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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 64 93
Rank change year-on-year +12 +29 +21
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 405 368 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.41% 2.91% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.62% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 120 258 222
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £39,313 £40,988 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,875 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £72,200
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,948 £54,000
% change year-on-year +17.77% -5.65% +3.51%

All Process and 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 7,948 10,175 7,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 86.62% 80.40% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,170 4,889 5,860
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,603 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 2025. 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 +35 341 £50,000 +7.53% 63
Yorkshire -41 45 £65,000 +39.04% 27
North East +2 19 £54,000 +20.00% 19
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 10 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.48%) IIS
3 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) AutoCAD
1 6 (1.48%) Civil 3D
1 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.83%) Azure
2 24 (5.93%) AWS
3 22 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (2.96%) IaaS
5 8 (1.98%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (1.73%) SaaS
7 6 (1.48%) GCP
8 5 (1.23%) PaaS
8 5 (1.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.74%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.74%) Azure AKS
9 3 (0.74%) GitHub
10 2 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.49%) Datadog
10 2 (0.49%) dbt
10 2 (0.49%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 269 (66.42%) VPN
2 251 (61.98%) Cisco IOS
3 23 (5.68%) DNS
4 22 (5.43%) DHCP
5 19 (4.69%) Firewall
6 18 (4.44%) VLAN
7 12 (2.96%) TETRA
8 11 (2.72%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.73%) SSL
10 6 (1.48%) WAN
11 5 (1.23%) DMZ
11 5 (1.23%) LAN
11 5 (1.23%) STUN
11 5 (1.23%) VoIP
12 3 (0.74%) Network Security
13 2 (0.49%) HTTP
14 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
14 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
14 1 (0.25%) SAN
14 1 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.49%) Data Hub
2 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.49%) MySQL
2 2 (0.49%) SQL CLR
3 1 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.25%) Power BI
3 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.23%) GitLab
2 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.49%) JMeter
2 2 (0.49%) Locust
3 1 (0.25%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 259 (63.95%) Analytical Skills
2 251 (61.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (6.17%) Social Skills
4 11 (2.72%) Finance
5 7 (1.73%) Legal
5 7 (1.73%) Local Government
6 5 (1.23%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.23%) Military
6 5 (1.23%) Public Sector
7 3 (0.74%) Banking
8 2 (0.49%) Back Office
9 1 (0.25%) Advertising
9 1 (0.25%) Games
9 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.25%) Law
9 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 360 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (10.62%) Senior
3 39 (9.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (5.93%) Support Engineer
5 20 (4.94%) Infrastructure Support
5 20 (4.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 19 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (4.20%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (3.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (3.46%) Lead
9 12 (2.96%) Applications Support
9 12 (2.96%) Civil Engineer
9 12 (2.96%) Design Engineer
9 12 (2.96%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
9 12 (2.96%) Senior Design Engineer
10 9 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.22%) Network Engineer
11 8 (1.98%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (1.73%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (1.73%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (61.98%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.72%) OLE
3 6 (1.48%) .NET
4 5 (1.23%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.23%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.99%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.74%) DPDK
6 3 (0.74%) eBPF
7 2 (0.49%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.49%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (0.49%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.49%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.49%) WCF
7 2 (0.49%) YAML
8 1 (0.25%) Middleware
8 1 (0.25%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.25%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.25%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 251 (61.98%) Cyberattack
2 14 (3.46%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.72%) Driving Licence
3 11 (2.72%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.48%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.48%) NHS
5 3 (0.74%) Clustering
5 3 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.74%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.25%) NVMe
7 1 (0.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.25%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 297 (73.33%) Windows
2 285 (70.37%) Linux
3 251 (61.98%) Android
4 40 (9.88%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.23%) CentOS
6 5 (1.23%) Debian
6 5 (1.23%) Unix
6 5 (1.23%) VMS
6 5 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (68.15%) DevOps
2 267 (65.93%) Problem-Solving
3 258 (63.70%) Platform Engineering
4 257 (63.46%) Storage Management
5 255 (62.96%) Line Management
6 252 (62.22%) Risk Management
6 252 (62.22%) Task Automation
7 251 (61.98%) Mathematics
8 22 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (5.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (4.69%) Mentoring
11 18 (4.44%) CI/CD
12 14 (3.46%) Containerisation
13 13 (3.21%) Agile
14 12 (2.96%) Customer Service
15 11 (2.72%) Incident Response
16 10 (2.47%) Disaster Recovery
16 10 (2.47%) High Availability
17 8 (1.98%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 275 (67.90%) PowerShell
2 269 (66.42%) Python
3 256 (63.21%) Bash
4 18 (4.44%) SQL
5 6 (1.48%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.99%) C#
7 2 (0.49%) Bicep
7 2 (0.49%) Java
8 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (3.70%) Degree
2 13 (3.21%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.96%) CCNA
3 12 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (2.72%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.73%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.99%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.74%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.25%) CCNP
12 1 (0.25%) CEH
12 1 (0.25%) CISSP
12 1 (0.25%) GCIA
12 1 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.23%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.74%) GDPR
4 3 (0.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.49%) QA
5 2 (0.49%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 266 (65.68%) Hyper-V
2 264 (65.19%) Docker
3 259 (63.95%) vSphere
4 254 (62.72%) VMware NSX
5 32 (7.90%) Active Directory
6 15 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.23%) Kamailio
8 5 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.74%) KVM
9 3 (0.74%) QEMU
10 1 (0.25%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.25%) Postfix
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 276 (68.15%) Ansible
2 274 (67.65%) Terraform
3 31 (7.65%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.73%) Grafana
5 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 7 (1.73%) SCCM
5 7 (1.73%) SCOM
5 7 (1.73%) vCenter Server
5 7 (1.73%) WSUS
6 5 (1.23%) Autotask
6 5 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.25%) Nessus
8 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 268 (66.17%) Cisco
2 252 (62.22%) Splunk
3 251 (61.98%) 3PAR
3 251 (61.98%) Juniper
4 53 (13.09%) Microsoft
5 23 (5.68%) VMware
6 10 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.73%) Oracle
8 5 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.99%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.74%) Citrix
10 3 (0.74%) Google
10 3 (0.74%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.49%) Rapid7
12 1 (0.25%) Aruba
12 1 (0.25%) Dell
12 1 (0.25%) HP
12 1 (0.25%) Meraki
12 1 (0.25%) NetApp
12 1 (0.25%) Proofpoint