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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 62 60
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -43
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 460 466 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.13% 4.86% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 5.43% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 379 162 375
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,200 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £58,500
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 15,187 8,584 11,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.34% 89.54% 78.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,359 4,294 8,024
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -21 253 £47,500 -11.63% 59
Yorkshire +35 149 £51,500 -20.77% 31
North East -17 58 £45,000 -15.09% 12
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 21 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.43%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (3.91%) 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
1 151 (32.83%) Azure
2 78 (16.96%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (11.52%) AWS
4 46 (10.00%) 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%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.17%) SaaS
10 9 (1.96%) Amazon S3
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
12 6 (1.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 73 (15.87%) Firewall
2 49 (10.65%) DNS
3 42 (9.13%) DHCP
4 30 (6.52%) TCP/IP
5 27 (5.87%) WAN
6 25 (5.43%) LAN
6 25 (5.43%) SAN
7 22 (4.78%) Network Security
8 19 (4.13%) VPN
9 17 (3.70%) VLAN
10 14 (3.04%) Wireless
11 13 (2.83%) VoIP
12 8 (1.74%) BGP
13 7 (1.52%) NAS
13 7 (1.52%) NGFW
13 7 (1.52%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.30%) OSPF
15 5 (1.09%) DMZ
16 4 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
16 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 5 (1.09%) Git
2 4 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.65%) GitLab
3 3 (0.65%) JIRA
3 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.22%) JMeter
5 1 (0.22%) Locust
5 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (11.52%) Social Skills
2 21 (4.57%) Public Sector
3 18 (3.91%) Finance
4 13 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.52%) Law
7 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.09%) Local Government
9 4 (0.87%) Fire and Rescue
9 4 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.65%) Games
10 3 (0.65%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
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 92 (20.00%) Senior
3 76 (16.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 46 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 36 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.39%) Support Engineer
7 33 (7.17%) 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
12 20 (4.35%) Analyst
12 20 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support
12 20 (4.35%) Lead
13 19 (4.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
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%) OAuth
2 4 (0.87%) OpenID
3 3 (0.65%) .NET
3 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.65%) FreeSWITCH
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
5 1 (0.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.65%) Driving Licence
2 24 (5.22%) 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
8 7 (1.52%) Replication
9 6 (1.30%) Clustering
10 3 (0.65%) PKI
10 3 (0.65%) Social Media
11 2 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.43%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.43%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.22%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 105 (22.83%) Windows
2 84 (18.26%) Windows Server
3 45 (9.78%) Linux
4 13 (2.83%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.17%) VMS
6 6 (1.30%) Android
6 6 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.09%) Debian
8 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.43%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 44 (9.57%) Migration
6 43 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (8.91%) CI/CD
8 39 (8.48%) DevOps
9 33 (7.17%) Project Delivery
10 30 (6.52%) ITIL
10 30 (6.52%) Mentoring
11 23 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (4.78%) High Availability
13 19 (4.13%) Cloud Security
13 19 (4.13%) Coaching
13 19 (4.13%) Identity Management
13 19 (4.13%) Observability
14 18 (3.91%) Business Continuity
14 18 (3.91%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 31 (6.74%) Bash
3 28 (6.09%) 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%) Java
8 2 (0.43%) VB
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (6.30%) SC Cleared
1 29 (6.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 15 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (2.61%) CCNA
5 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.96%) 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 4 (0.87%) SLA
5 3 (0.65%) NIST
5 3 (0.65%) QA
5 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 53 (11.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (8.91%) Hyper-V
4 26 (5.65%) Docker
5 15 (3.26%) 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
12 1 (0.22%) Ceph
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%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (8.48%) Terraform
3 36 (7.83%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.13%) Ansible
5 9 (1.96%) SCCM
6 8 (1.74%) Puppet
6 8 (1.74%) WSUS
7 6 (1.30%) VxRail
8 5 (1.09%) Argo
8 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.87%) Grafana
9 4 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.43%) Nessus
11 2 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 125 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 76 (16.52%) VMware
3 36 (7.83%) Cisco
4 19 (4.13%) Veeam
5 16 (3.48%) Oracle
6 11 (2.39%) Apple
6 11 (2.39%) HP
7 10 (2.17%) Dell
7 10 (2.17%) Meraki
8 8 (1.74%) Commvault
8 8 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.74%) Zerto
9 7 (1.52%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.30%) Citrix
10 6 (1.30%) F5
11 5 (1.09%) Google
11 5 (1.09%) Samsung
11 5 (1.09%) Tenable
12 4 (0.87%) Arista
12 4 (0.87%) LogicMonitor