Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 53 23
Rank change year-on-year -24 -30 +82
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 480 669 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.64% 3.56% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.44% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 175 555 313
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 11,530 15,073 13,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.39% 80.12% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,778 10,813 7,705
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +9.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -1 391 £53,750 +13.16% 57
Yorkshire -62 67 £65,000 +41.30% 43
North East -21 22 £52,000 +15.56% 6
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.29%) IIS
2 11 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (3.54%) AutoCAD
2 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 77 (16.04%) Azure
2 32 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (5.21%) AWS
4 15 (3.13%) SaaS
5 11 (2.29%) GCP
6 10 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.67%) IaaS
8 6 (1.25%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.04%) PaaS
9 5 (1.04%) Serverless
10 4 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.83%) GitHub
10 4 (0.83%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.63%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.42%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.42%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 264 (55.00%) VPN
2 251 (52.29%) Cisco IOS
3 34 (7.08%) DNS
4 31 (6.46%) DHCP
5 21 (4.38%) Firewall
6 16 (3.33%) TETRA
7 11 (2.29%) VLAN
8 10 (2.08%) WAN
9 8 (1.67%) Network Security
9 8 (1.67%) SMTP
10 7 (1.46%) LAN
10 7 (1.46%) SAN
11 6 (1.25%) NAS
11 6 (1.25%) TCP/IP
12 5 (1.04%) DKIM
12 5 (1.04%) DMARC
12 5 (1.04%) DNSSEC
12 5 (1.04%) Internet
13 4 (0.83%) VSAN
14 3 (0.63%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.25%) Data Hub
2 6 (1.25%) SQL CLR
3 5 (1.04%) Power BI
4 4 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.63%) Metadata
5 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (0.42%) Git
2 2 (0.42%) GitLab
2 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.42%) JIRA
3 1 (0.21%) Selenium
3 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 257 (53.54%) Analytical Skills
2 252 (52.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 44 (9.17%) Finance
4 42 (8.75%) Social Skills
5 15 (3.13%) Banking
6 10 (2.08%) Local Government
7 8 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.25%) Back Office
9 6 (1.25%) Legal
10 5 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.04%) Military
10 5 (1.04%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.83%) Retail
12 2 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Games
12 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 424 (88.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 62 (12.92%) Senior
3 51 (10.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (7.08%) Support Engineer
6 31 (6.46%) Civil Engineer
7 28 (5.83%) Principal Engineer
8 24 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
8 24 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 16 (3.33%) Design Engineer
9 16 (3.33%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
9 16 (3.33%) Senior Design Engineer
10 14 (2.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (2.92%) Security Engineer
10 14 (2.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 11 (2.29%) Lead
11 11 (2.29%) Network Engineer
11 11 (2.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 10 (2.08%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (52.29%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.92%) OLE
3 7 (1.46%) ARM Templates
4 4 (0.83%) .NET
4 4 (0.83%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.83%) Middleware
5 3 (0.63%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.63%) Dapper ORM
5 3 (0.63%) Entity Framework
5 3 (0.63%) OAuth
6 1 (0.21%) ADO
6 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.21%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.21%) Blazor
6 1 (0.21%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (0.21%) OpenCL
6 1 (0.21%) REST
6 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 251 (52.29%) Cyberattack
2 24 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.08%) Security Posture
5 9 (1.88%) Driving Licence
6 8 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.25%) NHS
9 4 (0.83%) Clustering
10 3 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.42%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.21%) CCTV
12 1 (0.21%) CUDA
12 1 (0.21%) EMC VMAX
12 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.21%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 306 (63.75%) Windows
2 298 (62.08%) Linux
3 251 (52.29%) Android
4 41 (8.54%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.46%) CentOS
7 7 (1.46%) Unix
8 6 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.04%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.63%) Debian
11 3 (0.63%) VMS
12 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.21%) AIX
13 1 (0.21%) Solaris
13 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (58.54%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (57.92%) DevOps
3 256 (53.33%) Storage Management
4 255 (53.13%) Platform Engineering
5 254 (52.92%) Risk Management
6 253 (52.71%) Line Management
7 252 (52.50%) Task Automation
8 251 (52.29%) Mathematics
9 30 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 23 (4.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (4.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (4.17%) Migration
12 20 (4.17%) Project Delivery
13 17 (3.54%) ITIL
14 16 (3.33%) Cloud Security
14 16 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (3.13%) Agile
16 13 (2.71%) Project Management
17 12 (2.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 11 (2.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 285 (59.38%) PowerShell
2 263 (54.79%) Python
3 255 (53.13%) Bash
4 17 (3.54%) SQL
5 4 (0.83%) C#
5 4 (0.83%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (5.63%) Degree
2 25 (5.21%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.96%) Azure Certification
3 19 (3.96%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.46%) CCNA
9 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.25%) RIBA
11 4 (0.83%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.63%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.63%) RHCE
13 2 (0.42%) CEH
14 1 (0.21%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.25%) GDPR
2 6 (1.25%) NIST
3 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 272 (56.67%) Hyper-V
2 260 (54.17%) vSphere
3 258 (53.75%) Docker
4 257 (53.54%) VMware NSX
5 46 (9.58%) Active Directory
6 26 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 17 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.63%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.63%) Postfix
10 1 (0.21%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.21%) NFS
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.21%) XenApp
10 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 278 (57.92%) Terraform
2 271 (56.46%) Ansible
3 20 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.88%) SCCM
6 8 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 7 (1.46%) SCOM
7 7 (1.46%) WSUS
8 6 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.42%) Grafana
11 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.42%) Puppet
12 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.21%) Nessus
12 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 277 (57.71%) Cisco
2 252 (52.50%) Splunk
3 251 (52.29%) 3PAR
3 251 (52.29%) Juniper
4 78 (16.25%) Microsoft
5 40 (8.33%) VMware
6 11 (2.29%) Oracle
6 11 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.88%) Citrix
8 8 (1.67%) Google
9 7 (1.46%) Veeam
10 5 (1.04%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.04%) IronPort
10 5 (1.04%) Veritas
11 3 (0.63%) Okta
11 3 (0.63%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.63%) Tenable
12 2 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.42%) NetApp
12 2 (0.42%) Varonis