Infrastructure Specialist Jobs in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Specialist salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 415 436
Rank change year-on-year +135 +21 -91
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 104 23 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.13% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53 17 17
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,050 £35,050
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,800 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +6.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £63,250 £63,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £50,950 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -7.36% +18.28% -7.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 16,305 15,905 17,412
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.16% 89.57% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,642 8,364 11,267
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +108 43 £56,250 +38.04% 6
North East +30 37 £41,500 -33.60% 1
North West +27 24 £48,337 -7.93% 2
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Infrastructure Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 55 (52.88%) Azure
2 49 (47.12%) Windows
3 48 (46.15%) Active Directory
4 45 (43.27%) Windows Server
5 43 (41.35%) VMware
6 39 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (33.65%) Entra ID
9 31 (29.81%) Microsoft
10 26 (25.00%) Roadmaps
11 25 (24.04%) Migration
12 22 (21.15%) SAN
12 22 (21.15%) OneDrive
13 19 (18.27%) Law
14 18 (17.31%) Microsoft Intune
15 15 (14.42%) Mentoring
15 15 (14.42%) Firewall
15 15 (14.42%) VMware ESXi
16 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (13.46%) Cisco
17 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
17 13 (12.50%) NAS
17 13 (12.50%) vCenter Server
17 13 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
17 13 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
17 13 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
17 13 (12.50%) Cost Management
18 12 (11.54%) Energy Management
18 12 (11.54%) AWS
18 12 (11.54%) Operations Management

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
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 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 55 (52.88%) Azure
2 39 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (33.65%) Entra ID
4 22 (21.15%) OneDrive
5 12 (11.54%) AWS
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.96%) IaaS
6 1 (0.96%) PaaS
6 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (21.15%) SAN
2 15 (14.42%) Firewall
3 13 (12.50%) NAS
4 11 (10.58%) LAN
5 9 (8.65%) DHCP
5 9 (8.65%) DNS
5 9 (8.65%) WAN
6 3 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (2.88%) Network Security
6 3 (2.88%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.92%) Wireless
7 2 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
General
1 19 (18.27%) Law
2 9 (8.65%) Finance
3 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.88%) Retail
3 3 (2.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.88%) Smart Energy
4 2 (1.92%) NHS
4 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (47.12%) Windows
2 45 (43.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (11.54%) Linux
5 10 (9.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (8.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.88%) Kali Linux
7 3 (2.88%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.88%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 25 (24.04%) Migration
4 15 (14.42%) Mentoring
5 13 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 13 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 13 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
6 12 (11.54%) Energy Management
6 12 (11.54%) ITIL
6 12 (11.54%) Operations Management
7 6 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (2.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 3 (2.88%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (2.88%) Incident Response
8 3 (2.88%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (2.88%) Threat Intelligence
9 2 (1.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (1.92%) Service Delivery
10 1 (0.96%) Analytics
10 1 (0.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.88%) Degree
3 2 (1.92%) MCSE
4 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.88%) GDPR
2 3 (2.88%) NIST
3 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 15 (14.42%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (10.58%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.88%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.88%) SELinux
4 2 (1.92%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (41.35%) VMware
2 31 (29.81%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.46%) Cisco
4 8 (7.69%) IBM
4 8 (7.69%) Oracle
5 2 (1.92%) Citrix
5 2 (1.92%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (1.92%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.92%) NetApp
5 2 (1.92%) Veeam
5 2 (1.92%) Veritas