Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 85 133
Rank change year-on-year +49 +48 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 317 163 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.46% 2.36% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.12% 2.47% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55 133 58
10th Percentile £36,300 £35,000 £38,288
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £69,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +0.96%

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 4,452 6,593 3,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 95.37% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,524 3,696 3,016
10th Percentile £26,989 £31,250 £31,188
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +31 177 £64,123 +38.64% 6
Manchester +43 79 £50,000 +25.00% 10
Cheshire -5 46 £48,000 +2.13% 2
Merseyside -13 8 £70,000 +68.67% 2
Cumbria +4 7 £53,750 +53.57%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, 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.

1 314 (99.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 271 (85.49%) Windows
3 268 (84.54%) Linux
4 260 (82.02%) VPN
5 259 (81.70%) Cisco
5 259 (81.70%) DevOps
5 259 (81.70%) PowerShell
6 257 (81.07%) Problem-Solving
7 255 (80.44%) Storage Management
7 255 (80.44%) vSphere
8 254 (80.13%) Ansible
8 254 (80.13%) Python
8 254 (80.13%) Terraform
9 253 (79.81%) Hyper-V
10 251 (79.18%) Android
10 251 (79.18%) Bash
10 251 (79.18%) Docker
10 251 (79.18%) Task Automation
11 250 (78.86%) 3PAR
11 250 (78.86%) Cisco IOS
11 250 (78.86%) Elastic Stack
11 250 (78.86%) Juniper
11 250 (78.86%) Line Management
11 250 (78.86%) Mathematics
11 250 (78.86%) Platform Engineering
11 250 (78.86%) Risk Management
11 250 (78.86%) Splunk
11 250 (78.86%) VMware NSX
12 26 (8.20%) Azure
13 21 (6.62%) Microsoft

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 3 (0.95%) IIS
1 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (0.95%) OpenStack
1 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.32%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 26 (8.20%) Azure
2 8 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (1.58%) IaaS
3 5 (1.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (0.95%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.63%) AWS
5 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.63%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 260 (82.02%) VPN
2 250 (78.86%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (2.52%) DHCP
3 8 (2.52%) DNS
3 8 (2.52%) Firewall
4 7 (2.21%) VLAN
5 6 (1.89%) TETRA
6 5 (1.58%) DMZ
6 5 (1.58%) STUN
6 5 (1.58%) VoIP
7 4 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.63%) HTTP
8 2 (0.63%) SSL
8 2 (0.63%) WAN
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.32%) Network Security
9 1 (0.32%) SAN
9 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.89%) SQL Server
General
1 250 (78.86%) Analytical Skills
1 250 (78.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (2.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
3 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (1.58%) Military
4 4 (1.26%) Finance
4 4 (1.26%) Legal
4 4 (1.26%) Local Government
4 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (0.95%) Banking
6 2 (0.63%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (78.86%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.58%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (1.58%) OLE
3 3 (0.95%) DPDK
3 3 (0.95%) eBPF
4 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.32%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.32%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.32%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 250 (78.86%) Cyberattack
2 8 (2.52%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.26%) NHS
4 3 (0.95%) Cloud Native
4 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (0.63%) Clustering
5 2 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.32%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 271 (85.49%) Windows
2 268 (84.54%) Linux
3 251 (79.18%) Android
4 19 (5.99%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.58%) Debian
6 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.26%) CentOS
7 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.95%) Unix
9 2 (0.63%) VMS
10 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (99.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 259 (81.70%) DevOps
3 257 (81.07%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (80.44%) Storage Management
5 251 (79.18%) Task Automation
6 250 (78.86%) Line Management
6 250 (78.86%) Mathematics
6 250 (78.86%) Platform Engineering
6 250 (78.86%) Risk Management
7 12 (3.79%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (2.21%) High Availability
8 7 (2.21%) Mentoring
8 7 (2.21%) Migration
9 6 (1.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (1.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (1.89%) Patch Management
10 5 (1.58%) Software Licensing
10 5 (1.58%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (1.58%) Validation
10 5 (1.58%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 259 (81.70%) PowerShell
2 254 (80.13%) Python
3 251 (79.18%) Bash
4 7 (2.21%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (1.89%) Degree
3 5 (1.58%) CCNA
3 5 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (1.58%) DV Cleared
3 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (1.58%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.63%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.32%) HNC
5 1 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (0.32%) RHCE
5 1 (0.32%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.58%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 255 (80.44%) vSphere
2 253 (79.81%) Hyper-V
3 251 (79.18%) Docker
4 250 (78.86%) VMware NSX
5 12 (3.79%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.58%) Kamailio
8 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.95%) KVM
9 3 (0.95%) QEMU
10 1 (0.32%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.32%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 254 (80.13%) Ansible
1 254 (80.13%) Terraform
2 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.89%) vCenter Server
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.95%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 259 (81.70%) Cisco
2 250 (78.86%) 3PAR
2 250 (78.86%) Juniper
2 250 (78.86%) Splunk
3 21 (6.62%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.79%) VMware
5 5 (1.58%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.95%) Fortinet
6 3 (0.95%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.63%) Google
7 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.32%) Apple
8 1 (0.32%) Citrix
8 1 (0.32%) NetApp
8 1 (0.32%) Okta
8 1 (0.32%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.32%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.32%) Samsung