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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 89 105
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 57 123 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.92% 2.37% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 2.56% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 48 98 74
10th Percentile £36,900 £36,250 £35,276
25th Percentile £43,438 £37,716 £42,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.10% -4.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £86,076 £67,968 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -3.85%

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 5,292 4,814 3,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.87% 92.58% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,849 2,546 2,878
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -0.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 0 29 £47,500 +11.76% 19
Lancashire +1 14 £64,123 +35.00% 5
Cumbria +7 8 £52,693 +50.55%
Merseyside -25 3 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Cheshire -25 3 £82,500 +73.68% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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 49 (85.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (35.09%) Azure
3 17 (29.82%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (28.07%) Windows
5 15 (26.32%) Windows Server
6 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
7 10 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
8 9 (15.79%) DNS
8 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.79%) Project Management
9 8 (14.04%) DevOps
9 8 (14.04%) Firewall
9 8 (14.04%) High Availability
9 8 (14.04%) Linux
9 8 (14.04%) Project Delivery
9 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (14.04%) VPN
10 7 (12.28%) AutoCAD
10 7 (12.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (12.28%) Business Case
10 7 (12.28%) DHCP
10 7 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (12.28%) Facilities Management
10 7 (12.28%) HNC
10 7 (12.28%) Manufacturing Engineering
10 7 (12.28%) RIBA
10 7 (12.28%) SOLIDWORKS
10 7 (12.28%) SQL
10 7 (12.28%) SQL Server

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 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.26%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.75%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) AutoCAD
1 7 (12.28%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (1.75%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) Azure
2 10 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.53%) IaaS
4 5 (8.77%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (5.26%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) AWS
6 2 (3.51%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.75%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) DNS
2 8 (14.04%) Firewall
2 8 (14.04%) VPN
3 7 (12.28%) DHCP
3 7 (12.28%) VLAN
4 6 (10.53%) DMZ
4 6 (10.53%) VoIP
5 5 (8.77%) STUN
6 3 (5.26%) HTTP
6 3 (5.26%) SSL
6 3 (5.26%) WAN
7 2 (3.51%) LAN
7 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.51%) TETRA
8 1 (1.75%) FTP
8 1 (1.75%) SMTP
8 1 (1.75%) SNMP
8 1 (1.75%) SSH
8 1 (1.75%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) GitLab
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Manufacturing
3 7 (12.28%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.75%) Finance
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (5.26%) DPDK
2 3 (5.26%) eBPF
2 3 (5.26%) OLE
3 2 (3.51%) Middleware
4 1 (1.75%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.75%) RESTCONF
4 1 (1.75%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) NVMe
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Windows
2 15 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 8 (14.04%) Linux
4 5 (8.77%) Debian
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.75%) Android
6 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.75%) CentOS
6 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (85.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (29.82%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (15.79%) Project Management
4 8 (14.04%) DevOps
4 8 (14.04%) High Availability
4 8 (14.04%) Project Delivery
4 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (12.28%) Business Case
5 7 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (12.28%) Facilities Management
5 7 (12.28%) Manufacturing Engineering
6 5 (8.77%) Agile
6 5 (8.77%) ITIL
6 5 (8.77%) Software Licensing
6 5 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (7.02%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.02%) Data Protection
7 4 (7.02%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) SQL
2 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (12.28%) HNC
1 7 (12.28%) RIBA
2 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) CCNA
3 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.75%) MCSA
4 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (8.77%) ISO 9001
1 5 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.77%) Kamailio
3 4 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.26%) KVM
4 3 (5.26%) QEMU
5 1 (1.75%) Docker
5 1 (1.75%) Firmware
5 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.77%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) VMware
3 5 (8.77%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.02%) Cisco
5 3 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (5.26%) SaltStack
6 2 (3.51%) Apple
6 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix
7 1 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.75%) Meraki
7 1 (1.75%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) Samsung
7 1 (1.75%) Ubiquiti