Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 48 99
Rank change year-on-year -49 +51 +53
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 171 348 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.46% 6.73% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 7.45% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 136 80 141
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,625 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

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 11,124 4,670 8,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 90.33% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,336 2,441 5,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -11 102 £50,000 -13.04% 24
Lancashire -34 27 £50,000 -23.08% 9
Cheshire -16 17 £45,000 +12.50%
Merseyside -19 14 £35,800 -15.76% 3
Cumbria -26 10 £55,000 +5.77% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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.

1 167 (97.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (23.39%) Azure
3 36 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 33 (19.30%) VMware
5 30 (17.54%) Windows
6 29 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
7 27 (15.79%) Active Directory
8 23 (13.45%) Firewall
8 23 (13.45%) Windows Server
9 21 (12.28%) Security Cleared
10 20 (11.70%) SC Cleared
11 18 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (9.94%) Linux
12 17 (9.94%) PowerShell
13 16 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (8.19%) Cisco
14 14 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (8.19%) SAN
15 12 (7.02%) AWS
15 12 (7.02%) Hyper-V
16 11 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (6.43%) ITIL
16 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (6.43%) Project Delivery
17 10 (5.85%) Storage Management
18 9 (5.26%) DHCP
18 9 (5.26%) DNS

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 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.75%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 40 (23.39%) Azure
2 18 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (7.02%) AWS
4 8 (4.68%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.51%) SaaS
6 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.75%) IaaS
8 2 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.17%) GitHub
8 2 (1.17%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.17%) Intacct
8 2 (1.17%) PaaS
8 2 (1.17%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.58%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.45%) Firewall
2 14 (8.19%) SAN
3 9 (5.26%) DHCP
3 9 (5.26%) DNS
4 6 (3.51%) VLAN
5 5 (2.92%) LAN
5 5 (2.92%) Network Security
6 4 (2.34%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (2.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (2.34%) WAN
7 3 (1.75%) NGFW
7 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.75%) VoIP
8 1 (0.58%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.58%) NAS
8 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.58%) VPN
8 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 14 (8.19%) Finance
1 14 (8.19%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.60%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.34%) Fire and Rescue
5 3 (1.75%) Local Government
6 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.58%) Games
7 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.17%) OAuth
2 2 (1.17%) OpenID
2 2 (1.17%) SAML
3 1 (0.58%) Flash
3 1 (0.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.19%) Driving Licence
2 11 (6.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (5.85%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.09%) CCTV
5 6 (3.51%) Clustering
5 6 (3.51%) Replication
6 3 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.75%) Social Media
7 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) CUDA
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.54%) Windows
2 23 (13.45%) Windows Server
3 17 (9.94%) Linux
4 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.58%) Android
7 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (97.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (6.43%) ITIL
5 11 (6.43%) Project Delivery
6 10 (5.85%) Storage Management
7 7 (4.09%) Customer Service
7 7 (4.09%) Virtual Environments
8 6 (3.51%) Change Management
8 6 (3.51%) High Availability
8 6 (3.51%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (3.51%) Logistics
8 6 (3.51%) Migration
8 6 (3.51%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 5 (2.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (2.92%) Systems Engineering
10 4 (2.34%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.94%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.09%) SQL
3 5 (2.92%) Python
4 4 (2.34%) Bicep
5 3 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (0.58%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.68%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.68%) CCNA
4 8 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.09%) MCSA
6 5 (2.92%) CCNP
6 5 (2.92%) Degree
6 5 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.75%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.58%) HNC
9 1 (0.58%) HND
9 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.34%) SLA
3 3 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.51%) Firmware
5 4 (2.34%) vSphere
6 3 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.58%) Ceph
8 1 (0.58%) Docker
8 1 (0.58%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.58%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (2.34%) Ansible
3 4 (2.34%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.17%) SCCM
5 2 (1.17%) Terraform
5 2 (1.17%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.17%) WSUS
5 2 (1.17%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.58%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.58%) Puppet
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 33 (19.30%) VMware
3 14 (8.19%) Cisco
4 6 (3.51%) HP
4 6 (3.51%) Veeam
5 5 (2.92%) Apple
5 5 (2.92%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (2.34%) Aruba
6 4 (2.34%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.34%) Meraki
6 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.75%) Commvault
7 3 (1.75%) Dell
7 3 (1.75%) NetApp
7 3 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.17%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.17%) ConnectWise
8 2 (1.17%) Datto
8 2 (1.17%) Google
8 2 (1.17%) Sage