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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 48 106
Rank change year-on-year -41 +58 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 196 333 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.55% 6.48% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 7.33% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 153 65 122
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £68,000 £67,671
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -

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 11,894 4,542 7,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 88.35% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,831 2,290 4,546
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £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 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -11 125 £55,000 -4.35% 81
Lancashire -22 39 £65,576 +0.89% 16
Cheshire -27 14 £43,500 +8.75% 5
Merseyside -9 11 £35,500 -45.38% 3
Cumbria -13 6 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 191 (97.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 40 (20.41%) Azure
4 39 (19.90%) Windows
5 37 (18.88%) VMware
6 33 (16.84%) Security Cleared
7 32 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 29 (14.80%) Linux
9 25 (12.76%) Active Directory
9 25 (12.76%) Windows Server
10 23 (11.73%) SC Cleared
11 21 (10.71%) PowerShell
12 20 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (10.20%) Firewall
12 20 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.16%) DNS
14 16 (8.16%) DV Cleared
15 15 (7.65%) AWS
15 15 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
16 13 (6.63%) Cisco
16 13 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.63%) DHCP
16 13 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (6.63%) Project Delivery
17 12 (6.12%) SAN
17 12 (6.12%) Storage Management
18 11 (5.61%) Python
19 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
20 9 (4.59%) 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 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.53%) Civil 3D
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 40 (20.41%) Azure
2 15 (7.65%) AWS
3 13 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (2.04%) Azure AKS
5 4 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.04%) SaaS
6 3 (1.53%) IaaS
7 2 (1.02%) GitHub
7 2 (1.02%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.02%) PaaS
7 2 (1.02%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.20%) Firewall
2 16 (8.16%) DNS
3 13 (6.63%) DHCP
4 12 (6.12%) SAN
5 5 (2.55%) Network Security
5 5 (2.55%) VPN
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.53%) NGFW
8 2 (1.02%) CTI
8 2 (1.02%) LAN
8 2 (1.02%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.02%) NX-OS
8 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.51%) VLAN
9 1 (0.51%) WAN
9 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.51%) Db2
Development Applications
1 3 (1.53%) GitLab
1 3 (1.53%) JIRA
General
1 17 (8.67%) Public Sector
2 15 (7.65%) Finance
3 12 (6.12%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (1.53%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.53%) Local Government
6 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.02%) Automotive
7 2 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (0.51%) Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.04%) Terraform
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.02%) OAuth
3 2 (1.02%) OpenID
3 2 (1.02%) SAML
4 1 (0.51%) Flash
4 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.16%) Driving Licence
2 14 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.10%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (2.55%) Clustering
5 4 (2.04%) Replication
6 3 (1.53%) CCTV
6 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.53%) PKI
6 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.53%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.02%) CSOC
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.02%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.02%) IoT
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.51%) CUDA
8 1 (0.51%) Life Science
8 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 39 (19.90%) Windows
2 29 (14.80%) Linux
3 25 (12.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.55%) Unix
5 3 (1.53%) VMS
6 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.02%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (97.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (6.63%) Project Delivery
6 12 (6.12%) Storage Management
7 9 (4.59%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (4.59%) ITIL
8 8 (4.08%) Business Continuity
9 7 (3.57%) BCP
9 7 (3.57%) Business Continuity Planning
9 7 (3.57%) Coaching
9 7 (3.57%) Mentoring
10 6 (3.06%) Agile
10 6 (3.06%) Change Management
10 6 (3.06%) Migration
10 6 (3.06%) Virtual Environments
10 6 (3.06%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.61%) Python
3 8 (4.08%) SQL
4 6 (3.06%) Bash
5 4 (2.04%) Bicep
6 2 (1.02%) Java
7 1 (0.51%) C
7 1 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 33 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.57%) CCNA
5 7 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.06%) Degree
6 6 (3.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.55%) CCNP
8 4 (2.04%) MCSA
8 4 (2.04%) MCSE
9 2 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) HNC
10 1 (0.51%) HND
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.08%) SLA
2 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.53%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (12.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.06%) Firmware
4 6 (3.06%) vSphere
5 5 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.02%) UAG
6 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.51%) Ceph
7 1 (0.51%) Docker
7 1 (0.51%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (2.55%) SCCM
3 4 (2.04%) Ansible
3 4 (2.04%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.53%) WSUS
5 2 (1.02%) AirWatch
5 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.02%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.51%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.51%) Puppet
6 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.88%) VMware
3 13 (6.63%) Cisco
4 6 (3.06%) HP
5 5 (2.55%) Veeam
6 4 (2.04%) Aruba
6 4 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.04%) Google
6 4 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle
7 3 (1.53%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.02%) Commvault
8 2 (1.02%) Dell
8 2 (1.02%) F5
8 2 (1.02%) FIS
8 2 (1.02%) MEDITECH
8 2 (1.02%) NetApp
8 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.02%) Thales