Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 52 96
Rank change year-on-year -31 +44 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 224 323 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.74% 6.21% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 7.05% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 174 58 127
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,938 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,693 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +17.10% -5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £66,500 £66,187
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 11,986 4,581 6,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 88.03% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,798 2,269 4,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 10 October 2026.

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 10 October 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
Manchester +4 156 £60,000 +14.29% 62
Lancashire -15 42 £61,171 +8.75% 14
Merseyside -12 12 £47,500 -32.14% 8
Cheshire -27 7 £41,250 +3.13% 6
Cumbria -6 6 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, 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 West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 216 (96.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 42 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 40 (17.86%) Windows
4 39 (17.41%) Azure
5 38 (16.96%) Linux
6 35 (15.63%) VMware
7 29 (12.95%) VMware Infrastructure
8 28 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (12.05%) SC Cleared
10 23 (10.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (9.82%) Active Directory
12 21 (9.38%) DV Cleared
12 21 (9.38%) PowerShell
13 20 (8.93%) Windows Server
14 19 (8.48%) DNS
15 18 (8.04%) AWS
15 18 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.59%) Firewall
16 17 (7.59%) Python
17 15 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
18 14 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
19 13 (5.80%) Project Delivery
20 12 (5.36%) Bash
20 12 (5.36%) Cisco
20 12 (5.36%) Coaching
20 12 (5.36%) Mentoring
20 12 (5.36%) Storage Management
21 11 (4.91%) Identity Access Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (0.45%) Confluence
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.34%) Civil 3D
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.41%) Azure
2 18 (8.04%) AWS
3 9 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (3.13%) IaaS
5 5 (2.23%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.34%) Azure AKS
6 3 (1.34%) GitHub
6 3 (1.34%) PaaS
6 3 (1.34%) SaaS
7 2 (0.89%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.89%) OCI
7 2 (0.89%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.48%) DNS
2 17 (7.59%) Firewall
3 10 (4.46%) DHCP
3 10 (4.46%) SAN
4 9 (4.02%) Network Security
5 7 (3.13%) VPN
6 4 (1.79%) BIG-IP
6 4 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (1.34%) NGFW
8 2 (0.89%) CTI
8 2 (0.89%) LAN
8 2 (0.89%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.89%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.45%) Db2
Development Applications
1 7 (3.13%) JIRA
2 4 (1.79%) GitLab
3 3 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.45%) Git
General
1 15 (6.70%) Finance
2 14 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.80%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (1.34%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.34%) Legal
6 3 (1.34%) Local Government
6 3 (1.34%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.89%) Automotive
7 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.89%) Law
8 1 (0.45%) Banking
8 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Games
8 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.57%) Terraform
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (1.34%) SAML
3 2 (0.89%) OAuth
3 2 (0.89%) OpenID
4 1 (0.45%) Flash
4 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.04%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 10 (4.46%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.23%) Clustering
5 5 (2.23%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.79%) Online Gambling
6 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Replication
7 3 (1.34%) CCTV
7 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.34%) PKI
7 3 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.89%) CSOC
8 2 (0.89%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.89%) IoT
8 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.89%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.86%) Windows
2 38 (16.96%) Linux
3 20 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.68%) Unix
5 4 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.34%) VMS
7 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.89%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (96.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (10.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (5.80%) Project Delivery
9 12 (5.36%) Coaching
9 12 (5.36%) Mentoring
9 12 (5.36%) Storage Management
10 11 (4.91%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (4.46%) Agile
11 10 (4.46%) Business Continuity
11 10 (4.46%) ITIL
11 10 (4.46%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (4.02%) BCP
12 9 (4.02%) Business Continuity Planning
12 9 (4.02%) CI/CD
13 8 (3.57%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 17 (7.59%) Python
3 12 (5.36%) Bash
4 6 (2.68%) SQL
5 5 (2.23%) Java
6 3 (1.34%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.45%) Bicep
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.13%) CCNA
5 7 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.68%) Degree
6 6 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.23%) CCNP
8 4 (1.79%) MCSA
8 4 (1.79%) MCSE
9 2 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) HNC
10 1 (0.45%) HND
10 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.57%) SLA
2 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.34%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (12.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (9.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.68%) Firmware
3 6 (2.68%) vSphere
4 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.89%) UAG
7 1 (0.45%) Ceph
7 1 (0.45%) Docker
7 1 (0.45%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.57%) Ansible
2 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.68%) vCenter Server
3 5 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (2.23%) SCCM
4 4 (1.79%) Puppet
5 3 (1.34%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.34%) WSUS
6 2 (0.89%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 42 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.63%) VMware
3 12 (5.36%) Cisco
4 6 (2.68%) F5
4 6 (2.68%) Fortinet
4 6 (2.68%) HP
5 5 (2.23%) Aruba
5 5 (2.23%) Veeam
6 4 (1.79%) Google
6 4 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle
7 3 (1.34%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.34%) YouTube
8 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.89%) Commvault
8 2 (0.89%) Dell
8 2 (0.89%) MEDITECH
8 2 (0.89%) NetApp
8 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.89%) SolarWinds