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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 69 92
Rank change year-on-year -47 +23 +27
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 166 346 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.70% 3.11% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 3.65% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 140 247 209
10th Percentile £35,075 £35,000 £32,708
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £46,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.07% -2.13% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70,875 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,687 £72,433
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.33% +2.38%

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 8,284 9,478 6,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.00% 85.09% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,510 4,507 5,115
10th Percentile £26,520 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,225 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -34 89 £53,750 +19.44% 52
Yorkshire -42 58 £65,000 +30.00% 54
North East +4 19 £65,000 +46.81% 22
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 13 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.81%) IIS
3 3 (1.81%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) AutoCAD
1 2 (1.20%) Civil 3D
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 56 (33.73%) Azure
2 28 (16.87%) AWS
3 24 (14.46%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.43%) IaaS
5 13 (7.83%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.42%) GCP
7 8 (4.82%) SaaS
8 7 (4.22%) PaaS
9 6 (3.61%) Azure AKS
9 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.01%) GitHub
10 5 (3.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.41%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.41%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.41%) Serverless
12 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.81%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.86%) Firewall
2 18 (10.84%) DNS
3 17 (10.24%) VPN
4 15 (9.04%) VLAN
5 13 (7.83%) DHCP
6 10 (6.02%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.02%) TETRA
7 7 (4.22%) SSL
7 7 (4.22%) WAN
8 6 (3.61%) DMZ
8 6 (3.61%) VoIP
9 5 (3.01%) LAN
9 5 (3.01%) STUN
10 3 (1.81%) Network Security
11 2 (1.20%) HTTP
12 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.60%) NAS
12 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.60%) SAN
12 1 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.81%) MySQL
3 1 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.60%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.60%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) SQL CLR
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (7.23%) GitLab
2 7 (4.22%) Git
3 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.20%) JMeter
3 2 (1.20%) Locust
4 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
General
1 35 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.42%) Finance
4 7 (4.22%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.01%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.01%) Legal
5 5 (3.01%) Military
6 4 (2.41%) Local Government
7 3 (1.81%) Banking
7 3 (1.81%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 115 (69.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (21.69%) Senior
3 33 (19.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (17.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (16.27%) Lead
6 23 (13.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (11.45%) Support Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) Applications Support
8 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure Support
8 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 14 (8.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 13 (7.83%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (7.83%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (6.02%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 10 (6.02%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (6.02%) Design Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) Senior Design Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.24%) OLE
2 5 (3.01%) .NET
2 5 (3.01%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.81%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.81%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.81%) DPDK
3 3 (1.81%) eBPF
4 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.20%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.20%) WCF
4 2 (1.20%) YAML
5 1 (0.60%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.60%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (0.60%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.60%) Middleware
5 1 (0.60%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.60%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.60%) RESTful
5 1 (0.60%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.24%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.04%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.63%) Driving Licence
4 9 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.81%) NHS
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) NVMe
8 1 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.60%) Social Media
8 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 47 (28.31%) Windows
2 39 (23.49%) Windows Server
3 30 (18.07%) Linux
4 6 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.01%) Debian
5 5 (3.01%) VMS
5 5 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.41%) Unix
7 3 (1.81%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.81%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.60%) Android
9 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (17.47%) DevOps
2 28 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (16.27%) CI/CD
4 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (12.65%) Agile
6 21 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (10.84%) Containerisation
7 18 (10.84%) Mentoring
8 17 (10.24%) Customer Service
9 16 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (8.43%) Incident Response
11 12 (7.23%) High Availability
12 11 (6.63%) Observability
12 11 (6.63%) Roadmaps
13 10 (6.02%) Data Protection
14 8 (4.82%) Coaching
14 8 (4.82%) Migration
14 8 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (4.82%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.66%) PowerShell
2 23 (13.86%) SQL
3 19 (11.45%) Python
4 10 (6.02%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.22%) Bash
6 4 (2.41%) Bicep
7 3 (1.81%) C#
7 3 (1.81%) Java
8 1 (0.60%) Go
8 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.24%) Degree
2 17 (10.24%) DV Cleared
3 13 (7.83%) CCNA
3 13 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.82%) DBS Check
4 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.22%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (3.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.41%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.60%) CCNP
11 1 (0.60%) CISSP
11 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.60%) MCSA
11 1 (0.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.01%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.81%) GDPR
4 3 (1.81%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) QA
5 2 (1.20%) WCAG
6 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (17.47%) Active Directory
2 17 (10.24%) Docker
3 16 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (9.04%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.42%) vSphere
6 7 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.01%) Kamailio
8 3 (1.81%) KVM
8 3 (1.81%) QEMU
8 3 (1.81%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.60%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.60%) Postfix
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (22.29%) Kubernetes
2 31 (18.67%) Terraform
3 23 (13.86%) Ansible
4 12 (7.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (5.42%) Grafana
6 7 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.22%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.01%) Autotask
7 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 5 (3.01%) SCCM
7 5 (3.01%) SCOM
7 5 (3.01%) WSUS
8 3 (1.81%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.60%) Kibana
10 1 (0.60%) Nessus
10 1 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (29.52%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.65%) VMware
3 17 (10.24%) Cisco
4 8 (4.82%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.61%) Oracle
6 5 (3.01%) Google
6 5 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.41%) Citrix
8 3 (1.81%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.20%) Apple
9 2 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.20%) Meraki
9 2 (1.20%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.20%) Splunk
10 1 (0.60%) Aruba
10 1 (0.60%) BMC
10 1 (0.60%) Dell
10 1 (0.60%) HP
10 1 (0.60%) NetApp
10 1 (0.60%) Proofpoint