 20 (5.22%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.96%) LAN
7 18 (4.70%) VPN
8 17 (4.44%) WAN
9 16 (4.18%) VLAN
10 8 (2.09%) VoIP
11 7 (1.83%) NAS
11 7 (1.83%) NGFW
12 6 (1.57%) BGP
12 6 (1.57%) OSPF
13 5 (1.31%) DMZ
13 5 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.31%) STUN
14 4 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.26%) MySQL
5 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.83%) GitLab
2 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.78%) Git
4 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) JMeter
5 1 (0.26%) Locust
5 1 (0.26%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (11.75%) Social Skills
2 21 (5.48%) Public Sector
3 17 (4.44%) Finance
4 12 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.04%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.04%) Legal
7 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.52%) Law
8 2 (0.52%) Local Government
9 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 287 (74.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (22.98%) Senior
3 73 (19.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (9.92%) IT Engineer
4 38 (9.92%) Support Engineer
5 36 (9.40%) Infrastructure Support
6 30 (7.83%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 30 (7.83%) Security Engineer
7 29 (7.57%) IT Support
8 26 (6.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 26 (6.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (5.48%) IT Support Engineer
11 19 (4.96%) Analyst
12 18 (4.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (4.18%) Network Analyst
13 16 (4.18%) Network Security Analyst
13 16 (4.18%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.31%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.52%) .NET
3 2 (0.52%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.52%) Middleware
3 2 (0.52%) Web Services
4 1 (0.26%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.26%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.26%) Kafka
4 1 (0.26%) OAuth
4 1 (0.26%) OpenID
4 1 (0.26%) RESTful
4 1 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.27%) Driving Licence
2 23 (6.01%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.66%) CCTV
4 11 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.31%) Clustering
6 5 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.78%) CMDB
7 3 (0.78%) Replication
7 3 (0.78%) Social Media
8 2 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.26%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.26%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 82 (21.41%) Windows
2 61 (15.93%) Windows Server
3 22 (5.74%) Linux
4 13 (3.39%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.83%) Android
5 7 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.57%) Debian
6 6 (1.57%) VMS
7 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.26%) Solaris
10 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.26%) Unix
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (11.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 40 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (8.09%) CI/CD
5 31 (8.09%) Mentoring
6 29 (7.57%) Migration
7 28 (7.31%) DevOps
8 27 (7.05%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (6.53%) Incident Management
10 22 (5.74%) Coaching
11 19 (4.96%) High Availability
11 19 (4.96%) ITIL
12 18 (4.70%) Project Delivery
12 18 (4.70%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (4.18%) Business Continuity
14 15 (3.92%) Observability
15 14 (3.66%) Cloud Security
15 14 (3.66%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (16.45%) PowerShell
2 26 (6.79%) Bash
3 22 (5.74%) SQL
4 18 (4.70%) Python
5 9 (2.35%) Bicep
6 6 (1.57%) VBScript
7 2 (0.52%) Groovy
7 2 (0.52%) Java
7 2 (0.52%) VB
8 1 (0.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (5.74%) SC Cleared
1 22 (5.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (4.18%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.83%) CCNA
5 7 (1.83%) MCSA
6 6 (1.57%) Degree
7 5 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.04%) CCNP
9 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.78%) NIST
3 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) QA
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (21.41%) Active Directory
2 38 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.79%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.92%) Docker
5 7 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.83%) vSphere
6 6 (1.57%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.04%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.52%) Firmware
9 2 (0.52%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.26%) iptables
10 1 (0.26%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (8.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.53%) Terraform
3 23 (6.01%) Kubernetes
4 12 (3.13%) Ansible
5 7 (1.83%) SCCM
6 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.57%) VxRail
6 6 (1.57%) WSUS
7 4 (1.04%) Argo
7 4 (1.04%) Grafana
7 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.52%) Puppet
10 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.26%) Nessus
10 1 (0.26%) Rancher
10 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 103 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 67 (17.49%) VMware
3 29 (7.57%) Cisco
4 11 (2.87%) HP
4 11 (2.87%) Oracle
5 10 (2.61%) Citrix
5 10 (2.61%) Veeam
6 9 (2.35%) Apple
6 9 (2.35%) Commvault
6 9 (2.35%) Meraki
7 8 (2.09%) Dell
8 7 (1.83%) Zerto
9 6 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.57%) Samsung
9 6 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.57%) Tenable
10 5 (1.31%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.04%) Arista
11 4 (1.04%) Aruba
11 4 (1.04%) Google