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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 64 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 539 434 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.29% 4.62% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 5.29% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 443 134 266
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,850 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +28.56% -4.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,734
England median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +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 16,632 8,209 11,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.57% 87.48% 78.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12,400 4,082 6,061
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,221
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,735 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -2.53% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -10 293 £50,750 -4.02% 170
Yorkshire +52 170 £50,000 -23.08% 81
North East -13 76 £47,000 -15.70% 41
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 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.93%) IIS
4 2 (0.37%) Confluence
4 2 (0.37%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.56%) Civil 3D
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 162 (30.06%) Azure
2 90 (16.70%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (12.80%) AWS
4 56 (10.39%) Entra ID
5 23 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (3.15%) SaaS
8 16 (2.97%) OCI
8 16 (2.97%) Serverless
9 15 (2.78%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.60%) IaaS
11 12 (2.23%) GitHub
12 9 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.67%) GCP
12 9 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 87 (16.14%) Firewall
2 63 (11.69%) DNS
3 51 (9.46%) DHCP
4 35 (6.49%) TCP/IP
5 29 (5.38%) VPN
6 27 (5.01%) WAN
7 23 (4.27%) LAN
7 23 (4.27%) SAN
8 17 (3.15%) Network Security
9 16 (2.97%) VLAN
10 15 (2.78%) Wireless
11 13 (2.41%) VoIP
12 10 (1.86%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (1.48%) BGP
15 7 (1.30%) NGFW
15 7 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
16 6 (1.11%) OSPF
17 5 (0.93%) NAS
18 4 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.19%) Db2
6 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.19%) Metabase
6 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.19%) OLAP
6 1 (0.19%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (0.19%) OLTP
6 1 (0.19%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Git
2 6 (1.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.11%) JIRA
3 5 (0.93%) GitLab
4 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.19%) JMeter
5 1 (0.19%) Locust
5 1 (0.19%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (10.76%) Social Skills
2 26 (4.82%) Public Sector
3 25 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.27%) Finance
5 18 (3.34%) Law
6 17 (3.15%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.93%) Legal
9 5 (0.93%) Local Government
10 4 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (0.74%) Games
11 2 (0.37%) Automotive
11 2 (0.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.19%) Advertising
12 1 (0.19%) Banking
12 1 (0.19%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 374 (69.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 140 (25.97%) Senior
3 124 (23.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
5 50 (9.28%) IT Engineer
6 32 (5.94%) Support Engineer
7 31 (5.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (5.75%) IT Support
8 30 (5.57%) IT Support Engineer
9 29 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (4.64%) Security Engineer
11 24 (4.45%) Administrator
12 23 (4.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (4.08%) Analyst
13 22 (4.08%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 21 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (3.71%) Lead
16 17 (3.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 15 (2.78%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.83%) Terraform
2 8 (1.48%) SAML
3 4 (0.74%) OAuth
3 4 (0.74%) OpenID
4 3 (0.56%) .NET
4 3 (0.56%) Kafka
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.56%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.37%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.37%) REST
5 2 (0.37%) Web Services
6 1 (0.19%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.19%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.19%) NumPy
6 1 (0.19%) Pandas
6 1 (0.19%) pgvector
6 1 (0.19%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.31%) Driving Licence
2 33 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.78%) CCTV
6 13 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.93%) Clustering
10 5 (0.93%) PKI
10 5 (0.93%) Replication
11 3 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.56%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.56%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.37%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 131 (24.30%) Windows
2 97 (18.00%) Windows Server
3 66 (12.24%) Linux
4 12 (2.23%) VMS
5 11 (2.04%) Unix
5 11 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.74%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.37%) Debian
10 1 (0.19%) Android
10 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.19%) Solaris
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 64 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (10.95%) DevOps
5 57 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 55 (10.20%) CI/CD
7 54 (10.02%) Migration
8 53 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
8 53 (9.83%) Project Delivery
9 50 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
10 39 (7.24%) ITIL
11 35 (6.49%) Mentoring
12 32 (5.94%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (5.38%) Cloud Security
13 29 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (4.64%) Business Continuity
14 25 (4.64%) Coaching
14 25 (4.64%) Identity Access Management
15 24 (4.45%) Identity Management
16 21 (3.90%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 62 (11.50%) PowerShell
2 41 (7.61%) Python
3 35 (6.49%) Bash
4 28 (5.19%) SQL
5 15 (2.78%) Bicep
6 7 (1.30%) VBScript
7 5 (0.93%) Java
8 3 (0.56%) C++
8 3 (0.56%) Go
9 2 (0.37%) Groovy
9 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.37%) VB
10 1 (0.19%) C
10 1 (0.19%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 20 (3.71%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.97%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.04%) CCNA
8 8 (1.48%) Degree
9 7 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (0.93%) CCNP
11 4 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.74%) MCSA
11 4 (0.74%) MCSE
11 4 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.37%) CCIE
12 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.19%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.48%) SLA
4 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (0.93%) QA
5 3 (0.56%) NIST
6 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) GDPR
7 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 64 (11.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.79%) Hyper-V
4 38 (7.05%) Docker
5 18 (3.34%) vSphere
6 13 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.30%) Firmware
7 7 (1.30%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.11%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.37%) iptables
11 2 (0.37%) UAG
12 1 (0.19%) Ceph
12 1 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.19%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (8.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.64%) Ansible
4 15 (2.78%) SCCM
5 12 (2.23%) Puppet
6 9 (1.67%) WSUS
7 6 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.11%) VxRail
8 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.74%) Grafana
9 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) Argo
10 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.37%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.37%) SCOM
11 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 142 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 84 (15.58%) VMware
3 38 (7.05%) Cisco
4 21 (3.90%) Oracle
5 19 (3.53%) Veeam
6 10 (1.86%) Fortinet
6 10 (1.86%) HP
7 9 (1.67%) SonicWALL
8 8 (1.48%) Dell
8 8 (1.48%) F5
8 8 (1.48%) Google
8 8 (1.48%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.30%) Meraki
9 7 (1.30%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.11%) Commvault
10 6 (1.11%) Draytek
10 6 (1.11%) Zerto
11 4 (0.74%) Apple
11 4 (0.74%) Red Hat