Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 89 168
Rank change year-on-year -75 +79 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 99 257 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.31% 2.64% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 2.79% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 90 202 132
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,375
25th Percentile £37,716 £40,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £54,500 £62,188 £53,134
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,968 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Manchester +19 50 £50,000 - 28
Merseyside +2 15 £40,000 -5.88% 4
Cumbria -77 15 £52,000 +35.95%
Lancashire -63 14 £42,500 -32.15% 17
Cheshire -3 5 £40,000 -13.04% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 98 (98.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (35.35%) Microsoft
3 34 (34.34%) Azure
4 30 (30.30%) Windows
5 27 (27.27%) VMware
6 26 (26.26%) DNS
7 25 (25.25%) DHCP
7 25 (25.25%) Active Directory
8 23 (23.23%) Degree
8 23 (23.23%) Social Skills
9 22 (22.22%) AutoCAD
10 21 (21.21%) Linux
10 21 (21.21%) Mentoring
11 19 (19.19%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (17.17%) Finance
14 16 (16.16%) Data Centre
14 16 (16.16%) Windows Server
15 15 (15.15%) ITIL
16 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Exchange
16 14 (14.14%) Firewall
16 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
16 14 (14.14%) Security Cleared
17 13 (13.13%) Project Delivery
17 13 (13.13%) Hyper-V
17 13 (13.13%) Veeam
18 12 (12.12%) DevOps
18 12 (12.12%) Entra ID
18 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code

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 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.04%) IIS
2 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.03%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (3.03%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (22.22%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.34%) Azure
2 19 (19.19%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.12%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.08%) GCP
5 7 (7.07%) AWS
6 6 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.03%) PaaS
8 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.02%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.02%) IaaS
8 2 (2.02%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.02%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.01%) GitHub
9 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (26.26%) DNS
2 25 (25.25%) DHCP
3 14 (14.14%) Firewall
4 8 (8.08%) LAN
4 8 (8.08%) SAN
5 7 (7.07%) IPv4
5 7 (7.07%) VLAN
6 5 (5.05%) NAS
6 5 (5.05%) VSAN
7 3 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (3.03%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.03%) Skype
7 3 (3.03%) SMTP
7 3 (3.03%) Wireless
8 2 (2.02%) TETRA
9 1 (1.01%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.01%) Network Security
9 1 (1.01%) OSPF
9 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.01%) GitLab
2 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 23 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (8.08%) Retail
5 5 (5.05%) Banking
6 4 (4.04%) Law
6 4 (4.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Games
8 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Local Government
8 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.05%) Middleware
2 4 (4.04%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.02%) OLE
4 1 (1.01%) OpenCL
4 1 (1.01%) SAML
4 1 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.05%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.04%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (4.04%) Replication
5 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.02%) CCTV
6 2 (2.02%) Clustering
6 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.01%) CUDA
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.30%) Windows
2 21 (21.21%) Linux
3 16 (16.16%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (7.07%) Unix
6 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.04%) CentOS
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.03%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.02%) Debian
9 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
9 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (98.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (21.21%) Mentoring
3 18 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.15%) ITIL
5 13 (13.13%) Project Delivery
6 12 (12.12%) DevOps
6 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (10.10%) CI/CD
8 9 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
8 9 (9.09%) Project Management
9 8 (8.08%) Business Continuity
10 7 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (7.07%) Incident Management
11 6 (6.06%) Agile
11 6 (6.06%) Coaching
11 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (5.05%) Architectural Design
12 5 (5.05%) Patch Management
12 5 (5.05%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.06%) SQL
3 2 (2.02%) Bash
3 2 (2.02%) Python
4 1 (1.01%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (23.23%) Degree
2 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
2 14 (14.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 9 (9.09%) RIBA
5 8 (8.08%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (5.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.02%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (2.02%) RHCE
9 1 (1.01%) CCNA
9 1 (1.01%) CEH
9 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.01%) MCITP
9 1 (1.01%) MCSA
9 1 (1.01%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) GDPR
2 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.04%) NIST
4 2 (2.02%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (25.25%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.13%) Hyper-V
3 9 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.07%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.05%) vSphere
6 4 (4.04%) DFS Replication
7 2 (2.02%) Docker
7 2 (2.02%) Dovecot
7 2 (2.02%) Postfix
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Terraform
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.04%) Ansible
6 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.01%) SCCM
6 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (35.35%) Microsoft
2 27 (27.27%) VMware
3 13 (13.13%) Veeam
4 6 (6.06%) Google
5 5 (5.05%) Oracle
6 4 (4.04%) Cisco
7 3 (3.03%) Meraki
7 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.03%) Sophos
7 3 (3.03%) Synology
8 2 (2.02%) Okta
8 2 (2.02%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.01%) Apple
9 1 (1.01%) Facebook
9 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.01%) McAfee
9 1 (1.01%) Tripwire