Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £52,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 85 181
Rank change year-on-year +17 +96 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 351 293 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.56% 2.62% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% 2.74% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 85 241 102
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -4.76% +11.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,968 £54,875
England median annual salary £59,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,023 10,674 6,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.28% 89.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,757 7,895 3,942
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,138
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,502
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Lancashire -7 173 £65,000 +20.93% 21
Manchester +38 98 £60,000 +24.34% 38
Cheshire -2 47 £40,000 -11.11% 13
Cumbria -68 19 £52,000 +48.57% 4
Merseyside +1 14 £40,000 -5.88% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Infrastructure Engineer 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 West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 349 (99.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 276 (78.63%) Windows
2 276 (78.63%) Linux
3 267 (76.07%) Problem-Solving
4 264 (75.21%) PowerShell
5 261 (74.36%) Terraform
6 259 (73.79%) DevOps
6 259 (73.79%) Hyper-V
7 258 (73.50%) Cisco
8 257 (73.22%) VMware NSX
9 256 (72.93%) vSphere
10 255 (72.65%) VPN
10 255 (72.65%) Ansible
11 254 (72.36%) Storage Management
12 253 (72.08%) Docker
12 253 (72.08%) Bash
13 252 (71.79%) Python
14 251 (71.51%) Task Automation
15 250 (71.23%) Elastic Stack
15 250 (71.23%) 3PAR
15 250 (71.23%) Splunk
15 250 (71.23%) Line Management
15 250 (71.23%) Analytical Skills
15 250 (71.23%) Cyberattack
15 250 (71.23%) Juniper
15 250 (71.23%) Risk Management
15 250 (71.23%) Android
15 250 (71.23%) Mathematics
15 250 (71.23%) Cisco IOS
15 250 (71.23%) Inclusion and Diversity

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.71%) IIS
4 3 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (3.42%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.69%) Azure
2 12 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 7 (1.99%) AWS
5 6 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.71%) GCP
6 4 (1.14%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.57%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.57%) PaaS
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.28%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.28%) IaaS
9 1 (0.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 255 (72.65%) VPN
2 250 (71.23%) Cisco IOS
3 18 (5.13%) DNS
4 17 (4.84%) DHCP
5 11 (3.13%) Firewall
6 6 (1.71%) SAN
6 6 (1.71%) TETRA
7 5 (1.42%) NAS
7 5 (1.42%) VSAN
8 4 (1.14%) LAN
8 4 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.14%) VLAN
9 3 (0.85%) Skype
9 3 (0.85%) SMTP
9 3 (0.85%) WAN
10 2 (0.57%) IPv4
11 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.28%) Network Security
11 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.42%) MongoDB
2 5 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 250 (71.23%) Analytical Skills
1 250 (71.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (5.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.27%) Finance
4 6 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (1.42%) Banking
6 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.14%) Legal
6 4 (1.14%) Local Government
6 4 (1.14%) Military
7 3 (0.85%) Retail
8 2 (0.57%) Games
8 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (71.23%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (1.99%) OLE
3 5 (1.42%) ARM Templates
3 5 (1.42%) Middleware
4 1 (0.28%) OpenCL
4 1 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 250 (71.23%) Cyberattack
2 13 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.14%) Clustering
4 4 (1.14%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.14%) NHS
5 1 (0.28%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.28%) CUDA
5 1 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.28%) PKI
5 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.28%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 276 (78.63%) Linux
1 276 (78.63%) Windows
2 250 (71.23%) Android
3 19 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (1.99%) CentOS
6 5 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.42%) Unix
6 5 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.57%) Debian
8 2 (0.57%) VMS
8 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (99.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 267 (76.07%) Problem-Solving
3 259 (73.79%) DevOps
4 254 (72.36%) Storage Management
5 251 (71.51%) Task Automation
6 250 (71.23%) Line Management
6 250 (71.23%) Mathematics
6 250 (71.23%) Platform Engineering
6 250 (71.23%) Risk Management
7 19 (5.41%) Mentoring
8 15 (4.27%) ITIL
9 14 (3.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (2.85%) Migration
10 10 (2.85%) Project Delivery
10 10 (2.85%) Project Management
11 9 (2.56%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (1.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (1.99%) Patch Management
13 6 (1.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (1.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 264 (75.21%) PowerShell
2 253 (72.08%) Bash
3 252 (71.79%) Python
4 7 (1.99%) SQL
5 1 (0.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (5.70%) Degree
2 18 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 13 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 13 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (1.71%) RIBA
8 5 (1.42%) CCNA
8 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (0.85%) RHCE
10 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.28%) CEH
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) MCITP
11 1 (0.28%) MCSA
11 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.14%) GDPR
2 3 (0.85%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.28%) NIST
4 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 259 (73.79%) Hyper-V
2 257 (73.22%) VMware NSX
3 256 (72.93%) vSphere
4 253 (72.08%) Docker
5 21 (5.98%) Active Directory
6 13 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.85%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 261 (74.36%) Terraform
2 255 (72.65%) Ansible
3 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.28%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.42%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.42%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.28%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 258 (73.50%) Cisco
2 250 (71.23%) 3PAR
2 250 (71.23%) Juniper
2 250 (71.23%) Splunk
3 35 (9.97%) Microsoft
4 25 (7.12%) VMware
5 6 (1.71%) Google
6 5 (1.42%) Oracle
7 4 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.85%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.85%) Okta
8 3 (0.85%) Ping Identity
8 3 (0.85%) Veeam
9 1 (0.28%) Apple
9 1 (0.28%) Citrix
9 1 (0.28%) Facebook
9 1 (0.28%) NetApp