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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 83 63
Rank change year-on-year -46 -20 +43
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 151 256 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.39% 2.81% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 3.09% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 137 179 299
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £72,433
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year - +5.77% -0.95%

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 8,671 8,283 7,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 79.86% 90.85% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,668 3,697 5,882
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -36 72 £50,000 +5.26% 32
Yorkshire -28 66 £55,750 +11.50% 45
North East +11 13 £75,000 +69.40% 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 14 (9.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.99%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.66%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.66%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.66%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.05%) Azure
2 30 (19.87%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (19.21%) AWS
4 17 (11.26%) Entra ID
5 13 (8.61%) IaaS
6 12 (7.95%) GCP
7 9 (5.96%) SaaS
8 7 (4.64%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.97%) Google Workspace
9 6 (3.97%) PaaS
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.31%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.65%) GitHub
11 4 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.91%) Firewall
2 19 (12.58%) DNS
3 14 (9.27%) VPN
4 13 (8.61%) VLAN
5 11 (7.28%) DHCP
6 10 (6.62%) TCP/IP
7 8 (5.30%) SSL
8 7 (4.64%) DMZ
9 6 (3.97%) WAN
10 5 (3.31%) VoIP
11 4 (2.65%) LAN
11 4 (2.65%) STUN
12 3 (1.99%) HTTP
13 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.66%) FTP
14 1 (0.66%) Network Security
14 1 (0.66%) SMTP
14 1 (0.66%) SNMP
14 1 (0.66%) SSH
14 1 (0.66%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.31%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.65%) MySQL
4 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 19 (12.58%) GitLab
2 12 (7.95%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.32%) JMeter
3 2 (1.32%) Locust
General
1 37 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.31%) Legal
5 4 (2.65%) Finance
5 4 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.99%) Banking
6 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (0.66%) Advertising
8 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Law
8 1 (0.66%) Marketing
8 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 100 (66.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (22.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 34 (22.52%) Lead
3 29 (19.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (13.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 19 (12.58%) Senior
6 18 (11.92%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (11.92%) Support Engineer
7 16 (10.60%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (9.93%) Applications Support
8 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 15 (9.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (6.62%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (6.62%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 10 (6.62%) Analyst
11 10 (6.62%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (6.62%) Support Analyst
12 9 (5.96%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.64%) OLE
2 4 (2.65%) .NET
2 4 (2.65%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.99%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.99%) DPDK
3 3 (1.99%) eBPF
3 3 (1.99%) Middleware
4 2 (1.32%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.32%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.32%) RESTful
4 2 (1.32%) WCF
4 2 (1.32%) YAML
5 1 (0.66%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.66%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.66%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.93%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.30%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.32%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.66%) CMDB
7 1 (0.66%) NVMe
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (23.84%) Windows
2 27 (17.88%) Windows Server
3 19 (12.58%) Linux
4 4 (2.65%) Debian
5 3 (1.99%) Unix
5 3 (1.99%) VMS
5 3 (1.99%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.66%) Android
6 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.66%) CentOS
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.85%) DevOps
2 32 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (20.53%) CI/CD
4 29 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (17.22%) Agile
5 26 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (13.25%) Mentoring
8 18 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (10.60%) Containerisation
9 16 (10.60%) Customer Service
10 15 (9.93%) Roadmaps
11 13 (8.61%) Incident Response
11 13 (8.61%) Observability
12 11 (7.28%) Coaching
12 11 (7.28%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (7.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (6.62%) Data Protection
13 10 (6.62%) Project Delivery
14 9 (5.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.23%) SQL
2 19 (12.58%) PowerShell
3 13 (8.61%) Python
4 10 (6.62%) T-SQL
5 9 (5.96%) Bash
6 4 (2.65%) Bicep
6 4 (2.65%) Java
7 2 (1.32%) C#
7 2 (1.32%) Go
8 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (7.28%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.62%) Degree
3 9 (5.96%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.64%) CCNA
4 7 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (4.64%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.97%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.31%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.66%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (2.65%) ISO 9001
1 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.32%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (16.56%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.25%) Docker
3 10 (6.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.30%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.31%) vSphere
7 4 (2.65%) Kamailio
7 4 (2.65%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.99%) KVM
8 3 (1.99%) QEMU
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.66%) Firmware
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (26.49%) Terraform
2 38 (25.17%) Kubernetes
3 23 (15.23%) Ansible
4 16 (10.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (7.28%) Grafana
6 9 (5.96%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.31%) Autotask
8 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.32%) Rancher
9 1 (0.66%) Kibana
9 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.58%) VMware
3 7 (4.64%) Cisco
3 7 (4.64%) Google
4 4 (2.65%) Citrix
4 4 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.99%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.32%) Apple
6 2 (1.32%) BMC
6 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.32%) IFS
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.32%) Splunk
7 1 (0.66%) Dell
7 1 (0.66%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.66%) HP
7 1 (0.66%) Samsung
7 1 (0.66%) Ubiquiti