Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 254 252
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 15 33 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.39% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13 33 19
10th Percentile £45,000 - £46,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - +6.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £75,200 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 9,493 8,534 8,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.64% 94.06% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,527 4,016 6,544
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,875 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £82,344 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +16 8 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Yorkshire -12 5 £61,500 +11.82% 2
North East +3 2 £57,500 +15.00%
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (33.33%) Firewall
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (33.33%) Windows
5 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (20.00%) DHCP
6 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (20.00%) DNS
6 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
6 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (20.00%) Terraform
6 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (20.00%) VLAN
6 3 (20.00%) VMware
6 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (13.33%) Ansible
7 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
7 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) Docker
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (13.33%) Investment Management

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (13.33%) iPaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) VLAN
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Android
4 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Coaching
4 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Firmware
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Apple
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Samsung