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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 452 466 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.13% 4.89% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 5.45% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 374 164 420
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,975 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,050 £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 £65,000 £62,625
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 14,905 8,553 12,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.22% 89.83% 78.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,153 4,277 8,824
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,573
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 £71,250 £67,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,600
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -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 27 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 27 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 -19 250 £47,500 -11.63% 48
Yorkshire +30 146 £51,500 -20.77% 36
North East -17 56 £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 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.77%) IIS
4 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.66%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.66%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 152 (33.63%) Azure
2 77 (17.04%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (11.06%) AWS
4 47 (10.40%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.32%) OCI
6 13 (2.88%) IaaS
7 11 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (2.21%) GitHub
9 9 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (1.99%) SaaS
10 8 (1.77%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.33%) Serverless
12 5 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 74 (16.37%) Firewall
2 47 (10.40%) DNS
3 40 (8.85%) DHCP
4 31 (6.86%) TCP/IP
5 28 (6.19%) WAN
6 26 (5.75%) LAN
7 25 (5.53%) SAN
8 23 (5.09%) Network Security
9 20 (4.42%) VPN
10 18 (3.98%) VLAN
11 14 (3.10%) VoIP
11 14 (3.10%) Wireless
12 8 (1.77%) BGP
12 8 (1.77%) NAS
13 7 (1.55%) NGFW
13 7 (1.55%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.33%) DMZ
14 6 (1.33%) OSPF
15 4 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Git
1 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (0.66%) GitLab
2 3 (0.66%) JIRA
3 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
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 52 (11.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (5.09%) Public Sector
3 19 (4.20%) Finance
4 12 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.33%) Law
7 6 (1.33%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.11%) Local Government
9 4 (0.88%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (0.66%) Legal
11 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.44%) Games
11 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Advertising
12 1 (0.22%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.22%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 317 (70.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (21.02%) Senior
3 79 (17.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 46 (10.18%) IT Engineer
5 35 (7.74%) Support Engineer
6 34 (7.52%) IT Support
7 33 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
8 28 (6.19%) Security Engineer
9 27 (5.97%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 27 (5.97%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (5.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
11 24 (5.31%) Infrastructure Support
12 21 (4.65%) Administrator
12 21 (4.65%) Analyst
13 18 (3.98%) Design Engineer
13 18 (3.98%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
13 18 (3.98%) Lead
14 17 (3.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.33%) SAML
2 4 (0.88%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (0.88%) OAuth
2 4 (0.88%) OpenID
3 3 (0.66%) .NET
3 3 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.66%) Kafka
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.66%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.44%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.44%) Web Services
5 1 (0.22%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.22%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.75%) Data Centre
1 26 (5.75%) Driving Licence
2 18 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (3.32%) CCTV
4 10 (2.21%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.99%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.11%) Clustering
8 5 (1.11%) Replication
9 3 (0.66%) PKI
9 3 (0.66%) Social Media
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.22%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.22%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.22%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 102 (22.57%) Windows
2 81 (17.92%) Windows Server
3 41 (9.07%) Linux
4 13 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.99%) VMS
6 7 (1.55%) Android
6 7 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.33%) Debian
7 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) Solaris
10 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (9.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 43 (9.51%) Migration
7 40 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
8 38 (8.41%) CI/CD
9 34 (7.52%) DevOps
10 30 (6.64%) Mentoring
11 29 (6.42%) ITIL
12 28 (6.19%) Project Delivery
13 23 (5.09%) High Availability
14 21 (4.65%) Coaching
15 18 (3.98%) Business Continuity
15 18 (3.98%) Cloud Security
15 18 (3.98%) Identity Access Management
15 18 (3.98%) Incident Management
15 18 (3.98%) Observability
15 18 (3.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 61 (13.50%) PowerShell
2 30 (6.64%) Bash
3 28 (6.19%) Python
4 19 (4.20%) SQL
5 13 (2.88%) Bicep
6 6 (1.33%) VBScript
7 3 (0.66%) Go
8 2 (0.44%) Groovy
8 2 (0.44%) VB
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (6.42%) SC Cleared
1 29 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (4.20%) Azure Certification
3 15 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (2.65%) CCNA
5 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.55%) MCSA
8 5 (1.11%) CCNP
8 5 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.66%) Degree
11 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) CCIE
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.66%) NIST
4 3 (0.66%) SLA
4 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.44%) GDPR
5 2 (0.44%) QA
6 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (20.35%) Active Directory
2 53 (11.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (8.85%) Hyper-V
4 20 (4.42%) Docker
5 13 (2.88%) vSphere
6 7 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.33%) BitLocker
8 5 (1.11%) Firmware
9 4 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.88%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.44%) iptables
11 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
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 45 (9.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (7.96%) Terraform
3 31 (6.86%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.54%) Ansible
5 8 (1.77%) SCCM
6 7 (1.55%) Puppet
6 7 (1.55%) WSUS
7 6 (1.33%) VxRail
8 5 (1.11%) Argo
9 4 (0.88%) Grafana
9 4 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
11 2 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 123 (27.21%) Microsoft
2 78 (17.26%) VMware
3 37 (8.19%) Cisco
4 18 (3.98%) Veeam
5 14 (3.10%) Oracle
6 12 (2.65%) Apple
6 12 (2.65%) HP
7 11 (2.43%) Meraki
8 10 (2.21%) Commvault
8 10 (2.21%) Dell
9 8 (1.77%) Citrix
9 8 (1.77%) Zerto
10 7 (1.55%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.33%) F5
11 6 (1.33%) Samsung
11 6 (1.33%) Tenable
12 5 (1.11%) Google
13 4 (0.88%) Arista
13 4 (0.88%) Aruba